City Circle Acting Co. presents an online production of the Broadway musical “First Date” Feb. 26-28. Real-life couple Jessica Murillo and Robert Kemp lead a cast and crew that was able to perform the show onstage together for the recording, due to a script that allowed for social distancing, and an HVAC system at the …
After months of planning, the Corridor Jazz Project 2021 has begun. It’s a big project, even without a pandemic to complicate things. We launched the program on Feb. 18 at Mt. Vernon, where the Swinging’ STANGS performed with guest artist (and Mt. Vernon alum!) singer Amy Friedl Stoner. It would have been far easier to …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composers Tadd Dameron and Michel Legrand, saxmen Flip Phillips, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Tate and Claire Daly, drummers Dave Bailey, Harvey Mason and Joe Labarbera and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Clifford Brown/Max Roach’s “Study in Brown” …
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 in the popular mind. This week, host Bob Naujoks celebrates Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” and “Hello Dolly,” Miles Davis’s “Bitches Brew,” and the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyDoug MacDonald and Harvey Newmark, two greatly in-demand players from Southern California, have worked together many times through the years, often in MacDonald’s groups which range from trios to his 13-piece ensemble the Jazz Coalition. Philly-native MacDonald has worked over the years with Trummy Young, Joe Williams, Carl …
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 …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Harold Arlen and Alec Wilder, percussionist/bandleader Machito, vocalists Irma Thomas, Randy Crawford and Dena DeRose, saxmen Maceo Parker, Pete Christlieb, Chad Eby and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges’ “Side by …
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 in the popular mind. This week, host Bob Naujoks celebrates full jazz albums that became widespread hits. We’ll hear stories and songs from Miles Davis’s …
