Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Today is Oct. 4.

Cuban percussionist Chino Pozo was born this day in 1915 in Havana. He was a cousin of Chano Pozo, the Cuban drummer who worked with Dizzy Gillespie to fuse jazz and Latin elements together. Chino Pozo also recorded with Gillespie, Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro and Charlie Parker, and toured with Peggy Lee and Paul Anka.

Pianist Walter Bishop Junior was born this day in 1927 in New York City. Early in his career he played with Art Blakey, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.

Electric bass player Steve Swallow was born this day in 1940 in Fair Lawn, N.J. He took up the plug-in version of the bass in the late 1960s while working in the Gary Burton quartet. Swallow was a key figure in setting out the jazz vocabulary for electric bass. He tours regularly with Carla Bley.

Bass player Eddie Gomez, a fixture in the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977, was born this day in 1944 in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

On this day in 1944, singer Billie Holiday first recorded "Lover Man." Along with "Fine and Mellow," this slow and melancholic song about unrequited love became a signature tune for Holiday, the most influential woman singer in the history of jazz.

Looking at today's hip happenings...

On the New York jazz scene, solo guitar wizard Stanley Jordan is at Birdland tonight through Saturday. Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta is at B.B. King's Blues Club. Saxophonist Salim Washington's band is at The Jazz Gallery tonight. It includes pianist Warren Byrd, trombonist Kuumba Frank Lacy, alto saxophonist Kurtis Rivers, violist Melanie Dyer, bassist Lee Thomas Dorsey, drummer Warren Smith and trumpeter Waldron Ricks.

Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights in Jazz concert series opens its fall run tonight with a "Jazz from Bunk to Monk" program at Pace University's Downtown Theater with Howard Alden, Byron Stripling, Derek Smith, Ken Peplowski, Eddie Locke, Art Baron and Dennis Irwin. Eddy Davis and his Jazz All-Stars open the evening.

In and around Boston, pianist Mulgrew Miller conducts a New England Conservatory student ensemble tonight at Jordan Hall. Singer-pianist Bobby Short is at Scullers tonight through Saturday. Trumpeter Jon Faddis is featured soloist with the Ryles Jazz Orchestra tonight at Ryles in Cambridge.

Hammond B-3 player Bruce Katz's band is at the Regattabar in Cambridge. Pianist Jacques Chanier's trio is at Limbo in Boston tonight. James Merenda's Masked Marvels play the music of Charles Mingus tonight at the Chopping Block.

Medeski Martin and Wood are at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton, Mass., tonight. Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock and Roy Hargrove bring their Miles Davis-John Coltrane tribute tour to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and Big Bop Nouveau are at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., tonight through Sunday.

Rosario Cambria talks about the "romantic side" of composer Charles Mingus tonight at the Borders Books and Music in Strongsville, Ohio.

On the New Orleans jazz scene, trumpeter Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown's quintet is at Donna's tonight. Rebecca Barry is at Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar. Rob Wagner's New Thing is at the Dragon's Den. The Soul Rebels Brass Band is at Le Bon Temps Roule, Pursuance is at Loyola University's Danna Center. David Torkanowsky brings his band into Snug Harbor tonight.

Pianist Eddie Bo and the Joe Krown Organ Combo are at the Storyville District Jazz Parlor. The Treme Brass Band is at Sweet Lorraine's. The Radiators, Cyrille Neville, Anders Osborne and Marva Wright team up tonight for a New York City relief benefit at Tipitina's Uptown. Kermit Ruffins is at Vaughan's with his Barbecue Swingers.

In California, trumpeter Tom Harrell's quintet is at The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, guitarist Ron Eschete's trio is at Steamers Jazz Café in Fullerton, Toots Thielemans' trio is at Yoshi's in Oakland. In San Francisco tonight, the Frank Jackson Trio is at the Cypress Club, Paula West is at The Plush Room, Mike Lipskin and Waldo Carter team up at Moose's, the Vince Lateano Trio with Al Plank is at Pearl's, and Red Archibald and the Internationals are at the Top of the Mark.