The 2021 Iowa City Jazz Festival Memorial Day Tune in all day as KCCK whets your appetite for great live jazz! Our rebroadcast of the 2021 Iowa City Jazz Festival includes hot mainstage sets from Immanuel Wilkins, Giveton Gelin, Jennifer Wharton’s Bonegasm, and headliner Cory Wong. Plus, great side stage acts Bad News, Jim Buennig, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify It was in 2017 that the trio known as 3 More Sounds was formed, a co-op group with former Gene Harris & Three Sounds bassist Henry “Skipper” Franklin and drummer Carl Burnett, along with pianist Robert Turner. With Franklin’s three years with Harris and Burnett’s ten years, they …
Jazz Corner of the World Saturdays at 12:00 Noon Third Stream Jazz, Part 2 Host Craig Kessler plays more wonderful examples of “Third Stream Jazz” (music that combines characteristics of improvised jazz, and European classical music). In this second of three shows, you’ll love the offerings from Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Don Ellis, …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Artie Shaw, reedmen Bud Shank and Arche Shepp, pianists Ramsey Lewis and Richie Beirach, singers Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee and Dee Dee Bridgewater and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Dexter …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Guitarist George Freeman is jazz history. His memories burn bright from a childhood surrounded by jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller stopping by his home for a visit and to play the piano. His life in music has taken him around the world as a spirited sideman for …
Jazz Corner of the World Saturdays at 12:00 Noon Early Milestone Records Host Craig Kessler takes a look at Milestone Records, founded in 1966, and carrying on the modern jazz traditions begun at Riverside Records. We’ll hear from the the label’s early days, including recordings by Gary Bartz, Lee Konitz, Wes Montgomery, McCoy Tyner, Ron …
Hey, Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/singer Fats Waller, bandleader Woody Herman, singer Betty carter, saxmen Paul Quinichette, Dewey Redman and Jackie McLean and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1947), Grant Green’s “Matador” (1964), New York Jazz Quartet’s “Blues for Sarka” …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Late Bloomin’ Jazzman,” the newest album by vocalist and songwriter Mark Winkler, is an homage to growing older and all the blessings and drawbacks that come with it. The album is Winkler’s 20th as a leader. He wrote lyrics to eight of the 12 tunes, and covers a lot of …
