This week’s musical birthday celebrants.
Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, January 9, 1944
New York Dolls and solo singer David Johansen, January 9, 1950
Other January 9 birthdays:
Innovative jazz drummer Kenny “Klook” Clarke, 1914
Rockabilly/Soul/Country singer Al Downing, 1940
Folk singer Joan Baez, 1941
Cowsills singer Bill Cowsill, 1948
Lynyrd Skynyrd backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, 1948
Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson, 1963
Steely Dan co-leader Donald Fagen, January 10, 1948
Other January 10 birthdays:
French conductor and composer Jean Martinon, 1910
Record producer Jerry Wexler, 1917
Jazz drummer Max Roach, 1924
Rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins, 1935
Operatic baritone Sherrill Milnes, 1935
Singer/songwriter Jim Croce, 1943
The Faces and solo singer Rod Stewart, 1945
Jazz bassist/composer William Parker, 1952
Rock singer Pat Benatar, 1953
UFO guitarist Michael Schenker, 1955
Singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin, 1956
Italian violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, 1961
La Otracina/Owl Zounds drummer/singer Adam Kriney, 1977
Country singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen, January 11, 1956
Other January 11 birthdays:
Russian composer Reinhold Glière, 1875
French composer/organist Maurice Duruflé, 1902
Blues singer/songwriter/harmonica player Slim Harpo, 1924
E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, 1942
Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye, 1946
Fusion/smooth jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour, 1952
The Bangles/Continental Drifters/Psycho Sisters singer/guitarist Vicki Peterson, 1958
Blues singer/songwriter/guitarist Mississippi Fred McDowell, January 12, 1904
Sly & the Family Stone/Graham Central Station trumpeter/singer Cynthia Robinson, January 12, 1946
Einstürzende Neubauten/Bad Seeds singer/guitarist Blixa Bargeld, January 12, 1959
Other January 12 birthdays:
French baritone Pierre Bernac, 1899
Country singer Tex Ritter, 1905
Blues/swing pianist/singer/bandleader Jay McShann, 1916
Proto-Minimalist avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, 1926
Jazz drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, 1940
British blues singer Long John Baldry, 1941
Fusion jazz/Frank Zappa keyboardist George Duke, 1946
Jazz trumpeter Stephen Haynes, 1955
Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon (born Corey Woods), 1970
Rage Against the Machine vocalist/lyricist Zach de la Rocha, 1970
Flaming Lips mastermind Wayne Coyne, January 13, 1961
Other January 13 birthdays:
Jazz guitarist Joe Pass, 1929
Madness singer Suggs (born Graham McPherson), 1961
Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, January 14, 1956
Other January 14 birthdays:
Jazz trumpeter/cornetist Billy Butterfield, 1917
New Orleans singer/songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint, 1938
Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons, 1943
Nirvana/Foo Fighters drummer/singer/songwriter Dave Grohl, 1969
Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill, 1982
Reggae singer Sister Carol (born Carole Theresa East), January 15, 1959
Other January 15 birthdays:
Swing drummer Gene Krupa, 1909
Classical pianist Malcolm Frager, 1935
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band mastermind Don Van Vliet, 1941
Jazz trumpeter Baikida Carroll, 1947
Lynyrd Skynyrd singer/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, 1948
Classical composer Aaron Jay Kernis, 1960
