Iowa’s Jazz Station ends 2025 the same way we spent this banner year: Giving you great music!
Each during during the final week of 2025, we’re look back at the year’s best jazz releases with KCCK’s Top 88 of 2025. Listen at 11am each day for our annual countdown of the most-played CDs from this year.
On New Year’s Eve, we’ll play back your choices from KCCK’s 50th anniversary music events. Our “25 Live” special includes Jazz Under The Stars Reunion shows with Daugherty, Davis, & McPartland, Kings of ‘da Blues, and Al Naylor’s I-380 Express. Plus student bands 10th Street Rapids and the Go Benesh Quartet. And from the Iowa City Jazz Festival, the Mike Conrad Trio and BYO Brass. The fun starts at 1pm Wednesday, Dec. 31.
Then, on New Year’s Day, we’ll count down the entire Top 88 beginning at 6am, from 88 all the way to number one.
Relax into 2026 with America’s Music on KCCK!
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Iowa’s Jazz Station is THE place to enjoy great music throughout the holidays.
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Jazz Corner of the World
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriter Harry Warren, singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, trumpeter/singer Chet Baker, composer/pianist Steve Allen, saxman Frank Morgan, bassists Monty Budwig and John Patitucci, pianist Ray Bryant, trumpeter Woody Shaw, guitarist John Scofield and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Parker/Powell/Roach/Davis/Stitt et al. – Carnegie Hall X-Mas ’49 (1949), Melba Liston & Her ‘Bones (1958), Miles Davis’ “Cookin’ at the Plugged Nickel” (1965), Paul Desmond with the Modern Jazz Quartet (1971), David Newman’s “Fire!” (1988), Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau & Charlie Haden’s “Alone Together” (1997), Stan Hope’s “Put on a Happy Face” (2004) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.