Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Bix Beiderbeck, composer Astor Piazzolla, trumpeter/composer/arranger Quincy Jones, drummer Roy Haynes, singers Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin and Vanessa Rubin, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, organist Shirley Scott and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers 1957, Second Edition feat. Johnny Griffin (1957), Chick Corea‘s “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968), George Benson & Joe Farrell’s “Benson & Farrell” (1976), Lionel Hampton & His Orch., feat. Sylvia Bennett’s “Sentimental Journey” (1985), Charles Earland’s “Stomp!” (1999), Holly Cole’s “Holly” (2016) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.