Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Art Pepper, and Jerry Dodgion, singers Velma Middleton, Dinah Washington, Van Morrison and Rachel Price, pianists Kenny Drew and Gene Harris, trumpeter Kenny Dorham and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Clifford Brown Memorial Album” (1953), Dexter Gordon’s “A Swingin’ Affair” (1962), Yusef Lateef’s “The Gentle Giant” (1971), Mal Waldron & Jackie McLean’s
‘Left Alone ’86” (1986), Arthur Taylor’s Wailers’ “Wailin’ at the Vanguard” (1992), Omer Avital’s “New Song” (2013) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters.