This Week In Jazz January 12 thru January 18

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/bandleader Jay McShann, drummers Gene Krupa, Sid Atlett, Grady Tate and Gerry Gibbs, singers Eartha Kitt and Cheryl Bentyne and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dinah Washington’s :Dinah!” (1955), Hank Mobley & His Jazz All stars (1957), The Ahmad Jamal Trio “At the Pershing” (1958), Ornette Coleman’s “Tomorrow is the Question!” (1959), The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Pyramid” (1960), Lee Morgan’s “Standards” (1967), Weather Report “Live in Tokyo” (1972),  John Hicks’ “Old Friends & New” (1992) The Roy Hargrove Quintet’s “With Tenors of Our Time” (1994) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.