This Week In Jazz March 10 thru March 16


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters/composer/arrangers Mercer Ellington, Blue Mitchell, Quincy Jones and Terence Blanchard, singers Mark Murphy, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin and Vanessa Rubin, organist Shirley Scott, drummer Roy Haynes and more.  We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Buck Clayton’s “Jam Sessions from the Vault” (1955), Chick Corea’s “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968), Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ “Blues March” (1976), Kenny Barron’s “Scratch” (1985), Holly Cole’s “Holly” (2016) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters’ on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.