Jazz and Blues Birthdays: I'm going to share my birthday with nine
jazz & blues artists born today; Leroy Carr, Pee-Wee Russell, Ben Webster,
Robert Lockwood Junior, Sarah Vaughan, Harold Ashby, Bill Barron,
Johnny Copeland and Stacey Kent.
Artist: Leroy Carr [1905]
Album: Best of Leroy Carr
Tune: How Long – How Long Blues
Label: Columbia
Artist: Leroy Carr [1905]
Album: Best of Leroy Carr
Tune: Prison Bound Blues
Label: Columbia
Artist: Leroy Carr [1905]
Album: Best of Leroy Carr
Tune: Midnight Hour Blues
Label: Columbia
Artist: Leroy Carr [1905]
Album: Best of Leroy Carr
Tune: Mean Mistreater Mama
Label: Columbia
Artist: Pee-Wee Russell [1906]
Album: Portrait of Pee-Wee
Tune: Pee Wee Blues
Label: DCC Jazz
Artist: Pee-Wee Russell [1906]
Album: Portrait of Pee-Wee
Tune: If I Had You
Label: DCC Jazz
Artist: Pee-Wee Russell [1906]
Album: Portrait of Pee-Wee
Tune: Exactly Like You
Label: DCC Jazz
Artist: Ben Webster [1909]
Album: Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Tune: Bye Bye Blackbird
Label: Verve
Artist: Ben Webster [1909]
Album: Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Tune: How Deep Is The Ocean
Label: Verve
Artist: Ben Webster [1909]
Album: Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Tune: Sunday
Label: Verve
Artist: Robert Lockwood Junior [1915]
Album: Delta Crossroads
Tune: This Little Girl of Mine
Label: Telarc Blues
Artist: Robert Lockwood Junior [1915]
Album: Delta Crossroads
Tune: We're Gonna Ball Tonight
Label: Telarc Blues
Artist: Robert Lockwood Junior [1915]
Album: Delta Crossroads
Tune: Train My Baby
Label: Telarc Blues
Artist: Sarah Vaughan [1924]
Album: Sarah Vaughan
Tune: Lullaby of Birdland
Label: EmArcy
Artist: Sarah Vaughan [1924]
Album: Sarah Vaughan
Tune: September Song
Label: EmArcy
Artist: Sarah Vaughan [1924]
Album: Sarah Vaughan
Tune: You're Not the Kind
Label: EmArcy
Artist: Harold Ashby [1925]
Album: Harold Ashby Plays Duke Ellington
Tune: Solitude
Label: Y'All
Artist: Harold Ashby [1925]
Album: Harold Ashby Plays Duke Ellington
Tune: I Got It Bad
Label: Y'All
Artist: Harold Ashby [1925]
Album: Harold Ashby Plays Duke Ellington
Tune: In A Sentimental Mood
Label: Y'All
Artist: Bill Barron [1927]
Album: Ted Curson's “Tears For Dolphy”
Tune: Desolation
Label: Black Lion
Artist: Johnny Copeland [1937]
Album: Honky Tonkin'
Tune: Down on Bended Knee
Label: Bullseye
Artist: Johnny Copeland [1937]
Album: Honky Tonkin'
Tune: Texas Party
Label: Bullseye
Artist: Stacey Kent [1968]
Album: Special Collection II
Tune: I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
Label: Candid
Artist: Stacey Kent [1968]
Album: Special Collection II
Tune: Little White Lies
Label: Candid
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About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
