March Jazz Birthdays

[Captain Bacardi]

A list of jazz artist's birthdays for the month of March include:

1st:
Glenn Miller - 1904
Barrett Deems - 1914
Benny Powell - 1930
Gene Perla - 1940
Ralph Towner - 1940

2nd:
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - 1921
Doug Watkins - 1934
Buell Neidlinger - 1936
Larry Carlton - 1948

3rd:
Barney Bigard - 1906
Pierre Michelot - 1928
Jimmy Garrison - 1934
Sergio Salvatore - 1981

4th:
Art Hodes - 1904
Bobby Jaspar - 1926
Cy Touff - 1927
Barney Wilen - 1937
David Darling - 1941
Bobby Shew - 1941
Jan Garbarek - 1947
Ricky Ford - 1954
Kermit Driscoll - 1956

5th:
Lou Levy - 1928
Wilbur Little - 1928
Jack Nimitz - 1928
Bob Edmondson - 1935
Carol Sloane - 1937

6th:
Red Callender - 1916
Howard McGhee - 1918
Wes Montgomery - 1925
Peter Brotzmann - 1941
Palle Mikkelborg - 1941
Robin Kenyatta - 1942
Flora Purim - 1942
Charles Tolliver - 1942

7th:
Alcide Pavageau - 1888
Nat Gonella - 1908
Lee Young - 1917
Eric Allison - 1951

8th:
Dick Hyman - 1927
George Coleman - 1935
Gabor Szabo - 1936
James Williams - 1951
Billy Childs - 1957

9th:
Herschel Evans - 1909
Ornette Coleman - 1930
Zakir Hussain - 1951

10th:
Bix Beiderbecke - 1903
Louis Moholo - 1940
David Friedman - 1944
Mino Cinelu - 1957

11th:
Miff Mole - 1898
Mercer Ellington - 1919
Astor Piazzolla - 1921
Leroy Jenkins - 1932
Bobby McFerrin - 1950
Judy Niemack - 1954

12th:
Freddy Johnson - 1904
Willie Maiden - 1928
Hugh Lawson - 1935
Al Jarreau - 1940

13th:
Bob Haggart - 1914
Dick Katz - 1924
Roy Haynes - 1926
Blue Mitchell - 1930
Terence Blanchard - 1962

14th:
Les Brown - 1912
Mark Murphy - 1932
Quincy Jones - 1933
Shirley Scott - 1934
David Darling - 1941

15th:
Jimmy McPartland - 1907
Harry James - 1916
Bob Wilber - 1928
Charles Lloyd - 1938
Joachim Kuhn - 1944

16th:
Ruby Braff - 1927
Tommy Flanagan - 1930
Kei Akagi - 1953
John Lindberg - 1959
Gary Meek - 1961

17th:
Nat King Cole - 1919
Paul Horn - 1930
Grover Mitchell - 1930
Jessica Williams - 1948

18th:
Jean Goldkette - 1899
All Hall - 1915
Bill Frisell - 1951
Andy Narell - 1954
Courtney Pine - 1964

19th:
Buster Harding - 1917
Curley Russell - 1917
Lennie Tristano - 1919
Lem Winchester - 1928
Bill Henderson - 1930
Mike Longo - 1939
David Schnitter - 1948
Eliane Elias - 1960

20th:
Burt Bales - 1916
Marian McPartland - 1920
Harold Mabern - 1936
Meredith D'Ambrosio - 1941
Jon Christensen - 1943

21st:
Sir Charles Thompson - 1918
Mike Westbrook - 1936
Amina Claudine Myers - 1942
Tiger Okoshi - 1950

22nd:
Hugo Rasmussen - 1941
George Benson - 1943
Bob Mover - 1952
Jan Lundgren - 1966

23rd:
Johnny Guarnieri - 1917
Dave Frishberg - 1933
Dave Pike - 1938
Gerry Hemingway - 1955

24th:
King Pleasure - 1922
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - 1936
Steve Kuhn - 1938
Paul McCandless - 1947
Hank Roberts - 1955
Renee Rosnes - 1962
Dave Douglas - 1963

25th:
Sweet Emma Barrett - 1897
Pete Johnson - 1904
Paul Motian - 1931
Cecil Taylor - 1933
Bobby Militello - 1950
Makoto Ozone - 1961

26th:
Flip Phillips - 1915
Andy Hamilton - 1918
Jimmy Blanton - 1921
Brew Moore - 1924
James Moody - 1925
Lew Tabackin - 1940

27th:
Pee Wee Russell - 1906
Ben Webster - 1909
Sarah Vaughn - 1924
Harold Ashby - 1925
Bill Barron - 1927

28th:
Paul Whiteman - 1890
Thad Jones - 1923
Tete Montoliu - 1933

29th:
Pearl Bailey - 1918
Michael Brecker - 1949
Ruby Tanglewood - 1978

30th:
Ted Heath - 1900
Lanny Morgan - 1934
Karl Berger - 1935
Marilyn Crispell - 1947
John d'Earth - 1950

31st:
Lizzie Miles - 1895
Red Norvo - 1908
Freddie Green - 1911
Herb Alpert - 1935


Capt. Bacardi