Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: International Jazz Stars (Bob Barnard) 
The Short List goes “down under” for a listen to Australian trumpeter Bob Barnard. He’s a world-class traditional jazz player and has a global reach with tours to South East Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some of his early fame rested on several appearances at the Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival in Davenport, Iowa, in the late 1970s. He’s played with many American jazz greats and even met his idol, jazz master Louis Armstrong, on the tarmac at Sydney, when Satchmo was on tour.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way
Dave Brubeck plays piano in circa 1955. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Innovative pianist/composer Dave Brubeck has been a true jazz phenomenon — he and his quartet were the first instrumental group to sell over a million records. This widely popular band had several top ten chart hits, sold out concerts everywhere, and landed Brubeck on the cover of Time magazine. We will explore the career of Dave Brubeck from his Quartet (which made the now legendary “Take Five” recording) through the present day, including his work in classical music.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Bethlehem Records In 1956”
Craig travels back 60 years to look in on some of the fine recordings that were made for BETHLEHEM RECORDS in 1956. We’ll hear fine selections from the likes of Duke Ellington, Sal Salvador, Mel Torme, Betty Roche, Stan Levey, Johnny Hartman, and many others. Essential listening that you don’t hear every day!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Harold Battiste: The Beat Goes On
Harold Battiste
This week’s New Orleans Calling is the first of two very special episodes about the life, work, and legacy of Harold Battiste, one of the greatest musicians and teachers in New Orleans in the late 20th century. He was born in 1931, and before his death in 2015 he wrote, produced, arranged, or recorded hundreds of songs, toured the world, scored movies and television shows, and pioneered new sounds in jazz, R&B, and pop music.
And several times over the years he visited WWOZ, where this program is produced, to talk about his career and play some of his music. These interviews were stored and preserved in the Archive of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, and have not been heard since they first aired. And this week we delve into WWOZ’s archived past, and hear the story of Harold Battiste’s career — in his own words, speaking about Sam Cooke, Ed Blackwell, Dr John, Ellis Marsalis, Sonny & Cher, and more.
Nest week’s episode, “Keeping The Music Alive,” features conversation with some of the young musicians he mentored, who now carry on his legacy.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
Johnny O’Neal presents the music of Billy Strayhorn with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
The fruitful collaboration between Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington is widely known to have brought us such classics as “Take The ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” and “Isfahan.” But behind the music, Billy Strayhorn led a complex and often vice-driven life. While composing some of the most harmonically rich jazz of its time, often in the shadow of Duke Ellington, Strayhorn was an outlier in that he led an openly gay life as a black man in the homophobic 1940s. This episode of Jazz Night in America features interviews with family Strayhorn family members, Strayhorn’s biographer, and rare archival tape of Strayhorn himself in order to peer inside his journey from working-class Pittsburgh to New York City and the world of elegance and “twelve o’clock tales.” Pianist and vocalist Johnny O’Neal joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to present the music of Billy Strayhorn.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2016: Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Artist Profile by Laura Eckles, KCCK Programming Intern
Allison Miller is highly regarded in the NYC jazz hub as a drummer, composer, and teacher. She is known for backing an array of artists like Ani DiFranco, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Merchant, and others. Recently, she has been a guest artist playing with NBC’s Late Night Seth Meyers house band, 8G. Miller knows how to stay busy, but she still finds the time to play with her own band Boom Tic Boom.
Allison Miller has received “Rising Star Drummer” and “Top 20 Jazz Drummers” in Downbeat Magazine’s acclaimed Critics Poll. Boom Tic Boom, Miller’s rising band, is a 2014 recipient of Chamber Music America’s “Presenter Consortium for Jazz Grant.” Boom Tic Boom has released two albums, their first being in 2013, “No Morphine No Lilies.” This group’s second album was released earlier this year, “Otis Was a Polar Bear.” The latest album has myriads of complex thoughts throughout the album with a definite adventurous, introspective vibe. Miller plays with such passion and joy you can’t help but enjoy the music she is producing
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“Birth Date Anniversary of Reedman, Charlie Mariano”
Charlie Mariano
Craig celebrates the life and legacy of jazzman and “world music” pioneer, CARMINE UGO “Charlie” MARIANO. We’ll hear selections from throughout his lengthy career, including work with jazz greats Elvin Jones, Charles Mingus, Stan Kenton, Eberhard Weber, McCoy Tyner, Shelly Manne, Chico Hamilton, and many others. Check out some of the dazzling work from this unheralded jazz great!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Solo in Rio 1959” by Luiz Bonfa 
http://www.allmusic.com/album/solo-in-rio-1959-mw0000699794
Luiz Bonfá, along with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell and Joao Gilberto, helped invent Brazilian Bossa Nova. “The whisper heard around the world” was budding during the 1950s but achieved full flower a decade later. It was a coolly intellectual yet irresistibly melodic marriage of African-derived samba rhythms with American jazz and French Existentialism. Bonfá eventually became world-famous due to his contributions to the score of Orfeo Negro, a much-honored film in which the tragic Greek legend was transmuted to Rio during Carnival time. The present tracks were produced by Emory Cook and this invaluable reissue not only revives a beautiful album but contains 15 previously unreleased tunes. The sonic environment is clear and spacious throughout, uncluttered by unnecessary studio adulterations. Bonfá was not a great singer but his wistful, straight-from-the-heart delivery makes mere technique seem showy and overdone. However, as a guitarist, he had no superiors and few peers.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: