Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Although he’s best known as the hard-driving, groove-oriented drummer for the pioneering rock group Living Colour, Will Calhoun has played in a staggering variety of styles and traditions over the course of his eclectic career. Straight-ahead jazz, fusion, traditional African percussion, funk, hip-hop and, of course …
2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (Labor Day Special) Monday, September 5th 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM Tuesday, September 6th Hear all the Main Stage performances from this 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, Marquis …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Guitarist Nels Cline makes his Blue Note Records debut with “Lovers,” an expansive double CD that he had dreamed of making for over 25 years. Inspired by the likes of Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Gil Evans, Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini and others, Cline finally realized his …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Dr. Billy Taylor) Dr. Billy Taylor is hard to relegate to being just a jazz pianist — he became so much more. Taylor got his doctorate in music education in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. There’s an old saying that a great jazz musician never plays a song the same way once. That could certainly be said of Jerry Bergonzi. He is an intellectual artist of uncompromising integrity and a bold, original composer. On his new disc, “Spotlight on Standards,” …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Jimmy Rowles) Jimmy Rowles who had a long career as a supreme accompanist and sideman. He accepted the complement that he was a “musician’s musician.” To some that is faint …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jazz is often portrayed as an art form defined by blazing young artists. It’s true that many jazz masters reach a mid-career plateau marked by small variations on a mature style. But there’s also a vanguard of players and composers who continue to refine and expand …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Hampton Hawes) West Coast pianist Hampton Hawes was called “one of the finest jazz pianists of the 1950s” by writer and critic Scott Yanow. Hampton Hawes came out of the …
