Category: This week In Jazz

This Week In Jazz February 9 through February 15

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, pianist Sir Roland Hanna, saxophonists Wardell Gray, Buck Hill, Maceo Parker and Chad Eby, singer Roberta Flack and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of John Lewis’ “Grand Encounter” (1956), Miles Davis’ “Four and More/My …

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This Week In Jazz January 26 thru February 1

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays songwriter Jerome Kern, trumpeters Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge, saxmen Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott and Bob Mintzer, drummer Jimmie Smith, vibist Bobby Hutcherson, pianist Buddy Montgomery, guitarist Fareed Haque and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Hampton …

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This Week In Jazz January 12 thru January 19

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trombonists Juan Tizol and J.J. Johnson, trumpeter Ray Anthony, drummers Jimmy Cobb and Jeff “Tain” Watts, guitarist Django Reinhardt, bassist Curtis Counce, vibist Gary Burton, singer Lizz Wright and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ …

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This Week In Jazz January 19 thru January 26

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trombonists Juan Tizol and J.J. Johnson, trumpeter Ray Anthony, drummers Jimmy Cobb and Jeff “Tain” Watts, guitarist Django Reinhardt, bassist Curtis Counce, vibist Gary Burton, singer Lizz Wright and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ …

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This Week In Jazz January 12 thru January 19

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Gene Krupa, Sid Catlett, Grady Tate and Gerry Gibbs, trombonists Melba Liston and Quentin Jackson, singers Allan Toussaint and Cheryl Bentyne, guitarist Joe Pass and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert …

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This Week In Jazz January 5 thru January 11

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of brassmen Wendell Culley, Vernon Brown, Willie Dennis and Don Sickler, percussionists Chano Pozo, Sam Woodyard, Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, bassist Eldee Young and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ “Man Bites Harmonica!” (1958), …

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This Week In Jazz December 29 thru January 4

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Al McKibbon and Jimmy Haslip, trumpeter Jonah Jones, pianist Herbie Nichols, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, singer Susannah McCorkle, saxmen Roger Neumann and Chris Potter, drummer Lewis Nash and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ …

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This Week In Jazz December 22 thru December 28

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the holidays and the birthdays of songwriter Harry Warren, singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, trumpeter/singer Chet Baker, composer/pianist Steve Allen, pianist Ray Bryant, multi-instrumentalist Bill Crow, guitarist John Scofield and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey & James Moody’s (James …

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