This Week In Jazz February 5 thru February 11


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Walter Page and Rufus Reid, reedmen Pony Poindexter and Joe Maini, drummers Joe Dodge and Walter “Baby Sweets” Perkins, pianists Sir Roland Hannna and Antonio Adolfo and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers” (1955), Hank Mobley’s “Soul Station” (1960), Pat Martino’s “Exit” (1976), Machito & His Salsa Band’s “1983 Grammy Winner” (1982), Slide Hampton & the Jazz Masters’ “Dedicated To Diz” (1993), Barbara Morrison’s “I Wanna Be Loved” (2017) and many others Monday thru Friday at noon on Jazz Masters.