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 …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Jimmy McPartland and Harry James, pianist/singer Nat King Cole, pianists Tommy Flanagan, Lennie Tristano, Marian McPartland and Jessica Williams, singers Bill Henderson and Queen Latifah, guitarist Bill Frisell and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Joe …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Marc Free of the celebrated Posi-Tone Records is proud to present “Solid Moments,” the latest in a series of projects he began a couple of years ago. The album features Idle Hands, a collaborative sextet of top-tier musicians who have done illustrious work as leaders or sidemen for …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The third volume of a sequence of albums going back to 2013, “Life Goes On” features striking new music from pianist and composer Carla Bley, whose trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow has a long history, starting in 1994. Bley has composed for …
