February Jazz Birthdays

[Captain Bacardi]

Jazz artists' birthdays for February include:

1st:
James P. Johnson - 1894
Tricky Sam Nanton - 1904
Sadao Watanabe - 1933
Joe Sample - 1939
Joshua Redman - 1969

2nd:
Joe Mondragon - 1920
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - 1922
Sonny Stitt - 1924
Stan Getz - 1927
James "Blood" Ulmer - 1942

3rd:
Lil Hardin Armstrong - 1898
Snooky Young - 1919
Leroy Williams - 1932
John Handy - 1933
Bob Stewart - 1945
Craig Bailey - 1960

4th:
Artie Bernstein - 1909
Jutia Hipp - 1925
Tony Fruscella - 1927
Big Bill Bisonnette - 1937
Bill Mays - 1944
John Stubblefield - 1945

5th:
Gene Schroeder - 1915
Doug Watkins - 1935
Rick Laird - 1941
Keith Ingram - 1942
Art Lande - 1947

6th:
Ernie Royal - 1912
Howard McGhee - 1918
Sammy Nestico - 1924
Bernie Glow - 1926
John Pisano - 1931

7th:
Eubie Blake - 1883
Ray Crawford - 1924
King Curtis - 1934

8th:
Lonnie Johnson - 1889
Buddy Morrow - 1919
Pony Poindexter - 1926
Eddie Locke - 1930
Joe Maini - 1930

9th:
Walter Page - 1900
Peanuts Holland - 1910
Barbara Donald - 1942
Bill Evans (sax) - 1958

10th:
Chick Webb - 1909
Larry Adler - 1914
Sir Roland Hanna - 1932
Walter Perkins - 1932
Rufus Reid - 1944
Lawrence "Butch" Morris - 1947

11th:
Claude Jones - 1901
Matt Dennis - 1914
Sergio Mendes - 1941
Martin Drew - 1944
Didier Lockwood - 1956

12th:
Paul Bascomb - 1912
Mel Powell - 1923
Grover Washington, Jr. - 1943

13th:
Wingy Manone - 1900
Wardell Gray - 1921
Buck Hill - 1927

14th:
Jack Lesberg - 1920
Elliot Lawrence - 1925
Rob McConnell - 1935
Maceo Parker - 1943
Bill Laswell - 1950

15th:
Harold Arlen - 1905
Taft Jordan - 1915
Nathan Davis - 1937
Kirk Lightsey - 1937
Marty Morell - 1944
Henry Threadgill - 1944

16th:
Machito - 1912
Bill Doggett - 1916
Pete Christlieb - 1945
Michael Herr - 1949
Jeff Clayton - 1955

17th:
Buddy DeFranco - 1923
Buddy Jones - 1924
John Coates, Jr - 1938
Fred Frith - 1949

18th:
Emil Barnes - 1892
Frank Butler - 1928
Harold Land - 1928

19th:
Johnny Dunn - 1897
Stan Kenton - 1912
David Murray - 1955

20th:
Jimmy Yancey - 1898
Bobby Jaspar - 1926
Nancy Wilson - 1937
Lew Soloff - 1944
Anthony Davis - 1951
Riccardo Del Fra - 1956
Iain Ballamy - 1964

21st:
Al Sears - 1910
Tadd Dameron - 1917
Eddie De Haas - 1930
Eddie Higgins - 1932
Nina Simone - 1933
Herb Robertson - 1951
Warren Vache - 1951
Chris Hunter - 1957

22nd:
Jim Europe - 1881
Rex Stewart - 1907
Buddy Tate - 1915
Joe Wilder - 1922
Joe LaBarbara - 1948

23rd:
Money Johnson - 1918
Hall Overton - 1920
Johnny Carisi - 1922

24th:
Michel Legrand - 1932
David "Fathead" Newman - 1933
Bob Magnusson - 1947

25th:
Ida Cox - 1896
Tiny Parham - 1900
Fred Katz - 1919
Rene Thomas - 1927
Sandy Brown - 1929
Ake Persson - 1932

26th:
Teddy Edwards - 1924
James Moody - 1925
Dave Pell - 1925
Lennart Aberg - 1942
Yosuke Yamashíta - 1942
Mike Richmond - 1947

27th:
Freddie Keppard - 1890
Mildred Bailey - 1907
Abe Most - 1920
Dexter Gordon - 1923
Chuck Wayne - 1923
Lee Harper - 1945
Joey Calderazzo - 1965

28th:
Louis Metcalf - 1905
Svend Asmussen - 1916
Marty Grosz - 1930
Willie Bobo - 1934
Charles Gayle - 1939
Pierre Dorge - 1946

29th (Leap Year):
Jimmy Dorsey - 1904
Paul Rutherford - 1940
Richie Cole - 1948



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