December Jazz Birthdays

[Captain Bacardi]

Here's a list of jazz artist's birthdays for the month of December:

1st:
John Bunch - 1921
Jimmy Lyons - 1933
Carlos Garnett - 1938
Jaco Pastorius - 1951

2nd:
Eddie Sauter - 1914
Charlie Ventura - 1916
Wynton Kelly - 1931
Ronnie Mathews - 1935
P.J. Perry - 1941

3rd:
Paul Lingle - 1902
Herbie Nichols - 1919
Sylvia Sims - 1919
Webster Young - 1932

4th:
Eddie Heywood - 1915
Russell Jacquet - 1917
Frank Tiberi - 1928
Jim Hall - 1930
Dennis Charles - 1933
Ernie Carson - 1937
Andy Laverne - 1947
Cassandra Wilson - 1955

5th:
Marshall Royal - 1912
Kansas Fields - 1915
Johnny Pate - 1923
Art Davis - 1934
Egberto Gismonti - 1944
Enrico Pieranunzi - 1949

6th:
Armand Hug - 1910
Dave Brubeck - 1920
Bob Cooper - 1925
Frank Dunlop - 1928
Eddie Gladden - 1937
Jay Leonhart - 1940
Miroslav Vitous - 1947
Harvie Swartz - 1948

7th:
Teddy Hill - 1909
Louis Prima - 1911
Billy Moore Jr. - 1917
Matthew Shipp - 1960

8th:
Jimmy Smith - 1925

9th:
Bob Scobey - 1916
Donald Byrd - 1932
Jimmy Owens - 1943
Kip Hanrahan - 1954

10th:
Ray Nance - 1913
Bob Cranshaw - 1932
Don Sebesky - 1937
Franco Ambrosetti - 1941
Michael Lang - 1941
Paul Hardcastle - 1957

11th:
Alan Levitt - 1932
Lou Rawls - 1935
McCoy Tyner - 1938

12th:
Eddie Barefield - 1909
Frank Sinatra - 1915
Joe Williams - 1918
Bob Dorough - 1923
Dodo Marmarosa - 1925
Toshiko Akiyoshi - 1929
Grover Washington Jr. - 1943
Alex Acuna - 1944
Michael Carvin - 1944
Tony Williams - 1945

13th:
Sonny Greer - 1891
Jackie Davis - 1920
Bill Hood - 1924
Reggie Johnson - 1940
Mark Elf - 1949

14th:
Budd Johnson - 1910
Ted Buckner - 1913
Clark Terry - 1920
Cecil Payne - 1922
Phineas Newborn, Jr. - 1931
Leo Wright - 1933
Jerome Cooper - 1946
John Lurie - 1952
Dan Barrett - 1955

15th:
John Hammond - 1910
Stan Kenton - 1911
Billy Butler - 1925
Gene Quill - 1927
Barry Harris - 1929
Curtis Fuller - 1934
Dannie Richmond - 1935
Eddie Palmieri - 1936

16th:
Andy Razaf - 1895
Turk Murphy - 1915
Sam Most - 1930
Johnny Hammond Smith - 1933
Joe Farrell - 1937
John Abercrombie - 1944
Rene McLean - 1946
Robben Ford - 1951

17th:
Ray Noble - 1903
Sy Oliver - 1910
Joe Kennedy - 1923
Sonny Red - 1932
Walter Booker - 1933

18th:
Fletcher Henderson - 1897
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - 1917
Harold Land - 1928
Leo Smith - 1941

19th:
Lu Watters - 1911
Bob Brookmeyer - 1929
Bobby Timmons - 1935
Milcho Leviev - 1937
Lenny White - 1949
Eric Marienthal - 1957

20th:
John Hardee - 1918
Arne Domnerus - 1924
Larry Willis - 1940

21st:
Panama Francis - 1918
Marshall Brown - 1920
Rita Reys - 1924
Hank Crawford - 1934
Frank Zappa - 1940
John Hicks - 1941

22nd:
Reunald Jones - 1910
Joe Lee Wilson - 1935
Nick Ceroli - 1939
Frank Gambale - 1958
John Patitucci - 1959

23rd:
Chet Baker - 1929
Frank Morgan - 1933

24th:
Baby Dodds - 1898
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith - 1908
Ray Bryant - 1931
Chris McGregor - 1936
Woody Shaw - 1944
Ralph Moore - 1956

25th:
Kid Ory - 1890
Jim Robinson - 1892
Wayman Carver - 1905
Cab Calloway - 1907
Pete Rugulo - 1915
Eddie Safranski - 1918
Chris Woods - 1925
Don Alias - 1939
Bob James - 1939
Ronnie Cuber - 1941
Don Pullen - 1941

26th:
Monty Budwig - 1929
Billy Bean - 1933
John Scofield - 1951

27th:
Bunk Johnson - 1889
Johnny Frigo - 1916
Booty Wood - 1919
Bill Crow - 1927
Walter Norris - 1931
T.S. Monk - 1949

28th:
Earl "Fatha" Hines - 1903
Moe Koffman - 1928
Ed Thigpen - 1930
Dick Sudhalter - 1938
Lonnie Liston Smith - 1940
Ted Nash - 1959
Michel Petrucciani - 1962

29th:
Willie Humphrey - 1900
Snub Mosley - 1905
Cutty Cutshall - 1911
Joe Lovano - 1952
Danilo Perez - 1966

30th:
Jimmy Jones - 1918
Stan Tracey - 1926
Jack Montrose - 1928
Wolfgang Dauner - 1935
Jerry Granelli - 1940
Lewis Nash - 1958
Ron Affif - 1965

31st:
John Kirby - 1908
Jonah Jones - 1909
Gil Melle - 1931
Jimmy Haslip - 1951


Happy Holidays to everyone!



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