Avery Arens, Allison Talyat, and Juliana Karl are our guest DJs from Xavier High School, and came prepared with an outstanding variety of music, and also how the movie The Parent Trap jump-started their interest in jazz. We also discussed the famous Jazz Band One pineapple, and learned there is now an additional mascot for …
Ryan Carter, Kolbe Schnoebelen, and Peter Stolz are seniors at City High. Jazz band is a family tradition for these three, as they each had an older brothers in the City High Jazz Ensemble with them when they were freshmen! Ryan and Kolbe both made the 4A All State Jazz Band, slated to perform in …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Astrud Gilberto, Frankie Laine and Norah Jones, trumpeters Booker Little and Herb Alpert, saxplayers Lanny Morgan, Dick Oatts and Harry Carney, guitarist Dave Stryker, drummer Jake Hanna and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Pepper’s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The release of Harold Mabern’s new album, “Mabern Plays Mabern,” is the source of a mixture of pride and sorrow. Pride because Mabern’s 27th recording as leader, culled from the same three January 2018 nights at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City that generated his 26th, documents …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Kalil Wilson Oakland, California, jazz singer Kalil Wilson grew up with a bassist and bandleader dad and a record collector mom. He began his career in opera but was eventually captivated by jazz. Mentored …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Sarah Vaughan and King Pleasure, guitarists George Benson and Melvin Sparks, saxophonists Ben Webster and Sherman Irby, pianist/singer/songwriter Dave Frishberg and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s 1952 Concert, “Sonny Rollins + 4” (1956), …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The origin story of jazz has been debated and mythologized. The first jazz players interviewed often attributed their knowledge and sound to one man: Buddy Bolden. There have been many attempts in the past century to reenact concerts of Bolden’s heyday, yet most attempts to bring his sound …
To the KCCK Family: Because that’s what we are. The musicians, teachers, students, donors, and music fans who make up KCCK’s constituency are a family. We celebrate together when times are good. And we grieve with each other during tough times. The current crisis hits our community particularly hard, as the venues whose music and …
