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This day (August 4, 1965), in Medford, Massachusetts, is born Terri Lyne Carrington, a Grammy-Award winning jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur who has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more.

This day (June 23, 1960), in New Orleans, Louisiana, is born Donald Harrison, an American jazz saxophonist from New Orleans, Louisiana who played with Roy Haynes, Jack McDuff, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Terence Blanchard and Don Pullen in the 1980s.