Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays drummers Tommy Benford and Carl Allen, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, trombonist Slide Hampton, guitarist/composer Mundell Lowe, bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Tito Puente, saxmen Johnny Griffin and Joe Henderson, bassists Charles Mingus and Paul Chambers, singers Ella Fitzgerald and Madeleine Peyroux and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” (1949), Gene Ammons All Stars’ “The Happy Blues” (1956), Art Farmer’s “Portrait of Art Farmer” (1958), Bill Evans & Jim Hall’s “Undercurrents” (1962), Wes Montgomery’s “Encores, Volume 2: Blue N’ Boogie” (1963), Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Stone Flower” (1970), Jim Hall’s “Concierto” (1975), Ray Brown Trio’s “Don’t Git Sassy” (1994) and many others througout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.