Trumpeters Donald Byrd (RIIP) and Pat Halcox (RIIP)

Two notable jazz trumpeters passed away on February 4, 2013: 

• Donald Byrd, 80, American jazz trumpeter.^[30]

• Pat Halcox, 82, British jazz trumpeter.^[33].  

My post of  January 30, 2013, entitled "ZZ's poT , BB's King, Mayzee's Daizee..."  documents a major "ZZ" pattern cluster, and given this, it's not hard to note that Byrd and Halcox add to the cluster since they're both jaZZ trumpeters.  Just as it's rare to have twin "Z's" in a word and/or name,  It's rare for two renown trumpeters to pass away on the same day.  Rarer yet that they fall under the "ZZ" pattern cluster.   Rarer yet that Byrd falls under a "Boid/Boyd/Bird/Byrd" pattern cluster also documented in posts.  Rarer yet that Halcox falls into a "Cox/Kochs/Cocks/Cook" pattern cluster, once again, documented in posts, some very recent.
  
Note the following etymology: 

Cox surname, from early 16c., earlier Cocks (c.1300), in many cases from cock (n.1), which apparently was used as a personal name in Old English, also as a familiar term for a boy, later used of apprentices, servants, etc. Perhaps in some cases for the sign of an inn. In some cases perhaps from cook (n.), or Welsh coch "red."

Hale (adj.) "healthy," Old English hal "healthy, entire, uninjured" (see health). 

Note the following taken from Byrds wiki page:    

Byrd's Eye View is an album by trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1955 and originally released on Tom Wilson's Transition label.^[1] 

Recorded	December 2, 1955 Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Genre	Jazz
Length	55:27

Jazz Eyes (also released as Star Eyes) is an album by saxophonist John Jenkins and trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1957 and released on the New Jazz label.^[1]

Recorded	September 10, 1957

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Halcox was born in Chelsea, London, and became the trumpet player in the Chris Barber Jazz Band,^[2] when the band took that name on 31 May 1954.  

If you read my posts since January 30, 2013, you'll see how each of the above excerpts fall under various pattern-clusters. 

If I were to make anything of this, it reminds me of my January 29, 2010 post entitled, Sinchronicity Sings the Blues -- Part 3, and then my June 2012 post entitled, RIIP Abram Wilson, Jazz Warrior (live) Synchronicity.