April Jazz Birthdays

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Here's a list of birthdays for jazz artists for the month of April:

1st:
Alberta Hunter - 1895
Harry Carney - 1910
John Laporta - 1920
Duke Jordan - 1922
Gil Scott Heron - 1949

2nd:
Booker Little - 1938
Larry Coryell - 1943
Sal Nistico - 1948
Dick Oatts - 1953

3rd:
Bubber Miley - 1903
Scott LaFaro - 1936
Jimmy McGriff - 1936
Harold Vick - 1936
Eric Kloss - 1949

4th:
Gene Ramey - 1913
Sal Mosca - 1927
Buster Cooper - 1929
Jake Hanna - 1931
Hugh Masekela - 1939
Michel Camilo - 1952
Benny Green (piano) - 1963

5th:
Stan Levy - 1926
Stanley Turrentine - 1934
Evan Parker - 1944

6th:
Charlie Rouse - 1924
Randy Weston - 1926
Gerry Mulligan - 1927
Andre Previn - 1929
Art Taylor - 1929
Bill Hardman - 1933
Horace Tapscott - 1934
Gene Bertoncini - 1937
Gerry Niewood - 1943

7th:
Billie Holiday - 1915
Peanuts Hucko - 1918
Ravi Shankar - 1920
Mongo Santamaria - 1922
Victor Feldman - 1934
Freddie Hubbard - 1938
Pete Laroca - 1938
Alex Schlippenbach - 1938
Pat LaBarbara - 1944
Bob Berg - 1951

8th:
Carmen McRae - 1922
Paul Jeffrey - 1933

9th:
Sharkey Bonano - 1902
Julian Dash - 1916
Rueben Wilson - 1933
Steve Gadd - 1945

10th:
Fess Williams - 1894
Walter Bishop, Jr - 1927
Fraser McPherson - 1928
Claude Bolling - 1930
Denny Zeitlin - 1938
Joey DeFrancesco - 1971

11th:
Nick LaRocca - 1889
John Levy - 1942

12th:
Johnny Dodds - 1892
Tommy Turrentine - 1928
Herbie Hancock - 1940
Al Jarreau - 1940
Marty Krystall - 1951
Ryan Kisor - 1973

13th:
Bud Freeman - 1906
Slick Jones - 1907
Teddy Charles - 1928

14th:
Shorty Rogers - 1924
Gene Ammons - 1925
Eliot Zigmund - 1945

15th:
Bessie Smith - 1894
Richard Davis - 1930
Herb Pomeroy - 1930

16th:
Bennie Green (trombone) - 1923
Herbie Mann - 1930
Ulf Wakenius - 1958
Junko Onishi - 1967

17th:
Johnny St. Cyr - 1890
Paul Smith - 1922
Chris Barber - 1930
Sam Noto - 1930
Warner Chiasson - 1934
Han Bennink - 1942
Buster Williams - 1942
Jan Hammer - 1948

18th:
Tony Mottola - 1918
Leo Parker - 1925
Ken Colyer - 1928
Hal Galper - 1938
Danny Gottlieb - 1953
Andy Narell - 1954

19th:
Tommy Benford - 1905

20th:
Lionel Hampton - 1909
Burt Bales - 1916
Tito Puente - 1925
Ran Blake - 1935
Beaver Harris - 1936
Hans Kennel - 1939
Joe Bonner - 1948

21st:
Mundell Lowe - 1922
Locksley "Slide" Hampton - 1932
Ian Carr - 1933
Pee Wee Ellis - 1941

22nd:
Candido - 1921
Charles Mingus - 1922
Lou Stein - 1922
Oliver Jackson - 1933
Paul Chambers - 1935
Don Menza - 1936
Don Grusin - 1941
Barry Guy - 1947

23rd:
Jimmie Noone - 1895
Bennie Harris - 1919
Bunky Green - 1935
Alan Broadbent - 1947
Kendra Shank - 1958

24th:
Aaron Bell - 1922
Johnny Griffin - 1928
Frank Strazzeri - 1930
Joe Henderson - 1937
Collin Walcott - 1945
Stafford James - 1946

25th:
Earl Bostic - 1913
Ella Fitzgerald - 1918
Willis "Gator" Jackson - 1932
Bobbi Humphrey - 1950
Carl Allen - 1957

26th:
Ma Rainey - 1886
Dave Tough - 1907
Jimmy Giuffre - 1921
Teddy Edwards - 1924

27th:
Matty Matlock - 1907
Connie Kay - 1927
Ruth Price - 1938
Freddie Waits - 1943
Tommy Smith - 1967

28th:
Mario Bauza - 1911
Blossom Dearie - 1926
John Tchicai - 1936
Steve Khan - 1947
Willie Colon - 1950

29th:
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington - 1899
Jean "Toots" Thielemans - 1922
Big Jay McNeely - 1928
Ray Barretto - 1929
Claus Ogermann - 1930
George Adams - 1940

30th:
Percy Heath - 1923
Dick Twardzik - 1931
Abdul Wadud - 1947




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