Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm
Italy’s Horo Records
Craig introduces us to Horo Records, the highly-respected Italian jazz label. We’ll hear a variety of spins from the 1970s, from Gil Evans, Sun Ra, Sam Rivers, Ran Blake, Lee Konitz, Martial Solal, Billy Harper, and others.
The Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Vincent Herring on the Main Stage
We’re just two weeks away from the 2024 Iowa City Jazz Fest, so to get us in the mood for the summer’s hottest jazz, we’re listening back to some of the outstanding talent who’ve taken the main stage in Festival’s past. This week we hear saxophonist Vincent Herring and his band and their great set of originals and classics.
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride Thursdays at 11:00pm
Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life
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. Hear interviews with Strayhorn family members and biographer, and rare archival tape of Strayhorn himself. You’ll also hear Strayhorn’s music performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, featuring pianist Johnny O’Neal.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays from 12 noon to 4:00pm
Prestige’s ‘Soul Jazz Years’
Craig continues his commemoration of Prestige Records’ 75th anniversary with classic soul jazz featuring cuts from Gene Ammons, Charles Earland, Don Patterson, Jack McDuff, George Benson, and many others. These choice sides all feature groove music from the top guitar, tenor, and organ groups of the late 1950s thru the early 1970s.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
A Kiss for Brazil by Karrin Allyson on Monday; No Words Needed by Oscar Hernandez & Alma Libre on Tuesday; Time Has Changed by Zaccai Curtis on Wednesday; Creole Orchestra by Etienne Charles on Thursday; Tulsa Custom by Seth Lee Jones on Friday; Human Decency by Sugaray Rayford on Saturday; Fearless Movement (Disc 1) by Kamasi Washington on Sunday.