01 May
| 1907.05.01 | Hayes Alvis | born
| 1908.05.01 | Henderson Chambers | born
| 1909.05.01 | Jesse Price | born
| 1922.05.01 | Candy Johnson | born
| 1922.05.01 | Floyd 'Candy' Johnson | born
| 1924.05.01 | Big Maybelle | born
| 1927.05.01 | Billy Byers | born
| 1930.05.01 | Little Walter | born
| 1931.05.01 | Ira Sullivan | born
| 1931.05.01 | Jack Lidstrom | born
| 1933.05.01 | Titus Turner | born
| 1934.05.01 | Shirley Horn | born
| 1940.05.01 | Carlos Ward | born
| 1940.05.01 | Sakis Papadimitriou | born
| 1953.05.01 | James Newton | born
| 1968.05.01 | Kevin Hays | born
| 02 May
| 1898.05.02 | Henry Hall | born
| 1909.05.02 | Teddy Stauffer | born
| 1923.05.02 | Pat Smythe | born
| 1931.05.02 | Richard "Groove" Holmes | born
| 1937.05.02 | Torbjorn Hultcrantz | born
| 1943.05.02 | Mickey Bass | born
| 03 May
| 1903.05.03 | Bing Crosby | born
| 1911.05.03 | Yank Lawson | born
| 1920.05.03 | John Lewis | born
| 1926.05.03 | Jimmy Cleveland | born
| 1926.05.03 | Jymie Merritt | born
| 1930.05.03 | Bob Havens | born
| 1930.05.03 | Johnny Fischer | born
| 1933.05.03 | James Brown | born
| 1939.05.03 | Ralph-Rainer Hubner | born
| 1948.05.03 | John Alexander | born
| 1949.05.03 | Larry Ochs | born
| 1955.05.03 | Bob Leatherbarrow | born
| 2001.05.03 | Billy Higgins | died
| 04 May
| 1916.05.04 | Moe Purtill | born
| 1919.05.04 | Mary Ann McCall | born
| 1926.05.04 | Sonny Payne | born
| 1928.05.04 | Lars Gullin | born
| 1928.05.04 | Maynard Ferguson | born
| 1932.05.04 | Warren Smith | born
| 1935.05.04 | Don Friedman | born
| 1937.05.04 | Ron Carter | born
| 1938.05.04 | Chuck Folds | born
| 1939.05.04 | Charles Owens | born
| 1945.05.04 | Bill Stapleton | born
| 1953.05.04 | Michael DiPasqua | born
| 05 May
| 1899.05.05 | Paul Barbarin | born
| 1901.05.05 | Blind Willie McTell | born
| 1911.05.05 | Pete Daily | born
| 1914.05.05 | Frank Carlson | born
| 1922.05.05 | Monica Lewis | born
| 1929.05.05 | J.B. Lenoir | born
| 1930.05.05 | Joyce Collins | born
| 1933.05.05 | Cal Collins | born
| 1938.05.05 | Johnnie Taylor | born
| 1941.05.05 | Stanley Cowell | born
| 1946.05.05 | Jack Walrath | born
| 06 May
| 1899.05.06 | Charlie Irvis | born
| 1904.05.06 | Cliff Carlisle | born
| 1921.05.06 | Freddy Randall | born
| 1924.05.06 | Denny Wright | born
| 1939.05.06 | Eddie C. Campbell | born
| 1939.05.06 | Isla Eckinger | born
| 1942.05.06 | David Friesen | born
| 1953.05.06 | Paul Dunmall | born
| 07 May
| 1899.05.07 | Pete Jacobs | born
| 1900.05.07 | Leon Alexander Abbey | born
| 1904.05.07 | Floyd O'Brien | born
| 1905.05.07 | Bumble Bee Slim | born
| 1906.05.07 | Edward Inge | born
| 1924.05.07 | 'Lefty' Bates | born
| 1926.05.07 | Herbie Steward | born
| 1931.05.07 | Teresa Brewer | born
