Jazz birthdays this week include:
Sept. 19:
Louie Austin (1887-1972),
Helen Ward (1916-1997),
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930),
Lol Coxhill (1932),
Candy Dulfer (1969)
Sept. 20:
John Dankworth (1927),
Red Mitchell (1927-1992),
Joe Temperley (1929),
Steve McCall (1933-1989),
Eric Gale (1938-1994),
Jim Cullum, Jr. (1941),
Billy Bang (1947),
Steve Coleman (1956)
Sept. 21:
Slam Stewart (1914-1987),
Tommy Potter (1915-1988),
Chico Hamilton (1921) (pictured),
Sunny Murray (1937),
Jerry Hahn (1940)
Sept. 22:
Ray Wetzel (1924-1951),
Marlena Shaw (1942)
Sept. 23:
Albert Ammons (1907),
John Coltrane (1926-1967),
Frank Foster (1928),
Jimmy Woode (1928),
Ray Charles (1930-2004),
Les McCann (1935),
Norma Winstone (1941),
Jeremy Steig (1943),
Don Grolnick (1947)
Sept. 24:
Herb Jefferies (1916),
Fats Navarro (1923),
John Carter (1929),
Wayne Henderson (1939),
Rebecca Kilgore (1948),
Bill Connors (1949),
Jay Hoggard (1954)
Sept. 25:
Garvin Bushell (1902),
Sam Rivers (1930),
Michael Gibbs (1937),
John Taylor (1942),
Billy Pierce (1948),
Barbara Dennerlein (1964)