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This Week in Jazz September 29 to October 5
Hiya, Jazz Fans!!! Jazz birthdays we’ll be celebrating this week include those of drummers Buddy Rich, Victor Jones and Mike Clark, bassists Oscar Pettiford, Eddie Gomez, Curtis Lundy and Steve Swallow, saxmen Von Freeman and Ronnie Laws, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and more! We’ll also salute the recording anniversaries of The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris …
This Week In Jazz September 22 thru September 28
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen John Coltrane, Frank Foster, Sam Rivers and Gary Bartz, singers Ray Charles, Marlena Shaw, Les McCann, Herb Jeffries Irene Reid and Rebecca Kilgore, composer George Gershwin, pianist/composers Bud Powell and Dan Knight and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker at …
This Week In Jazz September 15 thru September 21
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocalists Bobby Short, Weslia Whitfield, Michael Franks and the great Jon Hendricks, saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, Joe Temperley, Shafi Hadi and Steve Slagle, Bluesman B.B. King, pianists Ralph Sharon and Muhal Richard Abrams, guitarist Eric Gale, organist Brother Jack McDuff …
This Week In Jazz September 8 thru September 14
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocalists Mel Torme, Michael Buble, Harry Connick, Jr., Lorraine Feather, Maria Muldaur, Giacomo Gates and Caecilie Norby, bassists Wilbur Ware, George Mraz and Victor Wooten, and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Thelonious Monk Quartet feat. John …
This Week In Jazz September 1 thru September 7
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassist Charles Fambrough, drummer Karriem Riggins, composer Leonard Bernstein, trombonist Michael Dease, vibist Mike Freeman, guitarist Pat Martino, saxmen/composers Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter and Branford Marsalis, singers Jimmy Rushing and Cecile McLorin Salvant, pianists …
This Week In Jazz August 25 to August 31
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassist Charles Fambrough, drummer Karriem Riggins, composer Leonard Bernstein, trombonist Michael Dease, vibist Mike Freeman, guitarist Pat Martino, saxmen/composers Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter and Branford Marsalis, singers Jimmy Rushing and Cecile McLorin Salvant, pianists …
This Week In Jazz August 18th thru August 25th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/bandleader/composer Count Basie, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jiggs Whigham, pianist Jimmy Rowles, trumpeter Art and bassist Addison Farmer, Bluesman John Lee Hooker, drummer Ginger Baker and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jimmy Smith’s “The Sermon” (1957), …
This Week In Jazz August 11th thru August 17th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of organist Bill Heid, saxman Donnie McCaslin, guitarist Pat Metheny, drummer Jo Jones, trumpeter Benny Bailey, pianist George Shearing and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Red Garland’s “Garland of Red” (1956), Shelly Manne & Friends’ “My Fair …