This Week In Jazz November 21 thru November 27


Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singer/composer Willie “The Lion” Smith, composer/singer/pianist Hoagey Carmichael, trombonist Tyree Glenn, organist Wild Bill Davis, cornetist Nat Adderley, saxman Al Cohn and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers’ “At the Cafe Bohemia” (1955), The Cannonball Adderley Quintet’s “Paris, 1960″ (1960), Duke Ellington’s 70th Birthday Concert” (1969), Dizzy Gillespie & Friends’ “Concert of the Century: A Tribute to Charlie Parker” (1980) and many others Mondays through Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS ‘on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.