This Week In Jazz August 1 thru August 7


Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Tony Bennett, Abbey Lincoln, Eddie Jefferson, Jeri Southern and Kat Edmonson, trumpeter/singer Louis Armstrong, bassist Charlie Haden and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Johnny Hodges’ “Used to Be Duke” (1954), Jimmy Smith “Live at the Club Baby Grand, Vol. 2” (1956), “Erroll Garner Plays Gershwin & Kern” (1964), Art Pepper’s “San Francisco Samba” (1977) Charlie Haden Quartet’s “Always Say Goodbye” (1993) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our JAZZ MASTERS ‘program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.