Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Carol Welsman) Over the years there have been a host of great jazz performers who came over the northern border to make a splash in the United States, including pianist Oscar Peterson, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. From his roots in music-rich Memphis through his work with legends ranging from B.B. King to Max Roach to Slide Hampton and his renowned tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet, saxophonist George Coleman established himself as one of jazz’s most soulful and expressive voices. Last year he joined …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Alexis Cole) Alexis Cole is just starting to really get noticed as a fine jazz singer, but she’s been that way for quite a time. Born in New …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. To record “Culcha Vulcha,” their 11th album and first true studio disc in eight years, Snarky Puppy decamped to a pecan orchard at the remote Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, a five-minute walk from the Mexican border. The Texas-bred/Brooklyn-based collective used a week in …
KCCK’s “Big Band Memories” host Murray Kent, an expert on the music of the Twenties and Thirties, helped Marcus Eckhardt, curator of the Hoover Library and Museum in West Branch, locate music to provide just the right soundtrack for “Ain’t Misbehavin’ – The World of the Gangster.” The exhibit runs through Oct. 23. [embeddoc url=”http://www.kcck.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/The_Gazette_20160425_A07_1.pdf” viewer=”google”]
Friends, former colleagues, and fans of KCCK personality Mark Yother gathered to say goodbye at a memorial on April 23. Held at Tommy’s Restaurant in Cedar Rapids, Mark’s daily lunch haunt for decades, friends and family told stories for more than two hours. We remembered a true original with laughter and a few tears. Mark’s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Known for his charismatic performances, Israeli saxophonist-composer-bandleader Eli Degibri has recorded and performed extensively since the mid-1990s. He has been called “an exceptionally melodic improviser with a big, bold tenor tone” by Jazz Times, and “a bewitching fellow who shows impressive chops, as both a …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Gail Marten) Baltimore area singer Gail Marten is little known in the Midwest, but she is a steady performer in the East and has a quartet of albums …
