The Christmas Channel All Day on Christmas Day KCCK’s Christmas Channel, a 24-7 stream of the coolest holiday jazz ever recorded, all commercial-free is the ideal soundtrack for your holiday celebration! Tune to 88.3-2 on your HD radio, ask Alexa or Google to “Play KCCK Jazz 2” to your smart device, download the KCCK Mobile …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyMiguel Zenon’s impressive career to date takes in 14 years as lead alto saxophonist for the SFJazz Collective, 15 recordings under his own name, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Grant, multiple Grammy nominations and a long list of sideman gigs. Pianist Dan Tepfer is less known, but has ten-plus …
Hey, Jazz fans! Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Erskine Tate, drummer Panama Francis, New Orleans legend Professor Longhair, trombonist/pianist/composer Bob Brookmeyer, pianist/composer Bobby Timmons, saxophonist/composer/educator Chris Merz and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Melba Liston & Her ‘Bones” (1958), Charlie Rouse’s “Unsung Hero” (1960), Woody Shaw’s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyIndividually leading busy and varied artistic lives in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, trumpeter Eric Jacobson, pianist Pamela York and bassist Clay Schaub have gathered weekly for the Monday night residency at Milwaukee’s Mason Street Grill since 2021. There they allow their ideas and inspirations gleaned through the week to …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore with host Craig Kessler Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Lou Donaldson on Blue Note Craig’s celebration of 85 years of Blue Note Records continues with a spotlight on alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson. Now 97 years old and retired, Sweet Lou’s career at Blue Note began in 1952, when producer …
We’ve had some requests for an “answer key” to KCCK’s Holiday Card this year. Here are names that go with the faces! Top Row: Phil Brown (Talking Pictures), Killian Ritland (Thursday Evenings), Dennis Green (General Manager) Michelle Collier (Development Director), Ron Adkins (Weekday Afternoons) 2nd Row: Bob Naujoks (Gentle Jazz), Bob Stewart (Weekday Mornings), Caleb …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore with host Craig Kessler Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Elvin Jones on Blue Note Craig continues his celebration of the 85th Anniversary of Blue Note Records with samplings from drummer Elvin Jones’s 10-plus dates as a Blue Note leader and 20-plus dates as a sideman on the legendary label. …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Bob Dorough and Abbe Lane, bandleader Stan Kenton, hornman Clark Terry, saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers” (1954), Kenny Drew’s “Undercurrent” …
