2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival – Memorial Day Special
Monday, May 30th at 6:00 AM
Charles Lloyd Quartet at the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival
KCCK gives you a great way to kick-start the summer and get pumped for the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3) when we bring you all of the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival Main Stage performances plus our exclusive, behind the scene, backstage interviews with the major artists during our special Memorial Day broadcast. Enjoy 12 different bands during 18 hours of non-stop coverage from all three days of last summer’s festival. Hear several of today’s top international jazz artists, some outstanding local players, plus many of the area’s best high school jazz musicians. Our line-up includes the United Jazz Ensemble, Brian Charette Trio, The Becca Stevens Band, North Corridor Jazz All-Stars, Colossus Big Band, James Dreier and Ritmocano!, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Bird Calls, Dave Douglas & High Risk, Atlantis Quartet, Julian Lage Trio, Ben Allison & Think Free and the Charles Lloyd Quartet!
Here are the approximate start times for each band:
United Jazz Ensemble 6:00 am
Brian Charette Trio 7:45 am
Becca Stevens Band 9:05 am
North Corridor All Stars 10:35 am
Colossus Big Band 12:15 pm
James Dreier’s Ritmocano! 1:55 pm
Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls 3:30 pm
Dave Douglas & High Risk 4:45 pm
Atlantis Quartet 6:10 pm
Julian Lage Trio 8:05 pm
Ben Allison Think Free 9:35 pm
Charles Lloyd Quartet 11:20 pm
Don’t forget… listen from wherever you happen to be on Memorial Day. With our IOS and Android apps, KCCK goes where you do.
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Jill Seifers) 
Jill Seifers is a singer who came and went quietly. Her sweet, quiet and pure vocalizing is a treat to hear. Seifers was raised in Portland, Oregon, trained at the Berklee School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, and was a minor fixture on the New York cabaret scene. She teamed up with trumpeter Ingrid Jensen in the mid-90s, but her main accompanist was pianist Michael Kanan. They issued an album 1n 1998 titled Birdland Sessions that is a treasure. Jill Seifers would move from the Big Apple to Nashville after the millennium, but unexpectedly passed on in 2012.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
(pre-empted this week for our Memorial Day Special – the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival)
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Prestige Records in 1966”
Craig travels back 50 years to look in on the operations and output from one of the “Big 3” modern jazz record labels, PRESTIGE RECORDS, back in 1966. We’ll hear a mixed bag of jazz goodies from Johnny ‘Hammond’ Smith, Jaki Byard, Bobby Timmons, Houston Person, Frank Foster, Teddy Edwards, Don Patterson, and many others. The most when it comes down to the “Ultra – Cool”!!!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Rock With the Hot 8 
The story of the Grammy nominated Hot 8 Brass Band is one of trials and tribulations, but also of triumphs over adversity and a determination to continue on. Over the past 20 plus years, the band has carried on despite Hurricane Katrina, a band member losing both of his legs in a car accident, and the deaths of four band members.
Tuba player Bennie Pete, the leader of the Hot 8, sat down with host George Ingmire at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, where the band holds down a weekly Sunday night gig when they’re not on tour. And they talked about everything from the early days of the band, rehearsing for a neighborhood audience in Shakespeare Park uptown, to how they established themselves in the city’s blossoming brass band scene.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
“The Ladybugs Do Disney” 
In an era where the ³jazz standard² songbook is ever expanding into the 21st century, The Ladybugs look back at the Disney catalogue. The Ladybugs are a young, band rooted in the vocal harmony jazz tradition but draw on elements of ³hot² swing, American folk music and blues. Jazz Night in America dives into how the group developed on the New York ‘hot’ jazz scene and what new things can be done with the Disney songbook.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Brian Charette Trio at the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Best of the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival: Brian Charette Trio
As we are looking ahead to the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3), we revisit some of the best performances from the mainstage at last year’s festival.
New York City organist/pianist Brian Charette has established himself as a leading voice in modern jazz. Charette is a Grammy-nominated, Hammond-endorsed artist who was just named the winner of the 2014 Downbeat Critics’ Poll in the “Rising Star: Organ” category. On his newest recording, Good Tipper, (Posi-Tone, 2014), Charette presents elegantly lyrical original music and fun, funky covers with a great trio featuring Will Bernard on guitar and Rudy Royston on drums. Charette was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1972, and was introduced to music by his mother. By the age of 17, he was playing with jazz luminaries Lou Donaldson and Houston Person. After graduating on the Dean’s List from UConn in 1994 with a BA in Classical Piano Performance, Charette began touring Europe and was drawn to the culture and scene of Prague, Czech Republic, where he now lives half the time.Besides being a critically acclaimed composer and bandleader, Brian has worked with notable artists such as Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, and many more. Charette is also an active author and educator, writing for Keyboard magazine, DownBeat, and the Czech magazine Muzikus.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“The State of The Instrument – Part 9…Jazz Flute”
Nicole Mitchell
Craig presents music from eight current jazz flautists. We’ll hear interesting selections from Ali Ryerson, Charles Lloyd, Jane Bunnett, Bennie Maupin, Jamie Baum, James Newton, Nicole Mitchell, and Jeremy Steig. Don’t miss it!!
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Save the World” by Enzo Avitabile 
http://www.allmusic.com/album/save-the-world-mw0000633640
Enzo Avitabile is a Southern Italian, from Naples to be precise, and is a well-known figure in world music, particularly for jazz fusion. In the past he also collaborated with James Brown and Tina Turner.
This time he is going deep into his roots, “Bottari”, the very praised traditional rhythm from Southern Italy, only accessible to a few. It involves the (wine) barrels, wooden drums, etc…
Taking the Bottari culture, Enzo experimented with Jazz (sax, trumpets, etc) and created an amazing piece of music that is highly ‘Energetic’.
This Album truly defines the sound of world music and cross culture experiments. and is a must for the fans of world music. Satisfaction guaranteed!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: