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Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singer/composer Fats Waller, arranger/saxophonist Bill Holman, reedmen Sonny Fortune, Tony Scott and Ken Peplowski, drummers Victor Lewis and Dick Berk, pianist/bandleader Sun Ra, singers Rosemary Clooney and Jackie Cain and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1947), Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959), Grant Green’s “Matador” (1964), Cal Tjader’s “The Grace Cathedral Concert” (1976), McCoy Tyner Trio “Live at Sweet Basil” (1989), Paquito D’Rivera’s “Who’s Smoking?!” (1991), Andy Bey’s “Pages from An Imaginary Life” (2014) and many others Monday thru Friday and at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.