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Special Programs for January 4 thru January 9

Short List with host Bob Naujoks

Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM

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 almost made it to Number One on the pop charts. Tune in for these “almost Number Ones:” Kenny Ball’s “Midnight in Moscow,” the Chris Barber Jazz Band’s “Petit Fleur,” Ray Charles’s “You Don’t Know Me,” Jimmy Dorsey’s “So Rare,” and Marvin Hamlisch’s “The Entertainer.”

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM

6 More Who Have Left Us

Craig salutes six jazz artists who have recently passed on. We’ll spin tasty items and tell a few tales about pianists Richard Wyands, Mike Longo, and Ellis Marsalis … saxophonists Hal Singer and Lennie Niehaus … and trumpeter Eddie Gale. We’ll hear a variety of styles and genres devoted to saluting some very well-deserving jazz artists! May they all rest in peace!

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Orquesta Alto Maiz Heats It Up

Nothing warms up a winter’s night better than a little hot salsa. The Wednesday Night Special this week features the 2009 Iowa City Jazz Festival appearance of Orquesta Alto Maiz, aka the Salsa Band. This set is loaded with some serious spice and a whole lot of soul.

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Jon Batiste & Talk Show Jazz

From Steve Allen to Stephen Colbert, jazz has had a profound influence on late night television. Host Christian McBride talks with pianist, composer, and arranger Jon Batiste about this influence on our nightly viewing, his role as Stephen Colbert’s music director, and how late night talk shows give jazz music a world-wide audience.

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

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!

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

Follow Up by the Eric Lilley Trio on Monday; The Royal Chase by Nation Beat on Tuesday; History Gets Ahead of the Story by Jeff Cosgrove on Wednesday; Very Well & Good by Richard Whiteman on Thursday; Wanderlust by Justin Howell on Friday; Stony Hill by G.E. Smith & Leroy Bell on Saturday; Sunset in the Blue by Melody Gardot on Sunday

New Music Monday for January 4, 2021

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
Four-time Juno Award winner Neil Swainson was born and raised in the province of British Columbia, moving to his home base of Toronto in the late ‘70s. Over his career he’s recorded on albums with George Shearing, Jay McShann and Woody Shaw and performed with Diana Krall, Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, James Moody, Lee Konitz and many others. Initially released in 1988, the bassist’s only album as a leader, “49^th Parallel,” has now been made available again. It features a quintet with jazz legends Joe Henderson on tenor and trumpeter Woody Shaw, drummer Jerry Fuller and Gary Williamson on piano.

Los Angeles-based composer/arranger/orchestrator Jeremy Levy has co-led the Budman/Levy Jazz Orchestra since 2007, played lead trombone for the Brian Setzer Orchestra, and has been involved in the upper reaches of the film, TV and video game music industry for well over a decade. Looking to create an ambitious project for his own jazz orchestra, Levy was inspired to adapt Gustav Holst’s symphonic masterpiece, “The Planets,” while attending a performance at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017. The piece provided Levy with sweeping and dynamic materials to develop. In the hands of his elite colleagues from the L.A. studio and jazz scenes, Levy’s innovated arrangements are broad, bold and swinging.

Also this week, veteran Toronto-based drummer Joe Bowden mixes in a little funk with the jazz on “Roots—Tales of the Urban Yoda”;

“Bridges” is the long anticipated debut recording from saxophonist and composer Jesse Ryan, an eclectic offering that straddle both jazz and Afro-Caribbean traditions;

and drummer Bobby Wiens also offers up his first recording as a leader, “Talking Drums.”

This Week In Jazz January 3 thru January 9

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of brassmen Wild Bill Davis, Dizzy Reece, Don Sickler and Vernon Brown, reedmen Frank Wess and Kenny Davern, drummers Sam Woodyard and Kenny Clarke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Return of Art Pepper” (1957), The Curtis Counce Group’s “Sonority” (1958), Jackie McLean’s “Bluesnik” (1961), Kenny Burrell’s “Midnight Blue” (1963), Arturo Sandoval’s “Swingin'” (1996), Jimmy Cobb’s Mob’s “Cobb’s Groove” (2003) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet January 14, 2021

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place January 14, 2021. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

Producers Top 10s for 2020

Bob Stewart Hollis Monroe Ron Adkins Bob DeForest Saul Lubaroff

Bob Stewart: Monday-Friday 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. 1) Christopher’s Very Happy Band – While We Wait (Chris Merz) Always a fan of the work of Chris Merz, the new disc from his Very Happy Band did not disappoint. With his regular bandmates Mike Conrad, Drew Morton and Dave Tiede, the disc was chock full of memorable originals and the amazing sax work we’ve come to expect from Mr. Merz. 2) Karrin Allyson Sextet – Shoulder to Shoulder: Centennial Tribute to Women’s Suffrage (eOne) 3) John Beasley Monk’estra – Monk’estra Play John Beasley (Mack Avenue) 4) Big Band of Brothers – A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band (New West) 5) Orrin Evans & the Captain Black Big Band – The Intangible Between (Smoke Sessions) 6) Bill Frisell – Valentine (Blue Note) 7) Marshall Gilkes Trio – Waiting to Continue (Alternate Side) 8) Steve Grismore Trio – Better Days are A’Comin’: Steve Grismore Trio Plays Ornette Coleman (Steve Grismore) 9) Gregory Tardy – If Time Could Stand Still (WJ3) 10) Matt Wilson Quartet Hug! (Palmetto)

