Hey, Jazz fans!
Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Don Byas, Sonny Criss and Jimmy Heath, trumpeter/composer/bandleader Dizzy Gillespie, bassists Wendell Marshall and Hans Glawischnig, flutist Ali Ryerson, singer Dianne Reeves and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey & James Moody (James Moody’s Modernists)’s “New Sounds” (1948), Horace Silver Quintet Plus J.J. Johnson’s “Cape Verdean Blues” (1965), Sonny Criss’ “Out of Nowhere” (1975), Bobby Shew/Chuck Findley’s “Trumpets No End” (1983), The Terry Gibbs Quartet’s “Play That Song” (1994), Mose Allison’s “American Legend: Live in California” (2006) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.