Category: KCCK Blog

New Music Monday for May 29, 2017

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 …

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2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (Memorial Day Broadcast Schedule)

(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. …

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Special Programs: Week of May 22 – 28

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 …

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New Music Monday for May 22, 2017

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  …

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Special Programs: Week of May 15 – 21

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, …

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New Music Monday for May 15, 2017

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. It’s been 30 years since bassist extraordinaire Charnett Moffett burst onto the scene with his recording debut. Barely 20 years old but already drawing attention for his virtuosic, soulful contributions to seminal recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Jordon, Moffett immediately staked out his position as …

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Special Programs: Week of May 8 – 14

Short List with Bob Naujoks    Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM   Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (International Sweethearts of Rhythm)            Even though they never quite got the respect they deserved, the all-female big band International Sweethearts of Rhythm continued to delighted …

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New Music Monday for May 8, 2017

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A hundred years after her birth, the ever-eloquent Ella Fitzgerald continues to teach us lessons. Regina Carter has chosen this moment to celebrate the First Lady of Song’s infectious and inclusive artistry with unabashed joy. On “Ella: Accentuate the Positive,” the virtuoso violinist reveals the many …

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