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Special Programs for April 18 thru April 24

Jazz Corner of the World Encore

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Mingus Centennial Show, Part 1

Host Craig Kessler celebrates the life and legacy of Charles Mingus. In this episode we’ll hear very important American music from early in his career, beginning with his early west coast days in the 1940s. We’ll also take a listen back at famous recordings for Atlantic, Savoy, and other classic record labels.

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Da’ Bluesapalooza, Part One

To celebrate 30 years of Da’ Blues on KCCK, we brought together Eastern Iowa’s legendary blues artists for a spectacular one-night jam! This week, we present the knockout performances by Craig Erickson, Homebrewed, Tanya English, and, of course, the Da’ Bluesapalooza All-Stars mega-band!

Jazz Night in America

Thursday at 11:00 PM

NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart

Throughout the month of April, Jazz Night in America celebrates the newest class of NEA Jazz Masters. This week, host Christian McBride spotlights drummer, educator, and “forever student” Billy Hart.

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Mingus Centennial Show, Part 2

Host Craig Kessler continues his celebration of Mingus at 100! Again, we’ll hear more classic Mingus material – this time from the later years of his career. Tune in for some amazing material from 1962 thru 1977 from Atlantic, Impulse, Columbia and other jazz labels.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.

The Era by Marcello Carelli on Monday; A Porta Aperta by Karl Silveira on Tuesday; Social Hour! by Sean Nelson’s New London Big Band on Wednesday; Four Brothers by Tony Monaco on Thursday; Parish Blues by Josh Hyde on Friday; Brother Johnny by Edgar Winter on Saturday; Send For Me by Catherine Russell on Sunday

This Week In Jazz April 17 thru April 23

Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion, vibist/bandleader Lionel Hampton, bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Tito Puente, bassist Charles Mingus, guitarist Mundell Lowe, trombonist Slide Hampton and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” (1959), “The Electrifying Eddie Harris” 1967), Jim Hall’s “Concierto” (1975), Kenny Barron’s “1+1+1” (1984), Ray Brown Trio’s “Don’t Get Sassy” (1994), Abbey Lincoln’s “Over the Years” (2000) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

New Music Monday for April 18, 2022

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
There are a mere handful of guitarists that have changed the way we think about the guitar over the past five or six decades. Pat Martino is perhaps one of the greatest and best-known of those icons. His life story was the very definition of the term “genius.” Before his passing last year, the Alternative Guitar Summit honored him and his enormous contribution to jazz with a set of studio recordings by 14 great guitarists playing selections from his imaginative and varied catalog of compositions. “Honoring Pat Martino, Vol. 1” includes performances by Peter Bernstein, Russell Malone, Sheryl Bailey, Ed Cherry, Nir Felder, Fareed Haque, Oz Noy, Adam Rogers, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Rez Abbasi, Joel Harrison and Paul Bollenback.

The Greyboy Allstars have no time for idle hands. The San Diego five-piece chose to use the shutdown to lock-in wisely and broadcast a live-stream series, which notches up their own jazz-funk and boogaloo narrative. Originally aired as a four-part episodic series, “Get a Job: Music from the Original Broadcast Series Soul Dream” is a 10-song set of unique, never-before-released covers that have become an integral part of the band’s famed live set for nearly three decades. The band, featuring Karl Denson on reeds, Elgin Park on guitar, Aaron Redfield on drums, Chris Stillwell on bass and Robert Walter on keyboards, takes on tunes by Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Gil Scott-Heron, George Harrison, Gary Bartz, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Burt Bacharach.

Also this week, jazz vocalist and educator Kelly Eisenhour is joined by the Jeff Hamilton Trio on “I Just Found Out About Love”;

“The Lights are Always On” is pianist/composer Lynne Arriale’s 16th album as a leader, a suite of tunes that reflect the world-wide, life-changing events of the past two years;

and Atlanta-based drummer Dave Potter and Retro Groove focus on popular music of the 1980s for their debut release.

Culture Crawl 709 “A Little Blue In Everything We Do”

Dave Rosazza founded Shade of Blue as a guitar trio, but soon found himself adding friends on keyboards, saxophone and vocals. When singers Simone Green and Joan Ruffin moved out of the area, it seemed to spell the end of the band, but they have kept the groove alive with a reunion concerts once a year or so.

Their April 16 show marks the first-ever performance at the Englert Theatre for the band, which was inducted into the Iowa Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year.

Tickets at www.englert.org/event/shade-of-blue.

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Talking Pictures 4-13-22

All the Old Knives (2022) and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.

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Culture Crawl 708 “100%”

All of the students who graduated last year from the programs of the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success have gone on to post-high school study, two of them at Princeton, the first Academy students to matriculate to an Ivy League school.

The Academy’s fundraising gala will be May 12 at Olympic Southside Theater in Cedar Rapids. More than just a dinner and speaker, the program will include music, dance, and presentations by Academy students who have been studying the Harlem Renaissance this year.

Tickets and more info at www.theacademysps.com.

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Sax Players’ Kids Play Trombone – Liberty Guest DJs 2022

2022 has been a big year for the Liberty High School music program, with a trip to the national Jazz Educators Network conference and the school’s first trip to Iowa Jazz Championships. Tyson, Killian, and Christian from Liberty High School tell tales and play a very tasty hour of music on Iowa’s Jazz Station.