This Week In Jazz February 27 thru March 5

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trombonist/bandleader Glenn Miller, sax men Richie Cole and Ricky Ford, guitarists Ralph Towner and Larry Carlton, singer Roseanna Vitro, trombonist Benny Powell, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Pierre Michelot and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dave Brubeck’s “Jazz at Oberlin” (1953), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messenger’s “The Big Beat” (1960), Gary Burton’s “The New Quartet” (1973), Ricky Ford’s “Manhattan Blues” (1989), The Godfathers of Groove “3” (2008) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS ‘on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.