Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of brassmen Wendell Culley, Vernon Brown, Willie Dennis and Don Sickler, percussionists Chano Pozo, Sam Woodyard, Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, bassist Eldee Young and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ “Man Bites Harmonica!” (1958), Andrew Hill’s “Judgment!” (1964), Duke Ellington’s “Duke’s Big Four” (1973), Woody Shaw’s “Lotus Flower” (1982), Geri Allen’s “The Nurturer” (1990), Orrin Evans’s “Blessed Ones” (2001) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.