Category: This week In Jazz

This Week In Jazz December 25 thru December 31

  Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays pianists Earl “Fatha” Hines, Walter Norris and T.S. Monk, reedmen Joe Lovano and Ted Nash, drummers Ed Thigpen and Lewis Nash and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ “Man Bites Harmonica!” (1957), Ray Charles’ …

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This Week In Jazz December 18 thru December 24

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocalists Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Bob Dorough, Abbey Lane and Tim Hauser, pianist/bandleader Stan Kenton, hornman Clark Terry, bassist Ben Tucker, pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver and the Jazz …

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This Week In Jazz December 11 thru December 17

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocalists Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Bob Dorough, Abbey Lane and Tim Hauser, pianist/bandleader Stan Kenton, hornman Clark Terry, bassist Ben Tucker, pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver and the Jazz …

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This Week In Jazz December 4 thru December 10

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Ira Gershwin, trumpeter/singer Louis Prima, pianist Dave Brubeck, organist Jimmy Smith, singer/songwriter Tom Waits, bassist/singer Jay Leonhart and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1951), Art Farmer Quartet feat. Jim Hall “Live …

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This Week In Jazz November 27 thru December 3

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Billy Strahorn, reedman/composer Gigi Gryce, trumpeter/singer Jack Sheldon, pianist Wynton Kelly, singer Lou Rawls, flugelhornist Chuck Mangione and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Lester Young w/ the Oscar Peterson Trio” (1952), Lee Morgan’s “The Rajah” …

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This Week In Jazz November 20 thru November 26

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Scott Joplin, Hoagey Carmichael and Johnny Mandel, saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Paul Desmond, singers Etta Jones, Dr. John and Holly Cole, pianist Emil Viclicky, trombonists Tyree Glenn and Jimmy Knepper and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …

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This Week In Jazz November 13 thru November 19

Hey, Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Art Hodes, Ellis Marsalis and George Cables, reedmen Jerome Richardson and Seldon Powell, singers Shirley Jordan and Diana Krall, singer/composer Johnny Mercer and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Red Garland Quintet’s “Soul Junction” (1957), Sonny Clark’s “Leapin’ …

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This Week In Jazz November 6 thru November 12

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Chris Connor, Mose Allison and Ernestine Anderson, saxophonist Houston Person, trumpeter Al Hirt, arranger Billy May, guitarist Russell Malone and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dinah Washington’s “Dinah!” (1955), Wes Montgomery’s “Movin’ Wes” (1965), Lou …

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