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 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 …
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 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 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 …
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 …
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jazz innovator Marc Cary, voted Rising Star-Keyboardist in this year’s annual DownBeat Critics Poll, updates one of the most adventurous concepts of his career with the release of “Rhodes Ahead Vol. 2.” Cary’s breakthrough disc of 1999 incorporated elements of drum n’ bass, electronic funk, house, …
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Afrodeezia” was inspired by bassist Marcus Miller’srole as a UNESCO Artist for Peace and spokesman for the organization’s Slave Route Project. It was recorded in locations around the world including Paris, Morocco, Rio, New Orleans and Los Angeles, and features a wide range of guests including …
