This Week In Jazz May 4 thru May 10

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Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummer Paul Barbarin, pianists Mary Lou Williams, Stanley Cowell and Keith Jarrett, brassmen Red Nichols, Jack Walrath, Randy Sandke, Til Bronner, and Gabe Medd, singers Teresa Brewer and Tania Maria and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” (1959), Charles Mingus’ “Mingus Ah Um” (1959), Dexter Gordon’s “Dexter Calling” (1961), Mary Lou Williams “Live at the Keystone Corner” (1977), Joe Williams “Ballad and Blues Master” (1987), Charles Earland “The Groove Masters Series: Slammin’ & Jammin’” (1997), The Flying Horse Big Band’s “Florida Rays” (2019) and many others Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.