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Harold Luttenbacher is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He will achieve success as free jazz composer, band leader and multi-instrumentalist Hal Russell.
Grady Gaines is born in Waskom, Texas, USA. He will grow up to play saxophone and lead Little Richard's back-up band, The Upsetters.
Noble Sissle's Swingsters, with Sidney Bechet on soprano sax and clarinet, record Okey Doke and Characteristic Blues in New York City.

Tony Pastor And His Orchestra record Let's Do It and Ready Get Set Jump for Bluebird Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Tenor saxophonist Johnny Sparrow records Michael's Cycle, Blues At The Apex, My Best Gal and Serenade To Twins, for National Records in New York City, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker plays the fourth night of a two-week engagement at The Blue Note Club in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker plays the fifth night of a two-week engagement at The Blue Note Club in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Eddie Manion, saxman for Southside Johnny And The Asbury Dukes, is born in New Jersey, USA.


The Zoot Sims Sextet records Tangerine, Zootcase, The Red Door and Morning Fun, for Prestige Records in New York City, USA. The line-up includes Al Cohn, Kai Winding and Art Blakey.
The Gene Ammons Octet records Just Chips, Street Of Dreams, The Beat and Traveling Light for Savoy Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.


Blues guitarist Sticks McGhee [aka Stick McGhee] records Jungle Juice, Dealing From The Bottom, The Wiggle Waggle Woo and I'm Doing All The Time, for King Records in New York City, USA. The tracks also feature James Buchanan on tenor sax, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, Mickey Baker on guitar, Carl Pruitt on bass, and Specs Powell on drums.

The Mal Waldron Sextet records Fire Waltz, We Diddit and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for New Jazz Records.

King Curtis records Harlem Nocturne, Tippin' In and other tracks in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
Jazz saxophonist Eric Dolphy plays at The University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA. The concert will eventually, in 1999, be issued as a CD, The Illinois Concert.
The Paul Desmond - Jim Hall Quartet record Polka Dots And Moonbeams, Take Ten and That Old Feeling, for RCA Records in Webster Hall, New York City, USA.



Guitarist Billy Strange records The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, The 9th Man Theme, A Man Alone and 007 Theme in United Recorders, 6050 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band on this session comprises Wrecking Crew members Tommy Tedesco, Lou Morell, Joseph Gibbons, Carol Kaye, Larry Knechtel, Hal Blaine, Julius Wechter, Plas Johnson, Roy Caton, A. D. Brisbois, Oliver Mitchell, Robert Knight and Lew McCreary. The tracks will appear on Strange's album Secret Agent File.
The Who play at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by
Duke Ellington, the Bill Evans Trio, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Johnny Hodges, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Felicia Saunders, the Horace Silver Quintet and Joe Williams, are seen on tv in a tribute concert recorded for WCBS-tv, New York City, USA.
The day after the burial of recently-assassinated US Senator Bobby Kennedy,


Blood Sweat And Tears play at The Auditorium, Hunter College, Manhattan, New York City, USA, supported by



Ringo Starr begins his first All Starr Band tour with a show at Dallas, Texas, USA. The band includes Billy Preston, Dr. John, Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Jim Keltner, Nils Lofgren, Clarence Clemons and Rick Danko.
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Cornelius Bumpus, best-known as the saxophonist for The Doobie Brothers, Moby Grape and others, dies aged 58, of a heart attack while on a flight from New York City to Los Angeles, California, USA..

Bruce Springsteen announces, via a posting on his Facebook page, that Jake Clemons, the nephew of recently-deceased saxophonist Clarence Clemons, will replace him in the E Street Band on Springsteen's upcoming tour.

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