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New Music Monday for January 2, 2023

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The chromatic harmonica is an instrument still finding its footing in the world of modern jazz music. Yvonnick Prene’s mission is to put it in its rightful place in the pantheon of instruments used to improvise. He’s placed the harmonica in many musical settings, including an organ trio and a duo with guitar. For his new release, “Listen!,” Prene chose a dream ensemble with saxophonist Dana Stephens, drummer Bill Stewart, pianist Kevin Hays, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, and his friend Clovis Nicolas on bass.

Recorded in the historic ambience of the Village Vanguard in New York, “The Extra Something” is not just another release by a prolific artist. Working with a first-class band of New York-based musicians, Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi combines core jazz values with a sense of structure and order that comes from classical music, but all of it animated by a strong sense of freedom. Pieranunzi has risen to the ranks of the most significant contemporary musicians, a name to be placed alongside some of the greatest we have seen and heard. He’s joined by saxophonist Seamus Blake, trumpeter Diego Urcola, bassist Ben Street and drummer Adam Cruz.

Also this week, “Fun House” is guitarist David Blake’s thrilling quintet effort featuring some of Vancouver’s finest musicians;

Montreal-based pianist and composer Kate Wyatt is in a quartet setting for her debut album, “Artifact”;

and the Ron Kraemer Trio of Sarasota, Florida, is joined by a couple of Nashville cats in delivering a greasy, throwback soul-jazz set, “Sarasota Swing.”

Talking Pictures 12-28-22

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.

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This Week In Jazz December 25 thru December 31

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays pianists Earl “Fatha” Hines, Walter Norris and T.S. Monk, reedmen Joe Lovano and Ted Nash, drummers Ed Thigpen and Lewis Nash and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jean “Toots” Thielemans’ “Man Bites Harmonica!” (1957), Ray Charles’ “Genius+Soul=Jazz” (1960), “Paul Desmond with the Modern Jazz Quartet” (1971), Kenny Barron Trio’s “Green Chimneys” (1983), Chick Corea and Origin – Live at the Blue Note (1997) and many others Mondays thru Friday at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

Top 88 for 2022

Terri Lyne Carrington’s “New Standards Vol. 1” was the Number-1 album in KCCK’s Top 88 jazz releases of 2022. “Healing Power: The Music of Carla Bley” by Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison and Ted Nash was Number-88. Following is the list of everything else in between.

KCCK’s Top 88 for 2022.

Terri Lyne Carrington “New Standards, Vol. 1” (Candid)
Brian Lynch & Spheres of Influence “Songbook Vol. 2: Dance the Way U Want To” (Hollistic Musicworks)
Ben Patterson “The Way of the Groove” (Origin)
Scott Hamilton “Classics” (Stunt)
Bob James “Feel Like Making Live” (Evolution Media)
Jazzmeia Horn and her Noble Force “Dear Love” (Empress Legacy)
Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonsalves “Reconvexo” (Anzic)
NYO Jazz “We’re Still Here” (Carnegie Hall)
The Greyboy Allstars “Get a Job” (Greyboy)
David Janeway “Distant Voices” (SteepleChase)
The BBB featuring Bernie Dresel “The Pugilist” (Dig It)
Dafnis Prieto featuring Luciana Souza “Cantar” (Dafnison)
Tom Harrell “Oak Tree” (High Note)
Tony Monaco “Four Brothers” (Chicken Coup)
Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jean-Paul Brodbeck “The Chopin Project” (Heartcore)
Jason Yeager Septet “Unstuck in Time: the Kurt Vonnegut Suite” (Sunnyside)
Cyrus Chestnut “My Father’s Hands” (High Note)
Ella Fitzgerald “Ella at the Hollywood Bowl” (Verve)
Grant Geissman “Blooz” (Futurism)
Craig Davis “Tone Paintings: The Music of Dodo Marmarosa” (MCG Jazz)
Steve Turre “Generations” (Smoke Sessions)
Alternative Guitar Summit “Honoring Pat Martino Vol. 1” (High Note)
Ricky Peterson & the Peterson Brothers “Under the Radar” (Leopard)
Tierney Sutton “Paris Sessions 2” (BFM)
Lynne Arriale Trio “The Lights are Always On” (Challenge)
Chucho Valdes and Paquito D’Rivera “I Missed You Too” (Paquito)
Deanna Witkowski “Force of Nature” (MCG Jazz)
Al Foster “Reflections” (Smoke Sessions)
Lia Booth “Life Can Be Beautiful” (Metajax)
The Reid Hoyson Project “That Sunday That Summer” (Reid Hoyson)
Marshall Gilkes “Cyclic Journey” (Alternate Side)
Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, & Bill Stewart “Perpetual Pendulum” (Smoke Sessions)
Alvin Queen Trio “Night Train to Copenhagen” (Stunt)
Curtis Stigers “This Life” (Pandemic Poodle)
Gabriel Mark Hasselbach “Mid Century Modern Vol. 3” (Blue Moon)
Idit Shner & Mhondoro “Heat Wave” (OA2)
Dave Brubeck Trio “Live from Vienna 1967” (Brubeck Editions)
Amina Figarova “Joy” (Amfi)
Harry Skoler “Live in Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus” (Sunnyside)
Way North “New Dreams, Old Stories” (Way North)
Catherine Russell “Send for Me” (Dot Time)
Yellowjackets “Parallel Motion” (Mack Avenue)
Antonio Adolfo “Octet and Originals” (AAM)
Kenneth Brown “Love People” (Space Time)
Jeff Coffin “Between Dreaming and Joy” (Ear Up)
Steve Davis “Bluesthetic” (Smoke Sessions)
The Jazz Professors “Blues and Cubes” (Flying Horse)
Caili O’Doherty “Quarantine Dream” (Posi-Tone)
3 More Sounds “3 More Sounds Play Ray Charles” (Skipper)
Blue Moods “Myth and Wisdom” (Posi-Tone)
Melissa Stylianou “Dream Dancing” (Anzic)
Pasquale Grasso “Be-Bop!” (Masterworks)
Julian Lage “View With a Room” (Blue Note)
Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows “Architecture of Storms” (Soundspore)
Pete Malinverni “On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein” (Planet Arts)
Bill O’Connell “A Change is Gonna Come” (Savant)
Redman Mehldau McBride Blade “LongGone” (Nonesuch)
Somi “Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba” (Salon Africana)
ARC Trio with the John Daversa Big Band “ARCeology” (Blue Canoe)
Brian Charette “Jackpot” (Cellar)
Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez & Ronnie Cuber “Center Stage” (Leopard)
Boris Kozlov “First Things First” (Posi-Tone)
Cecile McLorin Salvant “Ghost Song” (Nonesuch)
John Lee “The Artist” (Cellar)
Hendrik Meurkens “Samba Jazz Odyssey” (Zoho)
Jeremy Pelt “Soundtrack” (High Note)
Bobby Watson “Back Home in Kansas City” (Smoke Sessions)
Roxy Coss “Disparate Parts” (Outside In)
Michael Dease “Best Next Thing” (Posi-Tone)
Gui Duvignau “Baden” (Sunnyside)
Alon Farber & Hagiga “Reflecting on Freedom” (Origin)
Mark Winkler “Late Bloomin’ Jazzman” (Café Pacific)
Sean Fyfe “Late Night” (Cellar)
Jon Gordon “Stranger Than Fiction” (Artist Share)
Gregory Tardy “Sufficient Grace” (WJ3)
Miguel Zenon “Musica de Las Americas” (Miel)
Joey Alexander “Origin” (Mack Avenue)
Snorre Kirk Quartet with Stephen Riley “Going Up” (Stunt)
Oscar Peterson “A Time for Love: Live in Helsinki 1987” (Mack Avenue)
Joe Alterman The Upside of Down” (Rope-a-Dope)
Ethan Iverson “Every Note is True” (Blue Note)
Troy Roberts “Nu-Jive: Nations United” (Toy Robot)
Jeremy Manasia Trio “Butcher Block Ballet” (BluJazz)
Chris Mondak “Glass Spheres” (Summit)
Samara Joy “Linger Awhile” (Verve)
Doug Scarborough “The Color of Angels” (Origin)
Karl Silveira “A Porta Aperta” (Karl Silveira)
Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison & Ted Nash “Healing Power: The Music of Carla Bley” (Sunnyside)

