11-11: Rev. Gary Davis Harlem Street Singer 1960 - Allman Brothers Idlewild South 1970 - Schoenberg Piano Music Steuermann 1957 - Ella Fitzgerald Jerome Kern Songbook 1963

1895 – Julius Tausch (German pianist, composer & conductor)
1901 – Antonio Zamara (Italian harpist & composer, active in Vienna)
1912 – Józef Wieniawski (Polish pianist, composer & conductor, younger brother of Henryk)
1929 – Mieczysław Soltys (Polish composer)
1936 – Edward German (English theatrical composer of Welsh descent)
1945 – Jerome Kern (American musical theater composer)
1964 – Edward Steuermann (Austrian-born American pianist & composer)
1967 – Harry Seymour (American actor & soundtrack composer)
1968 – Jeanne Demessieux (French organist, pianist, composer & teacher)
1972 – Berry Oakley (American rock bass guitarist, Allman Brothers Band)
1974 – Alfonso Leng (Chilean composer & dentist)
1977 – Greta Keller (Austrian cabaret singer & actress)
1979 – Dimitri Tiomkin [Дмитро Тьомкін] (Ukrainian-born American film composer, conductor & pianist)
1988 – William Ifor Jones (Welsh conductor & organist)
1993 – Erskine Hawkins (American jazz trumpeter & big band leader)
1994 – Dame Elizabeth Maconchy (English composer)
1995 – Kenneth S. Goldstein (American folklorist, record producer, ethnomusicologist & teacher)

11-10: Miriam Makeba in Tokyo 1968 - Carmen McRae Sings Great American Songwriters 1955-1959 - Show Boat Selections / Victor Young 1932

1665 – Samuel Friedrich Capricornus (Czech composer)
1821 – Andreas Romberg (German violinist & composer)
1909 – Ludvig Schytte (Danish composer, pianist & teacher)
1956 – Victor Young (American composer, arranger, violinist & conductor, "When I Fall in Love")
1960 – Isadore Freed (Belarusian composer, music theorist & author)
1973 – Stringbean [David Akeman] (American country & bluesgrass banjoist & comedian)
1990 – Lisa Kirk (American musical theater singer)
1990 – Ronnie Dyson (American R&B & soul singer & musical theater actor, Hair)
1994 – Carmen McRae (American jazz singer)
1997 – Tommy Tedesco (American jazz, rock & session guitarist)
2004 – Katy de la Cruz (Filipino jazz singer)
2006 – Gerald Levert (American R&B singer)
2008 – Miriam Makeba (South African folk, pop & jazz singer & anti-apartheid activist)
2008 – Wannes Van de Velde (Belgian singer, poet & artist)

11-09: Maserati : Inventions for the New Season 2007 - Jan Johansson Jazz på Svenska 1964 - Stamitz Clarinet Concertos / Meyer 1992 - Early Operetta Recordings 1907-1925

1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (Dutch diplomat & composer)
1801 – Carl Stamitz [Karel Stamic] (German-Czech composer, violinist & violist)
1829 – Jean Xavier Lefèvre (Swiss-born French clarinettist & composer)
1897 – Moritz Heuzenroeder (German-born Australian composer, teacher & conductor)
1911 – Edmund Schuecker (German harpist & composer)
1927 – Ole Olsen (Norwegian composer, conductor & music critic)
1951 – Sigmund Romberg (Hungarian-born American theatrical composer)
1951 – Resurrección María de Azkue (Basque priest, musician, poet, writer, sailor & teacher)
1959 – Frederick Preston Search (American cellist, conductor & composer)
1968 – Jan Johansson (Swedish jazz pianist, organist, guitarist & accordionist)
1974 – Egon Wellesz (Austrian-born British composer, teacher & musicologist, specialist in Byzantine music)
1978 – Otto Siegl (Austrian composer, teacher, music theorist & conductor)
1993 – Stanley Myers (English film composer, The Deer Hunter)
2009 – Jerry Fuchs (American indie rock drummer, writer & artist, Turing Machine, !!!, Maserati, LCD Soundsystem)

Jerry Fuchs did not meet a typical end for a died-too-young rock drummer. He fell down an elevator shaft when trying to jump from a broken elevator while he was in New York to play a benefit for starving children in India. Seems like he was one heck of a guy. He was sure one heck of a drummer.

11-08: Art Ensemble Of Chicago : Les Stances A Sophie 1970 - Riot : Fire Down Under 1981 | Restless Breed 1982 - James Booker : Junco Partner 1976 - Franck Piano Quintet : Eymar / Loewenguth 1955 - Ivory Joe Hunter : Blues at Midnight 1968

1599 – Francisco Guerrero (Spanish composer)
1890 – César Franck (Belgian composer & organist)
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter (American R&B singer, pianist & songwriter)
1983 – James Booker (American jazz singer & pianist)
1992 – Larry Levan (American DJ, Paradise Garage, NYC)
1992 – Red Mitchell (American jazz bassist, active largely in Sweden)
1999 – Lester Bowie (American jazz trumpeter, Art Ensemble Of Chicago)
2001 – Aristidis Moschos [Αριστείδης Μόσχος] (Greek santouri player)
2003 – Guy Speranza (American metal singer, Riot)
2006 – Basil Poledouris (American film & television composer & conductor)
2011 – Heavy D (American hip-hop artist)

11-07: The Birthday Party : Mutiny / Bad Seed 1983 | Peel Session 1981 - Shorty Rogers : Chances Are It Swings 1958

