Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singers Nat King Cole and Eliane Elias, organist Shirley Scott, singers Vera Lynn, Mark Murphy, Vanessa Rubin and Blues woman Marcia Ball, brass men Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff and Curtis Fowlkes and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Collector’s Items” (1956), Abbey Lincoln’s “It’s Magic!” (1957), Booker Little’s “Out Front” (1961), Earl Fatha Hines’ “Reunion in Brussels” (1965), Eddie Jefferson’s “Godfather of Vocalese” (1976), The Oscar Peterson Trio’s “Encore at the Blue Note” (1990) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our JAZZ MASTERS ‘program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!

Short List with Host Bob Naujoks

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

Short List: Popular Jazz Albums

The Short List concludes its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. This week, we hear from Shelly Manne’s My Fair Lady, Art Pepper & Marty Paich’s Modern Jazz Classics, Stan Kenton’s Standards in Silhouette, more from Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert, and selections from Billie Holiday’s Columbia sessions.

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Tribute to Chick Corea (6/12/1941 – 2/9/2021)    

In this first of five tribute shows for Armando “Chick” Corea, Craig spins some of his favorite selections from some of Chick’s very first recordings with Mongo Santamaria, Blue Mitchell, Miles Davis, and others, and some of Chick’s first recordings under his own leadership. Tune in for some monumental bricks and mortar from some of the key years of our jazz literature … music of the great Chick Corea.

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio

We continue our celebration of National Women’s History Month with a 2014 Iowa City Jazz Festival concert from Chilean-born saxophonist Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio. Aldana, the first woman to ever win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, takes her inspiration from Sonny Rollins. But from there, she sets her own course – writing and performing some of the most compelling jazz out there today.  

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

No Man’s Band  

Host Christian McBride celebrates the struggles, triumphs, and swing of the unsung women of jazz. Highlighted are the DIVA Jazz Orchestra who commemorates their 25^th anniversary, and one of the last surviving members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm reflects on the legacies of all-female big bands.

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler 

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Cannonball in 1958  

Our 2nd of six chronological shows finds us looking at the very significant year of 1958! We’ll hear Adderley with trumpeter Louis Smith, a classic Blue Note release with Miles Davis, a couple of Columbia records with Miles and Coltrane, some Gil Evans, and some of Adderley’s own releases. Tune in for true Jazz classics!

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

Now Ear This by John Lang on Monday; Cool Water by Greg Murphy on Tuesday; For the Record by the Vinnie Riccitelli Octet on Wednesday; Griot: This Is Important! by Jeremy Pelt on Thursday; Get Up! by Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite on Friday; Rattlebag by Paul Reddick & the Sidemen on Saturday; Old Friends by Mark Winkler & David Benoit on Sunday