Category: This week In Jazz

This Week In Jazz February 26 thru March 4

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleaders Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey, singers Dinah Shore and Roseanna Vitro, saxmen Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Richie Cole, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Pierre Michelot, guitarists Ralph Towner and Larry Coryell and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …

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This Week In Jazz February 19 thru February 24

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composers Tadd Dameron and Michel LeGrand, saxmen Buddy Tate, David “Fathead” Newman and Wayne Escoffery, drummers Frank Issola, Harvey Mason, Sr. and Joe Labarbera, singer Nina Simone, trumpeter Joe Wilder and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of …

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This Week In Jazz February 12 thru February 18

This week we celebrate the birthdays of composers Alec Wilder and Harold Arlen, trumpeter Charlie Spivak, saxophonist Charlie Fowlkes, percussionist/bandleader Machito, clarinetist Buddy DeFranco and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’ “Rainbow Mist” (1944), “Chet Baker Sings” (1954), Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd’s “Jazz Samba” (1962), Sarah Vaughan and the Count Basie Orchestra’s …

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This Week In Jazz February 5 thru February 11

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Walter Page and Rufus Reid, reedmen Pony Poindexter and Joe Maini, drummers Joe Dodge and Walter “Baby Sweets” Perkins, pianists Sir Roland Hannna and Antonio Adolfo and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver and …

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This Week In Jazz January 29 thru February 4

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz and Sadao Watanabe, trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Snooky Young, trombonists Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton, Benny Morton and Garnett Brown, pianist/vibist Buddy Montgomery and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries Kenny Dorham’s “Afro-Cuban” (1955), …

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This Week In Jazz January 22 thru January 28

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriter Jerome Kern, guitarist Django Reinhardt, violinist Stefan Grappelli, saxmen Jimmy Forrest, Benny Golson and Bob Mintzer, singer Anita O’Day, trumpeter Marcus Printup and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Hampton Hawes’ “Four!” (1958), Nat Adderley’s “Work …

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This Week in Jazz January 8 thru January 14

Hiya, Jazz Fans!!! Jazz birthdays we’ll be celebrating this week include those of drummers Kenny Clarke, Max Roach and Osie Johnson, singers Betty Roche, Ruth Brown and Jay McShann, trombonist/arranger/bandleader Melba Liston, saxophonists Jane Ira Bloom and more. We’ll also salute the recording anniversaries of Harold Land’s “Harold in the Land of Jazz” (1958), McCoy …

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This Week In Jazz January 1 thru January 7

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Wild Bill Davison, guitarist/singer Slim Galliard, reedman Frank Wess, trombonists Vernon Brown and Trombone Shorty and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Baise’s “Hall of Fame” (1956), Chico Hamilton’s “Chico Chico Chico” (1965), The Montgomery …

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