Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify One of the Bay Area’s most dynamic multi-genre trumpeters for over four decades, Bill Ortiz recorded and toured the world with Santana for 16 years, and has recorded/or performed with legends of jazz like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea and Tito Puente. “Points of View,” the …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm A Deep Listen to Oregon, Part 2 Craig Kessler offers up another deep listen to the influential band Oregon. For this show, Craig spins some beauties from Elektra Records, ECM, and a few more Vanguard releases. Oregon was particularly popular at this point in …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxophonists Ernie Wilkins, Bill Perkins and Junior Cook, bassists Joe Comfort, Keter Betts and Peter Ind, singers Helen Merrill and Margaret Whiting, guitarists Al Di Meola and Joshua Breakstone and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jackie …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Last year, organist Brian Charette had the idea for a new recording that would be more traditional then his other albums, which often placed the organ in a more unconventional role with electronics and wind ensembles. He wrote some swinging bebop tunes with a classic approach that …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Major Holley and Leroy Vinnegar, saxmen Paul Gonsalves and Sam “The Man” Taylor, trumpeters Conte Candoli and Carol Morgan and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Leroy Vinnegar’s “Leroy Walks!” (1957), Blue Mitchell’s “Down With It” …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe singular catalog of the great pianist/composer Carla Bley has been celebrated and performed for decades. She has not only performed her unique compositions in her own bands but has had them canonized by such legendary artists at Gary Burton and Paul Bley. Having had first-hand experience playing …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Louie Bellson and Butch Miles, saxmen Hank Mobley and Arthur Blythe, keyboardist Joe Zawinul, trumpeter/bandleader Doc Severinsen and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Count Basie At Newport” (1957), “Sonny Rollins on Impulse!” (1965), Buddy Rich …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm The Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler is pre-empted. Enjoy KCCK’s Independence Day special with the United States Air Force Band, the Airmen of Note with special guests Karrin Allyson, Branford Marsalis, and many more! The Wednesday …
