Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Clora Bryant)
Clora Bryant
Clora Bryant is a long-lived, but obscure Los Angeles female trumpet player. Clora Bryant was born in Denton, Texas, Attended Prairie View College where she was an outstanding musician with the Prairie View Coeds big band. As a young woman, Clora Bryant moved to L.A. to be with her dad who was working in the shipyards during World War Two. She attended UCLA but also gigged on weekends. And then became part of the Central Avenue jazz scene. A couple of defining moments were discovering Dizzy Gillespie who became a mentor, and playing with Charlie Parker at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. Bryant only had one opportunity to record, but that 1957 recording shows her abilities.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
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!
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: “Ready For Freddie Redd”.
www.indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Hoagy Carmichael: ‘Stardust Melodies‘ 
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. His best-known songs are now American standards, and include “Stardust,” “Georgia on My Mind,” and “Heart and Soul.” Carmichael’s career lasted four decades, and he penned hundreds of songs.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Highlights from the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival: Larry Fuller Trio
Larry Fuller Trio 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.
Larry Fuller is a world-class jazz pianist known to “swing like a beast”. Now based in New York City, Fuller began his professional musical career at age 13 in Toledo, Ohio. In his early 20’s, Fuller’s undeniable talent earned him the position of musical director and pianist for Grammy-nominated vocalist Ernestine Anderson. He then joined renowned drummer Jeff Hamilton’s Trio before gaining the honor of manning the keys as the legendary Ray Brown Trio’s final pianist. Of Fuller, Ray Brown said: “He brings vitality! He swings hard and I like that”.
Today, Fuller leads his own trio, receiving consistent praise for his versatile performances. His recently released self-titled album (with bassist Hassan Shakur and drummer Gregory Hutchinson) has garnered much critical and fan-based acclaim.
“In his amazing gossamer piano solos he sprinkles stardust on whatever song he plays, you hold your breath in wonder.” – The New York Times
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis
Three Miles Ahead
It was once said that Miles Davis is to jazz like Hemingway is to the American novel, like Picasso is to art. But he was more than just a jazz celebrity, he was an icon of style, of artistry, and of blackness. Jazz Night in America explores some iconic interpretations of Miles Davis – on the silver screen, the page, and on the bandstand with the actor Don Cheadle, writer Quincy Troupe and trumpeter, Keyon Harrold.
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 – Part Two”
Craig travels back 50 years to continue his look at Blue Note Records during 1967. We’ll hear choice selections from Andrew Hill, The 3 Sounds, Bobby Hutcherson, Tyrone Washington, Jack Wilson, Larry Young, McCoy Tyner, and many others. Don’t miss this classic array of gems from the ever-changing jazz scene of the late 1960s!!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Ethiopiques, Vol. 21: Emahoy (Piano Solo)“ by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou 
Guèbrou was born as Yewubdar Gebru in Addis Ababa to a wealthy family, at six she was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, where she studied violin. In 1933, she returned to Ethiopia. During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War she and her family were prisoners of war and were sent by the Italians, to the prison camp on the Italian island of Asinara and later to Mercogliano near Naples. After the war Guèbrou studied under the Polish violinist Alexander Kontorowicz in Cairo. Kontorowicz and Guèbrou returned to Ethiopia where Kontorowicz was appointed as musical director of the band of the Imperial Body Guard. Guèbrou was employed as an administrative assistant.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/ethiopiques-vol-21-ethiopia-song-mw0000352649
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: