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For a quick "reference" to the "classics" I often use the WKCR 24 hour birthday salutes for a "list" which would be:
Long ago it became tradition at WKCR to play 24 hours of a jazz great's music on his/her birthday.
Max Roach
(b. January 10, 1924)
Roy Eldridge
(b. January 30, 1911; d. February 26, 1989)
Ornette Coleman
(b. March 9, 1930)
Bix Beiderbecke
(b. March 10, 1903; d. August 7, 1931)
Billie Holiday
(b. April 7, 1915; d. July 17, 1959)
Charles Mingus
(b. April 22, 1922; d. January 5, 1979)
Duke Ellington
(April 29,1899; d. May 24, 1974)
Louis Armstrong
(b. August 4, 1901; d. July 6, 1971)
(he believed his birthdate to be July 4th 1900, so we celebrate both birthdays.)
Lester Young
(b. August 27, 1909; d. March 15, 1959)
Charlie Parker
(b. August 29, 1920; d. March 12, 1955)
(combines with Lester Young to form a three-day broadcast)
John Coltrane
(b. September 23, 1926; d. July 17, 1967)
Thelonious Monk
(b. Oct. 10, 1917; d. February 17, 1982)
Clifford Brown
(b. October 30, 1930; d. June 26, 1956)
Coleman Hawkins
(b. Nov. 21, 1904; d. May 19, 1969)
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