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Friday, February 1

February - Black History Month

Feb 1

 Birthdays

Pianist James P. Johnson born 1894 in New Brunswick, NJ.
Saxophonist Joshua Redman born 1969 in Berkeley, CA.
Saxophonist Sadao Watanabe born 1933 in Utsunomiya, Japan.

James P. Johnson
Recordings

Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Them Dirty Blues (1960)
Roswell Rudd - Everywhere (1966)
Miles Davis - Agharta / Pangaea (1975)
Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell - El Corazon (1982)
Butch Morris - Current Trends in Racism in Modern America (1985)
Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition - Audio-Visualscapes (1988)
The Modern Jazz Quartet - For Ellington (1988)
Django Bates - Winter Truce (and Homes Blaze) (1995)

Sources: Smithsonian.org & tim-webb.com