Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Milt Hinton and Jamil Nasser, singer Helen Humes, guitarist Chet Atkins, composer/pianists Lalo Schifrin and Eric Reed, reedman Eric Dolphy and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1” (1958), Les …
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This Week In Jazz June 12 thru June 18
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Doc Cheatham, pianists Erroll Garner and Jaki Byard, saxman Lucky Thompson and bassists Chuck Rainey, Chuck Berghofer and Marcus Miller and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Chet Baker’s “Inglewood Jam” (1952), Jimmy …
This Week In Jazz June 5 thru June 11
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Cole Porter, bandleader Jimmie Lunceford, trombonists Dicky Wells, Al Grey and Bill Watrous, guitarists Tal Farlow and Grant Green and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie’s “Bird & Diz” (1950), John …
This Week In Jazz May 29 thru June 4
This week we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman, arranger Nelson Riddle, drummers Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes and Charlie Watts, saxmen Red Nolloway and Greg Abate, singers Ann Hampton Callaway and Ian Shaw and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia” (1956), Dexter …
This Week In Jazz May 22 thru May 28
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Artie Shaw, reedmen Bud Shank and Arche Shepp, pianists Ramsey Lewis and Richie Beirach, singers Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee and Dee Dee Bridgewater and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Dexter …