This Week In Jazz October 19 thru October 25

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton, trumpeters Johnny Best, Ray Linn, Don Rader and trumpeter/composer/bandleader Dizzy Gillespie, saxmen Sonny Criss, Eddie Harris, Ernie Watts and Jerry Bergonzi, flutist Ali Ryerson, singer Dianne Reeves and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Basie’s “The Atomic Basie” (1957), Sonny Criss’ “This Is Criss!” (1966), Ron Carter’s “All Blues” (1973), Harry “Sweets” Edison’s “There Will Never Be Another You” (1986), Terence Blanchard’s “The Billie Holiday Songbook” (1993), Mose Allison’s “American Legend: Live in California” (2006) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.