This Week In Jazz February 2 thru February 8

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Howard McGhee, Snooky Young,Conrad Gozzo, pianist/composers Lil Hardin Armstrong and Eubie Blake, saxophonists Sonny Stitt, Red Prysock and Stan Getz and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers” (1955), Lee Morgan’s “Candy” (1957), Charles Mingus’ “Blues & Roots” (1959), Shelly Manne’s “2-3-4” (1962), Slide Hampton & the JazzMasters’ “Dedicated to Diz” (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.