Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Carol Welsman)
Carol Welsman
Over the years there have been a host of great jazz performers who came over the northern border to make a splash in the United States, including pianist Oscar Peterson, singer Diana Krall, trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, arranger Gil Evans, and this one: singer Carol Welsman. Welsman has been described as a “beautiful, blonde and altogether superb Canadian jazz singer-pianist who is NOT Diana Krall.” The comment simply means that Welsman is her own person and performs in an individualistic way.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
John Coltrane: Saxophone Icon, Part 1
John Coltrane
No modern jazz musician has a sound more influential yet less attainable than saxophonist John Coltrane. His pure tone was established by the mid-’50s, playing in Miles Davis’ hard bop quintet. Coltrane’s career was characterized by his constant, exponential advancement in improvisational technique and ideas. His sound reached its peak in his quartet of the ’60s, which has served as a model for modern jazz ensembles for the last forty years.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Jazz In England — A Tribute To John Taylor – Part Two”
Craig continues his tribute to the recently departed star pianist and educator, JOHN TAYLOR. We’ll hear an entirely new program of selections from Taylor’s lengthy career dating back to 1969 up to recent years. We’ll hear John as a sideman with the likes of Arild Anderson, Graham Collier, Peter Erskine, Jan Garbarek, Kenny Wheeler, and many others, plus we’ll hear him leading his own groups, as well. Mr. Taylor’s fine work at the piano is already greatly missed throughout the world of jazz!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“The Graduates” 
Music education in New Orleans is part of the fabric of the city — from early piano lessons to high school marching bands, musical summer camps to neighborhood brass bands. One special place of education, though, has become a special breeding ground for the next generation of artists — a program founded in 1973 called the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA for short. It’s a special place, where growing minds meet teachers who are both educators and professional musicians — and on this episode of New Orleans Calling we’re meeting four musicians, all in their late 20s, who started off as young NOCCA students and are now bringing new sounds to New Orleans and the world.
The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is located in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, overlooking the Mississippi River. Famous alumni include Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Donald Harrison Jr, Sullivan Fortner, Jason Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, and Jonathan Batiste; painter Matt Rinard; actors Wendell Pierce and Anthony Mackie; and writer Lolis Eric Elie.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
50 Years of Monday Nights at The Vanguard
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
In the middle of their careers, the trumpeter and composer/arranger Thad Jones and the drummer Mel Lewis found themselves with a book of big band music — and no band to perform it. So they made their own, handpicking some of New York’s top talent across age and color lines. They rehearsed on Monday nights, when guys could actually make rehearsal. And by the time they debuted on a Monday in February 1966 at the famed Village Vanguard, they were already a force to be reckoned with, soon to become the most influential big band of the last 50 years. The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, now the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, still plays every Monday night. Jazz Night In America heads to the basement jazz shrine to see the band’s 50th anniversary show, full of cuts from Thad’s songbook, and tells the story of how the band came to be.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Roots of Rhythm: Lynne Hart, Richard Wagor, and Pat Smith live at the Opus Concert Café
Roots of Rhythm: Pat Smith, Lynne Hart, and Richard Wagor
Clarinetist Lynne Hart, bassist Richard Wagor, and guitarist Pat Smith are some of the area’s top jazz players and educators. Their relatively new trio, Roots of Rhythm, explores the many possibilities of the music of Benny Goodman, Spencer Williams, Django Reinhardt, Harry Warren, George Gershwin and others through their own, unique interpretations of this timeless music.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“A Salute to The Genius of Organist, Larry Young”
Larry Young
Craig tips his hat to one of the absolute masters of the Hammond B-3 organ…LARRY YOUNG. We’ll hear his captivating music as a sideman with Tony Williams, Miles Davis, Grant Green, Sam Rivers, Jimmy Forrest, and others, as well as his many recording sessions as a leader for labels like PRESTIGE and BLUE NOTE. We’ll also hear some of Young’s occasional recordings where he plays the piano. As one of the truly gifted innovators in jazz, this show is NOT to be missed!
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Soul Jazz Records Presents Gwo Ka: Music From Guadeloupe, West Indies” by Tradisyon Ka 
Soul Jazz Records continues its journey into the vast musical world of the Caribbean – digging deep into the cultural African roots of the region. Over the last 20 years Soul Jazz Records have been documenting and presenting the often hidden histories and deep musical worlds of Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Belize, Trinidad, the Bahamas and more.
Tradisyon Ka’s Gwo Ka album is newly recorded in Pointe-A-Pitre, Guadeloupe by Soul Jazz Records. Like the cult music of Haiti’s Vodou and Cuba’s Santeria or the roots music of Belize’s Garifuna (all of which Soul Jazz have travelled to record), Gwo Ka is the musical and cultural product of the region’s African ancestry, forcibly brought to the Caribbean through slavery.
Gwo Ka exists only in Guadeloupe. Drawing on hundreds of years of musical and cultural strength, the music of Gwo Ka remains both steeped in tradition and, at the same time, progressive and forward-looking. New melodies and compositions (all the songs featured here are new compositions) are performed over a long-established group of unique rhythm patterns played by master drummers (including playing with their feet!). In this African-derived song structure of call and response, the vocalist styles also draw from the equally powerful history of the French chanson singers to create a truly unique combination.
http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/tradisyon-ka-gwo-ka-music-from-guadeloupe-west-indies/SOJR287LP/
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: