This Week In Jazz 14 thru June 20

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Jerry Jerome, Joe Thomas, Lucky Thompson and Javon Jackson, pianists Erroll Garner, Jaki Byard and Kenny Drew, Jr., bassists Chuck Rainey and Chuck Berghofer, singers Dave Lambert and Dominic eade, songwriter Sammu Kahn and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Chet Baker’s “Inglewood Jam: Bird & Jet” (1952), Elmo Hope’s “Trio & Quintet” (1953), Horace Silver Quintet’s “Six Pieces of Silver” (1958), Gene Ammons “Boss Tenor” (1960), Hank Mobley’s “Straight, No Filter” (1966), Miles Davis’ “Filles de Kilimanjaro” (1968), Bill Evans’ “Montreux II” (1970), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974), The Nagel-Heyers All-Stars’ “Uptown Downtown: A Salute to the Big Apple” (1999) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.