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This Week In Jazz April 11 thru April 17
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Herbie Hancock, trumpeters Shorty Rogers and Ryan Kisor, reedmen Bud Freeman, Johnny Dodds, Gene Ammons and Jan Harbeck, singer Al Green and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Thelonious Monk’s “Thelonious Himself” (1957), Bobby Hutcherson’s “Stick-Up” …
This Week In Jazz April 4 thru April 10
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Charlie Rouse, Gerry Mulligan, and Gary Smulyan, drummers Stan Levey, Jake Hanna and Pete LaRoca, pianists Andre Previn and Victor Feldman, singer Carmen McRae and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Bud Powell’s “Inner Fires” (1953), …
This Week In Jazz March 28 thru April 3
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Astrud Gilberto, Frankie Laine and Doris Day, guitarists Remo Palmier, Freddie Green, Larry Coryell, and Dave Stryker, trumpeters Booker Little and Herb Alpert and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Afro-Cuban” (1955), Art Pepper’s …
This Week In Jazz March 21 thru March 27
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of guitarists George Benson and Melvin Sparks, pianist/composer Dave Frishberg, vibists Dave Pike and Stefon Harris, saxmen Flip Phillips and James Moody and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Afro-Cuban” (1955), “Sonny Rollins Plus 4” (1956), …
This Week In Jazz March 14 thru March 20
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singers Nat King Cole and Eliane Elias, organist Shirley Scott, singers Vera Lynn, Mark Murphy, Vanessa Rubin and Blues woman Marcia Ball, brass men Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff and Curtis Fowlkes and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …
This Week In Jazz March 7 thru March 13
Hey Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau and Leon Lee Dorsey, pianists Dick Hyman, Dick Katz and Sir Charles Thompson, singers Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin and Jeanie Bryson, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, trombonist Scott Whitfield and more! We’ll also mark the recording …
This Week In Jazz February 28 thru March 6
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleaders Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller, saxophonists Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Richie Cole and Ricky Ford, singers Dinah Shore, Roseanna Vitro and Flora Purim, pianist Lou Levy and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Gene Ammons’ “All Star …
This Week In Jazz February 21 thru February 27
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composers Tadd Dameron and Michel Legrand, saxmen Flip Phillips, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Tate and Claire Daly, drummers Dave Bailey, Harvey Mason and Joe Labarbera and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Clifford Brown/Max Roach’s “Study in Brown” …