Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Over the course of three decades as a professional performer, Michael Kaeshammer has developed a style that weaves threads of classical, jazz, blues, boogie-woogie and stride into a signature sound. He’s been nominated for seven Canadian Juno Awards, has received the West Coast Music Award for Musician of …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Chris Connor, Mose Allison and Ernestine Anderson, saxophonist Houston Person, trumpeter Al Hirt, arranger Billy May, guitarist Russell Malone and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dinah Washington’s “Dinah!” (1955), Wes Montgomery’s “Movin’ Wes” (1965), Lou …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Miles On Columbia – 1982-1985 Craig Kessler celebrates Columbia Record’s latest in their Miles Davis Bootleg series, featuring some surprising unreleased music from 1982 through 1985. We’ll also hear some unusual live sets from the period. It’s an excellent sound picture of Mile’s creative …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Grammy-nominated multireedist and composer Anat Cohen shifts her focus to an intimate group sound on her newest release, the endlessly colorful “Quartetinho.” The ensemble of New York-based international instrumentalist virtuosos are all drawn from the ranks of her Grammy-nominated Tentet, featuring bassist Tal Mashiach, pianist/accordionist Vitor Gonsalves …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm The Compositions of Carla Bley, Part 2 Host Craig Kessler spins a fresh mix of Carla Bley charts. We’ll hear Carla’s own recordings of her remarkable material, as well as interpretations from other artists. The Wednesday Night Special …
Hey Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder, saxmen Illinois Jacquet, Herb Geller, and Booker Ervin, singers Carmen Lundy and Lyle Lovett, percussionist Carlos “Potato” Valdez and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey’s “Moanin’” (1958), Horace Silver’s “Song For My Father” …
Jerry Lee Lewis was not a jazz artist, but we have a unique connection to him here at KCCK. We house the historic piano which was used for many years at Cedar Rapids’ Danceland Ballroom. The ballroom was the concert nerve center of town for decades, in business from 1926-1968. Throughout the Swing Era, nearly …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify After receiving four Grammy nominations for his highly successful series of recordings that “Latinized” the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver, trombonist Conrad Herwig turns his attention to the legendary Charles Mingus. As an homage to the influential …
