Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers John Benson Brooks, Hall Overton and Michel Legrand, bassists Ralph Pena, Bob Magnusson and Steve Charlson, saxmen Flip Phillips, Tommy Newsom, Dextor Gordon, and David “Fathead” Newman, cellist Fred Katz, singers Mildred Bailey and Roseanna Vitro and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Clifford Brown/Max Roach’s “Study in Brown” (1955), Oliver Nelson’s “The Blues and the Abstract Truth” (1961), Sonny Criss’ “Crisscraft” (1975), “Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra (live)” (1987), Bob Mintzer Big Band’s “Swing Out” (1997), “Papa” John DeFrancesco’s “Walking Uptown” (2004) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.