Top 88 countdown – New Year’s Week 2015 / 2016 Monday – Wednesday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm / Thursday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm January 1: 6:00 am – 3:00 pm repeated 3:00 pm – Midnight Tis the season for our year-end retrospective when we look back at the best in jazz from 2015. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Eric Olsen has crafted an outstanding career in both classical and jazz music, as a pianist and organist, composer, and conductor. He’s recorded seventeen stylistically varied albums, for classical solo, as accompanist with opera singer Kevin Maynor, as well as jazz recordings as a leader …
36 Hours of Christmas! 12:00pm December 24 – Midnight December 25 Let KCCK be part of your Holiday festivities when we bring you an entire day and a half of wonderful seasonal music performed by many of the top names in jazz, both past and present. Our special holiday programming begins Christmas Eve at noon …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon has spent the last three years touring the country with his quintet, as a soloist with college and university jazz ensembles, as well as with professional big band jazz orchestras all over the world. He wanted his next release to be with a …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Yoshi’s Yoshi’s in Oakland, California is an internationally known venue, but originally the club was just a Japanese restaurant. It was Yoshie Akiba who had come to the United States …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Considering vibraphonist Tom Collier performed his first concert at age 5, it’s safe to say most memories of his youth contain powerful musical imagery. For his latest recording, “Across the Bridge,” Collier is paired with two of the most important guitarists in jazz, Bill Frisell …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Smalls (NYC) / Keystone Korner (SF) On the Short List this week we go to both coasts: Smalls in the Village in New York City and the defunct Keystone Korner in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Coinciding with celebrating its 80th anniversary, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra continues to make music history with the release of “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas.” The first full-length yuletide album in the expansive Basie discography, the disc boasts classic holiday songs, rendered in quintessential Basie style, …
