born: 1945 STEVE GADD (Training; Freedom Jazz Dance)

dead: 1998 TOM CORA (King Commie) / 2023 KARL BERGER (Simplicity; Transit)

born: 1920 CARMEN McRAE (Them There Eyes; My One Bad Habit) / 1929 JACQUES BREL (La chanson de Jacky)

dead: 1997 LAURA NYRO (Lucky)

born: 1915 BILLIE HOLIDAY

born: 1924 CHARLIE ROUSE (Ugly Beauty) / 1927 GERRY MULLIGAN (I Mean You) / 1936 MAFRED SCHOOF (Clouds) / 1960 JOHN PIZZARELLI (No More Lonely Nights) / 1978 ROBERT GLASPER (Afro Blue)

born: 1934 STANLEY TURRENTINE (Sugar)

dead: 1934 SALVATORE DI GIACOMO (Era de maggio) / 1994 KURT COBAIN (Smells LIke Teen Spirits) / 2018 CECIL TAYLOR (Bemsha Swing)

born: 1915 MUDDY WATERS (Mannish Boy) / 1922 ELMER BERNSTEIN (A Wishing Doll) / 1939 HUGH MASEKELA (Abangoma) / 1954 MICHEL CAMILO (Spain)

born: 1903 BUBBER MILEY (Puttin' on the Ritz) / 1922 DORIS DAY (Que serà, serà) / 1936 SCOTT LaFARO (In Your Own Sweet Way)

dead: 1950 KURT WEILL (Your Technique) / 1978 RAY NOBLE (The Very THought of You) / 1990 SARAH VAUGHAN (Teach Me Tonight)

born: 1939 MARVIN GAYE (What's Going On) / 1943 LARRY CORYELL (Nardis)

dead: 1935 BENNIE MOTEN (Moten Swing) / 1987 BUDDY RICH (Bloomdido) / 1995 JULIUS HEMPHILL (Long Rhythm) / 2009 BUD SHANK (I Will Wait for You) / 2016 GATO BARBIERI (Yo le canto a la luna)

born: 1895 ALBERTA HUNTER (Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams) / 1910 HARRY CARNEY (Take the A-Train) / 1949 GIL SCOTT-HERON (We Almost Lost Detroit)

dead: 1917 SCOTT JOPLIN (The Ragtime Dance) / 1984 MARVIN GAYE (Sexual Healing) / 2020 BUCKY PIZZARELLI (In the Dark)

born: 1684 FRANCESCO DURANTE (Vergin tutto amor) / 1908 RED NORVO (Cheek to Cheek) / 1935 HERB ALPERT (Street Life)

dead: 2006 JACKIE McLEAN (Sweet Love of Mine) / 2020 WALLACE RONEY (Then and Now)