This Week In Jazz September 14 thru September 20

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of violinist Joe Venuti, singers Helen Ward, Jon Hendricks, Bobby Short, Wesla Whitfield, organist Jack McDuff, bassists Arvell Shaw, Earl May and Lisle Atkinson, saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, bluesman B.B. King, guitarist Charlie Byrd and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of John Coltrane’s “Blue Trane” (1957), Coleman Hawkins’s “Desafinado” (1962), Joe Turner’s “Stormy Monday” (1974), Terumasa Hino’s “Bluestruck” (1989), Scott Hamilton/Ken Peplowski/Spike Robinson’s “Groovin’ High” (1991), George Cables’ “Icons and Influences” (2013) and many others Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.