This Week In Jazz August 6 thru August 13


Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Jess Stacy and Claude Thornhill, hornman Idrees Suleiman, saxophonists Benny Carter and Arnett Cobb, percussionists J.C. Heard and Jack DeJohnette, bassist Chuck Israels, singers Patti Austin, Joe Jackson, Cyrille Aimee and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Masterpieces By Ellington” (1951), Thelonious Monk’s “Thelonious in Action/Live at the Five Spot” (1958), Sarah Vaughan’s “The Benny Carter Sessions” (1962), Art Pepper’s “San Francisco Samba: Live at Keystone Korner” (1977), Red Rodney Quintet’s “No Turn On Red” (1986), LaVerne Butler’s “Blues in the City” (1998), Behn Gillece’ “Still Doing Our Thing” (2020) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters.