105th birthday of James Cameron

(Born 25 February 1914, La Crosse, Wisconsin, US)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

INDEFATIGABLE lynching-survivor in Marion, Indiana, US (7 August 1930), and author of A Time of Terror (1982) which recounts this catastrophe, engineer, educator, founder of Milwaukee’s African American holocaust museum dedicated to the history of African Americans from the epoch of enslavement to quest for freedom

(Lee Morgan Sextet, “Search for the new land” [personnel: Morgan, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, piano; Grant Green, guitar; Reggie Workman, bass; Billy Higgins, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 15 February 1964])

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is author of the recently published The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019)  (https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2019/01/published-longest-genocide-since-29-may.html)

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79th birthday of Lee Morgan

(Born 10 July 1938, Philadelphia, US)

VERY BRIGHT trumpeter and composer who records prolifically both on his bands (usually quintets and sextets) and on a stretch of others including those led by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter, Art Farmer and Andrew Hill

(Lee Morgan Sextet, “Tom cat” [personnel: Morgan, trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone; Jackie McLean, alto saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Bob Cranshaw, bass; Art Blakey, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 11  August 1964])

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