Hollis Monroe: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 1) Maceo Parker- Soul Food: Cooking with Maceo (Mascot) 2) Jimmy Cobb – Remembering U (Jimmy Cobb World) 3) James Dreier & Ritmocano – Iowa Friends: Cuban Music (James Dreier) 4) Dena DeRose – Ode to the Road (High Note) 5) Christian McBride Big Band – For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver (Mack Avenue) 6) The Flying Horse Big Band – Florida Rays (Flying Horse) 7) Sinne Eeg – We’ve Just Begun (BFM) 8) Joe Farnsworth – Time to Swing (Smoke Sessions) 9) Harold Mabern – Maybern Plays Maybern (Smoke Sessions) 10) Airmen of Note – Air Power (U.S.)

Ron Adkins: Sunday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (Gentle Jazz) 1) Karrin Allyson Sextet – Shoulder to Shoulder (eOne) This release really resonated with me. Karrin Allyson (one of my favorite vocalists) took a great big swing at the glass ceiling with this centennial tribute to women’s right to vote. She and some of the best female jazz artists took songs from the Suffrage Movement and gave them a new audience. Resurrecting period music can be tricky. If the band stays true to the original, it can come off sounding dated. But Allyson and her Sextet offered up beautiful, fresh arrangements that make the original lyrics sound all the more poignant and relevant to modern listeners still working for equality. The Shoulder to Shoulder project accomplishes what great music does best â€“ it entertains and empowers at the same time. 2) Artemis – Artemis (Blue Note) 3) Al Di Meola – Culcha Vulcha (Across the Universe) 4) Flying Horse Big Band – Florida Rays (Flying Horse) 5) John Coltrane – Blue World (Impulse!) 6) Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Just Coolin’ (Blue Note) 7) Harold Mabern – Mabern Plays Mabern (Smoke Sessions) 8) Audrey Ochoa – Frankenhorn (Chronograph) 9) Michael Wolff – Bounce (Sunnyside) 10) Alexa Tarantino – Clarity (Posi-Tone)

Bob DeForest: Saturday 6 – 10 p.m. (Da Blues) 1) Kevin Burt – Stone Love (Golf Coast) 2) Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues (Alligator) 3) Joe Bonnamassa – Royal Tea (J & R Adventures) 4) Coco Montoya – Coming In Hot (Alligator) 5) Dennis Jones – Soft Hard & Loud (Blue Rock) 6) Fillmore Slim – Son of Seven Sisters (Greaseland) 7) Albert Castiglia – Wild and Free (Golf Coast) 8) Jimmy Johnson – Every Day of Your Life (Delmark) 9) Kim Wilson – Take Me Back (M.C.) 10) Ghalia – Mississippi Blend (Ruf)

Saul Lubaroff: Sunday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 1) Chick Corea – Trilogy 2 (Concord) I love all three of the musicians on this album so much. Chick Corea on piano, Christian McBride on double bass and Brian Blade on drums. Their incredible command of their instruments is always inspiring 2) Audrey Ochoa – Frankenhorn (Chronograph) 3) Christian McBride Big Band – For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver (Mack Avenue) 4) Derrick Gardner – Still I Rise (Inpact Jazz) 5) Champian Fulton/Cory Weeds – Dream a Little (Cellar Live) 6) Baritone Madness – Baritone Madness (Bee Hive) 7) Randy Brecker/Ada Rovatti – Becker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond (Piloo Records) 8) Christopher’s Very Happy Band – While We Wait (SkyDeck Music) 9) Michael Dease – Never More Here (Posi-Tone Records) 10) James Dreier and Ritmocano Iowa Friends: Cuban Music (James Dreier) 11) John Fedchock and the NY Sextet Into the Shadows (Summit Records)

Talking Pictures 12-30-20

Year-end special and a look into the year to come with Hollis, Phil, Monica, Scott and Ron.

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Culture Crawl 612 “Temptation for Perfection”

Family Folk Machine starts off the new year with the 2nd in their current season of online mini concerts, “One Planet,” January 1 at 7:00pm.

Jean Littlejohn and Aprille Clarke say that the switch to online choir practice and concerts has been complicated, but also an opportunity to learn new skills.

Family Folk Machine will begin a new session in January, with online rehearsals. All are welcome!

Watch “One Planet” and learn how to get involved at www.familyfolkmachine.org.