This Week In Jazz July 31 thru August 6

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Charlie Shavers, trombonist Lawrence Brown, guitarist Herb Ellis, singers Tony Bennett and Kat Edmondsen, saxophonists Rickey Woodard and Eric Alexander and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Johnny Hodges’ “Used To Be Duke” (1954), Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet (1957), Milt Jackson Quintet feat. Ray Brown’s “That’s The Way It Is (1969), Jim Hall-Ron Carter Duo’s “Alone Together” (1972), George Coleman “At Yoshi’s” (1989), The Drummonds feat. Renee Rosnes’ “When You Wish Upon A Star” (1999), Vincent Herring’s “Preaching To The Choir” (2020) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS ‘on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.