Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of guitarist Wes Montgomery, reedmen Barney Bigard, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Ricky Ford, pianist Lou Levy, bassists Doug Watkins, Pierre Michelot and Red Callender, trumpeter Howard McGhee, singers Carol Sloan and Flora Purim and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” (1959), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers’ “The Big Beat” (1960), Gene Harris & the Three Sounds Live at the ‘It’ Club (1970), Ricky Ford’s “Manhattan Blues” (1989), Carol Sloane’s “The Songs Sinatra Sang” (1996), The Godfathers of Groove’s “3” (2008) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.