This Week In Jazz January 10 thru January 16

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Max Roach, Osie Johnson, Grady Tate and Gene Krupa, trombonists Melba Liston, Willie Denis and Bob Enevoldsen, singer Allen Toussant, guitarist Joe Pass and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert (1938), Gene Ammons All Star Sessions with Sonny Stitt (1951), The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Pyramid” (1960), Pharaoh Sanders’ “Thembi” (1971), Weather Report Live in Tokyo (1972), Melvin Sparks’ “This Is It!” (2004) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!