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Happy Birthday Jimmy Heath - October Jazz Calendar of Prominent Musicians
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October 24, 2012
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Oct 25, 1926
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Jimmy Heath, Mulgrew Miller, David Wong and Tootie Heath
The Legendary Jimmy Heath Autobiography
"I WALKED WITH GIANTS" Available in Book Stores & Online. Order...
"Let's Steam Some Greens"
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Walter Bishop Jr,
Oct 4, 1927 - Jan 1998
Max The Invincible Roach - Walter Bishop, Jr. .
Eddie Gomez
Robert Hurst III
Leon Thomas
October 4, 1937 – May 8, 1999
Jimmy Blanton,
Oct 5, 1918
Duke Ellington , Jimmy Blanton - SOPHISTICATED LADY
Norman Simmons,
Oct 6, 1929
I Believe In You by Teri Thornton w/ Norman Simmons
Mark Whitfield
Oct 6,
Sammy Price
Oct 6,
Oct 7, 1911 - 1985
Jo Jones, Caravan, 1964 - classic drum solo
Larry Young
Oct 7,
"Monk's Dream"
Amiri Baraka
Oct 7,
Pepper Adams,
Oct 8, 1930 - 1986
Hal "Cornbread" Singer
Oct. 8,
Abdullah Ibrahim,
Oct 8, 1934
Yusef Lateef
Oct. 8,
Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Jazz Stars 1963
Kenny Garrett
Oct. 8,
Song for Difang
Oct 9, 1914 - 1987
Thelonious Monk,
Oct. 10 1917 - 1982
Harry "Sweets" Edison,
Oct 10, 1915 - 1999
Centerpiece - Coleman Hawkins 1964
Ed Blackwell
Oct 10,
Cecil Bridgewater
Oct 10,
Max Roach Quintet Italy 70 ' 1a
Junior Mance
Oct 10,
Dexter Gordon & Junior Mance Trio - Blue Monk 1970
Monk Montgomery
Oct 10,
he Montgomery Brothers - Heart Strings
Oscar Brown, Jr.
Oct. 10
Def Poetry - Oscar Brown Jr. - I Apologize
Johnny O'Neal
Oct 10,
Johnny O'Neal @ Smoke
Fred Hopkins
Oct. 10
Fred Hopkins solo bass
Billy Higgins,
Oct. 11, 1936 - 2001
Jackie Mclean Bobby Hutcherson Billy Higgins Herbie Lewis Umbria 83
Art Blakey
Oct. 11,
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Moanin'
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Live in Belgium '58, Full Co...
Lester Bowie
Oct. 11,
Lester Bowie New York Organ Ensemble 1994 - 1 of 3
Ray Brown,
Oct. 13, 1926 - 2002
Art Tatum,
Oct. 13, 1929 - 1956
Lee Konitz
Oct. 13,
Pharoah Sanders
Oct. 13,
Roy Hargrove
Oct. 16
Barney Kessell,
Oct. 17, 1923 - 2004
Anita O'Day
Oct. 19, 1919 - 2006
Eddie Daniels
Ronnie Burrage
Eddie Harris
Oct. 20,
Wynton Marsalis,
Oct. 18, 1961
Dizzy Gillespie,
Oct 21, 1917 - 1993
Don Byas,
Oct. 21, 1912 - 1972
Don Elliott,
Oct. 21, 1926 - 1983
Sonny Criss,
Oct. 23, 1927 - 1977
Ernie Watts
Odean Pope
Oct. 23.
Wendell Marshall
Oct. 24
Oct 25, 1926
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Jimmy Heath, Mulgrew Miller, David Wong and Tootie Heath
The Legendary Jimmy Heath Autobiography
"I WALKED WITH GIANTS" Available in Book Stores & Online. Order...
Robin Eubanks
Oct. 25
Eddie Henderson
Oct. 26,
Andy & The Bey Sisters - Smooth Sailing
Zoot Sims,
Oct. 29, 1926 - 1985
Clifford Brown,
Oct. 30, 1930 - 1956
THE MAX ROACH-CLIFFORD BROWN QUINTET: "JOY SPRING"
Booker Ervin
Poncho Sanchez
llinois Jacquet
Oct. 31, 1922 - 2004
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Born and raised near Philadelphia to a musical family, Joe Chambers heard not only the rock and roll of Louis Jordan and Slim Gaillard, but the classical of Vivaldi, Wagner, Beethoven and Mahler. Drums came early. "I think an instrument picks you. I used to play on post and pans when I was little. I was setting them up like a kit at four years of age, so the instincts were there."
More taken with Lester Young and Lionel Hampton than Little Richard, Chambers nonetheless soon joined a band playing all the R&B hits of the day. "We played 'house rock,' horn players walking the bar like Big Jay McNeely and Tiny Bradshaw. But then I started hearing esoteric jazz like Miles Davis, and that grabbed me. When I heard that at age 13, immediately I was hooked."
Chambers' parents also played a big role in his musical vision, and prompted him to learn more. "The level of music that they listened to compared to today was just incredible, in terms of popular culture. Bebop is the most revolutionary period in American music. I call it the era when drummers freed themselves, from Jo Jones to Kenny Clarke to Max Roach.
Preachers used to preach against jazz. Then the people stopped dancing, killing the big bands. Bebop moved jazz from folkoric to a more cult-oriented and intellectual sound. That's why R&B came in. There was a need for more proletarian music. Bebop became cult music. It was a revolutionary time. I witnessed all of that." Read more here...
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Comment by Yasuhiro "Fuji" Fujioka on October 25, 2012 at 9:37pm
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Happy birthday guys, especially my friend Jimmy Heath, who have been making Jazz history.
Thanks a lot!
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Comment by WASHINGTON DC JAZZ NETWORK on October 5, 2012 at 1:56pm
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Tommie,
Great hearing from you. Hope all is well in Paris.
Our Birthday calendar is a daily work in progress. As you can see there's a lot of research involved and I was actually working on the blog as you were making the comment. Thanks for everything and of course being a member of the Washington DC Jazz Network.
I was riding through PA and stopped pass our favorite Bed N' Breakfast in PA...smile! Looking forward to performing with you again. Love it... Talk soon. 240.694.7560
GeoJO
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Comment by Tommie Lee McKenzie on October 5, 2012 at 1:38pm
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George,
As I said before, this is a great post (as are all of the things you report on). Thanks for responding and adding dates. Keep up the good work.
Tom
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Great post. Please add dates.
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