Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Johnny Burke, drummers Buddy Rich and Mike Clark, bassists Oscar Pettiford, Dave Holland, Lincoln Goines and Curtis Lundy, saxmen Von Freeman, Ronnie Laws and Antonio Hart, trumpeters Jon Eardley and John Daversa and more. We’ll also mark the …
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer George Gershwin, singers Herb Jeffires, Ray Charles, Les McCann and Rebecca Kilgore, saxophonists John Coltrane and Frank Foster, drummers Shadow Wilson, Dottie Dodgion, bassist Jimmy Woode and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Leroy Vinnegar’s “Leroy …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of violinist Joe Venuti, singers Helen Ward, Jon Hendricks, Bobby Short, Wesla Whitfield, organist Jack McDuff, bassists Arvell Shaw, Earl May and Lisle Atkinson, saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, bluesman B.B. King, guitarist Charlie Byrd and more. We’ll also mark the recording …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wilbur Ware, George Mraz, Will Lee and Victor Wooten, trumpeters Cat Anderson, and Stacy Rowles, singers Lorraine Feather, Caecilie Norby and Barbara Morrison, saxmen Scott Hamilton, James Clay and Jim Tomlinson, organists Baby Face Willette and Papa John …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Velma Middleton and Teri Thornton, saxmen Art Pepper and Clifford Jordan, pianists Horace Silver, Richie Powell and Gene Harris, bassists Larry Ridley, Essiet Essiet and Lonnie Plaxico, drummer Sherrie Mericle, trumpeter/bandleader Gerlad Wilson and more! We’ll also mark …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/pianist Jimmy Rushing, saxophonists Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Med Flory, Jerry Dodgion and Brandford Marsalis, composer Leonard Bernstein, singer Dinah Washington, guitarist Pat Martino and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Clifford Brown Memorial Album (1953), …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/bandleader/composer Count Basie, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jiggs Whigham, trumpeters Art Farmer and Oscar Brashear, drummers Ginger Baker and Steve Smith, pianists Jimmy Rowles and Shelly Berg, bassists Addison Farmer and John Clayton and more. We’ll also mark the …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Jess Stacy, George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and Mulgrew Miller, vibists Johnny Rae, Eddie Costa and Steve Nelson, saxophonists Joe Garland and Lynne Hart, organist Tony Monaco and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jo Jones Septet’s …
