Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California
The Lighthouse Café – Hermosa Beach in the early 1960s
Jazz Clubs Live Short List series about famous jazz clubs both past and present, continues with the story of The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California, where a new style of playing was created—West Coast Jazz. It was the fortuitous meeting of bassist Howard Rumsey and club owner John Levine. Rumsey had the idea and musical contacts, and Levine the space. They started with Sunday afternoon jam sessions that soon became nightly performances with such excellent L.A. players like Teddy Edwards, Elmo Hope, Bob Cooper, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne. The place was “home” to what became Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars. Host Bob Naujoks offers a short tour of its 22-year history.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Buddy Collette: ‘Man of Many Parts’
Buddy Collette
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.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“John Coltrane — The Prestige Years (Part Two)”
Craig continues his “session by session” look at Trane’s involvement with PRESTIGE RECORDS, picking up where we left off in the September 26th show….mid-1957, thru to his last Prestige recording session, which took place 12/26/58. This is ageless jazz material that continues to inspire new generations of jazz artists and fans alike!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“Remembering Harold Battiste” Authored by: David Stafford, WWOZ, New Orleans
Harold Battiste
Harold Battiste, who passed earlier this year at the age of 83, was a true New Orleanian: he grew up in the Magnolia Projects, was educated at Dillard, and founded the first record label, All For One (A.K.A. AFO Records) owned by African American musicians. After decades in Los Angeles, he spent many years on Jazz Studies faculty at the University of New Orleans. His 2010 autobiography Unfinished Blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man is required reading for any student of music history.
A composer, teacher, and mentor, Battiste was perhaps best known as a producer and arranger.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Arturo O’Farrill: The Conversation Continues
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Arturo O’Farrill pays tribute to Afro-Cuban music and the collaborations that have helped this music grow and thrive, despite years of political tumult. “The Conversation Continues” the theme of the concert and Arturo’s most recent album, does just that – continues a conversation started decades ago between Cuban percussionist, Chano Pozo, and the trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie, by bringing together contemporary collaborations between American and Cuban musicians. And we’ll hear how Arturo O’Farrill has been working, through music, policy and family, to continue and expand these conversations at the heart of Afro-Cuban music.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars 2015: Shade of Blue (new)
Shade of Blue at Jazz Under the Stars 2015
“Shade of Blue fans have been gyrating to the band’s hypnotic and infectious grooves in the Midwest for nearly a quarter of a century. Founded by guitarist and vocalist Dave Rosazza as a blues trio in 1989, Shade of Blue has evolved into one of the Iowa City area’s most beloved musical institutions as a featured act and as an opener for internationally acclaimed artists such as the Neville Brothers, Koko Taylor, and George Clinton. Featuring the impressive vocals of sultry songstresses Simone Green and Joan Ruffin, the band has expanded its repertoire over the last two decades to include funk, R&B, gospel, and jazz while maintaining its blues roots. The versatile saxophone stylings of Saul Lubaroff and a rhythm section comprised of keyboardists Sean Seaton and Denny Ketelsen, bassist Ken Fullard, percussionist Paul Cunliff and drummer Matt Bernemann complete the sonorous tour de force known as Shade of Blue. Expect a plethora of musical tributes to the likes of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, and Steely Dan as well as original tunes to get audiences out of their seats and onto the dance floor at every Shade of Blue show.”* This performance was captured live at the McGrath Amphitheatre in downtown Cedar Rapids.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
George Wallington
George Wallington
Bop pianist George Wallington (1924 – 1993) was born in Sicily and moved to the United States with his family in the 1920s. He became a part of the New York music scene in the 1940s and played with greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and Lionel Hampton. In 1960 he retired from music, but he reemerged in 1984. As a guest on this 1985 Piano Jazz, Wallington performs his composition “Godchild.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“Birth Date Anniversary Celebration For Tenor Sax Giant, Booker Ervin”
Booker Ervin
Craig celebrates the birthday of Texas tenorman, Booker Telleferro Ervin II, with an overview of Booker’s stunning career, which spanned the mid 1950s up through to his early passing in 1970. We’ll hear the unmistakable “mournful wail” of Mr. Ervin’s tenor, in the company of jazz greats Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill, Don Patterson, Eric Kloss, Randy Weston, and many others. Don’t miss this loving presentation of the incredible music of this overlooked “titan of the tenor”!!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
After Hours with Piano Legend Dick Hyman
Dick Hyman
The iconic jazzman Dick Hyman is a legendary pianist, organist, arranger, music director and composer. Hyman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and demonstrates his amazing talent on tunes from composer Hoagy Carmichael and pianists Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams and more.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Afro Memoria + Pretinhosidade” by Mombaça 
http://www.mocaprodutora.com.br/artistas/mombaca/cd-afro-memoria-pretinhosidade
Born into a musical family, Mombasa began singing at the age of five, at the Baptist Church on 7 April Garden, Patience (West zone of Rio de Janeiro), where he was born and raised. The first album of his career, titled Mombasa,was recorded in 1999, released in the year 2000 and already counted with the participation of their friend Mart ‘ nália. The second came out in 2002, with the title African memory. He emerged as the third attended Mombasa World Conference against racism (Racial prejudice, xenophobia and Related Intolerance) in Durban, South Africa. In 2007, because of the great success of the song Pretinhosidade, the voice of the partner Mart ‘ nália, Mombasa decided to reissue his second CD and launch Afro memory + Pretinhosidade.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: