Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Clora Bryant) Clora Bryant is a long-lived, but obscure Los Angeles female trumpet player. Clora Bryant was born in Denton, Texas, Attended Prairie View College where she was an outstanding …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pearl Django formed twenty three years ago and very quickly came to forefront of the Northwest Gypsy jazz scene, as well as America’s Gypsy jazz scene, where they have remained ever since. The band’s newest CD, “With Friends Like These,” their thirteenth in all, …
2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (Memorial Day Special) Monday, May 29th 6:00 AM – 1:35 AM Tuesday, May 30th Hear all the Main Stage performances from last summer’s festival plus KCCK’s exclusive, behind the scene, backstage interviews with each group’s leader! Our special holiday broadcast features the Akiko Tsuruga Trio with Jeff Hamilton, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. New York’s idyllic Hudson River Valley has been a rich source of inspiration for many millennia, from its rich sacred and artistic Native American heritage, to the rise of the 19th century Hudson River school of art, to the folk and rock movement …
(Please note: times are approximate and our schedule is not in the order of performance at the actual event) 6:00 a.m. North Corridor All Stars 7:15 a.m. Interview with Steve Shanley 7:25 a.m. Interview with Phil Hey 7:45 a.m. Phil Hey Quartet 9:05 a.m. Interview with Larry Fuller 9:20 a.m. Larry Fuller Trio 10:40 a.m. …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Valerie Capers) Scott Yanow wrote of Valerie Capers: “Capers is much to obscure and under-recorded to be a legend, and is not old enough to be a pioneer. Yet, in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With an assured maturity and vocal confidence far beyond her years, the young singer Jazzmeia Horn arrives with her debut recording, “A Social Call.” The Texas-born singer, who won the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition and took top honors at the Thelonious Monk Institute …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Mimi Fox) West Coast guitarist Mimi Fox is little known in the Midwest, …
