This Week In Jazz February 12 thru February 18


This week we celebrate the birthdays of composers Alec Wilder and Harold Arlen, trumpeter Charlie Spivak, saxophonist Charlie Fowlkes, percussionist/bandleader Machito, clarinetist Buddy DeFranco and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’ “Rainbow Mist” (1944), “Chet Baker Sings” (1954), Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd’s “Jazz Samba” (1962), Sarah Vaughan and the Count Basie Orchestra’s “Send In The Clowns” (1981), The New Shearing Quintet’s “That Shearing Sound” (1994), Ron Carter’s “Dear Miles” (2006), Monday thru Friday at noon on Jazz Masters.