This Week In Jazz December 25 thru December 31

 


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays pianists Earl “Fatha” Hines, Walter Norris and T.S. Monk, reedmen Joe Lovano and Ted Nash, drummers Ed Thigpen and Lewis Nash and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ “Man Bites Harmonica!” (1957), Ray Charles’ “Genius+Soul=Jazz” (1960), “Paul Desmond with the Modern Jazz Quartet” (1971), Kenny Barron Trio’s “Green Chimneys” (1983), Chick Corea and Origin – Live at the Blue Note (1997) and many others Mondays thru Friday at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.