This Week In Jazz August 17 thru August 23

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, trumpeters Art Farmer and Oscar Brashear, drummers Ginger Baker and Steve Smith, pianists Jimmy Rowles and Shelly Berg, bassists Addison Farmer and John Clayton and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Time Out” (1959), Herbie Mann’s “Memphis Underground” (1969), Joe Henderson’s “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” (1979), Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band’s “Jacquet’s Got It!” (1987), “Ernestine Anderson Live at the 1990 Concord Jazz Festival” (3rd Set) (1990), “Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith: Legacy” (2004) and many others, Monday thru Friday, and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.