This Week In Jazz September 7 thru September 13

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wilbur Ware, George Mraz, Will Lee and Victor Wooten, trumpeters Cat Anderson, and Stacy Rowles, singers Lorraine Feather, Caecilie Norby and Barbara Morrison, saxmen Scott Hamilton, James Clay and Jim Tomlinson, organists Baby Face Willette and Papa John Defrancesco and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Ella Fitzgerald’s “Pure Ella” (1950), Leo Parker’s “Let Me Tell You ‘Bout It” (1961), Elvin Jones “Live at the Lighthouse” (1972), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers’ “Feeling Good” (1986), “Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton” (1996), George Cables’ “Too Close for Comfort” (2020) and many others Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.