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This Week In Jazz March 22 thru March 28
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Sarah Vaughan and King Pleasure, guitarists George Benson and Melvin Sparks, saxophonists Ben Webster and Sherman Irby, pianist/singer/songwriter Dave Frishberg and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s 1952 Concert, “Sonny Rollins + 4” (1956), …
This Week In Jazz March 15 thru March 21
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Jimmy McPartland and Harry James, pianist/singer Nat King Cole, pianists Tommy Flanagan, Lennie Tristano, Marian McPartland and Jessica Williams, singers Bill Henderson and Queen Latifah, guitarist Bill Frisell and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Joe …
This Week In Jazz May 8 thru May 14
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Bix Beiderbeck, saxmen George Coleman, Ornette Coleman and Lee Konitz, pianists James Williams and Sir Charles Thompson, drummer Roy Haynes and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Cannonball Adderley’s “Somethin’ Else” (1958), Orhette Coleman’s “Tomorrow is …
This Week In Jazz February 23 thru February 29
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxophonist Dexter Gordon, singer Mildred Bailey and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Abbey Lincoln, feat. Stan Getz’ “You Gotta Pay the Band” (1991) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz …
This Week In Jazz February 16 thru February 22
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Charlie Spivak, Lew Soloff and Warren Vache, drummers Walter Johnson, Frank Isola Joe Labarbera and Joe Farnsworth, vocalists Nina Simone, Irma Thomas and Nancy Wilson, pianist/composer Tad Dameron and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Bessie …
This Week In Jazz February 9 thru February 15
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassist Walter Page, singer Roberta Flack, pianist Sir Roland Hannah, drummers Chick Webb Walter “Baby Sweets” Perkins and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Chet Baker Sings” (1954), Sonny Rollins’ “Freedom Suite” (1958), Art Blakey’s “Free for All” (1964), VanguardJazz Orchestra’s “Monday Night …
Special Programs for February 10 thru February 15
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Steve Allen: Comedian-musician-composer This week brings you the creative work of comedian-musician-composer and show host Steve Allen. By his estimate Allen wrote over 85-hundred songs in his lifetime, including words to the pop and jazz hits: This …
This Week In Jazz February 2 thru February 8
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Howard McGhee, Snooky Young,Conrad Gozzo, pianist/composers Lil Hardin Armstrong and Eubie Blake, saxophonists Sonny Stitt, Red Prysock and Stan Getz and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers” (1955), Lee Morgan’s …