Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Two jazz venues a
re featured this week on The Short List. The posh Rainbow Room atop the RCA building, and the long-passed Basin Street East. Each had their heyday. The Rainbow Room flourished in the big band era and beyond. Basin Street from the mid-50s to the mid-60s. There were a number of good recordings made at Basin Street East in its short tenure, but only a few exist from the Rainbow Room. Perhaps they are little known now, but both are part of jazz history in a small way. The Short List can be heard each morning at 8:35, and Saturday at 7:00 a.m. on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Art of Miles Dewey Davis III – Studio Recordings 1969 -1974 — Part Four
Craig continues his chronological examination of rarities and obscurities from Miles’ “fusion era” studio recordings. This week, we take up our project with more music from mid-1970, up into 1972. Join me for a truly ear-opening experience!
Jazz Profiles with
host Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM
Gerry Mulligan
A key figure in the cool jazz movement, Gerry Mulligan composed for and performed on the legendary Miles Davis Birth of the Cool sessions. His influential piano-less quartet featured trumpeter Chet Baker. His work popularized the baritone saxophone as a solo instrument. As a composer, he enriched jazz with “Bernie’s Tune,” “K-4 Pacific,” and many others. Join us for Jazz Profiles, featuring Benny Waters, Monday night at 11 on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Tim Daugherty Group at the Opus Concert Café
Keyboardist Tim Daugherty earned a steady following throughout Iowa as part of the Daugherty, Davis and McPartland group. He has been the music director/composer for the Old Creamery Theater Company, and has also performed with the Quad City Symphony and Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony. Most recently he has been active in the cruise ship industry, but made a rare trip home for this performance. Join us for Tim Daugherty at the Opus Concert Café, Wednesday night at 6, on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
For more about the Opus Concert Cafe and the First Friday Jazz Series, you may log on to http://www.artsiowa.com/opus
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life
The fruitful collaboration between Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington brought us such classics as “Take The ‘A’ Train” and “Chelsea Bridge.” 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 week, interviews with family Strayhorn family members, Strayhorn’s biographer, and rare archival tape of Strayhorn himself.
Jazz Corner of the World with host 
Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Art Pepper – The Galaxy Years
Craig celebrates the birth date anniversary of saxophonist Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (9/1/25 to 6/15/82), with a look at Pepper’s later career and his 15 + recordings for Galaxy Records. Don’t miss this loving look back at one of the greatest alto saxophonists in modern jazz!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: