Eddie Jefferson

Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his main influence was Leo Watson. Perhaps Jefferson's best-known song is "Moody's Mood for Love" which was recorded in 1952, though two years later a recording by King Pleasure catapulted the contrafact into wide popularity. Jefferson's recordings of Charlie Parker's "Parker's Mood" and Horace Silver's "Filthy McNasty" were also hits.

3 August 1918

Born on the same birth date (3 August 1918): James MacGregor Burns • Larry Haines • Sidney Gottlieb

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Diāna Marcinkēviča • Franz König • Gary Peters (footballer) • Gizz Butt • Harry Heilmann • Imperia Cognati • John Henley (preacher) • Lisa Ann Walter • Tony Pashos

Born in the same month (August 1918): Alan Jay Lerner • Betty Oliphant • Billy Johnson (baseball) • Brian Crozier • C. Buddingh' • Cisco Houston • Giles Cooper (playwright) • Gordon Zahn • Guy Gibson • Ike Quebec • James MacGregor Burns • Katherine Johnson • Noor Hassanali • Norman Granz • Sid Bernstein (impresario) • Sidney Gottlieb • T. J. Jemison • Ted Williams