Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Illinois Jacquet, Zoot Sims, Ted Nash, Booker Ervin and Lou Donaldson, composer/arranger Neal Hefti, trumpeter Clifford Brown, singers Ethel Waters, Cleo Laine, Andy Bey and Carmen Lundy, bassist/singer Richard Bona and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis Quintet’s Relaxin’/Steamin’/Workin’/Cookin’ (1956), Al Cohn & Zoot Sims “Live” at the Left Bank (1968), Chick Corea & Gary Burton in concert (1979), Hilton Ruiz’ “Cross Currents” (1984), The Clark Terry Quintet w/ special guest Red Holloway “Top and Bottom” (1995), Jim Snidero “Live at the Deer Head Inn” (2020) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.