This Week In Jazz March 15 thru March 21

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Nat King Cole, Bill Henderson and Vera Lynn, cornetist Ruby Braff, pianists Marian McPartland, Tommy Flanagan, Harold Mabern and Eliane Elias, trombonist Curtis Fowles, bassist Harry Babasin, vibist Joe Locke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’ “The Hawk Flies High” (1957), Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage” (1965), Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Stone Flower” (1970), Michel Petrucciani Trio’s “Live at the Village Vanguard” (1984), Tommy Flanagan’s “Sunset & the Mockingbird: The Birthday Concert” (1997), Akiko Tsuruga’s “Commencement” (2014) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.