Hey, Jazz fans!!!

Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocalists Bobby Short, Weslia Whitfield, Michael Franks and the great Jon Hendricks, saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, Joe Temperley, Shafi Hadi and Steve Slagle, Bluesman B.B. King, pianists Ralph Sharon and Muhal Richard Abrams, guitarist Eric Gale, organist Brother Jack McDuff and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker’s Bird/The Savoy Recordings, vol. 1 (1944), Erroll Garner’s “Concert by the Sea” (1955), John Coltrane’s “Blue Trane” (1957), Leroy Vinnegar’s “Leroy Walks!” (1957), Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’s Big Band’s “Trane Whistle” (1960), Duke Ellington’s “Money Jungle” (1962), Art Pepper’s “Straight Life” (1979) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.