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Wild Bill Davison
January 5, 1906 – November 14, 1989




Myra Melford
January 5, 1957

Happy Birthday ... https://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/large/5/8/a/2c2f581288687d5e186e2338769cb.jpg Slim Gaillard January 4, 1916 – February 26, 1991 http://jazzdagama.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Frank-Wess-2.jpg Frank Wess January 4, 1922 – October 30, 2013 http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/...

Happy Birthday ... http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/401/MI0001401574.jpg?partner=allrovi.com Arthur Prysock January 2, 1929 – June 14, 1997 https://scottkfish.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/fatool_nick.jpg Nick Fatool January 2, 1915 – September 26, 2000

Happy Birthday ... http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/images/SusannahMcCorkle_png300.png Susannah McCorkle January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001 http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/artists/al_mckibbon.jpg Al McKibbon January 1, 1919 – July 29, 2005 https://www.schlossfestspiele.de/up...

Happy Birthday ... http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/artists/gil-melle.jpg Gil Melle December 31, 1931 – October 28, 2004 https://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/profile/jimmyhaslip2009.jpg Jimmy Haslip December 31, 1951 http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-jonah-jones-quartet-and-hank-jones-on...

Happy Birthday ... https://s3.amazonaws.com/bit-photos/large/6342641.jpeg Ron Affif December 30, 1965 http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=E21ciL9ft3rsIAxX2k6IT8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYvyx8xDDWW2VjQgAwq1XVriWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8Q...

https://www.survata.com/assets/logos-newspapers/logo-latimes-600.png Dec. 28, 2016, 6:11 p.m. Debbie Reynolds dies at 84, one day after the death of daughter Carrie Fisher http://www.trbimg.com/img-57203e4f/turbine/la-et-debbie-reynolds-career-in-photos-2014081-003/1050/1050x591 Debbie Reynolds and...

http://appnationconference.com/an7/files/2015/11/The_New_York_Times-web.png Carrie Fisher, Child of Hollywood and ‘Star Wars’ Royalty, Dies at 60 By DAVE ITZKOFF | DEC. 27, 2016 https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/24/obituaries/20161224fisher-obituary-slide-GT6B/20161224fisher-obituary-slide-GT...

"There's no place like home for the holidays ... " as the song goes. We have lots of Christmas ornaments, collected over the years, and from my family and Patti's, as well. Patti came home the other day with a new ornament she couldn't resist, a two-story wooden ho...

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Danilo Perez
December 29, 1965




Joe Lovano
December 29, 1952

Happy Birthday ... http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum22/edthigpentop.jpg Ed Thigpen December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010 http://royayersproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/night41_lonnie_liston_smith-621x400.jpg Lonnie Liston Smith December 28, 1940 http://www.michelpetrucciani.com/wp-content...

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Monty Budwig
December 26, 1926 – March 9, 1992




John Scofield
December 26, 1951

http://www.soultracks.com/files/soultracks-logo.png Legendary drummer Alphonse Mouzon dies at age 68 December 26, 2016 We are sad today to inform SoulTrackers of the death of legendary jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon, after a battle with Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, a rare form of cancer. He was 68. It w...

Happy Birthday ... http://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/large/4/3/e/2cd9850f5edfba7398c5e5be8634a.jpg Jerome Richardson December 25, 1920 – June 23, 2000 https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2634/4035352069_4f977ddaac_z.jpg?zz=1 Ronnie Cuber December 25, 1941 http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/dpa21/DonAl...

Happy Birthday ... http://www.trbimg.com/img-53258309/turbine/sns-ray-bryant-obit-picture/600/600x338 Ray Bryant December 24, 1931 – June 2, 2011 https://grahamhopkinsdrummer.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/bd2.png Baby Dodds December 24, 1898 – February 14, 1959 https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/f...

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Frank Morgan
December 23, 1933 – December 14, 2007




Chet Baker
December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988

Happy Birthday ... http://www.purojazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/brookmeyer-obit-articleLarge.jpg Bob Brookmeyer December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011 http://bobbytimmons.jazzgiants.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bobby_timmons2.jpg Bobby Timmons December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974 http://volumet...

Happy Birthday ... http://rubbercityreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cleanhead.2-e1455588713340.jpg Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01l9809.jpg Fletcher Henderson December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952 http://harold...

Happy Birthday ... http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/326/MI0001326351.jpg?partner=allrovi.com Rene McLean December 16, 1946 http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/artists/joe_farrell.jpg Joe Farrell December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986 http://www.premierguitar.com/Stream/StreamImage.a...