Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, pianist Sir Roland Hanna, saxophonists Wardell Gray, Buck Hill, Maceo Parker and Chad Eby, singer Roberta Flack and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of John Lewis’ “Grand Encounter” (1956), Miles Davis’ “Four and More/My Funny Valentine” (1964), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers’ “Night in Tunisia” (1979), Ray Bryant’s “Trio Today” (1987), T.S. Monk’s “Monk on Monk” (1997), Vanguard Jazz Orchestra’s “Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard” (2008) and many others Mondays through Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.