This Week In Jazz May 24 thru May 30

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of Miles Davis, bassists Eugene Wright, Max Bennett and Niels-Henning Osted-Pedersen, trumpeters Claudio Roditi, Wallace Roney and Randy Sandke, singers Peggy Lee, Gladys Knight, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Dee Dee Bridgewater and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Red Garland’s “Groovy” (1957), Hank Mobley’s “Far Away Lands” (1957), Duke Ellington’s “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959), Charles Mingus’ “Mingus Revisited” (1960), Dexter Gordon’s “Gettin’ Around” (1964), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974), Maynard Ferguson Live in San Francisco (1983) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.