This Week In Jazz May 19 thru May 25


Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/arranger/composer Fats Waller, pianist/bandleaders Sun Ra and Bob Florence, singers Rosemary Clooney and Jackie Cain, bagpiper Rufus Harley, drummer Lawrence Marable, pianist Christian Sands and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Grant Green’s “Matador” (1964), Return to Forever “Live” (1977), Ahmad Jamal’s “The Sound of Jazz: Ahmad Jamal In Concert” (1980), Paquito D’Rivera’s “Who’s Smoking?!” (1991), Monty Alexander “Live at the Iridium” (2004) and many others, Monday through Friday at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.