This Week In Jazz May 25 thru May 31

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman, trumpeters Miles Davis, Shorty Baker, Ziggy Ellman and Claudio Roditi, saxophonists Bud Shank and Jim Snidero, singers Peggy Lee, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Ann Hampton Callaway, bassist Niels-Henning Orsted-Pedersen pianist Ramsey Lewis and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “‘Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia” (1956), Oliver Nelson Sextet’s “Screamin’ the Blues” (1960), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974), Pat Metheny’s “80/81” (1980), Joey DeFrancesco’s “The Champ, Round 2” (1998), Jim Snidero’s “Tippin’” (2007) and many others Monday thru Friday and at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.