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 again spotlights albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity. Listen for Jean Pierre-Rampal & Claude Bolling’s …
The KCCK Featured Album for March is “This Bitter Earth” from Veronica Swift. The singer-songwriter has crafted an ingenious song cycle that tackles issues like sexism, domestic abuse, environmental issues, racism, and the dangers of fake news. The material gathered covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals and indie-rock, fortifying her position as a leading …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe venerated multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe Chambers makes a return to Blue Note Records on his new CD, “Samba de Maracatu.” In the mid-to-late 1960s, Chambers played drums for numerous Blue Note luminaries, appearing on some of the decade’s most progressive albums, including works by Wayne Shorter, Bobby …
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 …