| 1941.05.07 | Lars Sjosten | born
| 1947.05.07 | Joe Ford | born
| 1955.05.07 | Axel Zwingenberger | born
| 1958.05.07 | Michael Formanek | born
| 08 May
| 1899.05.08 | Jack Bland | born
| 1905.05.08 | Red Nichols | born
| 1910.05.08 | Mary Lou Williams | born
| 1911.05.08 | Robert Johnson | born
| 1930.05.08 | Papa Bue Jensen | born
| 1943.05.08 | Jerry Rusch | born
| 1945.05.08 | Keith Jarrett | born
| 1964.05.08 | Jon-Erik Kellso | born
| 09 May
| 1911.05.09 | Harry Simeone | born
| 1926.05.09 | A.C. Reed | born
| 1940.05.09 | Dick Morrissey | born
| 1948.05.09 | Tania Maria | born
| 1949.05.09 | Bob Margolin | born
| 1959.05.09 | Dennis Chambers | born
| 1968.05.09 | Anthony Wilson | born
| 10 May
| 1899.05.10 | Fred Astaire | born
| 1907.05.10 | Pee Wee Hunt | born
| 1910.05.10 | Ted Bogan | born
| 1920.05.10 | Al Hendrickson | born
| 1929.05.10 | Mel Lewis | born
| 1935.05.10 | George Golla | born
| 1935.05.10 | Larry Williams | born
| 1937.05.10 | Mike Melvoin | born
| 1942.05.10 | Bill Coday | born
| 1946.05.10 | Jimmy Ponder | born
| 1947.05.10 | Ahmed Abdullah | born
| 1949.05.10 | Hans Reichel | born
| 1951.05.10 | Greg Piccolo | born
| 1953.05.10 | Alex Foster | born
| 1954.05.10 | Lorne Lofsky | born
| 1965.05.10 | Philip Harper | born
| 1968.05.10 | Duke Heitger | born
| 11 May
| 1885.05.11 | Joseph 'King' Oliver | born
| 1895.05.11 | William Grant Still | born
| 1905.05.11 | Joe McCoy | born
| 1906.05.11 | J.C. Higginbotham | born
| 1913.05.11 | Tutti Camarata | born
| 1916.05.11 | Moon Mullins | born
| 1921.05.11 | Joe Taylor | born
| 1924.05.11 | Oscar Valdambrini | born
| 1926.05.11 | Beryl Bryden | born
| 1931.05.11 | Dick Garcia | born
| 1931.05.11 | Freddie Roach | born
| 1938.05.11 | Carla Bley | born
| 1940.05.11 | Bob Kindred | born
| 1944.05.11 | Ralph Humphrey | born
| 1966.05.11 | Julian Joseph | born
| 1970.05.11 | Johny Hodges | died
| 12 May
| 1900.05.12 | Billy Thorburn | born
| 1910.05.12 | Jack Jenney | born
| 1911.05.12 | Billy Munn | born
| 1912.05.12 | Marshall Royal | born
| 1922.05.12 | Gerald Wiggins | born
| 1927.05.12 | Barbara Dane | born
| 1928.05.12 | Don DeMichael | born
| 1935.05.12 | Gary Peacock | born
| 1936.05.12 | Klaus Doldinger | born
| 1937.05.12 | Bob Montgomery | born
| 1941.05.12 | Eddy Louiss | born
| 1941.05.12 | Trevor Tomkins | born
| 1992.05.12 | Matt Savage | born
| 13 May
| 1911.05.13 | Maxine Sullivan | born
| 1912.05.13 | Gil Evans | born
| 1913.05.13 | Squire Gersh | born
| 1914.05.13 | Bobby Plater | born
| 1923.05.13 | Red Garland | born
| 1928.05.13 | Bert Dahlander | born
| 1929.05.13 | Creed Taylor | born
| 1930.05.13 | Erik Moseholm | born
| 1935.05.13 | John Jnr. Engels | born
| 1938.05.13 | Ross Tompkins | born
