Category: KCCK Blog

This Week’s Shows: Week of June 27 – July 3

Short List with Bob Naujoks    Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Sachal Vasandani) The Short List this week brings you a new voice—one in the making during the last decade. It is the instrument of Sachal Vasandani who can croon with the …

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New Music Monday for June 27, 2016

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.   At a time when jazz bandleaders from across the musical and generational spectra regularly lament the difficulty of keeping a band together, it’s all the more remarkable that a supergroup like One For All has stuck it out for twenty years. But the impeccably swinging …

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This Week’s Shows: Week of June 20 – 26

Short List with Bob Naujoks    Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Renée Yoxon)   Another Canadian import is featured on the Vocal Short List 14 this week. It’s Renée Yoxon who was raised in Ottawa, but now is in Montreal, going to …

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New Music Monday for June 20, 2016

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For the past five years, 29-year-old trumpeter Marquis Hill has been invigorating the Chicago jazz scene with his sleek approach to modern jazz, which often incorporates elements of spoken word and hip-hop. JazzTimes magazine praised his trumpet playing by stating, “His articulation, precise but unlabored, calls …

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This Week’s Shows: Week of June 13 – 19

Short List with Bob Naujoks    Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Ori Dagan) Ori Dagan is a deep-voice male jazz singer who scats. Dagan who was born in Israel, but moved to Canada at a young age. He is a significant part …

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New Music Monday for June 13, 2016

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.   For 20 years, Guillermo Klein has been creating some of the most singular and exciting music for his highly adept 11-piece ensemble, Los Guachos. His compositional style has been evolving over the years, though always utilizing elements of jazz, folkloric music of his native Argentina, …

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Iowa City Jazz Fest Profiles by Laura Eckles

Jazz Fest Ch.

KCCK’s programming intern, Laura Eckles, has been spending a lot of time listening to the artists performing at this year’s Iowa City Jazz Festival. She’s been largely responsible for setting up the music for the Jazz Fest Channel, and has researched and listened to each artist in preparing profiles that include bio and sample tracks from …

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This Week’s Shows: Week of June 6 – 12

Short List with Bob Naujoks   Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Claire Martin) On the Short List this week is an English jazz singer who has been called “one of the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet.” Claire …

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