This Week In Jazz May 29 thru June 4


This week we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman, arranger Nelson Riddle, drummers Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes and Charlie Watts, saxmen Red Nolloway and Greg Abate, singers Ann Hampton Callaway and Ian Shaw and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia” (1956), Dexter Gordon’s “One Flight Up” (1964), Sarah Vaughan “Live at Rosy’s” (1978), Richie Cole’s “Popbop” (1987), Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (1994) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jaz 88.3 KCCK.