KCCK’s Top 88 Countdown
All Day on New Year’s Day
KCCK counts down its Top 88 albums from 2023, from 88 all the way to Number 1. Join us all day New Year’s Day to hear where your favorite albums of the year ranked in our year-end survey.
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Saul Lubaroff at First Friday Jazz
Saxophonist (and KCCK’s own) Saul Lubaroff brought his band to the Opus Concert Café for a First Friday Jazz. The Opus Concert Café audience enjoyed Saul’s unique arrangements of classic favorites.
Jazz Night in America
Thursdays at 11:00pm
Remembering Wayne Shorter
Jazz Night in America takes a moment to commemorate Wayne Shorter and his eternal body of work – with concert performances, unaired interviews, and music picks from our host Christian McBride.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays from 12 noon to 4:00pm
Happy Birthday Blue Note
January 6, 2024 – the 85th anniversary of Blue Note Records!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Wild Bill Davison, trumpeter Dizzy Reece, pianist Herbie Nichols, drummers Chuck Flores and Dede Ciccarelli, singers Arthur Prysock and Johnny Adams, saxophonist Roger Neumann and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Basie and His Orchestra’s “April In Paris” (1956), The Montgomery Brothers’ “Groove Yard” (1961), Lonnie Smith’s “Drives” (1970), Benny Green Trio’s “In this Direction” (1989), Chick Correa & Origin “Live at the Blue Note” (1998), Jose Rizo’s Mongorama “Mariposas Cantan” (2018) and many others, Mondays through Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK. 