2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (Memorial Day Special)
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Monday, May 29th 6:00 AM – 1:35 AM Tuesday, May 30th
Hear all the Main Stage performances from last summer’s festival plus KCCK’s exclusive, behind the scene, backstage interviews with each group’s leader! Our special holiday broadcast features the Akiko Tsuruga Trio with Jeff Hamilton, Marquis Hill Blacktet, Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Miguel Zenon Quartet, the David Berkman Sextet, and several more including the student jazz bands United Jazz Ensemble and North Corridor All-Stars. For our complete broadcast schedule go to: https://www.kcck.org/blog/2016-iowa-city-jazz-festival-memorial-day-broadcast-schedule
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Carol Chaikin) 
Carol Chaikin is a lesser-known female saxophonist who nevertheless has excellent credentials and remains a fixture on the Los Angeles jazz scene. Chaikin graduated from the Berkelee College of Music and worked in New York for sixteen years, including a stint with the all-female big band, Diva. Several years ago she was part of the Johnny Mandel Orchestra and is a member of the York Quartet. She has only issued two albums, both in the smooth jazz vein.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
(pre-empted for Memorial Day Special: The 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival Encore Broadcast)
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
(pre-empted for Memorial Day Special: The 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival Encore Broadcast)
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
(pre-empted for Memorial Day Special: The 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival Encore Broadcast)
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Highlights from the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival: Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band
Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
In anticipation of the 2017 Iowa City Jazz Festival June 30 – July 2, we revisit one of the many wonderful Main Stage performances from last year’s festival.
For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straight-ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. His influences are numerous, but among the more prominent figures that inform his music are two of the primary architects of Latin jazz – conga drummer and composer Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.
Sánchez developed as salsa’s elder statesman as a Chicano from Texas. He taught himself guitar and congas, and gained experience singing with a teen band, but faced discrimination when he tried to play with Cubans and Puerto Ricans, who considered themselves the sole heirs of salsa. At age 23 he found a mentor, vibraphonist Cal Tjader, and made his own way to the top of the Latin jazz community. His style has survived over three decades and countless trials because of its easygoing and inclusive feel. Sánchez became internationally acclaimed by percussionists and jazz aficionados as a leading player and producer of a consistent string of hit albums layering Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, salsa, bop, funk, and rhythm and blues.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
The Music of Trombonist J. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
Vincent Gardner
Jazz Night in America presents the music of trombonist J. J. Johnson curated by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Vincent Gardner. Gardner invites his section parter Elliot Mason to tackle material from the “Jay and Kai”project, which featured trombonist Kai Winding. We hear from both Gardner and Mason about what made this project so special. Also, Jazz Night in America pulls back the curtain on Johnson, the composer, courtesy of archival interview tape provided by biographer Joshua Berrett and we learn about Johnson, the man, from Carolyn Johnson who was Johnson’s wife from 1992 until his death in 2001.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“The Art of Miles Dewey Davis III — Studio Recordings 1969 – 1974, Part Two”
Craig continues his chronological examination of rarities and obscurities from Miles’ “fusion era” studio recordings. Last week we heard exceptional studio music from November, 1968 to August, 1969. This week, we take up our project again in August of 1969, and continue on into early 1970. I will again stress that this is arguably some of the most wondrous and incredible music to come out of the 20th century!! Join me for a truly ear-opening experience!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Audio-Globine: 20 ans d’âge“ by Gnawa Diffusion 
http://www.rfimusic.com/artist/world-music/gnawa-diffusion/biography.html
Gnawa Diffusion is a band created in 1992 in Grenoble, France, around Amazigh Kateb, lead singer and son of Algerian writer Kateb Yacine. The political lyrics are sung in Arabic, French or English and the music is very mixed (chaabi, gnawa, rock, reggae, dub…). Other members are Mohammed Abdenour, Pierre Bonnet, Philippe Bonnet, Salah Meguiba, Pierre Feugier, Abdelaziz Maysour and Amar Chaoui. Main albums are Algeria (1997), Bab el Oued – Kingston (1999) Souk System (2003) and “ ” Cowboys (2006).
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: