This Week In Jazz January 24 thru January 30


Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriters Jerome Kern and Jimmy Van Heusen, saxmen Jimmy Forrest, Tubby Hayes, Benny Golson and Bob Mintzer, violinist Stephane Grappelli, composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Hampton Hawes’ “Four!” (1958), Nat Adderley’s “Work Song” (1960), The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Lonely Woman” (1962), Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father” (1964), Grant Green’s “Green Is Beautiful” (1970), Branford Marsalis’ “Renaissance” (1987) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.