Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Jazz and the Spoken Word: “Jazz Canto” / Rick Fay / Chip White
“Jazz and the Spoken Word” Short List series is about a small group of writers and musicians who have worked to blend the rhythm of jazz with the rhythm of poetry and the spoken word. The series reveals some of the best attempts at combining the two art forms during the past 90 years. On the Short List this week it’s more from the unique offering of the 1958 recording “Jazz Canto,” as well as the poetry of Rick Fay set to traditional jazz, and the modern mainstream poetic musings of drummer Chip White. Both Fay and White pay tribute to their jazz mentors and heroes in their work, both written and spoken.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Charlie Parker: “Bird Lives!” Part 2
Charles “Yardbird” Parker pioneered the bebop movement in jazz with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. This program focuses on Bird’s influence on other musicians, his celebrated return to New York, his superstar acceptance in Europe, his experimentations with strings, and his premature, tragic death. Interviewees include Jackie McLean and Mitch Miller.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Blue Note Records In 1965”
Craig travels back 50 years to look in on some of the nearly FORTY recording sessions done by Alfred Lion and company for his BLUE NOTE record label back in 1965. We’ll hear jazz gems from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Larry Young, Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, and a host of others! Some would certainly say that this is the essence of modern jazz!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“On Jackson Square and Royal Street” 
Just like on the music clubs and concert stages of New Orleans, there are great performers on the city’s streets. Some of the city’s most legendary musicians perform for audiences around the world, but still choose to connect with New Orleans by performing on the streets — on Royal Street, Frenchman Street, and on Jackson Square. Many of the most famous names in New Orleans music spent their early years playing there. It’s a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, of buskers mentoring younger generations, who then become mentors themselves — passing down more than just music, in this integral part of the city’s culture.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
From Duke to the JLCO
Joe Temperley
The horn player who’s been the heart and soul of the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra for the past quarter-century, Joe Temperley is now 85. His illustrious career in jazz has spanned stints with Duke Ellington, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, and other iconic names of the big band era. On this episode of Jazz Night In America, we hear Temperley’s life story, along with his own compositions and new arrangements of his favorite Ellington tunes.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Howard Levy with the Kirkwood Jazz Ensemble (new)
Howard Levy
Multiple Grammy- Award Winner Howard Levy is an acknowledged master of the diatonic harmonica, a superb pianist, innovative composer, recording artist, bandleader, teacher, producer, and Chicago area resident. His musical travels have taken him all over the geographical world and the musical map. Equally at home in Jazz, Classical music, Rock, Folk, Latin, and World Music, he brings a fresh lyrical approach to whatever he plays. This has made him a favorite with audiences worldwide, and a recording artist sought after by the likes of Kenny Loggins, Dolly Parton, Paquito D’Rivera, Styx, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon. As a sideman, Howard has appeared on hundreds of CDs and played on many movie soundtracks. He is perhaps best known for the four CD’s he recorded with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, a unique band that set the musical world on its ear back in the early 1990’s. This performance, airing for the first time on KCCK, is from the Spring 2015 Kirkwood Big Band Concert. Al Naylor directs the Kirkwood Jazz Ensemble.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Ray Brown
Ray Brown
Double bass player Ray Brown (1926 – 2002) moved to New York in 1945 and immediately became part of the jazz scene. He worked extensively with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Jimmy Rowles, and Ella Fitzgerald, to whom he was married. He was one of the leading bassists in the bop style and was known for the precision of his playing and the beauty of his tone. In this 1996 session, Brown and McPartland play “Embraceable You” and “Like Someone in Love.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“John Coltrane — The Prestige Years – 1955 to 1958” 
For this year’s annual John Coltrane ‘birth week’ celebration, Craig takes us on a tour of the Prestige recording sessions that ‘TRANE’ was involved with, both as a leader and as a sideman with folks like Red Garland, Miles Davis, Mal Waldron, Paul Quinichette, and others, during the years of 1955 and 1958. We’ll hear Trane’s first appearance on the label for a Miles Davis date that took place 11/16/55, all the way through to his last appearance on the label for his own recording date that took place 12/26/58!…. an abundance of thrilling jazz work!!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
East Commerce Stomp: San Antonio Swing Reborn
The Jim Cullum Jazz ‘Big Band’
Shadowland, the Beauty Saloon, Riverside Gardens, White Horse Tavern, Blue Willow. The swinging sounds of San Antonio’s hottest nightspots of the 1930s are back with a spectacular 12-piece Jim Cullum Jazz ‘Big Band’ providing the soundtrack— joined by special guest Broadway actor and singer Vernel Bagneris.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: