Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of a BEVY of trumpeters including Howard McGhee, Palle Mikkelborg, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Shew, Ralph Alessi and Orbert Davis, saxophonists George Coleman and Ricky Ford, guitarist Wes Montgomery, singers Flora Purim and Carol Sloane, pianist Lou Levy and more. We’ll …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Flip Phillips, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Dexter Gordon and Richie Cole, singers Mildred Bailey Dinah Shore and Roseanna Vitro, bandleaders Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey, bassist Nilsson Matta and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Tadd Dameron, singers Nancy Wilson and Nina Simone, brassmen Joe Wilder, Lew Soloff and Warren Vache, flutist/saxophonist Bobby Jasper, drummers Harvey Mason, Sr., Joe La Barbera and Dave Bailey, saxman Buddy Tate, bassist Rodney Whitaker and more. We’ll …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Harold Arlen, baritone saxman Charlie Fowlkes, saxmen Wardell Gray, Roger “Buck” Hill and Maceo Parker, drummer Herlin Riley, singer Dena DeRose and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi-Fi” (1956), Stan Getz/Charlie …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Eubie Blake, bassist Walter Page, reedman Joe Maini, drummer Joe Dodge, arranger Sammy Nestico, singer Natalie Cole and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 7” (1956), Hank Mobley’s “Soul Station” (1960), …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Roy Eldridge, trombonists Benny Morton and Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton, saxmen Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, and Sadao Watanabe, singers Jeanne Lee and Melody Gardot and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Afro-Cuban (1955)”, Horace …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wellman Braud, Curtis Counce and Eberhard Weber, guitarist Django Reinhardt, instrumentalist/composers Juan Tizol and Antonio Carlos Jobim, arranger Marty Paich, saxman/composer Benny Golson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s first Carnegie Hall Concert …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Gene Krupa and Sid Catlett, singers Irene Kral, Eartha Kitt and Cheryl Bentyne, lyricist Irving Mills, pianists Cedar Walton, Horace Parlan, Cyrus Chestnut and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert (1938), …
