Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau, Red Callender, Pierre Michelot, Jimmy Garrison and Rocco Prestia, reedmen Barney Bigard and Ricky Ford, trumpeters Howard McGhee and Bobby Shew, guitarist Wes Montgomery, singer Carol Sloane and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Way Out West” “(1957), Miles Davis’ “Someday My Prince Will Come” (1961), Gary Burton’s “The New Quartet” (1973), Manhattan Jazz Quintet’s “Autumn Leaves” (1985), Ricky Ford’s “Manhattan Blues” (1989), Carol Sloane’s “The Songs Sinatra Sang” (1996), The Godfathers of Groove’s “3” (2008) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.