| 1941.05.13 | Joe Brown | born
| 1941.05.13 | John Von Ohlen | born
| 1942.05.13 | Jim Douglas | born
| 1950.05.13 | Ronnie Foster | born
| 1951.05.13 | Guus Janssen | born
| 14 May
| 1889.05.14 | Louis Douglas | born
| 1897.05.14 | Sidney Bechet | born
| 1898.05.14 | Zutty Singleton | born
| 1916.05.14 | Skip Martin | born
| 1918.05.14 | Sammy Lowe | born
| 1925.05.14 | Al Porcino | born
| 1933.05.14 | Stu Williamson | born
| 1934.05.14 | Grady Gaines | born
| 1943.05.14 | Jack Bruce | born
| 1951.05.14 | Jay Beckenstein | born
| 1956.05.14 | Bruce Forman | born
| 1959.05.14 | Virginia Mayhew | born
| 1973.05.14 | Clare Teal | born
| 1974.05.14 | Paul Gonsalves | died
| 15 May
| 1896.05.15 | Jimmy O'Bryant | born
| 1898.05.15 | John Abriani | born
| 1901.05.15 | Edmond Hall | born
| 1902.05.15 | Pippo Barzizza | born
| 1903.05.15 | Bobby Martin | born
| 1914.05.15 | Norrie Paramor | born
| 1915.05.15 | L.C. Robinson | born
| 1923.05.15 | Ellis Larkins | born
| 1928.05.15 | Joe Gordon | born
| 1932.05.15 | John Barnes | born
| 1937.05.15 | Karin Krog | born
| 1938.05.15 | Larry Johnson | born
| 1940.05.15 | Bob Cornford | born
| 1940.05.15 | Oscar Castro-Neves | born
| 1945.05.15 | Peter Donald | born
| 16 May
| 1913.05.16 | Woody Herman | born
| 1915.05.16 | Marlowe Morris | born
| 1916.05.16 | Dud Bascomb | born
| 1922.05.16 | Eddie Bert | born
| 1930.05.16 | Betty Carter | born
| 1930.05.16 | Friedrich Gulda | born
| 1932.05.16 | Redd Holt | born
| 1944.05.16 | Billy Cobham | born
| 1945.05.16 | Michael Moore | born
| 1950.05.16 | Pete Jacobsen | born
| 1956.05.16 | Hanna Richardson | born
| 17 May
| 1907.05.17 | Castor McCord | born
| 1907.05.17 | Ted McCord | born
| 1908.05.17 | Warren Doyle Smith | born
| 1916.05.17 | Paul Quinichette | born
| 1920.05.17 | Joe Roland | born
| 1925.05.17 | Nick Demuth | born
| 1929.05.17 | Karl Drewo | born
| 1931.05.17 | Dewey Redman | born
| 1932.05.17 | David Izenzon | born
| 1932.05.17 | Jackie McLean | born
| 1934.05.17 | John Picard | born
| 1936.05.17 | Peter Trunk | born
| 1938.05.17 | Esa Pethman | born
| 1942.05.17 | Taj Mahal | born
| 1949.05.17 | Bill Bruford | born
| 1953.05.17 | Sue Matthews | born
| 1957.05.17 | Paul Van Kemenade | born
| 18 May
| 1892.05.18 | Pops Foster | born
| 1894.05.18 | Lou Hooper | born
| 1905.05.18 | Dick McPartland | born
| 1911.05.18 | Big Joe Turner | born
| 1922.05.18 | Kai Winding | born
| 1926.05.18 | Lou Bennett | born
| 1930.05.18 | Mike Zwerin | born
| 1949.05.18 | Jim McNeely | born
| 1974.05.18 | Tyree Glenn | died
| 1984.05.18 | John Hardee | died
| 19 May
| 1894.05.19 | Henry Busse | born
| 1894.05.19 | Henry Butler | born
| 1902.05.19 | Monette Moore | born
