This Week In Jazz June 2 thru June 8

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Al Harewood, Specs Powell, Peter Erskine and Cassius Goens, bandleader Jimmie Lunceford, guitarists Grant Green, Tal Farlow, Royce Campbell and Paul Bollenback, saxophonists Tina Brooks, pianist Monty Alexander and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie’s “Bird & Diz” (1950), Betty Roche’s “Singin’ and Swingin’” (1960), Buck Clayton’s “A Buck Clayton Jam Session” (1975), Richie Cole’s “Popbop” (1987), Claude Bolling Big Band’s “The Victory Concert: Echoes of 1944-45” (1994), The Charles Earland Tribute Band’s “Keepers of the Flame” (2000) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS‘ on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.