This Week In Jazz April 7 thru February April 13

Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriter E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, composer/pianists Claude Bolling and Herbie Hancock, singers Carmen McRae, Helen Forrest and Vanessa Rubin, pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., multi-instrumentalist Joey DeFranco and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Birk’s Works” (1957), Joe Henderson’s “In ‘N Out” (1964), Max Roach’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (1971), Geri Allen/Paul Haden/Paul Motian’s “Segments” (1989), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers feat. Wynton Marsalis’ “Album of the Year” (1981), Tony Bennett’s “MTV Unplugged” (1994), Al Jarreau & the Metropole Orkest “Live” (2011) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.