The Midnight Sky (Netflix 2020) and The Sherlock Holmes Collection (Matt Frewer) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Ron Adkins.
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This Week In Jazz January 10 thru January 16
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Max Roach, Osie Johnson, Grady Tate and Gene Krupa, trombonists Melba Liston, Willie Denis and Bob Enevoldsen, singer Allen Toussant, guitarist Joe Pass and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert (1938), Gene Ammons All Star Sessions with Sonny Stitt (1951), The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Pyramid” (1960), Pharaoh Sanders’ “Thembi” (1971), Weather Report Live in Tokyo (1972), Melvin Sparks’ “This Is It!” (2004) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!
New Music Monday for January 11, 2021
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The effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although his work has become a major touchstone for true devotees of the music and a principal influence for most of jazz’s most explorative pianists. Powell’s brilliant original compositions are essential, infinitely listenable but also strangely tricky. And the composer neglected to perform them much after their original recordings. Pianist and historian Ethan Iverson provides a fantastic validation of Powell’s compositional genius on his new recording, “Bud Powell in the 21st Century,” a reworking of a number of Powell’s pieces for big band.
“Flash of the Spirit” is the dynamic new album from renowned bassist, guitarist and composer Santi Debriano. As an ethnomusicology graduate student at Wesleyan University, Debriano read Robert Farris Thompson’s “Flash of the Spirit.” For Debriano, the book provoked a revelatory question: To what extent have African traditions and customs been retained by contemporary Black cultures throughout the Americas? The record is exactly how a musician like Debriano reconciles the dilemma of feeling tied to several worlds and artistic traditions at once. Because it shows everyone in all of those communities—from Brooklyn to his place of residence, Staten Island, to the Black communities of Panama—Debriano’s essence. It is the flash of his spirit.
Also this week, guitarist Larry Newcomb is joined by his bassist son Jake on “Love, Dad”;
saxophonist, composer and educator David Detweiler, who’s on the jazz faculty at Florida State University, releases his third album as a leader, “The Astoria Suite”;
and “More Than Another Day” is the latest offering from composer and pianist Lisa Hilton, featuring her longstanding band mates Rudy Royston and Luques Curtis.
Special Programs for January 11 thru January 15
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
The Short List: “The Hits”
The Short List continues its look at jazz tunes that became popular hits. This week, host Bob Naujoks visits songs that scored high on the pop charts and have become party of Great American Songbook. Tune in to hear songs and stories from Al Hirt’s “Java,” Al Hibbler’s “Unchained Melody,” Ray Charles’s “Busted,” Ramsey Lewis’s “The ‘In’ Crowd,” and Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Gary Peacock with the Standards Trio
To celebrate more of the astonishing career of Gary Peacock, Craig will give us a delightful sampling of Jarrett’s trio with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums (spanning 26 years, from 1983 to 2009). Don’t miss it!
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Jazz in the Stacks: The Music of Pat Metheny
Join drummer Dennis McPartland and a hand-picked band of Eastern Iowa’s best musicians at the Cedar Rapids Public Library’s Whipple Auditorium for the 2016 Jazz In The Stacks. McPartland, along with Joe Perea, Ian Draves, Denny Redmond, Peter Hart, and Dan Towey present the Music of Pat Metheny. Narrated by KCCK’s Ron Adkins, it’s a full night of stories and songs from the Pat Metheny songbook.
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Newport’s Legendary Early Years
Host Christian McBride takes us back in time to the early years of the Newport Jazz Festival. We’ll hear the history of how Rhode Island became a destination for great jazz. We also get to listen back to some legendary sets, hand-picked by McBride himself, from the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Clifford Brown with Max Roach, and Horace Silver.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Tribute to Stanley Cowell
Craig celebrates the wonderful career of one of his favorite figures in jazz – Stanley Cowell – who has recently passed at the age of 79. In this first of two shows, we’ll hear great records featuring Cowell as a side man … performances with Bobby Hutcherson, Sonny Fortune, Max Roach, Art Pepper, Gary Bartz, and many more.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
Roots – Tales of the Urban Yoda by Joe Bowden on Monday; Bridges by Jesse Ryan on Tuesday; Talking Drums by Bobby Wiens on Wednesday; 49th Parallel by the Neil Swainson Quintet on Thursday; Mississippi Suitcase by Peter Parcek on Friday; Can’t Change It by The Mystix on Saturday; The Planets: Reimagined by the Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra on Sunday
Clean Up Your Act 1-19-21
There’s concern about the safety of drinking water in central Iowa.
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Talking Pictures 1-6-21
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) and Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2019) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Denny Lynch.
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KCCK’s Featured CD for January 2021
The KCCK Featured CD for January is “Cachai” from Anibal Rojas. The Chilean-born saxophonist and composer attended West High in Iowa City before studying at the University of Iowa. While in Eastern Iowa he worked in several bands including Mean Street and the Hell Horns, Funkfarm, Orquesta Alto Maiz and the Demolition Band. Now based in New York City, Ani tours with Blood Sweat and Tears and is a member of Ralph Irizarry’s Timbalaye. The new disc fuses the rhythm drive of Latin with the soul of R&B and the creative freedom of jazz. Purchase the CD.
Clean Up Your Act 1-27-21
Environmental groups are calling on MidAmerican Energy to shut down two Iowa coal-fired power plants.
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