This Week In Jazz May 12th thru May 18th

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.