S E P T E M B E R

01: Gene Harris - Born 1933 
01: Art Pepper - Born 1925 
02: Laurindo Almeida - Born 1917 
02: Walter Davis, Jr - Born 1932 
02: Clifford Jordan - Born 1931 
02: Phil Napoleon - Born 1901 
02: Horace Silver - Born 1928 
03: Roy Brooks - Born 1938 
04: Bireli Lagrene - Born 1966 
04: Meade ``Lux'' Lewis - Born 1905 
04: David Liebman - Born 1946 
04: Lonnie Plaxico - Born 1960 
04: Gerald Wilson - Born 1918 
05: Albert Mangelsdorff - Born 1928 
05: Charles ``Bobo'' Shaw - Born 1947 
06: Clifford Thornton - Born 1936 
06: Andrew White - Born 1942 
07: Max Kaminsky - Born 1908 
07: Ken McIntyre - Born 1931 
07: Joe Newman - Born 1922 
07: Sonny Rollins - Born 1930 
08: Marion Brown - Born 1935 
08: James Clay - Born 1935 
08: Wilbur Ware - Born 1923 
09: Elvin Jones - Born 1927 
10: Roy Ayers - Born 1940 
10: Dave Burrell - Born 1940 
10: Craig Harris - Born 1954 
10: Prince Lasha - Born 1929 
11: Harry Connick, Jr - Born 1967 
11: Stacy Rowles - Born 1955 
12: Cat Anderson - Born 1916 
12: Scott Hamilton - Born 1954 
12: Steve Turre - Born 1948 
13: Chu Berry - Born 1910 
13: Mel Tormé - Born 1925 
14: Joseph Jarman - Born 1937 
15: Cannonball Adderley - Born 1928 
15: Al Casey - Born 1915 
15: Bobby Short - Born 1926 
16: Charlie Byrd - Born 1925 
16: Jon Hendricks - Born 1921 
16: Earl Klugh - Born 1954 
16: Joe Venuti - Born 1903 
17: Jack McDuff - Born 1926 
17: Bill McKinney - Born 1895 
17: Perry Robinson - Born 1938
17: August, as many have it) 
18: Steve Marcus - Born 1939 
18: Emily Remler - Born 1957 
19: Muhal Richard Abrams - Born 1930 
19: Lol Coxhill - Born 1932 
20: Billy Bang - Born 1947 
20: Steve Coleman - Born 1956 
20: Eric Gale - Born 1938 
20: Red Mitchell - Born 1927 
21: Chico Hamilton - Born 1921 
21: Sunny Murray - Born 1937 
21: Slam Stewart - Born 1914 
23: Albert Ammons - Born 1907 
23: John Coltrane - Born 1926 
23: Frank Foster - Born 1928 
23: Les McCann - Born 1935 
23: Jeremy Steig - Born 1943 
23: Jimmy Woode - Born 1928 
24: John Carter - Born 1929 
24: Bill Connors - Born 1949 
24: Jay Hoggard - Born 1954 
24: Herb Jeffries - Born 1916 
24: Fats Navarro - Born 1923 
25: Horacee Arnold - Born 1937 
25: Bill Pierce - Born 1948 
25: Sam Rivers - Born 1930 
26: Gary Bartz - Born 1940 
26: George Gershwin - Born 1898 
27: Mike Nock - Born 1940 
27: Bud Powell - Born 1924 
27: Red Rodney - Born 1927 
28: Kenny Kirkland - Born 1955 
29: Jean-Luc Ponty - Born 1942 
30: Oscar Pettiford - Born 1922 
30: Buddy Rich - Born 1917 

