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This Week In Jazz July 17 thru July 23
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxophonists Ernie Wilkins, Bill Perkins and Junior Cook, bassists Joe Comfort, Keter Betts and Peter Ind, singers Helen Merrill and Margaret Whiting, guitarists Al Di Meola and Joshua Breakstone and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jackie …
This Week In Jazz July 10 thru July 16
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Major Holley and Leroy Vinnegar, saxmen Paul Gonsalves and Sam “The Man” Taylor, trumpeters Conte Candoli and Carol Morgan and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Leroy Vinnegar’s “Leroy Walks!” (1957), Blue Mitchell’s “Down With It” …
This Week In Jazz July 3 thru July 9
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Louie Bellson and Butch Miles, saxmen Hank Mobley and Arthur Blythe, keyboardist Joe Zawinul, trumpeter/bandleader Doc Severinsen and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Count Basie At Newport” (1957), “Sonny Rollins on Impulse!” (1965), Buddy Rich …
This Week In Jazz June 26 thru July 2
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Richard Rodgers and Frank Loesser, singers Lena Horne and Tierney Sutton, pianist/composer Elmo Hope, bassist Stanley Clarke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1952), The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Take Five” (1959), Lee Morgan’s “The Gigolo” (1965), Jim …
This Week In Jazz June 19 thru June 25
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Milt Hinton and Jamil Nasser, singer Helen Humes, guitarist Chet Atkins, composer/pianists Lalo Schifrin and Eric Reed, reedman Eric Dolphy and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1” (1958), Les …
This Week In Jazz June 12 thru June 18
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Doc Cheatham, pianists Erroll Garner and Jaki Byard, saxman Lucky Thompson and bassists Chuck Rainey, Chuck Berghofer and Marcus Miller and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Chet Baker’s “Inglewood Jam” (1952), Jimmy …
This Week In Jazz June 5 thru June 11
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Cole Porter, bandleader Jimmie Lunceford, trombonists Dicky Wells, Al Grey and Bill Watrous, guitarists Tal Farlow and Grant Green and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie’s “Bird & Diz” (1950), John …
This Week In Jazz May 29 thru June 4
This week we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman, arranger Nelson Riddle, drummers Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes and Charlie Watts, saxmen Red Nolloway and Greg Abate, singers Ann Hampton Callaway and Ian Shaw and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia” (1956), Dexter …