This Week In Jazz January 5 thru January 11

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Wild Bill Davidson, drummers Max Roach and Kenny Clarke, percussionist Chano Pozo, singer Betty Roche, guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and more.  We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Django” (1955), The Curtis Counce Group’s “Sonority” (1958), Blue Mitchell’s “Out of the Blue” (1959), Jackie McLean’s “Bluesnik” (1961),  Pat Martino’s “East!” (1968), Duke Ellington’s “Duke’s Big Four” (1973), Geri Allen’s “The Nurturer” (1990) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.