Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vibeman and bandleader Lionel Hampton, Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion, bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Tito Puente, guitarist Mundell Lowe, trombonist Slide Hampton and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young’s “Blue Lester” (1944), Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” (1949) and “Kind of Blue” (1959), Freddie Hubbard’s “Fastball: Live at the Left Bank” (1967), Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Stone Flower” (1970), Jim Hall’s “Concierto” (1975), Abbey Lincoln’s “Over the Years” (2000) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our JAZZ MASTERS‘ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.