Musician Birthdays – Artists – Entertainment – Information
Willie Bryant – jazz band leader/musician/singer/disc jockey – New Orleans native – (8/30/1908 – 2/9/1964) Kitty Wells (Muriel Deason) – country singer/songwriter – Country Music
Charlie “Bird” Parker – multi-award winning jazz saxophonist/band leader/composer – (8/29/1920 – 3/12/1955) Dinah Washington – R&B/blues singer/pianist – 1986 Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
Leon Theremin – Russian inventor of one of the first electronic music instruments – The Theremin – and the first to be mass produced –
Lester Willis “Pres” Young – jazz saxophonist/clarinetist – known for his hip, introverted style -– associated acts include – Count Basie Orchestra – Oscar Peterson
Jimmy Rushing – blues-jazz singer – 1935-48 sang with Count Basie – (8/26/1901 – 6/8/1972) Jet Black – English drummer – founding member of punk-new
Wayne Shorter – multi-award winning jazz saxophonist – co-founder of – Weather Report – associated acts include – Miles Davis – (8/25/1933 – 3/2/2023) Walter
Ruby Smith – blues singer –songs include – Send Me To The ‘Lectric Chair Blues – Backwater Blues – (8/24/1903 – 3/24/1977) Arthur “Big Boy”
Tex Williams – country singer – best know for 1947 hit – Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette – (8/23/1917 – 10/11/1985) Jack Earls – country-rockabilly