Celebrating Art Pepper, Al Cohn and Marty Paich on their centennial.

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It is hard to even imagine the history of jazz without the many musicians born 100 years ago.

There were the icons, like Roy Haynes, Oscar Peterson, Gene Ammons and James Moody, as well as long forgotten artists like Dodo Marmarosa , Leo Parker and Sahib Shihab

In this hour, you'll hear gifted musician who had long productive careers in jazz, leaving us a rich legacy of recordings.

Mel Torme began his career as a jazz singer, and his recordings with the arranger Marty Paich are jazz classics.

The alto saxophonist Art Pepper was one of the leading lights of the West Coast jazz scene.

The tenor saxophonist Al Cohn emerged in the late 1940s as one of several tenor players influenced by Lester Young.

Nat Pierce is proof positive that a musician can have a successful career without being an innovator or becoming a household name. He left behind a legacy as a first-rate arranger and co-leader of the Capp-Pierce Juggernaut.

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