Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (Ray Blue)
Ray Blue
Saxophonist Ray Blue is really a New York native but his home away from home is Eastern Iowa. He comes back each year to perform and conduct workshops. He has a degree in sociology from William Penn University and a masters in social work from the University of Iowa, and was a professional counselor at one time. But jazz music was in his heart, and his big sound harks back to those masters like Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins. He is also a teacher and clinician through his Cross-Cultural Connection organization.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Jazz Pianist, Jutta Hipp”
Craig notes the birth date anniversary of the extraordinary German jazz pianist, JUTTA (YOO-tuh) HIPP. She was born in Leipzig, Germany February 4th, 1925 and passed away April 7, 2003. We’ll hear from her classic Blue Note releases as well as from a number of European recordings…trios, quartets, and quintets, studio recordings, as well as live material, all from the 1950s. Check out this obscure and underrated player!
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson 
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
Night Lights, is a weekly one-hour jazz radio program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from the 1945-1990 era—covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Night Lights also features many lesser-known talents of post-1945 jazz. Every program is archived after broadcast for online listening. This week: “Art Blakey: Class of 1957”. http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017/1/
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Charlie Parker: ‘Bird Lives!’ Part 1
Charlie Parker
Charles “Yardbird” Parker was a self-taught innovator who could fly higher and cut deeper than any other musician of his day. Parker pioneered the bebop movement in jazz with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. He influenced generations of musicians. He accomplished all of this and other feats despite a crippling drug addition that ended his life at thirty-four. This program focuses on “Bird” the improviser, and traces his instrumental virtuosity from his early days in Kansas City to his bebop experiments in New York to his ill-fated trip to Los Angeles in 1945.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Jazz Legends at the Iowa City Jazz Festival: Andrew Hill Quartet
Andrew Hill
The Jazz Shelf describes Andrew Hill as “…one of the most original pianists to emerge in the 1960s, Andrew Hill teetered between straight-ahead playing (as a sideman) and the avant-garde, and most of his own albums exist in the middle of those two patches, never banal or too extreme. Hill was one of the rare birds who forged his own style as a player and a composer”. Many of the Blue Note Records featuring Andrew Hill as a sideman or leader are now considered classic examples of 60’s post-bop progressive jazz. He recorded and performed with some of the best during that period including Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Tony Williams, and Freddie Hubbard. He passed away at the age of 75 in 2007 and was posthumously awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Music by the Berklee College of Music, and was named a 2008 NEA Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to Andrew Hill, the quartet also featured Craig Tardy on tenor sax, Nasheet Waits on drums and John Hébert on upright bass.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Dew Drop Jazz Hall with Leroy Jones
Leroy Jones
Trumpeter Leroy Jones started playing New Orleans back when Bourbon Street was lined with jazz clubs instead of bars. The city has changed since then and Leroy has evolved right along with it. He’s led second lines with the Fairview Brass Band and its successor, The Hurricane Brass Band, played club gigs with modern jazz combos, and toured with Harry Connick Jr’s band for two decades. Always dapper and always swinging, Leroy Jones is known in the Big Easy as the “Keeper of the Flame” for keeping these New Orleans traditions foremost in his playing and his personal character. He brings his septet to the historic Dew Drop Jazz Hall in Mandeville, LA for a special Big Easy Jazz Night in America.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Riverside Records in 1957” 
Craig travels back 60 years to look in on the incredible recordings put together by label owners Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer. With the humble beginnings of RIVERSIDE’S modern jazz era beginning just a few years earlier (1954), the label skyrockets to 40 + recording sessions in 1957, from jazz luminaries such as Thelonious Monk, Donald Byrd, Abbey Lincoln, Benny Golson, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, and so many more! This is the stuff!!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Thailande – Danses” by Gérard Kremer & Local Traditional Artists 
Dance in Thailand is the main dramatic art form of Thailand. Thai dance, like many forms of traditional Asian dance, can be divided into two major categories that correspond roughly to the high art (classical dance) and low art (folk dance) distinction. Although traditional Thai performing arts are not as actively embraced as they once were, suffering from competition from modern and western entertainments and generally changing tastes, Thai dance is still very much alive. It is an integral part of the culture of Thailand at all levels. Royal patronage of classical forms of dance has preserved some dances in their original form for centuries. Rural people have their own forms of folk dance, collectively known as rabam phun muang. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/thailande-danses/id389866248
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: