2021 marks KCCK’s fourth year airing Soundtrack to the Struggle, our on-going series celebrating jazz’s contributions to the fight for racial equality. We here at KCCK often say that, in jazz, every month is Black History month. The stories of jazz and Black America are inexorably joined, and those stories are endless. You can hear …
Legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea passed away February 9 after a battle with cancer. He appeared in the Corridor many times, most recently in 2019 with his Trilogy Trio at Hancher in what would be his final tour. In 2010, he played a solo piano gig at the Englert. Prior to the concert, he had …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyCelebrating a half-century of life and a quarter century of trailblazing music, Venezuelan-born turned San Francisco Bay Area-based pianist, composer, educator and bandleader Edward Simon releases a two-disc career retrospective, “25 Years.” Brimming with arrestingly beautiful music drawn from 13 albums spanning 1995-2018, the disc features a brilliant …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAfter last year’s successful big band outing, guitarist Dave Stryker is back with his hard-driving, deep-grooving B3 organ group on his new recording, “Baker’s Circle.” With the addition of cutting-edge tenor player Walter Smith III, the disc features Stryker originals, a couple of covers and a tip of …
Marty and Brian Stoll make a great couple. Their love and respect for each other is evident when you talk to them. They joke with one another, they truly enjoy each other’s company, and they have many interests in common. KCCK is one of those common interests. They’ve been KCCK members for 10 years, but …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyQuincy Davis is a professor of jazz drums at the University of North Texas and continues to keep a busy performance profile. He lived in New York for 10 years where he performed with and recorded with many luminaries of jazz including Frank Wess, Hank Jones, Tom Harrell, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyAt only 30-years-old, pianist Emmet Cohen—the winner of the American Pianists Association’s 2019 Cole Porter Fellowship—has made a name for himself performing and recording with jazz masters Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Tootie Heath and George Coleman, among others. On his new album, “Future Stride,” Cohen revisits …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although his work has become a major touchstone for true devotees of the music and …
