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Wednesday, January 30

Today in Jazz

Jan 30

Birthdays 
Bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik born 1927 in New York, NY.
Trumpeter Roy Eldridge born 1911 in Pittsburgh, PA.



Roy Eldridge


Album and song recordings

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band makes the first jazz recordings, 1917
Sonny Stitt - Kaleidoscope (1951)
Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953)
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban (1955)
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (1962)
Dollar Brand - Anatomy of a South African Village (1964)
Herb Ellis/Joe Pass - Two for the Road (1974)
Leroy Jenkins/The Jazz Composers Orchestra - For Players Only (1975)
Anthony Braxton - Seven Standards 1985, vol. 1 & 2 (1985)
Andrew Hill - Eternal Spirit (1989)