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  1. Bill Berry was born on this day in 1930 in Benton Harbor, MI (died November 13, 2002 in L.A.) - here he is, fronting his great mid-seventies big band and taking a fine solo on "The Bink/And How":

    youtu.be/dr_349rQAag

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #BillBerry #MusicAgainstMadness

  2. Bill Berry was born on this day in 1930 in Benton Harbor, MI (died November 13, 2002 in L.A.) - here he is, fronting his great mid-seventies big band and taking a fine solo on "The Bink/And How":

    youtu.be/dr_349rQAag

    @jazz

  3. Bill Berry was born on this day in 1930 in Benton Harbor, MI (died November 13, 2002 in L.A.) - here he is, fronting his great mid-seventies big band and taking a fine solo on "The Bink/And How":

    youtu.be/dr_349rQAag

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #BillBerry #MusicAgainstMadness

  4. Bill Berry was born on this day in 1930 in Benton Harbor, MI (died November 13, 2002 in L.A.) - here he is, fronting his great mid-seventies big band and taking a fine solo on "The Bink/And How":

    youtu.be/dr_349rQAag

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #BillBerry #MusicAgainstMadness

  5. Bill Berry was born on this day in Benton Harbor, MI (died November 13, 2002 in L.A.) - here he is, fronting his great mid-seventies big band and taking a fine solo on "The Bink/And How":

    youtu.be/dr_349rQAag

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #BillBerry #MusicAgainstMadness

  6. Joseph Jarman was born on this day in 1937 in Pine Bluff, AR. He died in Chicago, IL, on January 9, 2019.

    "Song For" ("Song For", Delmark, 1967):
    youtu.be/Zh-NgxaFq8Q

    "As If It Were the Seasons / Song to Make the Sun Come Up" ("As If It Were the Seasons", Delmark, 1968):
    youtu.be/htPHFTI75Xc

    "Black Paladins" (words: Henry Dumas) ("Black Paladins", Black Saint, 1980):
    youtu.be/tOAovk04djc

    @jazz
    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #JosephJarman
    #MusicAgainstMadness

  7. Leon "Chu" Berry was born on 13 September 1910 (died 31 October 1941, way too young).

    Sharing the solo spotlight w/Roy Eldridge in "Christopher Columbus", 1936 w/Fletcher Henderson:

    youtu.be/QbSs95S-dJ0

    His ballad masterpiece "Ghost of a Chance", 1940 w/Cab Calloway:

    youtu.be/zlvVyo6mJTc

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #ChuBerry #MusicAgainstMadness

  8. Born on this day:

    Benny Carter (1907-2003) - alto sax, trumpet
    Vinnie Dean (1929-2010) - alto sax
    Laurie Frink (1951-2013) - trumpet
    Ben Goldberg (*1959) - clarinet
    Urbie Green (1926-2018) - trombone
    Lucky Millinder (1900-1966) - vocals, bandleader
    Didier Petit (*1962) - cello
    Jimmy Witherspoon (1920-1997) - singer

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThis

  9. Guten Morgen mit Herb Ellis (3. August 1921 - 27. März 2010) und "The Shadow of Your Smile" (rec. 1983 mit Monty Budwig & Shelly Manne):

    youtu.be/7nceiRMmE20

    @jazz
    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #MusicAgainstMadness #HerbEllis

  10. @milubo
    Oh yes - I remember how teenage me sat in a long-gone record store and the lady running it (I was too young, but it was said all her customers were in love with her 😅 ) played that for me the first time. WHOAH! Then to find out those were merely his beginnings and starting to explore the rest of his discography.

    A favorite picture, by dear Guy Kopelowicz, "Spirits Rejoice" session, Judson Hall, NYC)
    ayler.co.uk/html/judsonhall.ht

    @jazz

    #AlbertAyler #JazzBirthdays #MusicAgainstMadness

  11. A year or so prior to his death, I spent a wonderful afternoon with John Tchicai, who stayed with a neighbour after a weird short gig (at a school nearby, with his longtime friend Giancarlo Nicolai). The neighbour couldn't pick him up and I was happy to oblige. We went for his luggage, got some pastries and then sat in my kitchen and he patiently answered all of the questions I could think up ... fondest memories indeed!