| 1919.05.19 | Georgie Auld | born
| 1924.05.19 | Olli Hame | born
| 1934.05.19 | Bobby Bryant | born
| 1935.05.19 | Cecil McBee | born
| 1939.05.19 | Richard Teitelbaum | born
| 1939.05.19 | Sonny Fortune | born
| 1947.05.19 | Gregory Herbert | born
| 1948.05.19 | Tom Scott | born
| 1953.05.19 | Jimmy Thackery | born
| 1961.05.19 | Allen Farnham | born
| 1967.05.19 | Elmo Hope | died
| 1968.05.19 | Kyle Eastwood | born
| 1969.05.19 | Coleman Hawkins | died
| 1978.05.19 | Teddy Hill | died
| 20 May
| 1896.05.20 | Jaybird Coleman | born
| 1907.05.20 | Rod Cless | born
| 1911.05.20 | Milt Gabler | born
| 1931.05.20 | Louis Smith | born
| 1931.05.20 | Tommy Gumina | born
| 1932.05.20 | Bob Florence | born
| 1932.05.20 | Pauline Oliveros | born
| 1933.05.20 | Charles Davis | born
| 1935.05.20 | Dino Saluzzi | born
| 1936.05.20 | Rufus Harley | born
| 1940.05.20 | Shorty Long | born
| 1950.05.20 | Victor Lewis | born
| 1954.05.20 | Jimmy Henderson | born
| 1962.05.20 | Ralph Peterson | born
| 21 May
| 1901.05.21 | Horace Heidt | born
| 1904.05.21 | Fats Waller | born
| 1920.05.21 | Billy Barber | born
| 1920.05.21 | Little Willie Anderson | born
| 1927.05.21 | Bill Holman | born
| 1929.05.21 | Larance Marable | born
| 1930.05.21 | Tommy Bryant | born
| 1932.05.21 | Billy Wright | born
| 1935.05.21 | Terry Lightfoot | born
| 1938.05.21 | Lee "Shot" Williams | born
| 1954.05.21 | Marc Ribot | born
| 1963.05.21 | Dave Specter | born
| 22 May
| 1891.05.22 | Eddie Edwards | born
| 1905.05.22 | Roger Segure | born
| 1914.05.22 | Sun Ra | born
| 1916.05.22 | Joe Springer | born
| 1917.05.22 | Charlie Munro | born
| 1921.05.22 | Gustav Brom | born
| 1924.05.22 | Eric Delaney | born
| 1926.05.22 | Elek Bacsik | born
| 1927.05.22 | Frank Johnson | born
| 1928.05.22 | Jackie Cain | born
| 1930.05.22 | Kenny Ball | born
| 1934.05.22 | Peter Nero | born
| 1935.05.22 | Giuseppi Logan | born
| 1939.05.22 | Dick Berk | born
| 1940.05.22 | Jerry Ricks | born
| 1944.05.22 | La Velle | born
| 1947.05.22 | Franz Koglmann | born
| 1977.05.22 | Hampton Hawes | died
| 23 May
| 1897.05.23 | Fred Guy | born
| 1904.05.23 | Edgar Hayes | born
| 1910.05.23 | Artie Shaw | born
| 1910.05.23 | John Harrington | born
| 1919.05.23 | Johnny Bothwell | born
| 1920.05.23 | Helen O'Connell | born
| 1921.05.23 | Humphrey Lyttelton | born
| 1926.05.23 | Arthur Gunter | born
| 1928.05.23 | Rosemary Clooney | born
| 1929.05.23 | Julian Euell | born
| 1932.05.23 | Les Spann | born
| 1933.05.23 | Ichiro Masudo | born
| 1935.05.23 | Bobby (ii) Mitchell | born
| 1938.05.23 | Daniel Humair | born
| 1939.05.23 | Marvin Stamm | born
| 1940.05.23 | Bjorn Johansen | born
| 1942.05.23 | Randolph Colville | born
| 1946.05.23 | Famoudou Don Moye | born