1956 – Una Mae Carlisle (American jazz pianist, singer & songwriter)
1965 – Friedrich Wildgans (Austrian composer & clarinetist)
1983 – David Toradze [დავით თორაძე] (Georgian composer)
1983 – Germaine Tailleferre (French composer, member of Les Six)
1986 – Tracy Pew (Australian bass guitarist, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)
1991 – Carter Cornelius (American R&B musician, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose)
1993 – Adelaide Hall (American jazz & blues singer)
1994 – Shorty Rogers (American jazz trumpeter & flugelhornist)
1995 – Jerry Daniels (American R&B singer & guitarist)
2007 – George W. George (American theater, Broadway & film producer)

11-06b: Varèse Déserts etc Simonovitch 1971 - Hank Thompson Dance Ranch 1958 - Berlioz Harold in Italy : Primrose / Munch 1958

1965 – Edgard Varèse (French composer, active largely in the United States)
1965 – Clarence Williams (American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, singer, theater producer & publisher)
1968 – Charles Munch (Alsatian conductor & violinist)
1970 – Agustín Lara (Mexican composer, pianist & poet)
1986 – Elisabeth Grümmer (Alsatian lyric soprano)
1987 – Zohar Argov [זוהר ארגוב] (Israeli Mizrahi singer)
1989 – Dickie Goodman (American entertainer & record producer, "Mr. Jaws")
2005 – Minako Honda [本田 美奈子] (Japanese pop singer & stage actress)
2005 – Miguel Aceves Mejía (Mexican actor, composer & singer)
2007 – George Osmond (American patriarch of the Osmond family)
2007 – Hank Thompson (American country singer, songwriter & guitarist)

One of these days I shall have to recount to you a quite hilarious online encounter which took place between myself and a grand-niece of the great Charles Munch, who conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra during that wonderful heyday of the early stereo LP period. But it won't be today...

11-06a: Tchaikovsky 6 Furtwängler 1938 - Busnois Missa O Crux Lignum / Orlando Consort 2005 - Schütz Geistliche Chormusik / Herreweghe 1987 - Чайко́вский Nutcracker Suite Stokowski 1934

1492 – Antoine Busnois (French composer)
1672 – Heinrich Schütz  (German composer)
1795 – Jiří Antonín Benda [Georg Anton Benda] (Czech violinist & composer)
1865 – Thérèse Wartel (French pianist, teacher, composer & music critic)
1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский] (Russian composer)
1897 – Edouard Deldevez (French violinist, conductor, composer & teacher)
1912 – Mykola Lysenko [Микола Лисенко] (Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor & ethnomusicologist)
1946 – Zygmunt Stojowski (Polish pianist & composer)

11-05b: Swell Maps : A Trip to Marineville | Jane from Occupied Europe - Les McCann & Eddie Harris : Compared To What 1969 - Donizetti Anna Bolena : Sills | Verrett | Plishka 1974

1996 – Eddie Harris (American jazz tenor saxophonist, keyboardist & composer)
1997 – Epic Soundtracks (English alt-rock multi-instrumentalist, Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls)
2000 – Jimmie Davis (American country singer & politician)
2002 – Billy Guy, American R&B singer, The Coasters)
2003 – Bobby Hatfield (American R&B & soul singer, the Righteous Brothers)
2005 – Virginia MacWatters (American lyric soprano)
2005 – Link Wray (American rockabilly guitarist, songwriter & singer)
2010 – Shirley Verrett (American operatic mezzo-soprano)
2011 – Bhupen Hazarik (Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director & filmmaker)

I love the lie and lie the love
A-Hangin’ on, with push and shove
Possession is the motivation
that is hangin’ up the God-damn nation
Looks like we always end up in a rut (everybody now!)
Tryin’ to make it real — compared to what? C’mon baby!

Slaughterhouse is killin’ hogs
Twisted children killin’ frogs
Poor dumb rednecks rollin’ logs
Tired old lady kissin’ dogs
I hate the human love of that stinking mutt (I can’t use it!)
Try to make it real — compared to what? C’mon baby now!

The President, he’s got his war
Folks don’t know just what it’s for
Nobody gives us rhyme or reason
Have one doubt, they call it treason
We’re chicken-feathers, all without one nut. God damn it!
Tryin’ to make it real — compared to what? (Sock it to me)

Church on Sunday, sleep and nod
Tryin’ to duck the wrath of God
Preacher’s fillin’ us with fright
They all tryin’ to teach us what they think is right
They really got to be some kind of nut (I can’t use it!)
Tryin’ to make it real — compared to what?

Where’s that bee and where’s that honey?
Where’s my God and where’s my money?
Unreal values, crass distortion
Unwed mothers need abortion
Kind of brings to mind ol’ young King Tut (He did it now)
Tryin’ to make it real — compared to what?

[written by Gene McDaniels]

11-05a: Art Tatum 1932-1934 | Tatum / Hampton / Rich Trio 1955 - Vladimir Horowitz : Brahms Concerto 2 Toscanini 1940 | Pictures at an Exhibition 1947 | Tchaikovsky Concerto 1 Szell 1952

1933 – Texas Guinan (American saloon keeper, actress & musician)
1942 – George M. Cohan (American entertainer, songwriter & author)
1956 – Art Tatum (American jazz pianist & composer)
1960 – Johnny Horton (American country singer & songwriter)
1964 – Buddy Cole (American jazz pianist & orchestra leader)
1977 – Guy Lombardo (Canadian jazz orchestra leader)
1986 – Bobby Nunn (American R&B singer, The Coasters)
1989 – Vladimir Horowitz [Владимир Горови] (Russian-born American pianist)

See, now... this is what we like to see here at Yestermonth. The greatest pianist in jazz history, and the greatest classical pianist of the 20th century, both pooping on the same day, 33 years apart. Yes, it's all Tatum & Horowitz today on YiDM, Pianists Pooping Properly edition.