Hey, Jazz fans!!!
Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Woody Herman, Blues Shouter Big Joe Turner, pianist/composer Gil Evans, pianist Red Garland, trumpeters Al Porcino and Stu Williamson, saxmen Dewey Redman and Jackie McLean and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall” (1953), Lee Morgan/Thad Jones’ “Minor Strain” (1960), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers’ “Indestructible” (1964), Donald Byrd’s “Electric Byrd” (1970), The Nat Adderley Sextet’s “Work Song/Nat Adderley Sextet Live at Sweet Basil” (1990) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.