This Week In Jazz February 11 thru February 17


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Harold Arlen, baritone saxman Charlie Fowlkes, saxmen Wardell Gray, Roger “Buck” Hill and Maceo Parker, drummer Herlin Riley, singer Dena DeRose and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi-Fi” (1956), Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd’s “Jazz Samba” (1962), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers’ “Night in Tunisia” (1979), Ray Bryant’s “Trio Today” (1987), The New George Shearing Quintet’s “That Shearing Sound” (1994), Bruce Barth’s “Three Things of Beauty” (2012) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.