Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Smalls (NYC) / Keystone Korner (SF) 
On the Short List this week we go to both coasts: Smalls in the Village in New York City and the defunct Keystone Korner in San Francisco. Smalls is a unique place that records each performance and issues downloads and CDs of those sessions. They also show free videos of live events on their website. The Keystone Korner started out as a topless bar but soon realized that music was a better fit. Many up-and-coming pop & rock stars had a start there, like Boz Scaggs and the Pointer Sisters. When Todd Barken joined the staff, it was jazz all the way. It was one of pianist Bill Evans favorite places and his final recordings were made there. Economics would force it to close in 1983.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Fletcher Henderson: ‘Architect of Swing’ 
Bandleader, arranger, and pianist Fletcher Henderson is one of the most influential yet least known masters in jazz. During his orchestra’s peak years in the ’20s and ’30s, he helped define the sound of big band jazz, pioneering musical devices such as the call and response between the brass and reeds. His bands featured a brilliant array of musicians including Louis Armstrong, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and many others.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“McCoy Tyner — His Impulse! Years”
Back in May, Craig presented a program of McCoy’s years at MILESTONE RECORDS (1/72 to 11/94), and in July, a program of McCoy’s years with BLUE NOTE RECORDS (6/60 to 10/70 and 2/85 thru 1989). Today, as we close in on Mr. Tyner’s 77th birthday (12/11), Craig looks at Tyner’s years at IMPULSE! RECORDS (5/23/61 to 11/23/65 and 1995 – ’97). We’ll hear from Tyner’s seven Impulse! recording dates as a leader, as well as the his majestic piano work in the company of John Coltrane and others. Don’t miss the culmination of our 3 shows spotlighting the career of one of the great jazz pianists…MCCOY TYNER!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“Festival Season”
After the glitter of Carnival Season is washed away by the spring rain in New Orleans, there’s suddenly something else in the air — it’s Festival Season. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is world famous, but there are hundreds of other free music festivals each year in New Orleans, and they’re on everybody’s calendars in the Crescent City: French Quarter Fest, Wednesdays in the Square, Jazz in the Park, the Louisiana Cajun/Zydeco Festival, Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival, Satchmo Summerfest, and something actually called Chaz Fest. So this week we’re bringing you into the parks, the streets, and even the backyards of New Orleans, to show you why festivals here are such a way of life.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Wayne Horvitz in Seattle
Wayne Horvitz
The keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz made his name in New York, but for over 20 years, he’s been synonymous with his adopted hometown of Seattle. He’s one of the key players of the town’s improvised music community — as a player, a bandleader, a venue operator, and a teacher at several levels. Jazz Night in America returns to Seattle to track his influence on the city’s jazz ecosystem through his students, his collaborators, and a concert he leads during the annual Earshot Jazz Festival of music inspired by the late local poet Richard Hugo.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2015: Atlantis Quartet
Atlantis Quartet at the 2015 Iowa City Jazz
The Atlantis Quartet has emerged as a leading voice in the twin cities’ burgeoning modern jazz scene since its inception in 2006. The group features four of Minnesota’s most exciting young jazz artists, saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer Pete Hennig; who have come together in this setting to create and explore fresh and organic sounds in the heart of and on the edges of jazz idiom. The ensemble’s blend of complexity and accessibility has proven a perfect fit for all listeners. The group headlined the opening night of the 2014 Minneapolis Jazz Festival.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Holiday Special 
On this 2006 Piano Jazz Holiday Special, host Marian McPartland takes a look back at some favorite Christmas and holiday songs performed on the show throughout the years. Melissa Walker sings “The Moon on Christmas Eve,” written by Kathryn Williams and Vana Gerig, who stop by to talk about the song’s genesis. Pianist Cleo Brown evokes the style of Duke Ellington as she plays the traditional Christmas hymn “Silent Night.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“The Birth Date Anniversary of Drummer Tony Williams”
Tony Williams
Today, Craig celebrates the birthday of one of the most influential and important drummers in modern jazz, Bostonian, ANTHONY TILLMON “TONY” WILLIAMS (12/12/45 to 2/23/97). We’ll hear from Tony’s numerous own dates as a leader, as well as Williams as a sideman with Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Kenny Dorham, Stanley Clarke, Stan Getz, Charles Lloyd, and many other top-notch jazz artists. A truly amazing legacy of great work!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
At the Jazz Band Ball: With Jazz Journalist Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff
NEA Jazz Master Nat Hentoff joins host David Holt to discuss his book, At the Jazz Band Ball, Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene and shares recollections of the genre’s important figures. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band sets the mood, performing music from the playing of early jazz greats.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Encantado” by Jim Stubblefield 
http://www.jimstubblefield.com/
Jim Stubblefield — well-known for his Latin-style acoustic guitar playing with the popular touring and recording group Incendio that he co-founded — unveils a new solo recording, Encantado, that demonstrates his versatility as a guitarist, composer and arranger. The album title derives from his appreciation of folklore and fantasy.
Encantado is a term that means charm, enchantment and even intimacy. It appears in Brazilian folklore as the general designation for a legend that begins in an underwater realm called “Encante” and encompasses mythical creatures including spirit beings, shape-shifting snakes and especially the “boto encantado” pink dolphin that lives in the Amazon River and its tributaries (the myth says that the boto is able to turn into a human form). There are tales of the dolphin attending dances and celebrations in villages along the rivers, and having intimate relations with humans (some South Americans claim to be related to the boto). The Encantado album cover illustration depicts a guitar next to a Brazilian river with a snake and pink dolphin.
“It’s a legend believed by many people who live deep in the Brazilian rain forests,” says Stubblefield. “I love that type of folklore. It obviously evolved from tribes swimming in rivers with friendly and playful dolphins. Encantado is an enchanting, mystical tale that I thought would serve as a good album title.”
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: