Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Yoshi’s Yoshi’s in Oakland, California is an internationally known venue, but originally the club was just a Japanese restaurant. It was Yoshie Akiba who had come to the United States …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud. Considering vibraphonist Tom Collier performed his first concert at age 5, it’s safe to say most memories of his youth contain powerful musical imagery. For his latest recording, “Across the Bridge,” Collier is paired with two of the most important guitarists in jazz, Bill Frisell …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Smalls (NYC) / Keystone Korner (SF) On the Short List this week we go to both coasts: Smalls in the Village in New York City and the defunct Keystone Korner in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Coinciding with celebrating its 80th anniversary, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra continues to make music history with the release of “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas.” The first full-length yuletide album in the expansive Basie discography, the disc boasts classic holiday songs, rendered in quintessential Basie style, …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Village Vanguard (NYC) The Village Vanguard in New York is a celebrated jazz venue, and it should be; it’s been there eighty years plus. It was first opened in February …
KCCK’s Special Thanksgiving Day Holiday Broadcast Jazz Under the Stars 2015 – The complete Season Thursday, November 26th 8:00am – 3:30pm (repeated 3:30pm-Midnight) We have so much to be thankful for – including all the incredibly talented musicians who performed at KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars concerts this past August. Join us when we …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Bruce Forman entered the 21st century as one of the strongest swinging bebop and mainstream jazz guitarists around. Since then, he has taken a confident virtuoso walkabout through other genres and formats, both adjacent to and distant from his earlier career. Now Forman gives us a …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Bradley’s (NYC) Bradley’s is a small, friendly jazz club in New York. It was owned by Bradley Cunningham, who was a fair modern pianist himself, so the club would feature piano and …
