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This Week’s Shows July 1 thru July 7

Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)

Mondays at 6:00pm

The Easy Going Side of Black & Blue

Craig spins some laid back fare from the French jazz and blues label Black & Blue. We’ll hear from great musicians like Arnett Cobb, Lockjaw Davis, Lloyd Glenn, Illinois Jacquet, Don Byas, Milt Buckner, and many others.

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

The IJCO at Jazz Under the Stars

Before we kick off this year’s Jazz Under the Stars, KCCK listens back to the great music from 2023. Kicking it off is Mike Conrad and the Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra. Dedicated to showcasing Iowa’s best jazz composers and musicians, the IJCO plays only music from Iowa writers.

Jazz Night in America

Thursdays at 11:00pm

Oran Etkin Travels the World

Clarinetist and saxophonist Oran Etkin travels the globe with the purpose of having unique cultural exchanges. Host Christian McBride relates Etkin’s origin story growing up in Boston and finding his calling in New Orleans. Then we travel with him to West and Southern Africa, Far East Asia, and more to hear some of Etkin’s remarkable musical meetings.

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

The Jazz Corner of the World is pre-empted this week. Tune in all weekend KCCK’s live broadcast of the 2024 Iowa City Jazz Festival.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.

Horizon Song by the Scott/Grant 5 on Monday; Birdwatching by Tim Lin on Tuesday; The New Jersey Sessions by Sean Hong Wei & Jeremy Monteiro on Wednesday; Jamalot by the Bobby Broom Organization on Thursday; True Blues Brother: The Legacy of Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Volume One by Bobby Christina’s Caravan on Friday; True Blues Brother: The Legacy of Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Volume Two by Bobby Christina’s Caravan on Saturday; I’ll Take Romance by Jane Scheckter on Sunday.

Culture Crawl 936 “You Can Sing The Guitar Part ”

Craig Erickson and Gerard Estella have been busy cooking up a unique to them album, “Dream Tracks” and are in the studio today to tell you all about it. The album release concerts will be Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29, 7:30pm at the Opus Concert Café. Tickets are $17 and can be purchased at www.artsiowa.com.

For more information visit www.craigericksonsskytrain.com and www.spttheatre.org.

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Culture Crawl 935 “Doctor of Rock Violin”

Rich Wagor, Phil O’Connor & Brett Copeland are in today to give us the rundown on this year’s Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Concerts are June 27, 7pm and June 28, 5pm and 7pm at Ballantyne Auditorium (Kirkwood) and June 29, 7pm at Ellis Park. Concerts are free and open to the public.

For more information visit www.fiveseasonschambermusic.com

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Talking Pictures 6-26-24

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) and The Bikeriders (2024) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.

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Culture Crawl 934 “King of Terror”

Week 4 of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band season features the band’s (and Orchestra Iowa principal) Andy Harris on horn. Andy and the horn section are working pretty hard this season. They had a feature last week, and Steve Shanley also works them pretty hard on a Malcom Arnold composition entitled “Scottish Dances.” Plus, music from “Frozen” and “Grease.” And a march with an unusual title!.

June 26 at Noelridge Park, June 10 at Ellis Park. All shows at 7:0pm. Livestream at facebook.com/crmuniband. More information at crmuniband.org.

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This Week In Jazz June 23 thru June 29

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Richard Rodgers, guitarist Johnny Smith, pianist/composer Dave Grusin, drummers Joe Chambers and Marvin “Smitty” Smith, pianists Elmo Hope and Alan Pasqua, singers Georgie Fame, Tierney Sutton and more.

We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Django” (1953), Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Time Out” (1959), The Bill Evans Trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian “At The Village Vanguard” (1961), Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt “At the Left Bank (Live)” (1973), Charles Earland’s “Front Burner” (1988), Teri Thornton’s “I’ll Be Easy to Find” (1997), Ron Carter’s “Great Big Band” (2010) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS‘ on 88.3 KCCK.

New Music Monday for June 24, 2024

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Guitar great Bobby Broom knows exactly when he first fell in love with the jazz organ. At age ten he put on one of his father’s albums, Charles Earland’s “Black Talk!” “I was just into music,” he says. But after playing Earland’s now-classic 1969 album, he was sold. Bobby’s organ trio Organi-Sation, with organist Ben Paterson and drummer Kobie Watkins, debuted on record in 2018 but had been a working band for much longer. Part of their new album, “Jamalot,” features live performances going back to 2014 when the trio was opening for Steely Dan. The rest is from an appearance at Joe and Wayne Segal’s Jazz Showcase in Chicago in 2019.

Dubbed “The King of Swing” in his native Singapore, Jeremy Monteiro is renowned as one of the premier jazz pianists in all of Asia. He’s recorded many of his album in the U.S., and he is now releasing his 48^th project, “The New Jersey Sessions.” Monteiro is not only a superb pianist and composer in a range of styles, he is also an educator and mentor to young musicians. He shares top billing on the new disc with his star student, the young Singaporean saxophonist Sean Hong Wei. Sax great Houston Person also makes a guest appearance.

Also this week, the Scott/Grant 5, co-led by guitarist Andrew Scott and trombonist Kelsley Grant, blends touches of cool, bossa nova and bebop in the mix on “Horizon Song”; “Birdwatching” is a product of saxophonist Tim Lin’s long study of Charlie Parker and serves as an ode to Bird and his songs; and Jane Scheckter sings with a wisdom and ease that only a lifetime of experience can bring on her fifth release, “I’ll Take Romance.”

This Week’s Shows June 24 thru June 30

Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)

Mondays at 6:00pm

Prestige’s ‘Soul Jazz Years’

Craig continues his commemoration of Prestige Records’ 75^th anniversary with classic soul jazz from Gene Ammons, Charles Earland, Don Patterson, Jack McDuff, and George Benson.

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Cory Wong on the Main Stage

With one week to go before the 2024 Iowa City Jazz Festival, we’re taking one more listen back to main stage acts from Jazz Fests past. This week, we jam to Cory Wong, one of the hottest guitarists on the scene.

Jazz Night in America

Thursdays at 11:00pm

Endea Owens Giving Back

Christian McBride hangs with bassist Endea Owens at a Community Cookout. We’ll hear the bassist with Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, and trace her Detroit roots to learn how she’s giving back to her community with free meals and free concerts on the street.

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

The Easy Going Side of Black & Blue

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.

BEATitude by David Bixler on Monday; Suite for Africa by Amina Figarova on Tuesday; The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner by Conrad Herwig on Wednesday; Soul Jazz by Something Else! on Thursday; Brown Eyed Blues by Jeff Pitchell on Friday; Down at the Juke Joint by Gerald McClendon on Saturday; Blackwater Sessions by Lenny Marcus Washington on Sunday.