This Week In Jazz August 24 thru August 30

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/pianist Jimmy Rushing, saxophonists Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Med Flory, Jerry Dodgion and Brandford Marsalis, composer Leonard Bernstein, singer Dinah Washington, guitarist Pat Martino and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Clifford Brown Memorial Album (1953), Jimmy Smith’s “The Sermon” (1957), Dexter Gordon’s “A Swingin’ Affair” (1962), Wayne Shorter’s “Odyssey of Iska” (1970), Mal Waldron Quartet’s “The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil” (1987), Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen Trio’s “Friends Forever” (1995), The H2 Big Band’s “It Could Happen” (2013) and many others Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.