Hey, Jazz fans!!!
Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocal greats Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Al Green and Marilyn Maye, reedmen Peanuts Hucko, Sal Nistico and Pat LaBarbera, pianists Claude Bolling and Denny Zeitlin, vibists Teddy Charles and Victor Feldman and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Birk’s Works” (1957), Johnny Griffin’s “A Blowing Session” (1957), Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers 1957, Second Edition feat. Johnny Griffin (1957), Jimmy Smith’s “Cool Blues” (1958), The Red Garland Trio’s “Manteca” (1958), Freddie Hubbard’s “Hub Cap” (1961), and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.