APRIL IS JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH!
Recordings Trumpeter/bandleader Cootie Williams is the first to record a Thelonious Monk composition, Epistrophy, 1942. The Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song Vol. 1 & 2 (1969) Charles Mingus - Cumbia and Jazz Fusion (1976) Freddie Hubbard - Super Blue (1978) Anderson/Drake/Jordan/Parker - 2 Days in April (1999) Birthdays Saxophonist Harry Carney born 1910 in Boston, MA. Saxophonist John Laporta born 1920 in Philadelphia, PA. Gil Scott - Heron b. 1949 Chicago, IL  |
