Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Village Vanguard (NYC) The Village Vanguard in New York is a celebrated jazz venue, and it should be; it’s been there eighty years plus. It was first opened in February …
KCCK’s Special Thanksgiving Day Holiday Broadcast Jazz Under the Stars 2015 – The complete Season Thursday, November 26th 8:00am – 3:30pm (repeated 3:30pm-Midnight) We have so much to be thankful for – including all the incredibly talented musicians who performed at KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars concerts this past August. Join us when we …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Bruce Forman entered the 21st century as one of the strongest swinging bebop and mainstream jazz guitarists around. Since then, he has taken a confident virtuoso walkabout through other genres and formats, both adjacent to and distant from his earlier career. Now Forman gives us a …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Bradley’s (NYC) Bradley’s is a small, friendly jazz club in New York. It was owned by Bradley Cunningham, who was a fair modern pianist himself, so the club would feature piano and …
Listen to this week’s playlist on Youtube and Soundcloud. It’s rare for one man to change the face of an instrument, and before he turned forty, but Joey DeFrancesco has been performing since he was a child, following a lineage of jazz musicians. A seasoned musician by his teen, having already shared the stage …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – London House (Chicago) / Jazz Standard (NYC) This week there is a short survey of the at one-time sophisticated, now long closed, London House in Chicago and then it’s on to …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify When Patrick Williams assembles a band for a new album, it’s like old home days, as some of the musicians have been playing for him for decades. In late March, eighteen of Los Angeles’ finest players gathered to tackle eight new charts by the Grammy-winning musical …
Every month, KCCK calls your attention to a new release we think is especially noteworthy. The KCCK Featured CD for November is “Past Present” by John Scofield. The early ’90s saw the celebrated guitarist release three well-received discs as the John Scofield Quartet, featuring tenor titan Joe Lovano with Iowa native Bill Stewart on …
