Birthdays
04/10/1950 - Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
04/13/1906 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
1942 - Bill Conti, Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV)
1946 - Al Green, Forest City Arkansas, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1951 - Max Weinberg, rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 - Peabo Bryson, Greenville SC, RandB vocalist (I'm So into You)
1955 - Louis Johnson, LA Calif, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
04/16/1924 - Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
1930 - Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
1935 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist
Other Notable Birthdays
04/16/1935 - Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
04/16/1947 - Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
04/16/1971 - Selena [Quintanilla], tejano vocalist
Special Events
04/12/1989 - 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
04/12/1990 - James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
Deaths in Music
04/10/1958 - W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY
1994 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
14/14/1996 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
04/16/1992 - Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
1996 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
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