Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)
Saturdays at 6:00pm
Miroslav Vitous on ECM
Craig presents a fine sampling of brilliantly recorded material from the 78-year-old bassist Miroslav Vitous’s work on ECM. Miroslav recorded nine records for ECM between 1979 and 2011. He also worked five times as a sideman for the label, on records by Chick Corea, Terje Rypdal, and Jan Garbarek.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Ritmocano at the Iowa City Jazz Festival
Iowa percussionist James Dreier brought together a host of Iowa’s best music makers to form Ritmocano, a dream project that explores the many facets of Latin jazz. Dreier and friends took the Iowa City Jazz Festival stage in 2017 for a spirited, high-energy set.
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays at 12:00 noon
Sam Rivers & His Blue Note Work
Multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers recorded four outstanding records for Blue Note between 1964 and 1967, and appears as a sideman (also from ’64 to ’67) on other Blue Note Records with drummer Tony Williams, pianist Andrew Hill, organist Larry Young, and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson.
KCCK’s Midnight CD (March 9 – March 15)
Every Night at Midnight
KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.
Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues by Clovis Nicholas on Monday; Threefold by Chris Madsen on Tuesday; Shifty Paradigms by the Dave Slonaker Big Band on Wednesday; Transparent by Monika Herzig on Thursday; Live at the Chicago Blues Festival by the Stefan Hillesheim Band on Friday; Free Life by Tony O Blues on Saturday; In the Brass Palace by Kurt Elling & the WDR Big Band on Sunday.
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Ornette Coleman, Charles Brackeen and Saul Lubaroff, singers Keely Smith, Al Jarreau, and Bobby McFerrin, pianists Don Abney, Dick Katz and Stephen Scott, drummer Roy Haynes, trumpeters Blue Mitchell and Terence Blanchard and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “The Birth of the Cool” (1950), Freddie Hubbard’s “The Body and the Soul” (1963), George Benson & Joe Farrell’s “Benson & Farrell” (1976), Stan Getz;’ “Voyage” (1986), Charles Earland’s “Stomp!” (1999), Tierney Sutton’s “Paris Sessions 2” (2021) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.