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This Week’s Shows: Week of January 11 – 17

Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: A Personal History of Jazz – Classic Jazz: Chicago / NY / New Orleans This week producer Bob Naujoks recounts the great traditional jazz that he found to his liking. It was Bobby Hackett’s recreation of …

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Producers Top 10s for 2016

Bob Stewart Hollis Monroe Gordon Paulsen Ward Grant Bob Naujoks Ron Adkins Bob DeForest     Bob Stewart: Monday-Friday 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. 1) Metalwood – Twenty (Cellar Live After a fourteen year hiatus, it was a great pleasure to see one of my favorite bands back together again in 2016. The Canadian quartet had …

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New Shows for the New Year

Two shows that KCCK has aired for many years, Piano Jazz and Riverwalk Jazz, have ceased production. Kpoti Accoh’s International jazz show, Tropical Heat, has expanded to three hours, now airing from 5-8 p.m. Sundays. Replacing Piano Jazz at 6 p.m. Thursdays is a new show, Jazz Happening Now, hosted  by Jeff Hanley and spotlighting current …

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Program Changes for 2016

By Dennis Green dennis@kcck.org   We’re making a few slight changes to the programming lineup on KCCK that take effect this first week of the new year. Two shows we have run for many years have ceased production. Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland has been in reruns since the legendary pianist and host passed away in …

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Kirkwood Board of Trustees to Meet Jan. 14

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place Jan. 14, 2016. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

This Week’s Shows: Week of January 4 – 10

Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: A Personal History of Jazz On The Short List this week Bob Naujoks starts a personal history of jazz and some reminiscences about how he came to love the music. It was the Swing revival of …

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This Week’s Shows: Week of December 28 – January 3

Top 88 countdown – New Year’s Week 2015 / 2016 Monday – Wednesday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm / Thursday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm January 1: 6:00 am – 3:00 pm repeated 3:00 pm – Midnight  Tis the season for our year-end retrospective when we look back at the best in jazz from 2015.  …

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KCCK’s Top 88 for 2016

Charles Lloyd’s “I Long to See You” was the most-played CD on KCCK during 2016. John Scofield ‘s “Country for Old Ment” was the second most-popular on our airwaves. Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family came in third with “Beginning of a  Memory”. You can purchase all 88 CDs through Amazon.com and a portion of your purchase …

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