Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify On May 15, 1953, five of jazz’s most influential musicians—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Bud Powell—gathered at Toronto’s Massey Hall for what would result in their first and only known recording as a quintet. This historic evening was captured on tape and “The Quintet: Jazz …
KCCK’s Top 88 Countdown All Day on New Year’s Day KCCK counts down its Top 88 albums from 2023, from 88 all the way to Number 1. Join us all day New Year’s Day to hear where your favorite albums of the year ranked in our year-end survey. The Wednesday Night Special …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Wild Bill Davison, trumpeter Dizzy Reece, pianist Herbie Nichols, drummers Chuck Flores and Dede Ciccarelli, singers Arthur Prysock and Johnny Adams, saxophonist Roger Neumann and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Basie and His Orchestra’s …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, composer/pianist Steve Allen, bassist Monty Budwig, saxman Ronnie Cuber and more. We’ll also countdown our Top 88 Albums of 2023 beginning Tuesday December 26 and reaching #1 on Friday the 29th.
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 …
