Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)
Mondays at 6:00pm
Prestige’s New Jazz Label
Craig explores some fine examples from Prestige’s New Jazz subsidiary. From 1956 through 1963, Prestige founder Bob Weinstock created New Jazz to spotlight unestablished artists. A great many of these artists, like Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, and Dorothy Ashby, became a very important part of jazz culture.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Sasha Berliner at the Iowa City Jazz Festival
Vibraphonist Sasha Berliner, award-winning protégé of Stefon Harris, took the 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival stage and demonstrated why she topped the DownBeat Critic’s Poll, and why the magazine dubbed her, “a prodigy fulfilled.”
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays at 12:00 noon
More Live Weather Report
Craig continues our listen to live Weather Report with more top-notch material from this classic ensemble. We’re treated to an incredible playlist of work not heard during Craig’s previous presentation.
KCCK’s Midnight CD (April 13 – April 19)
Every Night at Midnight
KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.
Alkebulon by the Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra on Monday; Samba Tonto by Hendrik Meurkens on Tuesday; Around the World With U by Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y on Wednesday; Peregrine by Peter Erskine on Thursday; Blues, Vol. 2 by Jay Lang on Friday; Outside or the Eastside by Mike Zito on Saturday; The Sistering by Kate McGarry, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Lois DeLoatch & Nnenna Freelon on Sunday.
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of Saxmen Bud Freeman, Gene Ammons, John Ellis and Nolan Schroeder, singers Bessie Smith, Rosa Passos and Judy Wexler, vibist Teddy Charles, bassists Richard Davis and Gene Cherico, flutist Herbie Mann, composer Henry Mancini and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Red Garland’s “Red in Bluesville” (1959), Miles Davis’ “Seven Steps to Heaven” (1963), J.J. Johnson/Nat Adderley’s “Chain Reaction” (1977), Dr. John & Chris Barber: On A Mardi Gras Day (1983), Terry Gibbs/Buddy DeFranco/Herb Ellis Sextet’s “Memories of You” (1991), Kim Nalley’s “She Put a Spell on Me: Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone” (2004) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