O C T O B E R

01: Mark Helias - Born 1950 
01: Dave Holland - Born 1946 
02: Phil Urso - Born 1925 
03: Von Freeman - Born 1922 
04: Eddie Gomez - Born 1944 
04: Stan Hasselgard - Born 1922 
04: Steve Swallow - Born 1940 
04: Leon Thomas - Born 1937 
05: Bill Dixon - Born 1925 
06: Sammy Price - Born 1908 
07: Amiri Baraka - Born 1934 
07: Jo Jones - Born 1911 
07: Larry Young - Born 1940 
08: Pepper Adams - Born 1930 
08: J C Heard - Born 1917 
08: Hal Singer - Born 1919 
09: Abdullah Ibrahim - Born 1934 
09: Yusef Lateef - Born 1920 
09: Mezz Mezzrow - Born 1899 
09: Dave Samuels - Born 1948 
09: Elmer Snowdon - Born 1900 
09: Lee Wiley - Born 1915 
10: Cecil Bridgewater - Born 1942 
10: Harry Edison - Born 1915 
10: Junior Mance - Born 1928 
10: Thelonious Monk - Born 1917 
10: Julius Watkins - Born 1921 
11: Curtis Amy - Born 1929 
11: Mose Allison - Born 1927 
11: Art Blakey - Born 1919 
11: Lester Bowie - Born 1941 
11: Billy Higgins - Born 1936 
13: Ray Brown - Born 1926 
13: Terry Gibbs - Born 1924 
13: Lee Konitz - Born 1927 
13: Pharoah Sanders - Born 1940 
14: Kazumi Watanabe - Born 1953 
17: Sathima Bea Benjamin - Born 1936 
17: Cozy Cole - Born 1906 
17: Barney Kessel - Born 1923 
18: Wynton Marsalis - Born 1961 
18: Anita O-Day - Born 1919 
19: Eddie Daniels - Born 1941 
20: Eddie Harris - Born 1934 
20: Jelly Roll Morton - Born 1890 
21: Don Byas - Born 1912 
21: Dizzy Gillespie - Born 1917 
22: Clare Fischer - Born 1928 
23: Sonny Criss - Born 1927 
23: Ernie Watts - Born 1945 
24: Odeon Pope - Born 1938 
25: Jimmy Heath - Born 1926 
25: Eddie Lang - Born 1902 
26: Charlie Barnet - Born 1913: 
26: Eddie Henderson - Born 1940 
26: Wayne Marsh - Born 1927 
27: Philip Catherine - Born 1942 
27: George Wallington - Born 1924 
28: Elton Dean - Born 1945 
28: Glen Moore - Born 1941 
28: Chico O'Farrill - Born 1921 
29: Neal Hefti - Born 1922 
29: Zoot Sims - Born 1925 
30: Clifford Brown - Born 1930 
30: Bobby Jones - Born 1928 
30: Teo Macero - Born 1925 
30: Poncho Sanchez - Born 1951 
31: Illinois Jacquet - Born 1922 
31: Ethel Waters - Born 1896 

N O V E M B E R 01: Gabe Baltazar - Born 1929 01: Lou Donaldson - Born 1926 01: Roger Kellaway - Born 1939 01: Lee Ritenour - Born 1952 02: Bunny Berigan - Born 1908 02: Herb Geller - Born 1928 02: Phil Woods - Born 1931 03: Henry Grimes - Born 1935 03: Azar Lawrence - Born 1953 03: John McPhee - Born 1939 03: Billy Mitchell - Born 1926 04: Willem Breuker - Born 1944 04: Ralph Sutton - Born 1922 06: Arturo Sandoval - Born 1949 07: Al Hirt - Born 1922 07: Howard Rumsey - Born 1917 07: David S Ware - Born 1949 08: Chris Connor - Born 1927 08: Charles Sullivan - Born 1944 09: Muggsy Spanier - Born 1906 10: Paul Bley - Born 1932 10: Andrew Cyrille - Born 1939 10: Hubert Laws - Born 1939 10: Houston Person - Born 1934 11: Marvin Hannibal Peterson - Born 1948 11: Gunther Schuller - Born 1925 12: Buck Clayton - Born 1911 12: Charlie Mariano - Born 1923 13: Hampton Hawes - Born 1928 13: Janet Lawson - Born 1940 13: Bennie Moten - Born 1894 13: Idris Muhammad - Born 1939 14: Billy Bauer - Born 1915 14: George Cables - Born 1944 14: Art Hodes - Born 1904 14: Ellis Marsalis - Born 1934 15: Kevin Eubanks - Born 1957 15: Seldon Powell - Born 1928 15: Jerome Richardson - Born 1920 16: Dolo Coker - Born 1927 16: Eddie Condon - Born 1905 16: Leon Pendarvis - Born 1945 17: David Amram - Born 1930 17: Roswell Rudd - Born 1935 18: Cindy Blackman - Born 1959 18: Don Cherry - Born 1936 18: Sheila Jordan - Born 1928 18: Johnny Mercer - Born 1909 18: Claude Williamson - Born 1926 19: Tommy Dorsey - Born 1905 20: June Christy - Born 1925 21: Coleman Hawkins - Born 1904 21: Alphonse Mouzon - Born 1948 21: Sal Salvador - Born 1925 22: Horace Henderson - Born 1904 22: Jimmy Knepper - Born 1927 22: Ron McClure - Born 1941 24: Serge Chaloff - Born 1923 24: Al Cohn - Born 1925 24: Scott Joplin - Born 1868 24: Teddy Wilson - Born 1912 25: Nat Adderley - Born 1931 25: Paul Desmond - Born 1924 25: Willie Smith - Born 1910 25: Willie "The Lion" Smith - Born 1897 25: Dick Wellstood - Born 1927 27: Arild Andersen - Born 1945 27: Eddie South - Born 1904 28: Gato Barbieri - Born 1934 28: Gigi Gryce - Born 1927 28: George Wettling - Born 1907 29: Danny Alvin - Born 1902 29: Ed Bickert - Born 1932 29: Randy Brecker - Born 1945 29: Billy Hart - Born 1940 29: Chuck Mangione - Born 1940 29: Billy Strayhorn - Born 1915 30: Johnny Dyani - Born 1945 30: Jack Sheldon - Born 1931

