Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Trinidad-born trumpeter Etienne Charles’ sixth full-length release, “San Jose Suite,” is an ambitious ten-part work exploring the histories, cultures and musical traditions of three Western settlements that share a name: San Jose, Costa Rica; San Jose, California; and Charles’ native St. Joseph, Trinidad, known as …
Once again this year, Iowa’s Jazz Station gives you the chance to binge on the artists coming to the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Our Jazz Fest Channel is a 24-7 audio feed of all the artists playing at the Festival June 30 – July 2. From the United Jazz Ensemble to Stacey Kent, they’re all …
2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival – Memorial Day Special Monday, May 30th at 6:00 AM KCCK gives you a great way to kick-start the summer and get pumped for the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3) when we bring you all of the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival Main Stage performances plus our exclusive, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Both a joyous act of communion and a solemn farewell, “Beginning of a Memory” is a celebration of life, community and family expressed with the virtuosic wit and embracing humor that has made drummer Matt Wilson so beloved in the jazz community. Returning to the studio as …
2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival – Memorial Day Special Monday, May 30th at 6:00 AM KCCK gives you a great way to kick-start the summer and get pumped for the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3) when we bring you all of the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival Main Stage performances plus our exclusive, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. An artist whose music is at once timeless and yet utterly of its time, Gregory Porter solidifies his standing as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer with “Take Me to the Alley”, the much-anticipated follow-up to his sensational 2013 Blue Note debut. As he’s done with …
For nearly 24 years our affable local curmudgeon, Mark Yother, offered us his weekday “Got A Minute” commentaries – his sometimes skewed perspective on what everybody else is up to. Occasionally serious; always more or less reality-based. Mark wrote all of his scripts for “Got A Minute” on his typewriter. He kept every single one filed …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made in impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed discs and countless sideman credits. In 1983, he began a fourteen-year association with pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, making seven recordings and touring …
