Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (John Rapson)
University of Iowa’s John Rapson
On the surface, John Rapson is a trombonist and composer who teaches at the University of Iowa. However, Rapson is also a remarkable jazz ensemble creator of wonderful sounds that have strong internal structure with free jazz elements that are very accessible. Rapson has been at the University of Iowa since 1993 after living in the Los Angeles area for twenty years and on the East Coast another three; each place offering the opportunity to work with excellent contemporary jazzmen. His associations with saxophonists Vinny Golia and Anthony Braxton seemed to have shaped his art.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Riverside Records in 1957”
Craig travels back 60 years to look in on the incredible recordings put together by label owners Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer. With the humble beginnings of RIVERSIDE’S modern jazz era beginning just a few years earlier (1954), the label skyrockets to 40 + recording sessions in 1957, from jazz luminaries such as Thelonious Monk, Donald Byrd, Abbey Lincoln, Benny Golson, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, and so many more! This is the stuff!!
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
Night Lights, is a weekly one-hour jazz radio program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from the 1945-1990 era—covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Night Lights also features many lesser-known talents of post-1945 jazz. Every program is archived after broadcast for online listening. This week: “Vee-Jay Records”.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM
Charlie Parker: “Bird Lives!” Part 2
Charles “Yardbird” Parker was a self-taught innovator who could fly higher and cut deeper than any other musician of his day. Parker pioneered the bebop movement in jazz with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. He influenced generations of musicians. He accomplished all of this and other feats despite a crippling drug addition that ended his life at thirty-four. The concluding half of this trip focuses on Bird’s influence on other musicians, his celebrated return to New York, his superstar acceptance in Europe, his experimentations with strings, and his premature, tragic death. Interviewees include Jackie McLean and Mitch Miller.
Charlie Parker
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Jazz Legends at the Iowa City Jazz Festival: Heath Brothers Quartet
Heath Brothers at the 2012 Iowa City Jazz Festival
For over 60 years, the legendary Heath Brothers have been synonymous with great jazz. NEA Jazz Master tenor player, Jimmy Heath and his drummer, brother Tootie Heath, came to Iowa City to promote ‘Endurance’, their first CD since the passing of their beloved brother, legendary bassist Percy Heath.
Jimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger. Jimmy has performed with nearly all the jazz greats of the last 50 years, from Howard McGhee, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis to Wynton Marsalis. It is no surprise that over his long and storied career, Jimmy Heath has performed on more than 100 record albums including seven with The Heath Brothers and twelve as a leader.
Albert “Tootie” Heath is the youngest of the Heath brothers and drummer for the quartet, Tootie is a recipient of Yale University’s Duke Ellington Fellowship Medal. He was the drummer on John Coltrane’s first recording as a leader and the last drummer for the Modern Jazz Quartet. Tootie has played and recorded with Don Cherry, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Frederic Gulda, Tommy Flanagan, Dexter Gordon, Nina Simone, Herbie Hancock, J.J. Johnson, Yusef Lateef, Sonny Rollins, Bobby Timmons, Lester Young, Cedar Walton and Ben Webster.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Real Enemies (Darcy James Argue)
Jazz Night in America presents Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society and their latest project entitled Real Enemies. Argue describes the piece as “an exploration of real world beliefs, of the present day folklore that we call conspiracy theories.” Musically, Real Enemies draws from on 12-tone compositional techniques along with a collage of found text and media from dozens of sources that trace the historical roots, iconography, ideology, rhetoric, and psychology of these conspiracies.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Julius Watkins and The French Horn in Jazz” 
Craig presents music from the extraordinary French horn player and educator, JULIUS WATKINS. We’ll hear amazing examples of his work leading his own groups, and also with him alongside of some of the greatest jazz artists of all time….John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Johnny Griffin, Randy Weston, Charlie Rouse, Miles Davis, and others. We’ll also hear from several other horn players, such as Tom Varner, John Clark, and Gunther Schuller! Don’t miss this one!!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Xenophonia” by Bojan Z 
Xenophonia is an album of the Serbian jazz pianist Bojan Z released in 2006 at Label Bleu . The name of the album, built from “xenos”, “the stranger” in Greek, is a reference to the situation of Bojan Z as a Franco-Serbian.
On this album Bojan Z plays the “xenophone”, instrument of his invention, a sort of Fender Rhodes trafficked with a temperament different from that of the piano, with a sound closer to that of “Arabic” music. Bojan adds to this instrument many effects pedals ( distortion , phaser …) which ends up bringing it closer to an electric guitar. Bojan Z goes so far, on Wheels, to play “note à note” on his instrument a solo of RM Točak, star of Serbian rock.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/xenophonia-bojan-z-label-bleu-review-by-ian-patterson.php
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: