Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Bob Dorough, trumpeter Donald Byrd, composer/arrangers Don Sebesky and Toshiko Akiyoshi, accordionist Richard Galliano and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Zoot Sims’ “Zoot” (1956), Donald Byrd’s “Freeform” (1961), Dexter Gordon’s “Homecoming” (1976), Sathima Bea Benjamin’s “Southern Touch” (1989), Charles Earland’s “I Ain’t Jivin’ I’m Jammin’” (1992), The Stanley Clarke Trio’s “Jazz in the Garden” (2008) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.