Harry Sweets Edison born 1915 in Columbus, OH

Thelonius Monk born 1917 in Park Mountain, NC

(other dictionary says 1920, lol)

Art Blakey born 1919/10/11 in Pittsburg, PA

what a week!

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thankyou from me too guenter.

i have always regarded ella as the perfect singing lesson.

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10 years ago today one of the greatest jazz singers of all times went from us: Ella Fitzgerald.

Born April 25, 1918, she was active on stage for 60 years. From soulful interpretations of standards to aggressive scat and bop versions of jazz hymns like Flying home and How High the Moon, she was one of the most versatile and powerful singers of jazz history.

Lets keep her memory alive.

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May 17
Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean born 1932 in New York, NY... also recently died.. i knew his son Rene Mclean  and once conducted a workshop alogside him at the Pretoria technikons jazz department in South Africa. Rene lives there now.

Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie makes his first recordings (King Porter Stomp) with Teddy Hill’s band, 1937.

Tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman born 1931 in Fort Worth, TX.

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May 12
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra records Doodletown Fifers 1952



Bassist Gary Peacock born 1935 in Burley, ID.



Guitarist Charlie Christian is recorded in a jam session with Thelinious Monk and Kenny Clarke, and plays an extended solo on Stompin’ At the Savoy, 1941.

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April 23
Vocalist Lil Brown records Why Don’t You do Right which Peggy Lee later turns into a major hit with Benny Goodman’s band. 1941



Clarinetist Jimmie Noone born 1895 in New Orleans, LA.



Vocalist Abbey Lincoln records Over The Years, 2000.

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And today is the birthday of a great enemy of Jazz - Adolf Hitler!

In the "3rd Reich" Swing and Jazz were verboten.

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Drummer Beaver Harris born 1936 in Pittsburg PA.

Percussionist/bandeader Tito Puento born in 1923 in New York,NY

Pianist and Composer Sun Ra records the heliocentric worlds of Sun Ra,Volume 1.1965

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Pianist Hal Galper born 1938 in Salem, MA.

also bessie smith was born on the 15th of april in 1894...

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LOVED THE FACT YOU REMEMBERED BILLIES DAY GUN.. SHOULD WE START A BILLY THREAD? GO ON..

April 9
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard records Hub Cap with saxophonist Jimmy Heath, 1961.

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On April 6, 1923, "King Oliver's Creole Jazz band" boarded a train on Chicago's south side, traveled across Indiana's vast rural landscape, and arrived at Richmond's downtown station near the Starr Piano factory. Pulling into Starr valley, Joe Oliver and his band mates were a long way from Chicago and the only black people among hundreds of German workers in the secluded factory complex.

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March 16
Pianist/composer Fats Waller records Jitterbug Waltz, 1942.



Cornetist Ruby Braff born 1927 in Boston, MA.



Pianist Tommy Flanagan born 1930 in Detroit, MI.

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Duke Ellington records Concerto for Cootie 1948

Pianist Cecil Taylor born 1929 in New York.N.Y.

Trumpeter/bandleader Harry James born

1916 in Albany, Ga

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this day in Jazz History , Charles Mingus records

Cumbia and Jazz Fusion  March 10th, 1977

http://www.smithsonianjazz.org

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