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 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 …
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 …
