Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the holidays and the birthdays of songwriter Harry Warren, singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, trumpeter/singer Chet Baker, composer/pianist Steve Allen, pianist Ray Bryant, multi-instrumentalist Bill Crow, guitarist John Scofield and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey & James Moody’s (James Moody’s Modernists) New Sounds (1948), Benny Golson Sextet’s “The Modern Touch” (1957), Miles Davis “Cookin’ at the Plugged Nickel” (1965), Paul Desmond with the Modern Jazz Quartet (1971), Pat Metheny/Dave Holland/Roy Haynes’s “Question and Answer” (1989), Patricia Barber’s “The Cole Porter Mix” (2007) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.