Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify When Mark Murphy died in October of 2015, the obituaries claimed that he had been almost the last of his kind. Murphy, it was said, was a man who embodied the spirit of postwar bohemia, the ‘On the Road’ Kerouac generation who fought against the straight …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Melissa Aldana) Chilean-born tenor saxophonist, Melissa Aldana’s dad was a well-known saxophonist in Santiago and she inherited his love for Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and Phil Woods. She began with …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Motown has had a tremendous impact on popular music. Although it was founded over 55 years ago, Motown’s music and artists are still relevant and popular today, and many of the songs that came out of their Hitsville offices in Detroit have been covered by jazz …
The latest update to IOS from Apple broke the KCCK app on many people’s phones. We’re happy to say that the app has been updated and now works fine. If your app still doesn’t work, head to the iTunes App Store and get the updated version. And for both IOS and Android, check out the app’s …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Emily Remler) On the Short List this week we start a new series on significant – but not necessarily well-known – women jazz instrumentalists. Up first is guitarist Emily …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. In 2013, when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis set out to honor the legacy of the Modern Jazz Quartet’s maestro John Lewis, they teamed up with New Orleans’ own Jon Batiste. The bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and …
If you updated your iphone or ipad this week to IOS 10.3, your KCCK app may not work. Our vendor has contacted us and told us the update broke many of their apps, including ours. They’re working on a fix, but in the meantime you can still listen to KCCK on your mobile device: Open …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Corridor Jazz (Dr. Craig Dove) Dr. Craig Dove is mainly known for his inspiring bass work, but he also plays piano and sings. On his albums he often does all three. Dr. Dove is a REAL doctor …
