Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Stan Levey, Art Taylor, Pete Laroca and Steve Gadd, percussionist Mongo Santa Maria, pianists Andre Previn, Claude Bolling and Victor Feldman, saxophonists Charlie Rouse, Stanley Turrentine, Gerry Mulligan and Pat LaBarbera,guitarists Gene Bertoncini and John Pizzarelli, vocalist Carmen McRae and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Bud Powell’s “Inner Fire” (1953), Art Blakey’s “The Jazz Messengers” (1956), Johnny Griffin’s “A Blowing Session” (1957), Dizzy Gillespie’s “Birk’s Works” (1957), Freddie Hubbard’s “Hub Cap” (1961), Joe Henderson’s “In ‘N Out” (1964), Miles Davis’ “Black Beauty” (1970), John Hicks Trio’s “East Side Blues” (1988) Chick Corea’s “Past, Presents and Futures” (2001) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.