Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Yoshi’s 
Yoshi’s in Oakland, California is an internationally known venue, but originally the club was just a Japanese restaurant. It was Yoshie Akiba who had come to the United States to study art and dance. She got sidetracked. Yoshi’s first opened in Berkeley, then in a neighborhood in Oakland, and finally in Jack London Square. There was a minor fling with a second Yoshi’s in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, but it closed in 2014. The jazz policy started in 1985 with the arrival of Chuck LaPaglia who ran a club in Milwaukee. Though there were ups and downs, Yoshi’s has survived and many artists have made recordings there.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Frank Sinatra: ‘The Voice’
Frank Sinatra
To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth (Dec. 12) an archival program on the life of legacy of Francis Albert Sinatra (1915 – 1988), one of the great vocalists of the American century. The program will trace his roots in Hoboken, NJ and his early discovery by bandleader Harry James, to his breakthrough appeal to the “bobby soxers” as the vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940, to his second “golden era” with Capitol Records in the 1950s, where his recordings with Nelson Riddle and Billy May have achieved legendary status.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“The Birth Date Anniversary of Drummer 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!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Subject: TBA
George Ingmire
For one hour each week, NEW ORLEANS CALLING brings the music, stories, sounds, and people of the Crescent City to non-commercial radio stations around the country and the world. Using exclusive live performances and interviews, immersive sound, rare archival recordings, and all the musical depth of WWOZ, the program provides a window into New Orleans life for a listener not in the city, while bringing new authentic stories and surprises to discerning local WWOZ audiences.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
The Ladybugs Do Disney
The Ladybugs
In an era where the jazz standard songbook is ever expanding into the 21st century, The Ladybugs look back at the Disney catalogue. The Ladybugs are a young, band rooted in the vocal harmony jazz tradition but draw on elements of hot swing, American folk music and blues. Jazz Night in America dives into how the group developed on the New York ‘hot’ jazz scene and what new things can be done with the Disney songbook.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2015: Julian Lage Trio
Julian Lage
Julian Lage is an American guitarist, composer and arranger living in New York. Often categorized as a jazz musician, his music is rooted in both traditional and acoustic forms. He was the subject of an Academy Award nominated documentary “Jules at Eight.”
Among others Julian has collaborated with Jim Hall, Mark O’Connor, Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge, Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez. In addition to his own quintet he has recorded with Gary Burton, David Grisman, Eric Harland, Anthony Wilson, Martin Taylor, Joshua Bell and Yoko Ono. Lage’s album Sounding Point was nominated for a Best Contemporary Jazz album Grammy in 2010.
Some of his most recent albums are Room , a duo album with fellow guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers), Free Flying with pianist Fred Hersch, which received a coveted 5 star review in Down Beat magazine.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Ruby Braff
Ruby Braff
Trumpeter and cornetist Ruby Braff (1927– 2003) drew his style from the influences of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. Throughout the 1950s, he was in demand in New York as a Dixieland and swing player, and he went on to form a quartet with guitarist George Barnes and other small-group settings later in his career. On this 1992 Piano Jazz, Braff joins McPartland for duets of “Thou Swell” and “Blue and Sentimental.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“The Jazz Corner of The World’s 2015 Holiday Show” 
In addition to obscure jazz holiday selections, Craig will play a variety of outstanding sounds from the mellow, contemplative side of the jazz landscape. The 19th is also the birth date anniversary of piano giant BOBBY TIMMONS, who happens to have recorded a wonderful holiday LP for Prestige Records in 1964…and Craig will also treat us to a variety of other tasty selections from Mr. Timmons! Toss aside the hectic, stressful intensity of the season and drop on down to the JAZZ CORNER OF THE WORLD!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule: Guests Carol Woods, Clark Terry & Savion Glover 
Hot Jazz makes for a very cool Yule as The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and friends “jazz up” holiday classics. Guest performances feature trumpet master Clark Terry, Broadway’s Carol Woods, bass man Milt Hinton and a special rendition of Little Drummer Boy with tap dance sensation Savion Glover.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Les Genies Vous Parlent” by Meiway 
www.allmusic.com/album/les-genies-vous-parlent-mw0000992194
The Ivory Coast-based Meiway became a mid-’90s sensation in French-speaking West Africa with a high-energy youth music driven by drums and keyboards that’s kind of a zouk-soukous-makossa mix he calls zoblazo. The use of drum programming, often mixed with live drums, sometimes gives the music an unexpected soca feel, but this is an African generation that grew up with programmed beats, rock guitar solos, and synth sound effects, and they’re used to cannily inserting savvy sonic touches in the upbeat arrangements. It’s a strong, well-crafted debut disc with most of the lyrics dealing with social themes with a positive thrust — “Gawa,” for instance, criticizes city residents for putting down as hicks the country folks whose farms provide them with food, and “Miss Tassaba” salutes the “true African woman” whose body doesn’t fit the top model formula but doesn’t care. Meiway is a wonderful singer, albeit one with a somewhat thin voice, and the assured, vital music on Les Genies Vous Parlent shows he has a good grasp of what he wants to do. While it probably won’t change your life, it’s very enjoyable and danceable, and a good sign there’s fresh, viable music coming out of French-speaking West Africa, even though the veterans with 20 or 30 years of music-making under their belts still command the lion’s share of attention in the international sphere.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: