celebrating

born: 1941 ROBERTO CARLOS

dead: 2005 NIELS-HENNING ØRSTED PEDERSEN

born: 1906 LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY / 1924 CLARENCE GATEMOUTH BROWN / 1938 HAL GALPER / 1952 SUSANNA LINDEBORG / 1953 DANNY GOTTLIEB / 1974 MADELEINE PEYROUX

born: 1930 CHRIS BARBER / 1942 BUSTER WILLIAMS / 1942 HAN BENNINK / 1948 JAN HAMMER / 1965 JAVIER GIROTTO

born: 1923 BENNIE GREEN / 1924 HENRY MANCINI / 1930 HERBIE MANN / 1964 ESBJORN SVENSSON

dead: 2023 AHMAD JAMAL

storie di jazz: BESSIE SMITH

born: 1924 SHORTY ROGERS / 1925 GENE AMMONS

dead: 2005 BENNY BAILEY / 2015 PERCY SLEDGE

born: 1906 BUD FREEMAN / 1920 JOHN LaPORTA / 1946 AL GREEN

dead: 1986 DOROTHY ASHBY / 2020 RYO KAWASAKI

born: 1917 HELEN FORREST / 1940 HERBIE HANCOCK

dead: 1963 HERBIE NICHOLS / 1971 WYNTON KELLY

born: 1889 NICK LaROCCA / 1916 ALBERTO GINASTERA / 1927 DOMENICO GUACCERO / 1966 LISA STANFIELD

dead: 2011 BILLY BANG

born: 1930 CLAUDE BOLLING (Baroque in Rhythm) / 1971 JOEY DeFRANCESCO (Take the Coltrane) / 1979 SHEMEKIA COPELAND (Clotilda's on Fire)

dead: 1938 KING OLIVER (Dippermouth Blues) / 1979 NINO ROTA (Passerella di "Otto e mezzo") / 2007 DAKOTA STATON (Give me the Simple LIfe)