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August birthdays this week, celebrating the centennials of
Charlie Parker
saxophone, alto1920 - 1955
Jimmy Witherspoon
vocals1923 - 1997
George Duvivier
bassb.1920
Jimmy Rushing
vocals1903 - 1972
Lester Young
saxophone1909 - 1959
Arnett Cobb
saxophone, tenor1918 - 1989
Art Farmer
flugelhorn1928 - 1999
Bennie Maupin
woodwindsb.1940
Herbie Hancock
pianob.1940
Jack DeJohnette
drumsb.1942
Count Basie
piano1904 - 1984
Sonny Sharrock
guitar, electric1940 - 1994
Louis Armstrong
trumpet and vocals1901 - 1971
Cecile McLorin Salvant
vocalsb.1989
Oscar Peterson
piano1925 - 2007
Bill Evans
piano1929 - 1980
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
woodwinds1935 - 1977
Playlist
- Count Basie "Count' Em" Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie (Verve) 00:00
- Jimmy Rushing "Undecided Blues" Every Day I Have the Blues (Impulse) 05:28
- Lester Young "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" Laughin' to Keep from Cryin' (Verve) 11:31
- Arnett Cobb "Cobb's Mob" Smooth Sailing (Prestige) 17:35
- Art Farmer "Naima" The Complete Argo/Mercury Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Jazztet Sessions (Mosaic) 22:22
- Jimmy Witherspoon,
" data-original-title="" title="">Richard "Groove" Holmes "Danger Zone Is Everywhere" Blue as They Want to Be (Acrobat) 29:01Richard "Groove" Holmes
organ, Hammond B3
1931 - 1991 - Jimmy Witherspoon, " data-original-title="" title="">Savoy Sultans "Rain Keeps Fallin' Down" The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions (Black & Blue) 37:25
- Jimmy Witherspoon "How Long Blues" Evenin' Blues (Prestige) 40:55
" data-original-title="" title="">Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker "Bebop" Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (Uptown) 43:50Dizzy Gillespie
trumpet
1917 - 1993- Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie "Dizzy Atmosphere" Diz N' Bird at Carnegie Hall (Roost) 51:25
- Charlie Parker "Yardbird Suite (take 1)" The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions (Mosaic) 55:23
- Herbie Hancock [Bennie Maupin] "Spank-A-Lee" Thrust (Columbia) 58:04
- Jack DeJohnette "Brown, Warm And Wintry" The DeJohnette Complex (Milestone) 1:06:21
- Sonny Sharrock "Kate" Highlife (Enemy) 1:11:29
- King Oliver, Louis Armstrong "Sobbin' Blues" Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings (Off The Record) 1:17:19
- Louis Armstrong "Yes Suh!" Complete Decca Sessions (1935-1946) (Mosaic) 1:21:52
- Louis Armstrong,
" data-original-title="" title="">Duke Ellington "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" Recording Together for the First Time (Roulette) 1:24:39Duke Ellington
piano
1899 - 1974 - Cecile McLorin-Salvant "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues" Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue) 1:27:27
- Oscar Peterson "On Green Dolphin Street" The London House Sessions (Verve) 1:33:31
- Bill Evans "Green Dolphin Street" Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside) 1:42:30
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk "A Sack Full of Soul" We Free Kings (Mercury) 1:51:22
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