Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (Dick Watson)
Dick Watson
Pianist Dick Watson has been a fixture for many years at the Lighthouse Inn in Cedar Rapids. Dick is a resident of Iowa City, a graduate of the University of Iowa and a successful insurance representative. But his jazz piano is equally as important to him for a balanced life. He began in classical music but lessons with the Des Moines jazz pianist “Speck” Redd changed his direction. He never took a music class at the “U” but forged his own style, which is as gentle as Teddy Wilson’s and as modern as Thelonious Monk’s.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Jazz in Paris – Part Two”
Craig presents another tasty program featuring a wide variety of jazz artists from France, as well as visiting artists in France. We’ll hear French mainstays Michel de Villers, Blossom Dearie (both as a pianist, and as a vocalist with Les Blue Stars), Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Rene Thomas, Toots Thielemans, and many others. We’ll also hear recordings from American ex-patriots and visitors….like Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Chet Baker, Max Roach, and several others.
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
Billie Holiday (Photo by William Gottlieb/Redferns)
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: “Late Lady: Billie Holiday on Verve in the 1950s”. http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017/1/
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Buddy Collette: ‘Man of Many Parts’ 
Multi-instrumentalist Buddy Collette helped make jazz history. He was one of the first African-American musicians to play in a television studio band, and he was the driving force behind integrating the musician’s union in Los Angeles. As a sideman, he played with Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, and the Chico Hamilton Quintet, among others. Collette’s life is equal parts passion for music and social justice.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
The Jarrett Purdy Project live at the Opus Concert Café
The Jarrett Purdy Project at Opus Concert Café
The Jarrett Purdy Project is a collective that unites the talent of the jazz programs at the University of Iowa and University of Northern Iowa. Performing almost entirely compositions by pianist and bandleader Jarrett Purdy, the group creates an energized, original sound that touches on both contemporary and traditional jazz styles. The group will be reconvening since their summer performances at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival and the Iowa City Jazz Festival. The Jarrett Purdy Project features Gerardo Gomez on saxophone and clarinet, Mark Northup on saxophone and flute, Joey Schnoebelen on trumpet and flugelhorn, Jarrett Purdy on piano, Blake Shaw on bass, and Ben Oetken on drums.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Cassandra Wilson Sings Billie Holiday
Cassandra Wilson at the Kennedy Center
Jazz Night in America marks the centennial of the birth of Billie Holiday with Grammy winner Cassandra Wilson. She showcases her blues, country, and folk-tinged delivery, singing selections from her latest recording highlighting the artistry of Billie Holiday. Jazz Night speaks with some of the key players in the making of this recording and we also catch up with pianist Barbara Carroll who shares her story of the one opportunity she had to perform with Lady Day on “The Today Show” in 1958.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Blue Note Records in 1967” 
Craig travels back 50 years to sample some of the jazz goodies that were provided by Blue Note Records in 1967. We’ll hear classic Blue Note dates from major figures like Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Larry Young, Lou Donaldson, and many others. This is the stuff!!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside” by Suraphon Sombatcharoen et Various Artists
There have been several compilations of Thailand’s Luk Thung music issued in the West since 2010. To date, all of them have focused on different expressions of the style that emerged in the 1950s. Luk Thung is Thailand’s “country” music, that of its rural people. It has its roots in the Ramwong dance, instituted by the Thai government in 1944 to combat its own cultural error in introducing too many Western cultural traditions — from the use of Latin rhythms (cha-cha-cha, tango, rhumba, etc.) and jazzy big-band horns in its music to forks and knives to Western dress in everyday life. As a musical force, Ramwong proved to be popular among both urban and rural citizens who longed for their own heritage. Its interpretive bands began to split along those lines. Luk Thung featured more regional and traditional Thai instruments, and socially conscious lyrics (sometimes outlawed by the power structure, making them more popular), and yet, the new sound often retained the horns and rhythms introduced during the government’s Pleng Thai Sakon (Modern Thai Song) era.
https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/luk-thung-classic-obscure-78s-from-the-thai-countryside
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: