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 …
Key of G Dennis Green Sometimes (usually around pledge drive times), we’ll talk about the fact that music has become something of a scarce commodity at the public radio end of the dial, and jazz music in particular. By one count, there are only fifteen full-time jazz stations in the country. And now there are …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wendell Marshall and Richard Bona, singers Cleo Laine, Andy Bey and Milton Nascimento, pianist Jacques Loussier, trumpeter Eddie Jefferson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “‘Round About Midnight” (1955), Horace Silver’s “Song For …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Milestone Records, Part 5 Tune in as Craig Kessler spins Joe Henderson music that can change your life. Craig spotlights the master reedman’s 12-plus records of astonishing jazz that Henderson made for Orrin Keepnews’s Milestone label. The Wednesday Night Special …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify While Kurt Vonnegut undoubtedly found his true calling as an author, he once speculated about another potential career. “What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist.” On the occasion of the great satirist’s 100th birthday, the pianist and composer …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Cozy Cole, J.C. Moses and Ronnie Burrage, guitarist Barney Kessel, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Wynton Marsalis, singer Sathima Bea Benjamin and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Benny Golson’s New York Scene” (1957), Jimmy Forrest’s “Most …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Tribute to Creed Taylor, Part 2 Craig Kessler spins more material from recently departed producer and label owner Creed Taylor. This week, Craig features important 60’s and 70’s works from Taylor’s own CTI Records. We’ll hear goodies from Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Wes Montgomery, …
