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Todays Date
05-14-2026

Birthday Wishes

Yearbirthday
1897Sidney Bechet, Clarinetist and soprano saxophonist and pioneer of New Orleans jazz. Along with Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Joe 'King' Oliver, began his career in the red light district of Storyville in New Orleans. Trhoughout his career, he played with all of the great players including Duke Ellington. He also maintained a reputation throughout his life as one of the greatest original geniuses and improvisors of jazz. Later in life he settled in France until his death on his birthday at the age of 62. (129)
1898Arthur 'Zutty' Singleton, Traditional jazz drummer from Bunkie, Louisiana. He played with all of the early dixieland legends in the Tuxedo Brass Band, Maple Leaf Band, John Robichaux orchestra, 'Big Eye' Louis Nelson and Steve Lewis. Additonally, he played the riverboats with Fate Marable and Charlie Creath, then in Chicago with Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Noone and Doc Cooke. He remained a prominent drummer thoughout the 1950's as a jazz drummer. 'Zutty' died in New York on July 14, 1975. (128)
1928Will (Dub) Jones, An R&B singer and a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He is best known as the bass vocalist for The Coasters and The Cadets. His best known vocals were on The Cadets' biggest hit "Stranded In The Jungle" and his bass vocals on The Coasters' hits "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown." He passed away in january 2000 at the age of 71. (98)
1943Jack Bruce, Legendary bassist and vocalist for many blues and rock groups including "Graham Bond Organization", "John Mayall's Bluesbreakers", "Cream" and "Manfred Mann". (83)
1952David Byrne, Famous and the singer and guitarist with the "Talking heads". They had a top 10 single with "Burning Down The House" in 1983. (74)
1963Fabrice Morvan, Singer with the group "Milli Vanilli", who had a #1 hit with "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You". They were embarrassingly caught lip-syncing a live performance, and had their Grammy's taken away, and the group was done. (63)

Todays_Events

YearMusical_Fact
1926 Coleman Hawkins is featured on tenor sax for the recording of "The Stampede" by Fletcher Henderson's band.
1926New Orleans, Louisiana native, Lonnie Johnson recorded A Good Happy Home, Baby You Don't Know My Mind and other tunes for OKeh Records in St. Louis, Missouri on this day.
1927Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong & His Hot Seven recorded Gully Low Blues for Okeh Records in Chicago on this day.
1937 "Caravan" and exotic jazz composition, is recorded by Duke Ellington.
1955 Les Baxter Chorus made their way to the top of the pop charts on this day with the hit 'Unchained Melody'
1955 'Dance With Me Henry' by Georgia Gibbs reached the #1 position on the Billboard Top 40 chart.
1955 New Orleans native and hitmaker, Antoine 'Fats' Domino hit the Billboard R&B charts on this day with the tune 'Ain't It A Shame'. This one eventually rose to #1 on the charts.
1957 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded with Theolonious Monk for Atlantic Records.
1959 Sidney Bechet, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist and pioneer of New Orleans jazz passed away on this day at the age of 62. Along with Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Joe 'King' Oliver, began his career in the red light district of Storyville in New Orleans. Trhoughout his career, he played with all of the great players including Duke Ellington. He also maintained a reputation throughout his life as one of the greatest original geniuses and improvisors of jazz. Later in life he settled in France until his death.
1974 Tenor saxophonist and sideman for Duke Ellington, Paul Gonsalves, died in London at fifty-three.
1975 Alvin Woods, traditional jazz drummer from New Orleans, Louisiana died on this day. He played with Kid Shiek and Narvin Kimball in New Orleans. In the late thirties, he performed with Joe Robichaux, and also played with Kaiser Joseph.
1977 Leo Sayer hit the top of the Billboard charts on this day with 'When I Need You'.
1988 'Anything For You' put Gloria Estefan at the top of the pop charts on this day.
1988 'Shattered Dreams' brought Johnny Hates Jazz to the top of the pop charts on this day.
2011 Cowboy Mouth & River Road were inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame on this day.