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #JohnTchicai

  12. Born on this day:

    Ulf Adåker (*1945) - trumpet
    Keith Copeland (1946-2015) - drums
    Hal Galper (*1938) - piano
    Danny Gottlieb (*1953) - drums
    Freddie Hill (*1932) - trumpet
    Pigmeat Markham (1904-1981) - comedian
    Leo Parker (1925-1962) - baritone sax
    Madeleine Peyroux (*1974) - guitar, singer
    Willie Pickens (1931-2017) - piano
    Jimmy Rowser (1926-2004) - bass
    Matthias Schubert (*1960) - sax
    Clyde Stubblefield (1943-2017) - drums

    ... also your truly ☺️

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThis Day

  13. Guten Morgen mit Harold Mabern (20. März 1936 – 17. September 2019) und "Greasy Kid Stuff" (Prestige, 1970).

    Lee Morgan - trumpet
    Hubert Laws - tenor sax
    Harold Mabern - piano
    Buster Williams - bass
    Idris Muhammad - drums

    youtu.be/MV8ROSJH688

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #HaroldMabern #LeeMorgan #MusicAgainstMadness

  14. Doug Watkins (2 Mar 1934–5 Feb 1962) was not a flashy bass player – but one of the greats of the modern jazz era. "A Little Bit of Basie" by the Red Garland Trio - with Specs Wright on drums:

    youtu.be/q_tyuc066nc

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #DougWatkins #RedGarland #MusicAgainstMadness

  15. Sara Serpa (*27 February 1979) performing Cole Porter's wonderful song "Night and Day" with Ran Blake at the piano:

    youtu.be/MejKyX3k8lY

    @jazz

  16. Then, let's celebrate bandleader and trailblazer James Reese Europe (21 February 1881 – 9.May 1919).

    Jason Moran recorded a brilliant homage last year - check it out:

    jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #JamesReeseEurope #JasonMoran

  17. Then, let's celebrate bandleader and trailblazer James Reese Europe (21 February 1881 – 9.May 1919).

    Jason Moran recorded a brilliant homage last year - check it out:

    jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/

    @jazz

  18. Then, let's celebrate bandleader and trailblazer James Reese Europe (21 February 1881 – 9.May 1919).

    Jason Moran recorded a brilliant homage last year - check it out:

    jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #JamesReeseEurope #JasonMoran

  19. Then, let's celebrate bandleader and trailblazer James Reese Europe (21 February 1881 – 9.May 1919).

    Jason Moran recorded a brilliant homage last year - check it out:

    jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #JamesReeseEurope #JasonMoran

  20. Then, let's celebrate bandleader and trailblazer James Reese Europe (21 February 1881 – 9.May 1919).

    Jason Moran recorded a brilliant homage last year - check it out:

    jasonmoran.bandcamp.com/album/

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #JamesReeseEurope #JasonMoran

  21. Also, today is Fred Thomas' birthday as well, he's the founder of Sam Records that released the glorious 2.5 LP package by Nathan Davis depicted above.

    youtu.be/c7dWtChbT9U

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #SamRecords

  22. @ChrisMayLA6 I guess Pee Wee Ellis was the musical mastermind, not least behind "Cold Sweat" (which is an adaption of "So What") - but Maceo (on tenor back then) was such an unbelievably good soloist!

    There's this incredible 1967 James Brown show from Paris that was videotaped, capturing JB's greatest band at its pinnacle:

    youtu.be/BMELadyJK-8

    @jazz

    #MaceoParker #JazzBirthdays #MusicAgainstMadness

  23. Swinging into the weekend with the great Jutta Hipp. Alas, her "career" as a jazzer was short-lived (Leonard Feather - no matter his merits - was a pretty toxic dude in today's terminology, it seems).

    youtu.be/QUBHWJK02yA

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #JuttaHipp #MusicAgainstMadness

  24. Born on this day:

    Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) - piano
    Artie Bernstein (1909-1964) - bass
    John Dikeman (*1983) - sax
    Bobby Durham (1937-2008) - drums
    John Handy (*1933) - sax
    Mabel Mercer (1900-1984) - singer
    Bill Miller (1915-2006) - piano
    Bob Stewart (*1945) - tuba
    Erika Stucky (*1962) - vocals
    Greg Tardy (*1966) - sax
    Kid Thomas Valentine (1896-1987) - trumpet
    Leroy Williams (*1937) - drums
    Snooky Young (1919-2011) - trumpet

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThis Day

  25. My remote working soundtrack today - Bobby Hackett's Capitol recordings (excluding the gorgeous albums he made with Jack Teagarden, which are found on the Teagarden Capitol box by Mosaic, which as you can easily guess is found on my shelves as well 🤓 )

    Bobby Hackett (31 January 1915 – 7 June 1976)

    "Bobby's Blues" (1953):
    youtu.be/hpQf9s5e-JE

    #BobbyHackett #JazzBirthdays #NowListening #MusicAgainstMadness
    @jazz

  26. Born on this day:

    Sam Brown (1939-1977) - guitar
    Israel Crosby (1919-1962) - bass
    Nara Leão (1942-1989) - singer
    Eric Leeds (*1952) - sax, flute
    Joe Magnarelli (*1960) - trumpet
    Stephen Micus (1953) - multi-instrumentalist
    J.R. Monterose (1927-1993) tenor sax
    Hod O'Brien (1936-2016) - piano
    Horace Parlan (1931-2017) - piano
    Ray Pizzi (1943-2021) - woodwinds
    Iiro Rantala (*1970) - piano
    Putter Smith (*1941) - bass
    Phil Wilson (*1937) - trombone

    @jazz

    #jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThis

  27. Guten Morgen - heute "Lullaby" (how fitting!) mit Frank Morgan (23. Dezember 1933–14. December 2007) und vor allem dem Komponisten George Cables am Klavier

    youtu.be/c4gruji_J6s

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #FrankMorgan #OnThisDay #MusicAgainstMadness #GeorgeCables

  28. Second coffee, second tune ... "My Days Are Numbered" from Blood Sweat & Tears' album "Child Is Father to the Man" (1968) with Bobby Colomby (born 20 December 1944) on drums.

