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This Week In Jazz June 23rd thru June 29th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Milt Hinton and Reggie Workman, guitarist Johnny Smith, singers Helen Humes, Tierney Sutton and Georgie Fame, pianists Elmo Hope and Bill Cunliffe and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young’s “Blue Lester” (1944), “Hampton Hawes …
This Week In Jazz June 16 thru June 22
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer saxmen Lucky Thompson, Joe Thomas and Eric Dolphy, songwriter Sammy Khan, composer Lalo Schifrin, trombonist Jimmy Cheatham, bassist Jamil Nasser and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of ”Inglewood Jam: Bird & Chet” (1953), Elmo Hope …
This Week In Jazz June 9th thru June 15th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Cole Porter, drummers Shelly Manne and Billy Drummond, pianists Chick Corea, Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, guitarist Les Paul and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Clifford Brown Memorial Album (1953), Benny Carter’s “Jazz Giant” (1957), …
This Week In Jazz June 2nd thru June 8th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedmen Oliver Nelson, Tina Brooks, Anthony Braxton and Paquita D’Rivera, guitarists Tal Farlow, Grant Green and Paul Bollenback, drummers Peter Erskine and Cassius Goens and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie’s “Bird …
This Week In Jazz May 26th thru June 1st
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays vocalists Mamie Smith, Peggy Lee and Dee Dee Bridgewater, trumpeter Miles Davis, pianists Ruben Rodriguez and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia” …
This Week In Jazz May 19th thru May 25th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singer/composer Fats Waller, saxophonists George Auld and Archie Shepp, singers Rosemary Clooney and Jackie cain, bagpipe player Rufus Harley, pianist/bandleader Sun Ra and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Kenny Dorham’s “Jazz …
This Week In Jazz May 12th thru May 18th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Woody Herman, Blues Shouter Big Joe Turner, pianist/composer Gil Evans, pianist Red Garland, trumpeters Al Porcino and Stu Williamson, saxmen Dewey Redman and Jackie McLean and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Quintet: Jazz at …
This Week In Jazz May 6th thru May 12th
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Teresa Brewer, Tania Marie and Fred Astaire, pianists Mary Lou Williams, Stanley Cowell and Keith Jarrett, drummers Mel Lewis and Dennis Chambers, bassist and vocalist Blake Shaw and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker’s …