Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald and Blosssom Dearie, saxophonists saxmen Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson and Teddy Edwards, drummers Denzil Best, Connie Kay and Freddie Waits, multi-instrumentalist Jean “Toots” Thielmans and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Peggy Lee with George Shearing’s “Beauty and the Beat ” (1959), Jimmy Smith’s “Midnight Special” (1960), Eddie “Lockaw” Davis-Johnny Griffin Quintet’s “Tough Tenors” (1970), Milt Jackson’s “A London Bridge” (1980), Charles MacPherson’s “Manhatttan Nocturne” (1997) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.