Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composers Tadd Dameron and Michel LeGrand, saxmen Buddy Tate, David “Fathead” Newman and Wayne Escoffery, drummers Frank Issola, Harvey Mason, Sr. and Joe Labarbera, singer Nina Simone, trumpeter Joe Wilder and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Louis Armstrong’s “The Hot Fives, Vol.1 (1926), Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges’ “Side By Side” (1959), Oliver Nelson’s “The Blues and the Abstract Truth” (1961), Sonny Fortune’s “Awakening” (1975), Charlie Haden Quartet West’s “The Art of Song” (1999) and many others Mondays thru Friday at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.