Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: The Final Series This week, The Short List begins its final series with a renowned and influential New Orleans player. Sidney Bechet became a master of the soprano saxophone and remained “old school” until his death …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singers Nat King Cole and Eliane Elias, organist Shirley Scott, singers Vera Lynn, Mark Murphy, Vanessa Rubin and Blues woman Marcia Ball, brass men Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff and Curtis Fowlkes and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …
Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: Popular Jazz Albums The Short List concludes its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. This week, we hear from Shelly Manne’s My Fair Lady, Art Pepper & …
Family Folk Machine presents its third online mini concert, “One Planet,” premiering March 21 at 3pm. Selections range from ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” to the world premiere of an original song about species loss. Jean Littlejohn and Gayla Drake say that Family Folk Machine’s pivot to online and streamed rehearsals and performances has kept the …
What began as a wish by Deb Bowen to preserve the stories of Holocaust survivors by connecting them with young people has become a series of more than 90 books.
Hey Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau and Leon Lee Dorsey, pianists Dick Hyman, Dick Katz and Sir Charles Thompson, singers Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin and Jeanie Bryson, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, trombonist Scott Whitfield and more! We’ll also mark the recording …
Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: “The Hits” The Short List continues its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. Listen for Miles Davis’s Sketches Of Spain, Wynton Marsalis’s Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1, …
KCCK program director and morning personality Bob Stewart is recuperating at home after hip replacement surgery in February. In the interim, Ron Adkins has slid into the morning slot, and Saul Lubaroff is handling afternoons. “Things are going well,” Bob says. “A little less pain every day. Doing my rehab and exercises.” Bob hopes to …
