Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Richard Rodgers pianists Richard Wyands and Ahmad Jamal, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Frank Loesser, singers Lena Horne, Johnny Hartman and Melissa Walker, bassist Stanley Clarke and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young’s “Blue Lester” (1944), Johnny Hodges’ “Used to Be Duke” (1954), Blue Mitchell’s “Big 6” (1958), Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out” (1959), Gerry Mulligan’s “Geru” (1962), The Gene Harris Quartet’s “Black and Blue” (1991), James Moody & the Hank Jones Quartet’s “Our Delight” (2006) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.