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): Ana Kokkinos • Balwinder Sandhu • Béla Bollobás • Eric Esch • Forbes Johnston • Gary Peters (footballer) • Hannah Simone • Jay North • Jean-Pierre Raffarin • Jesse Lumsden • Joseph Paxton • José Manuel Moreno • Manaia Cherrington • Matt Joyce (baseball) • Nate McMillan • Ola Abidogun • Pat Crawford • Roland Burris • Tony Pashos

Born in the same month (August 1918): Alan Jay Lerner • Billy Johnson (baseball) • Brian Crozier • Frederick Sanger • Giles Cooper (playwright) • James MacGregor Burns • Jelle Zijlstra • L. B. Cole • Mary McGrory • Michael John Wise • Noor Hassanali • Norman Granz • Richard Greene • Sid Bernstein (impresario) • Ted Williams