New Music Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. After David Sanborn recorded his one-off acoustic jazz album with pianist Bob James for Okeh Records in 2013, the label continued the conversation with the renowned alto saxophonist. That exchange led to Sanborn—deemed the most influential crossover artist of his generation and the most commercially successful saxman …
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This Week’s Special Shows
Week of April 27, 2015 Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AMJazz and the Spoken Word: Kenneth PatchenOver the years there has been a small group of writers and musicians who have worked to blend together the …
Howard Levy Interview
Howard Levy is one of just a handful of premiere jazz harmonica players on the planet. He is also an outstanding pianist. A founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Howard also performs with the Latin groups Trio Globo and Chèverede Chicago. He stopped by KCCK when he was in Iowa recently for a …
New Music Monday for April 20, 2015
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Drum master Steve Gadd is among the most respected and emulated musicians in the world—an anomaly whose panache for playing precisely what a piece of music requires plus bringing signature taste, style and energy to the proceedings has resulted in hundreds of the most rhythmically exhilarating …
Make Your Own “I’m The Boss” Bumper! – Dennis
By now, you’ve probably heard of our new way of referring to KCCK donors: The Boss. It’s a light-hearted and hopefully fun way of reminding you that as a non-profit, KCCK runs on donations from people who want to support our jazz radio programming and jazz education programs. In radio parlance, a quick recorded line …
New Music Monday for April 13, 2015
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Eliane Elias’ “Made in Brazil” marks a musical homecoming for the multi-Grammy-nominated keyboardist/singer/composer. In her three-decade long career as a solo artist, this is the first time she’s recorded a disc in her native Brazil since moving to the United States in 1981. Along with co-producers …
New Music Monday for April 6, 2015
New Music Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Onstage and on record, the music of Anat Cohen positively glows—with virtuosity, with charisma, with the sheer joy of creation—and never more brightly than on her seventh CD as a bandleader, “Luminosa.” The disc sees the clarinetist/saxophonist play singing, dancing originals, interpret Brazilian classics by the likes …
CD of the Month – April 2015
The KCCK Featured CD for April is “Afrodeezia” by Marcus Miller. Inspired by his role as a UNESCO Artist for Peace and spokesperson for the Slave Route Project, the bassist went back to the source of the rhythms that make black musical heritage so rich, following them like footprints from their beginnings in Africa to …