The KCCK Featured Album for September is “Reflections” from Al Foster. As he approaches his 80th birthday, Foster looks back at his celebrated career as a first-call drummer for iconic legends Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner. There are vital treatments of well-known and less-traveled numbers by those jazz masters, …
The KCCK Featured Album for August is “Ella at the Hollywood Bowl”, a previously unreleased live concert featuring Ella Fitzgerald performing songs from her beloved Irvin Berlin songbook, conducted and arranged by Paul Weston. Discovered in the private collection of producer and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, the concert marked the only time that Ella …
The KCCK Featured Album for July is “I Missed You Too” by Chucho Valdes and Paquito D’Rivera. In 1962, two of the most influential musicians that Cuba ever produced were brought together for the first time, forming a musical partnership that helped shape jazz in Cuba. Their paths would separate in 1980 when Paqito left …
The KCCK Featured Album for June is “The Chopin Project” by Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jean-Paul Brodbeck. The legendary jazz guitarist and acclaimed Swiss pianist join forces on a historic collaboration which finds them reinterpreting the music of the classical composer Frederic Chopin. Brodbeck’s arrangements outline the beauty of Chopin’s compositional structures, while subtly reorganizing them …
The KCCK Featured Album for May is “Honoring Pat Martino, Volume 1” from the Alternative Guitar Summit. There have been a mere handful of guitarists that have changed the way we think about the instrument over the past five or six decades. Pat Martino is perhaps one of the greatest and best known of those …
The KCCK Featured Album for April is “Live from Vienna 1967” — a newly discovered recording of the extraordinary evening when the iconic Dave Brubeck Quartet was forced to take the stage as a trio. After going out on the town for one last evening to explore Hamburg, saxophonist Paul Desmond got distracted and missed …
The KCCK Featured Album for March is “Reconvexo” from Anat Cohen and Marcello Goncalves. Artists around world responded to the forced isolation brought about by the pandemic. Brazilian superstars like Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil shared performances from their homes for their fans, including Anat and Marcello. The duo set out to record an album …
The KCCK Featured Album for February is “Dear Love” from Jazzmeia Horn. When the pandemic hit, Ms. Horn took charge by writing a book, teaching college courses, and financing her third album. She wrote, arranged and produced all the music for the new work, which is one of the first times that a female vocalist …
