May 3, 2001 Billy Higgins, jazz drummer, died. Higgins was born October 11, 1936 in Los Angeles, California. He began playing drums at the age of five. Higgins was one of the co-founders of the free jazz movement and beginning in 1958 played on Ornette Coleman’s first recordings.
Archive | May 3, 2011
May 3rd in African American History – Ed Davis
May 3, 1999 Ed Davis, the first African American to win a franchise to sell new cars, died. Davis was born February 27, 1911 in Shreveport, Louisiana and as a teenager moved to Detroit to attend integrated public schools. Davis’ first job was at a car repair garage where the owner instructed him to look […]