This Week In Jazz January 4 thru January 10

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of brassmen Wild Bill Davison, Henry “Red” Allen, Dizzy Reese and Wendell Culley, singers Betty Roche and Johnny Adams, trombonist Vernon Brown, percussionist Chano Pozo, drummer Kenny Clarke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Basie and His Orchestra’s “April in Paris” (1956), Jackie McLean’s “Bluesnik” (1961), George Benson’s “Breezin’” (1978), Woody Shaw’s “Lotus Flower” (1982), Arturo Sandoval’s “Swingin’” (1996), Louis Hayes’ “Crisis” (2021) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.