This Week In Jazz August 2 thru August 8

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter/singer Louis Armstrong, singers Tony Bennett, Jeri Southern and Abby Lincoln, drummers Billy Kilson, Teri Lynne Carrington and Airto Moreira, guitarist Herb Ellis and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Johnny Hodges’ “Used to Be Duke” (1954), Oscar Peterson Trio’s “Vancouver 1958”, Thelonious Monk “Live at the Five Spot” (1958), Wayne Shorter’s “Juju” (1964), The Milt Jackson Quintet feat. Ray Brown’s “That’s the way It Is” (1969) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!