This Week In Jazz December 12 thru December 18


Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummer Sonny Greer, bandleaders Spike Jones and Stan Kenton, horn man Clark Terry, pianists Phineas Newborn, Jr. and Barry Harris, trombonist Curtis Fuller and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers (1954), Bill Evans’ “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” (1958), Charles Earland’s “Black Talk!” (1969), George Cables’ “Cablevision” (1979), Sathima Bea Benjiman’s “Southern Touch” (1989), Eric Reed’s “The Dancing Monk” (2009) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS ‘on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.