This Week In Jazz February 15 thru February 21

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Harold Arlen, trumpeters Taft Jordan and Charlie Spivak, baritone saxmen Charlie Fowlkes, Pete Christlieb and Jeff Clayton, clarinetist Buddy Defranco, singers Irma Thomas and Nancy Wilson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’s “Rainbow Mist” (1944), Bing Crosby w/ Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band’s “Bing with a Beat” (1957), Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt and Jack McDuff’s “Soul Summit” (1962), Sonny Fortune’s “Awakening” (1975), Stan Getz Quartet’s “The Stockholm Concert” (1983), The New George Shearing Quintet’s “That Shearing Sound” (1994), Jesse Davis “Live at Small’s Jazz Club” (2022) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.