| 1947.05.23 | Richie Beirach | born
| 1949.05.23 | Randy Sandke | born
| 1959.05.23 | Ken Peplowski | born
| 24 May
| 1901.05.24 | Frank Signorelli | born
| 1902.05.24 | Sylvester Ahola | born
| 1904.05.24 | Herbert Cowens | born
| 1919.05.24 | Herbie Fields | born
| 1927.05.24 | Charles Greenlee | born
| 1928.05.24 | Max Bennett | born
| 1931.05.24 | Gianni Basso | born
| 1933.05.24 | Michael Walter White | born
| 1937.05.24 | Archie Shepp | born
| 1941.05.24 | Charles Earland | born
| 1952.05.24 | David DeFries | born
| 1968.05.24 | Vaughan Hawthorne-Nelson | born
| 25 May
| 1878.05.25 | Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson | born
| 1897.05.25 | Buddy Petit | born
| 1910.05.25 | Pha Terrell | born
| 1917.05.25 | Jimmy Hamilton | born
| 1922.05.25 | Kitty Kallen | born
| 1923.05.25 | Lloyd Trotman | born
| 1924.05.25 | Marshall Allen | born
| 1926.05.25 | Milt Bernhart | born
| 1927.05.25 | Paul Oliver | born
| 1932.05.25 | Piet Noordijk | born
| 1936.05.25 | Gary Foster | born
| 1939.05.25 | Phil Ranelin | born
| 1953.05.25 | Christof Lauer | born
| 1953.05.25 | Pepi Lemer | born
| 1955.05.25 | Wardell Gray | died
| 1960.05.25 | Wallace Roney | born
| 26 May
| 1883.05.26 | Mamie Smith | born
| 1885.05.26 | Al Jolson | born
| 1909.05.26 | Charlie McCoy | born
| 1910.05.26 | Ady Rosner | born
| 1914.05.26 | Shorty Baker | born
| 1914.05.26 | Ziggy Elman | born
| 1915.05.26 | Vernon Alley | born
| 1919.05.26 | Calvin Jackson | born
| 1920.05.26 | Peggy Lee | born
| 1926.05.26 | Miles Davis | born
| 1928.05.26 | Gene DiNovi | born
| 1937.05.26 | Neil Richard Ardley | born
| 1940.05.26 | Lew Tabackin | born
| 1942.05.26 | Levon Helm | born
| 1953.05.26 | David Torn | born
| 1973.05.26 | J.C. Higginbotham | died
| 27 May
| 1900.05.27 | Albert Nicholas | born
| 1900.05.27 | Chester Zardis | born
| 1910.05.27 | Earl Carruthers | born
| 1910.05.27 | Jock Carruthers | born
| 1924.05.27 | John Sellers | born
| 1926.05.27 | Bud Shank | born
| 1927.05.27 | Ralph Carmichael | born
| 1928.05.27 | Arthur Watts | born
| 1930.05.27 | Kenny Dennis | born
| 1931.05.27 | Diz Disley | born
| 1935.05.27 | Ramsey Lewis | born
| 1936.05.27 | Rufus "Speedy" Jones | born
| 1946.05.27 | Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen | born
| 1946.05.27 | Zbigniew Jaremko | born
| 1948.05.27 | Marc Copland | born
| 1950.05.27 | Dee Dee Bridgewater | born
| 1962.05.27 | Carlo Morena | born
| 1963.05.27 | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | born
| 28 May
| 1898.05.28 | Andy Kirk | born
| 1898.05.28 | Lew Stone | born
| 1900.05.28 | Tommy Ladnier | born
| 1907.05.28 | Arthur Herbert | born
| 1907.05.28 | Reginald Foresythe | born
| 1910.05.28 | Arthur Trappier | born
