This Week In Jazz August 9 thru August 15

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Jess Stacy, George Shearing and Claude Thornhill, singers Lorez Alexandria, Jeannie Cheatham, Joe Jackson and Patti Austin, trumpeter Benny Bailey, saxophonist Arnett Cobb and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2” (1953), “The Essential Jo Jones” (1955), “Mulligan Meets Monk” (1957), Archie Shepp’s “Four Trane” (1964), Grant Green’s “Alive!” (1970) Joe Chambers’ “Horace to Max” (2009), and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!