This Week In Jazz January 11 thru January 17


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/lyricist Irving Mills, drummers Gene Krupa and Grady Tate, trombonists Quentin Jackson and Melba Liston, pianist/singer/bandleader Jay McShann, singers Ruth Brown and Allen Toussaint, saxmen Spike Robinson and Hadley Caliman, guitarist Joe Pass, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Oscar Pettiford’s “Vienna Blues: The Complete Session” (1959), Lee Morgan’s “Standards” (1967), Weather Report “Live in Tokyo” (1972), Dewey Redman Quartet’s “The Struggle Continues” (1982), Roy Hargrove Quintet’s “With Tenors of Our Times” (1994), Madeleine Peyroux’s “Secular Hymns” (2016) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.