This Week In Jazz March 8 thru March 14

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Ornette Coleman, Charles Brackeen and Saul Lubaroff, singers Keely Smith, Al Jarreau, and Bobby McFerrin, pianists Don Abney, Dick Katz and Stephen Scott, drummer Roy Haynes, trumpeters Blue Mitchell and Terence Blanchard and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “The Birth of the Cool” (1950), Freddie Hubbard’s “The Body and the Soul” (1963), George Benson & Joe Farrell’s “Benson & Farrell” (1976), Stan Getz;’ “Voyage” (1986), Charles Earland’s “Stomp!” (1999), Tierney Sutton’s “Paris Sessions 2” (2021) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.