Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of hornmen Charlie Spivak, Lew Soloff and Warren Vache, singers Nina Simone, Irma Thomas, Randy Crawford and Nancy Wilson, clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, reedman Bobby Jaspar and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Wynton Kelly’s “Kelly Blue” (1959), Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt’s “Boss Tenors in Orbit!” (1962), Sonny Fortune’s “Awakening” (1975), Stan Getz Quartet’s “The Stockholm Concert” (1983), Charlie Haden Quartet West’s “The Art of Song” (1999), Richie Cole’s “Latin Lover” (2017) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.