This Week In Jazz December 7 thru December 13

Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Diane Schuur, organist Jimmy Smith, trumpeter/violinist/singer Ray Nance, trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianists McCoy Tyner and Beegie Adair and composer/pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Anita O’Day’s “This Is Anita O’Day” (1955), John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” (1964), Dexter Gordon’s “Homecoming” (1976), Louie Bellson & His Jazz Orchestra’s “East Side Suite” (1987), Poncho Sanchez’ “A Night At Kimball’s East” (1990), Louis Hayes & the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band “Live at Cory Weed’s Jazz Cellar Club” (2013) and many others, Monday through Friday, and at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.