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Bud Shank born 27 May 1926
Bud Shank (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music...
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Tommy Ladnier born 28 May 1900
Thomas James Ladnier (May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939) was an American jazz trumpeter. With a full and rough intonation, greatly influenced by the playing of King Oliver, he was the first of the trumpeters...
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Jill Perryman born 30 May 1933
Jill Perryman AM, MBE (born 30 May 1933) is an Australian former stage and screen actress and singer. Combining both her stage acting and her singing, she featured in numerous musical theatre roles,...
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Bob Denton born 31 May 1935
Bob Denton (born 31 May 1935) is a US Rockabilly singer. Shamrock valley Boys (Denton right)Eddie Cochran's best friend, was born Robert Francis Bull in Moline, Illinois and lived on a farm until he...
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Hazel Dickens born 1 June 1935
Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style,...
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Porky Cohen born 2 June 1924
Zolman “Porky” Cohen (June 2, 1924 - April 14, 2004) was a trombonist who enjoyed a long and varied career, capped off by performing with the Grammy-winning Room Full Of Blues from 1981-1987. Born in...
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Memphis Minnie born 3 June 1897
Lizzie Douglas (June 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973), better known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades. She recorded around...
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Vince Eager born 4 June 1940
Vince Eager (born Roy Taylor, 4 June 1940, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England)is an English pop singer. He was widely promoted by impresario Larry Parnes, but later quarrelled with him over his...
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Al Grey born 6 June 1925
Al Grey (June 6, 1925 – March 24, 2000) was an American jazz trombonist who was a member of the Count Basie orchestra. His trademark phrases and often humorous use of the plunger mute long made him...
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Larry Donn born 7 June 1941
Larry Donn (June 6, 1941 - May 1, 2012) was a Rockabilly singer who has played with many stars in his career and was also active as a session musician. He was equally capable on guitar and piano and...
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Billie Pierce born 8 June 1907
Wilhelmina Madison Goodson, known professionally as Billie Pierce (June 8, 1907 – September 29, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and singer, who performed and recorded with her husband De De Pierce....
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Jimmy Gourley born 9 June 1926
James Pasco Gourley, Jr. (June 9, 1926 – December 7, 2008) was an American jazz guitarist who spent most of his life in Paris. Gourley was born in St. Louis in 1926. He met saxophonist Lee Konitz in...
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Bonnie Davis born 10 June 1920
Bonnie Davis, born Gertrude Melba Smith (June 10, 1920 – August 1976), was an American R&B singer most popular in the 1940s. Her recording of "Don't Stop Now" reached no.1 on the R&B chart in...
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Isaac Scott born 11 June 1945
Isaac Scott III (June 11, 1945 – November 16, 2001), was an American blues guitarist and singer. He recorded a studio album in 1982, and a couple of live affairs in his lifetime, and was strongly...
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Garland Wilson born 13 June 1909
Garland Lorenzo Wilson (June 13, 1909 – May 31, 1954) was an American jazz pianist born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, perhaps best-known for his work with Nina Mae McKinney. Wilson was a boogie-woogie...
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Julie Felix born 14 June 1938
Julie Ann Felix (June 14, 1938 – March 22, 2020) was an American-born, British-based folk recording artist who achieved success, particularly on British television in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
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Jaki Byard born 15 June 1922
John Arthur "Jaki" Byard ( June 15, 1922 – February 11, 1999) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. Mainly a pianist, he also played tenor and alto saxophones, among...
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Kris Ife born 16 June 1946
Kris John Ife (16 June 1946 – 8 November 2013) was an English singer and songwriter, who enjoyed modest success in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. He recorded a version of "Hush", later covered by Deep...
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Terry Gilkyson born 17 June 1916
Terry Gilkyson (June 17, 1916 — October 15, 1999) was an American folk singer, composer, and lyricist. Born Hamilton H. "Terry" Gilkyson, III in the small town of Phoenixville, PA, in 1916, Terry...
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Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane born 19 June 1942
Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane (born June 19, 1942) is an American singer and actress best known for fronting the vocal group Spanky and Our Gang in the late 1960s. She was nicknamed "The Queen of Sunshine...
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