This Week’s Shows December 26 thru January 1

Jazz Corner of the World Live Special

Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm

The Beauty of Gil & Miles

Host Craig Kessler plays a tasty sampling of musical treats from some of those utterly great recordings from Miles Davis and Gil Evans. We’ll hear from Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain, Quiet Nights, and more, along with a few surprises. A wonderful way to begin the post-holiday relaxation!

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Swingin’ With The Airmen of Note

It’s a night of great swing as the United States Air Force Band, the “Airmen of Note,” welcomes singer Nnenna Freelon and trombonist Marshall Gilkes to the stage for two sets of jazz and big band standards!

Jazz Night in America

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Unheard McCoy Tyner

Host Christian McBride goes crate digging and uncovers a McCoy Tyner concert, recorded at the Village Vanguard. We’ll hear this 1997 never-heard-before gem and examine the legacy of this immortal artist.

New Year’s Eve on KCCK!

Beginning at 6:00pm

Toast of the Nation

Join KCCK as we ring in the New Year with Toast of the Nation, a New Year’s tradition since the 1970’s. It’s the perfect complement for any celebration, with festive jazz all night long from Ibrahim Maalouf, Jose James, Ranky Tanky, Chuco Valdes, and many more.

KCCK’s Top 88 Countdown

Beginning at 6:00am

Join hosts Dennis Green, Bob Stewart, Hollis Monroe, Ron Adkins, and Saul Lubaroff as KCCK counts down the best jazz albums from 2022! We’ll play choice cuts from each entry – from Number 88 to Number One!

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

Quarantine Sessions by Marcus Johnson on Monday; Food is Medicine by Out to Dinner on Tuesday; Voices: A Musical Heritage by the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra on Wednesday; Sound On Sound by Bill Goodwin & Billy Hart on Thursday; Live at Power Station by Vanessa Collier on Friday; 80 Years of International Friendship on Saturday; The Impressionist by Marc Mommaas on Sunday

New Music Monday for December 26, 2022

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For Canadians, the arrival of spring is momentous: the scent of the air is fresh and full of possibility. It’s an apt theme for a musical collaboration named after Ostara, the Germanic goddess of the spring equinox. “The Ostara Project” is the brainchild of co-leaders Amanda Tosoff and Jodi Proznick. The album features lush arrangements that arise from the fruitful collaboration of outstanding female Canadian jazz artists who embody the geographic, cultural and ethnic diversity of the Canadian mosaic. Their commitment to play so as to best serve the music allows them tackle a diversity of musical styles with grace and artistry.

Legendary pianist and composer Oscar Peterson led a storied career, spanning over half a century with new creative heights at every turn. 1971 saw Peterson touring the world once again, joined by bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and drummer Louis Hayes. As heard on “On Clear Day,” a never-before-released live recording from Zurich, Switzerland, the collaboration and artistry between these musicians in unmatched.

Also this week, vocalist Nikki Yanofsky returns to her jazz roots with a cast of stellar musicians including Nathan East and Arturo Sandoval on “Nikki By Starlight”;

drummer and composer Jae Sinnett’s Zero to 60 Quartet is joined by the Symphonicity Orchestra on a program of his originals arranged by Allen Farnham “Live at the Sandler Center”;