Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, singers Velma Middleton, Teri Thornton and Van Morrison, saxmen Art Pepper, Clifford Jordan and Paul Winter, pianists Horace Silver and Gene Harris, bassists Trigger Alpert, Essiet Okon Essiet and Lonnie Plaxico, trumpeter/bandleader Gerald Wilson, drummer Sherrie Maricle and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversary of Ella Fitzgerald’s “The Rodgers and Hart Songbook, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2” (1956), and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.