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #MusicAgainstMadness #BobbyColomby #BloodSweat&Tears

    youtu.be/ZalyNeYZ514

  29. Guten Morgen mit Bobby Timmons (19 December 1935 - March 1, 1974) und "This Here" (Sam Jones-b, Jimmy Cobb-d)

    This is one is in the racks of my dad's and I fell for it quite early on. 🤩

    youtu.be/HrJhknCAe18

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #MusicAgainstMadness #BobbyTimmons

  30. @ChrisMayLA6
    Alas, yes! Not in my house, ever since I've heard "Land's End" as a teenager. Love his gritty tone! Took me longer to wrap my mind around his Coltrane-influenced later playing - but most notably the albums with Bobby Hutcherson have long been favorites now, as well! Also his Mainstream albums ... and a recent discovery here, his final (?) one, "Promised Land" (rec. 2000 w/Mulgrew Miller, Ray Drummond and Billy Higgins).

    youtu.be/0Jkwhuwm4vo

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #HaroldLand

  31. Born on this day:

    John Abercrombie (1944-2017) -guitar
    Clarence Becton (*1933) -drums
    Noel Coward (1899-1973) -songwriter
    Joe Farrell (1937-1986) -sax,flute
    Joe Fonda (*1954) -bass
    Robben Ford (*1951) -guitar
    Mladen "Bobby" Gutesha (*1923) -bandleader
    Thierry Lang (*1956) -piano
    Radu Malfatti (*1943) -trombone
    Rene McLean (*1946) -sax,flute
    Sam Most (1930-2013) -flute,sax,clarinet
    Turk Murphy (1915-1987) -trombone
    Johnny "Hammond" Smith (1933-1997) -organ

    @jazz
    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThis

  32. Guten Morgen mit Curtis Fuller (15 December 1934 - 8 May 2021), "Quantrale" from "Curtis Fuller Vol. 3" (Blue Note, 1960) w/Art Farmer (tp), Sonny Clark (p), George Tucker (b) and Louis Hayes (d)

    youtu.be/xcPEvQawE7k

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #MusicAgainstMadness #CurtisFuller #ArtFarmer #SonnyClark #GeorgeTucker #Louis Hayes #BlueNoteRecords

  33. Good Morning, coffee and tune number two ... "Queen of All Ears" by the Lounge Lizards (from the album with the same title, their last one from 1998).

    John Lurie, sax player and co-founder of the band, composer, actor, writer, was born December 14, 1952 in Minneapolis.

    youtu.be/HZmr2tydOt4

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #MusicAgainstMadness #JohnLurie #TheLoungeLizards

  34. Franco Ambrosetti, trumpet and flugelhorn master, was born 81 years ago. One of Switzerland's finest jazz musicians, he has many fine albums out, notably on Enja Records.

    1963 jam session w/Cannonball's rhythm section and his dad Flavio at Kursaal Lugano:

    Franco Ambrosetti - t
    Flavio Ambrosetti - as
    Joe Zawinul - p
    Sam Jones - b
    Louis Hayes - d

    Source: Radiotelevisione Svizzera RSI

    youtu.be/aEgSFgO0hkc

    @jazz

    #JazzBirthdays #MusicAgainstMadness #FrancoAmbrosetti #OnThis #NowListening

  35. Never heard of Roy DeCarava? Got to change this!

    MOMA offers plenty of info and examples, including a full catalogue accompanying a past exhibition:

    moma.org/documents/moma_catalo

    Check out Coltrane and Ben Webster on page 135 or Billie Holiday and Hazel Scott on page 220!

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #RoyDeCarava #Photography

  36. Thomas Strønen was born on this day in 1972. HIs album "Bayou" with Ayumi Tanaka and Marthe Lea ranks highly in my recent ECM Records favourites. A very quiet, moody album that may need a few spins to let you discover its charms.

    @jazz

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #OnThisDay #ThomasStronen #AyumiTanaka #MartheLea #ECMRecords

  37. Sylvie Courvoisier (*30 November 1968) in trio w/Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen live at Moods, Zürich, in 2018.

    Quite possible my shoes or the back of my head are in there, notorious frontrow-seater that I am 😅

    youtu.be/KQig_IZVnwY

    #Jazz #JazzBirthdays #MusicAgainstMadness
    #OnThisDay #SylvieCourvoisier #DrewGress #KennyWollesen