Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (Al Naylor)
Al Naylor
On The Short List this week trumpeter Al Naylor is the subject. He has been a steady influence on jazz education for nearly three decades leading the jazz programs at the Linn Mar Schools, Kirkwood Community College and as an trumpet instructor at Coe College. He has played with the top regional bands in the area, including the Orquesta de Jazz y Alto Maiz, Rod Pierson’s Big Band, the CR Jazz Band and his own I-380 Express. He came out of Jefferson (Iowa) High School, which had one of the first so-called stage bands in the state in the mid-1960s. In 2011 he produced his first album titled Legacy.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
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!
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: “Soul Eyes: The Early Mal Waldron Songbook”. http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017/1/
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Erroll Garner: ‘The Joy of a Genius’
Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner was one of the most original, intuitive, and purely exciting pianists to emerge during the modern jazz era. Although he is perhaps best known as the composer of “Misty,” Garner’s significance as a jazz innovator easily rivals his status as a successful songwriter. His approaches to melody, harmony, and especially rhythm are as fresh and inventive today as when he first introduced them in the mid ’40s. Interviewees include Steve Allen, Linton Garner, Martha Glaser, John Levy, Marian McPartland, and Dr. Billy Taylor.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Jazz Legends at the Iowa City Jazz Festival: Dr. Lonnie Smith
Dr. Lonnie Smith at the 2013 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Hammond B-3 organist, Dr. Lonnie Smith, started with guitarist, George Benson in 1967, followed by recording with alto saxophonist, David Fathead Newman, alto sax legend Lou Donaldson and his own solo Blue Note LPs. The Doctor is right up there with Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Charles Earland as one of THE all-time best Hammond organ players in jazz! Dr. Smith wears his trademark turban when he plays. Jazz Times magazine recently described Lonnie as “a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a turban!”
Dr. Smith insists that the organ is a tough instrument to play, but a listener wouldn’t know it based on the complete effortlessness with which he plays. “Right from the beginning I was able to play and I didn’t even know how. I learned how to work the stops and that was it; everything else came naturally.
Lonnie’s trio features guitarist and composer Jonathan Kreisberg, who at age 16, started at the New World School of the Arts, following by winning a scholarship to the University of Miami, where he held the guitar chair in the acclaimed Concert Jazz Band, touring Brazil. In addition to his performing with Lonnie, Jonathan has worked with Lee Konitz, Greg Tardy, Lenny White, Jane Monheit, Bill Stewart and Larry Grenadier. Kreisberg is known for his extraordinarily clean articulation, remarkable sax-like fluency, harmonic daring and rhythmically assured burn.
Drummer, Jamire Williams completes the Trio. Williams is a fiery drummer, who says, “I am not a jazz drummer! I’m a drummer that plays jazz really really really really good!” He also has performed with the Robert Glasper Trio and Kenny Garrett’s quartet, among other contemporary groups.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
“Cecile and Sullivan”
Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner
Tracing back to the earliest forms of jazz, the piano voice duo achieved a level of communication that created musical intimacy. Even if there wasn’t a romance, it was a love affair of voice and piano. Jazz Night in America spends the hour with the distinct chemistry between pianist Sullivan Fortner and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. Get to know the charming duo on stage at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola and beside a piano in a Harlem brownstone.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“The State of The Instrument — Current Jazz Organists” 
In this installment of “the state of the instrument series”, Craig uncovers the exciting music of some of today’s top jazz organists…. Pat Bianchi, Joey DeFrancesco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Mike LeDonne!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Sturm und Drang” by Nils Wogram 
Nils Wogram (born November 7, 1972 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader. He counts as one of the most important jazz musicians in Europe. He began classical study at the age of fifteen. He was a member in the National German Youth Big Band, participated in classical competitions and formed his own bands at the age of 16. In 1992 he received a scholarship for the New School of New York City and stayed until 1994. During this time he released his debut album “New York Conversations” (1994) with his own Nils Wogram Quintett.
http://nilswogram.com/discography/nostalgia-trio/sturm-und-drang
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: