This Week In Jazz April 15 thru February April 21

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Bessie Smith and Madeleine Peyroux, bassists Gene Cherico and Richard Davis, trombonist Bennie Green, composer Henry Mancini, flutist Herbie Mann, saxman Leo Parker, drummer Danny Gottlieb and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Stan Getz’ “Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds” (1953), Miles Davis’ “Seven Steps to Heaven” (1963), Jim Hall’s “Concierto” (1975), Pharoah Sanders “Live” (1981), Phil Woods Quintet’s “Mile High Jazz Live in Denver” (1996), Gary Smulyan’s “The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine” (2008), and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.