Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Marcus Belgrave and Alex Sipiagin, guitarists Joe Negri, Joao Gilberto, Jonathan Kreisberg, bassists Charnett Moffett and Chuck Berghofer, pianists Chick Corea, Geri Allen and Harold Danko and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries ofBennie Green’s “Bennie Green Blows His Horn” (1955), Frank Sinatra/Count Basie & His Orchestra’s “It Might As Well Be Swing” (1964), Hampton Hawes’ “Live At The Jazz Showcase in Chicago, Vol. 1” (1973), Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nation Orchestra’s “Live at the Royal Festival Hall” (1989), Lionel Hampton & the Golden Men of Jazz’ “Live at the Blue Note” (1991), Gary Burton/Pat Metheny/Steve Swallow/Antonio Sanchez “Quartet Live” (2007) Catherine Russell’s “Send For Me” (2021) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.