| 1910.05.28 | T-Bone Walker | born
| 1911.05.28 | Skeets Herfurt | born
| 1912.05.28 | Dave Barbour | born
| 1917.05.28 | Papa John Creach | born
| 1921.05.28 | Al Tinney | born
| 1926.05.28 | Russ Freeman | born
| 1928.05.28 | Arno Marsh | born
| 1930.05.28 | Tricky Lofton | born
| 1937.05.28 | Cal Valentine | born
| 1939.05.28 | Freddie North | born
| 1939.05.28 | Raymond Raubisko | born
| 1939.05.28 | Wojciech Karolak | born
| 1946.05.28 | Claudio Roditi | born
| 1953.05.28 | Cathy Segal-Garcia | born
| 1955.05.28 | Janet Seidel | born
| 1959.05.28 | Eddie Parker | born
| 29 May
| 1909.05.29 | Dick Stabile | born
| 1909.05.29 | Sam Dutrey | born
| 1922.05.29 | David 'Bubba' Brooks | born
| 1922.05.29 | Erik Lindstrom | born
| 1923.05.29 | Eugene Wright | born
| 1927.05.29 | Dick Hafer | born
| 1928.05.29 | Freddie Redd | born
| 1929.05.29 | Sandy Mosse | born
| 1930.05.29 | Eric VonSchmidt | born
| 1934.05.29 | John Eaton | born
| 1951.05.29 | Ron Levy | born
| 1952.05.29 | Hilton Ruiz | born
| 1957.05.29 | Lynne Arriale | born
| 1958.05.29 | Jim Snidero | born
| 1958.05.29 | Kenny Washington | born
| 1967.05.29 | Wycliffe Gordon | born
| 1978.05.29 | Sean Jones | born
| 30 May
| 1891.05.30 | Ben Bernie | born
| 1901.05.30 | Frankie Trumbauer | born
| 1905.05.30 | Sidney DeParis | born
| 1907.05.30 | Fernando Arbello | born
| 1909.05.30 | Benny Goodman | born
| 1913.05.30 | Pee Wee Erwin | born
| 1924.05.30 | Armando Peraza | born
| 1927.05.30 | Shake Keane | born
| 1929.05.30 | Clora Bryant | born
| 1930.05.30 | Dave McKenna | born
| 1933.05.30 | Michael Garrick | born
| 1933.05.30 | Willie Garnett | born
| 1935.05.30 | Harry Beckett | born
| 1939.05.30 | John Gordon | born
| 1939.05.30 | King Ernest | born
| 1941.05.30 | David Sherr | born
| 1941.05.30 | Lenny Popkin | born
| 1959.05.30 | Ann Hampton Callaway | born
| 1959.05.30 | Pietro Tonolo | born
| 1962.05.30 | Darrell Grant | born
| 1965.05.30 | Rick Holmstrom | born
| 31 May
| 1902.05.31 | Billy Mayerl | born
| 1904.05.31 | Otto Hardwicke | born
| 1904.05.31 | Stan Brenders | born
| 1908.05.31 | Gene Gifford | born
| 1913.05.31 | Jimmy Shirley | born
| 1921.05.31 | Alan George Clare | born
| 1922.05.31 | Dennis David Rose | born
| 1925.05.31 | Eddie Thompson | born
| 1926.05.31 | Duncan Campbell | born
| 1927.05.31 | Red Holloway | born
| 1935.05.31 | Albert Heath | born
| 1937.05.31 | Louis Hayes | born
| 1947.05.31 | Greg Abate | born
| 1948.05.31 | Paulinho DaCosta | born
| 1954.05.31 | Mario Castronari | born
| 1955.05.31 | Marty Ehrlich | born
| 1966.05.31 | Julian Siegel | born
| 1967.05.31 | Mark Nightingale | born
| 1972.05.31 | Christian McBride | born
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