D E C E M B E R 01: Jimmy Lyons - Born 1933 01: Jaco Pastorius - Born 1951 02: Wynton Kelly/strong> - Born 1931 02: Charlie Ventura - Born 1916 03: Herbie Nichols - Born 1919 03: Webster Young - Born 1932 04: Jim Hall - Born 1930 04: Russell Jacquet - Born 1917 05: Art Davis - Born 1934 05: Egberto Gismonti - Born 1947 06: Dave Brubeck - Born 1920 06: Harvie Swartz - Born 1948 06: Miroslav Vitous - Born 1947 08: Jimmy Smith - Born 1925 09: Donald Byrd - Born 1932 09: Jimmy Owens - Born 1943 09: Bob Scobey - Born 1916 10: Franco Ambrosetti - Born 1941 10: Ray Nance - Born 1913: 11: McCoy Tyner - Born 1938 12: Alex Acuña - Born 1944 12: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Born 1929 12: Eddie Barefield - Born 1909 12: Michael Carvin - Born 1944 12: Dodo Marmarosa - Born 1925 12: Frank Sinatra - Born 1915 12: Grover Washington, Jr - Born 1943 12: Joe Williams - Born 1928 12: Tony Williams - Born 1945 13: Reggie Johnson Born 1940 14: Dan Barrett - Born 1955 14: Ted Buckner - Born 1913: 14: Jerome Cooper - Born 1946 14: Budd Johnson - Born 1910 14: Phineas New- Born - Born 1931 14: Cecil Payne - Born 1922 14: Clark Terry - Born 1920 15: Billy Butler - Born 1925 15: Curtis Fuller - Born 1934 15: Barry Harris - Born 1929 15: Stan Kenton - Born 1911 15: Eddie Palmieri - Born 1936 15: Gene Quill - Born 1927 15: Dannie Richmond - Born 1935 16: John Abercrombie - Born 1944 16: Joe Farrell - Born 1937 16: Sam Most - Born 1930 16: Turk Murphy - Born 1915 17: Ray Noble - Born 1903 17: Sy Oliver - Born 1910 17: Sonny Red - Born 1932 18: Fletcher Henderson - Born 1897 18: Harold Land - Born 1928 18: Leo Smith - Born 1941 18: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Born 1917 19: Bob Brookmeyer - Born 1929 19: Bobby Timmons - Born 1935 20: Larry Willis - Born 1940 21: Hank Crawford - Born 1934 21: Panama Francis - Born 1918 22: Joe Lee Wilson - Born 1935 23: Chet Baker - Born 1929 23: Frank Morgan - Born 1933 24: Ray Bryant - Born 1931 24: Baby Dodds - Born 1898 24: Chris McGregor - Born 1936 24: Ralph Moore - Born 1956 24: Woody Shaw - Born 1944 24: Jabbo Smith - Born 1908 25: Cab Calloway - Born 1907 25: Ronnie Cuber - Born 1941 25: Bob James - Born 1939 25: Kid Ory - Born 1890 25: Chris Woods - Born 1925 26: John Scofield - Born 1951 27: Bunk Johnson - Born 1889 27: Walter Norris - Born 1931 27: Booty Wood - Born 1919 28: Earl Hines - Born 1903 28: Michel Petrucciani - Born 1962 28: Lonnie Liston Smith - Born 1940 28: Ed Thigpen - Born 1930 30: Wolfgang Dauner - Born 1935 30: Jack Montrose - Born 1928 31: Jonah Jones - Born 1909 31: John Kirby - Born 1908