Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriter E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, singers Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae, percussionists Mongo Santamaria, Victor Feldman, Pete LaRoca, and Steve Gadd, pianist/composer Claude Bolling, multi-instrumentalist Joe Defrancesco and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Birk’s Works” (1957), Freddie Hubbard’s “Hub Cap” (1961), Ella Fitzgerald’s “Ella in London” (1974), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers feat. Wynton Marsalis’ “Album of the Year” (1981), Tony Bennett’s “MTV Unplugged” (1994), Kim Nalley’s “She Put a Spell on Me: Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone” (2004) and many others Mondays through Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.