Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Charlie Spivak, Lew Soloff and Warren Vache, drummers Walter Johnson, Frank Isola Joe Labarbera and Joe Farnsworth, vocalists Nina Simone, Irma Thomas and Nancy Wilson, pianist/composer Tad Dameron and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Bessie Smith’s “Downhearted Blues” (1923), Kenny Dorham Septet’s “Blue Spring” (1959), Wynton Kelly’s “Kelly Blue” (1959), Stan Getz’ “Stan the Man” (1961, Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans’ “Know What I Mean?” (1961), Pete Christlieb & Bob Cooper’s “Mosaic – Live” (1991) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.