Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Antonio Carlos Jobim has been one of the brightest, most influential stars in the jazz firmament since winning multiple Grammy Awards for the 1965 release of “Getz/Gilberto.’ His music has been enjoyed by millions of people around the world and recorded countless times by musicians across many …
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00 PM Strata East Records, Show 3 Craig hauls into our KCCK studios another batch of overlooked recordings (mostly vinyl!!) from the Strata East label. We’ll hear a delicious array of wonderful music from a broad spectrum of Black artists from the 1970s, in a …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The new album, “Mike Drop,” demonstrates the mastery of two jazz veterans—iconic jazz drumming legend Mike Clark and renowned saxophonist Michael Zilber. Between Clark’s straight-ahead post-bop drumming and Zilber’s raw and refined sax mastery, the clarity and brilliance of this release is the rewarding product of a ten …
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00 PM A&M Horizons Records, Show 1 Don’t miss out on the fun as Craig spins some mighty hip jazz from the relatively short-lived jazz label A&M Horizons. We’ll hear music from Dave Liebman, Sonny Fortune, Dave Brubeck, Jim Hall, Mel Lewis, Don Cherry, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “The Magic of Now” is the 20th album of pianist and composer Orrin Evans’ luminous career. Recorded in the midst of the upheavals set in motion by the Covid-19 pandemic, this latest document of Evans’ kaleidoscopic artistic journey coincides with several self-generated sea changes in his life. Perhaps …
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00 PM Chick Corea, Part 7 The plot thickens as Craig continues his march through Chick’s music in the 1980s and moving onward. We’ll hear tunes from a variety of records, including Trio Music, In Concert, Tap Step, Lyric Suite for Sextet, Touchstone, and a stack of …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “My Grateful Dead experience began a few years ago when I was lucky enough to play a show with the Wolf Bros.,” says saxophonist Dave McMurray of the band led by Grateful Dead cofounder Bob Weir. “The long-form, odd measures and complex chords of the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “In Harmony” is the first previously unissued recording of the late Roy Hargrove since his passing in 2018. Captured live at Merkin Hall in New York City in 2006 and Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2007 with the late piano great Mulgrew Miller, the set is an …
