Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/lyricist Irving Mills, drummers Gene Krupa and Grady Tate, trombonists Quentin Jackson and Melba Liston, pianist/singer/bandleader Jay McShann, singers Ruth Brown and Allen Toussaint, saxmen Spike Robinson and Hadley Caliman, guitarist Joe Pass, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and more. We’ll …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of brassmen Wild Bill Davison, Henry “Red” Allen, Dizzy Reese and Wendell Culley, singers Betty Roche and Johnny Adams, trombonist Vernon Brown, percussionist Chano Pozo, drummer Kenny Clarke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Basie and …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassist Al McKibbon, drummers Nick Fatool and Lewis Nash, singers Susannah McCorkle and Arthur Prysock, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist/saxophonist/conductor Gordon Goodwin and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ “Man Bites Harmonica!” (1957), Bobby Hutcherson …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriter Harry Warren, singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, trumpeter/singer Chet Baker, composer/pianist Steve Allen, saxman Frank Morgan, bassists Monty Budwig and John Patitucci, pianist Ray Bryant, trumpeter Woody Shaw, guitarist John Scofield and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/bandleader Stan Kenton, flutist Sam Most, reedman Harold Land, trombonist Curtis Fuller, organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith, pianists Barry Harris and Bobby Timmons, bassists Walter Booker and John Ore, trombonist/pianist/composer Bob Brookmeyer and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Diane Schuur, organist Jimmy Smith, trumpeter/violinist/singer Ray Nance, trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianists McCoy Tyner and Beegie Adair and composer/pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Anita O’Day’s “This …
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Scott Joplin, keyboardists Wild Bill Davis, Richard Tee and Lyle Mays, saxophonist/composers Paul Desmond and Al Cohn, cornetist Nat Adderley, singers Etta Jones and Holly Cole and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Lester Young w/ …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/composer Johnny Mercer, saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Vincent Herring and Don Braden, guitarists Skeeter Best and Sal Salvador, singers June Christy and Sheila Jordan and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young/Flip Phillips/Roy Eldridge/Hank Jones/Ray Brown/Max Roach …
