This Week In Jazz June 8 thru June 15

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Cole Porter, trumpeters Doc Cheatham and Marcus Belgrave, pianists Hazel Scott, Chick Corea, and Kenny Barron, drummers Shelly Manne and Bernard Purdie, bassists Charnett Moffett and Jesper Lundgaard and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Carter’s “Jazz Giant” (1957), Frank Sinatra/Count Basie & His Orchestra’s “It Might As Well Be Swing” (1964), Lou Donaldson’s “Pretty Things” (1970), Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw’s “The Eternal Triangle” (1987), Lionel Hampton & the Golden Men of Jazz “Live at the Blue Note” (1991), Catherine Russell’s “Send For Me” (2021) and many others Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.