Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/bandleader Duke Ellington, harmonica player Toots Thielemanns, drummers Connie Kay and Denzil Best, singers Bing Crosby, Blossom Dearie, Shirley Horn and Willie Nelson, reedmen Jimmy Giuffre, Teddy Edwards and Big Jay McNeely and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2” (1951), Miles Davis All Stars’ “Walkin’” (1954), “Portrait of Art Farmer” (1958), Thelonious Monk Quartet plus Two “At the Blackhawk” (1960), Freddie Hubbard’s “The Body and the Soul” (1963), Jimmy Rushing’s The You and Me That Used to Be” (1971), Shirley Horn “Live at the 4 Queens” (1991) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.