This Week In Jazz June 26 thru July 2

Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Richard Rodgers and Frank Loesser, singers Lena Horne and Tierney Sutton, pianist/composer Elmo Hope, bassist Stanley Clarke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of  Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1952), The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Take Five” (1959), Lee Morgan’s “The Gigolo” (1965), Jim McNeely’s “The Plot Thickens” (1979), Bobby McFerrin & Chick Corea’s “Play” (1990), and many others, M-F on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.