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Clean Up Your Act 11-14-22

A new report from the Environmental Defense Fund predicts how climate change will affect Midwest crop yields in the decades ahead.

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Talking Pictures 10-26-22

Fall (2022) and Bad Therapy (2020, Hulu) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.

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Sometimes (usually around pledge drive times), we’ll talk about the fact that music has become something of a scarce commodity at the public radio end of the dial, and jazz music in particular. By one count, there are only fifteen full-time jazz stations in the country. And now there are even fewer.

Last week, we learned that WUSF in the Tampa Bay area, is killing its evening jazz programming. This came on the heels of the announcement a few weeks ago that KNTU in Denton, Texas, announced it was moving away from its (mostly) all-jazz format. What makes this last even more alarming is that Denton is the home of North Texas State University, one of the top college jazz programs in the world. If North Texas State can’t keep its jazz station going, who can?

Well, us.

Surprisingly to many, our little corner of Eastern Iowa continues to mine a sustainable vein of support for over-the-air, community-driven jazz radio. Here at KCCK, we’re grateful to everyone who donates during fund drives, attends our events, comes to our education programs, and just in general, helps keep this station relevant in a crowded musical landscape.

On behalf of everyone who loves jazz, thank you and a big cheer to all to all of us for beating the odds!

This Week In Jazz October 23 thru October 29th

Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wendell Marshall and Richard Bona, singers Cleo Laine, Andy Bey and Milton Nascimento, pianist Jacques Loussier, trumpeter Eddie Jefferson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “‘Round About Midnight” (1955), Horace Silver’s “Song For My Father” (1964), Chick Corea & Gary Burton “In Concert” (1979), Bobby Shew/Chuck Findley’s “Trumpets No End” (1983), Terence Blanchard’s “The Billie Holiday Songbook” (1993), Ernest Dawkins’ “Afro Straight” (2010) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

This Week’s Shows October 24 thru October 30

Jazz Corner of the World Encore

Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm

Milestone Records, Part 5

Tune in as Craig Kessler spins Joe Henderson music that can change your life. Craig spotlights the master reedman’s 12-plus records of astonishing jazz that Henderson made for Orrin Keepnews’s Milestone label.

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra at Jazz Under the Stars

Headlining our third night of 2022’s Jazz Under the Stars were the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra, whose roster includes some of the best female musicians in the state. Warming up the crowd was young artist ensemble the 5K Quintet.

Jazz Night in America

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Walk with the Wind

Host Christian McBride takes us to Central Park for the Walk with the Wind concert series. We’ll hear music from this “impromptu jazz festival.”

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

The Compositions of Carla Bley, Part 2

Host Craig Kessler spins a fresh mix of Carla Bley charts. We’ll hear Carla’s recordings of her own remarkable material, as well as interpretations from other artists.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

Unfinished Business by Mike Clement on Monday; Dedication by the Bruce Barth Trio on Tuesday; Sufficient Grace by Gregory Tardy on Wednesday; Back Home in Kansas City by Bobby Watson on Thursday; Midnight Blues by Crystal Shawanda on Friday; Burn It All Down by Lauren Anderson on Saturday; Americana Vol. 2 by JD Allen on Sunday

New Music Monday for October 24th, 2022

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While Kurt Vonnegut undoubtedly found his true calling as an author, he once speculated about another potential career. “What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist.” On the occasion of the great satirist’s 100^th birthday, the pianist and composer Jason Yeager releases “Unstuck in Time,” a new suite of music inspired by Vonnegut’s writings. Yeager presents eleven new compositions vibrantly capturing the wit and skewed vision of one of the 20^th century’s most inventive and celebrated novelists, and one-time teacher at the Iowa Writers Workshop.

“Joy” is the latest record from Juno-winning drummer and composer Ernesto Cervini. Inspired by Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series of books and the qualities of goodness, decency, courage and love that permeate them, Cervini was moved to compose music that captures the characters, landscapes and relationships created by Penny. The album showcases Canada’s finest musicians from Ernesto’s various groups and is the first of his albums to feature vocalists.