This Week In Jazz January 28 thru February 3


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Roy Eldridge, trombonists Benny Morton and Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton, saxmen Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, and Sadao Watanabe, singers Jeanne Lee and Melody Gardot and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Afro-Cuban (1955)”, Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father” (1964), Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay” (1970), Carmen McRae’s “Carmen Sings Monk” (1988), Weslia Whitfield’s “Teach Me Tonight” (1997), The Lonnie Plaxico Group “Live at Jazz Standard” (2003) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.