This Week In Jazz December 1 thru December 6

Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Dave Brubeck, Wynton Kelly, Ronnie Matthews and Amina Figarova, bassists Jay Leonhart, Miroslave Vitous and Harvie Schwartz, singers Lou Rawls and Cassandra Wilson, guitarist Jim Hall and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Anita O’Day’s “This Is Anita O’Day” (1955), Gerry Mulligan & the Sax Section’s “The Gerry Mulligan Songbook” (1957), John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps/Coltrane Jazz” (1959), The Art Farmer Quartet feat. Jim Hall’s “Live at the Half Note” (1963), Kenny Burrell’s “Guitar Forms” (1964), Betty Carter’s “Round Midnight” (1969), Jim Hall’s “Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard” (1996) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our “JAZZ MASTERS” program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.