Special Programs for December 7 thru December 12

Short List with host Bob Naujoks

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

Licorice Stick 2: Allan Vache

Allan Vaché may sound familiar to you. He spent 17 years with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and its Riverwalk Jazz public radio program, which aired on KCCK. After Cullum retired, Vache appeared regularly at Disney World and other regional venues. His dozen or so recordings show him to be a gifted and eloquent Swing style musician with traces of Benny Goodman and Ed Hall.

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler 

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Jazz In 1950

Craig spins some of the “hits” (and “misses”) that were recorded 70 years ago, during the year 1950.  We’ll hear a wide variety of good examples from the likes of Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Anita O’Day, Charlie Parker, Teddy Wilson, and a host of others. Lots of fun!

 

 

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Joshua Redman at the Iowa City Jazz Festival

2018’s Iowa City Jazz Festival brought an impressive roster of talent to the main stage. All month long, KCCK presents some of that year’s best gigs. This week, it’s Joshua Redman’s recent project, Still Dreaming. With Ron Miles on cornet, Scott Colley on bass, and drummer Brian Blade, saxman Redman paid loving tribute to his father, Dewey Redman.

 

 

 

Jazz Night In America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Brubeck Remembered and Re-Imagined

Host Christian McBride discusses the enduring legacy of Dave Brubeck and his breathtaking body of work. Also, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tip their hat to Brubeck by playing a set of his classics, revamped for Big Band.

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Jazz In 1960

Craig looks at some of the new directions in jazz that were recorded 60 years ago (during the year 1960).  We’ll hear all sorts of goodies from all sorts of jazz practitioners … Ella, Bird, Miles, Jimmy Smith, Abbey Lincoln, John Coltrane, and many, many more!!  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.

2 Cents by Douglas Olsen on Monday; Christmas in 3D by the 3D Jazz Trio on Tuesday; Live at Blues Alley: Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite by the Eric Felton Jazz Orchestra on Wednesday; Christmas Vibes by Warren Wolf on Thursday; A Gulf Coast Christmas by Various Artists on Friday; Grass Ain’t No Greener on the Other Side by Peter Veteska & Blues Train on Saturday; Celebrate Me Home: The Holiday Sessions by Brian Bromberg on Sunday

This Week In Jazz December 6 thru December 12

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Ira Gershwin, pianist Dave Brubeck, singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Bob Dourough and Tom Waits, guitarist Chuck Loeb, drummer Robby Ameen and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Gerry Mulligan’s “Reunion with Chet Baker” (1957), John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps/Coltrane Jazz” (1959), Art Farmer Quartet feat. Jim Hall “Live at the Half-Note” (1963), Keystone Trio’s “Heart Beats” (1995) 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 December 7, 2020

     Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
For more than three decades as one of the most influential jazz musicians, Eric Reed has recorded close to 30 accomplished leader albums showcasing his virtuosic chops, intellectual clarity, unwavering will to swing, and ability to refract and coalesce a wide range of musical, spiritual, and personal influences into a single stream of consciousness. Perhaps the most personal of them all is “For Such a Time as This.” It is a powerful and uplifting program framed by the realities of global pandemic anxiety, persistent racism and racial injustice, and an acrimonious, fraught election season. By the end of June, Eric was ready and had assembled a gifted young quartet to record a set of recently penned originals, carefully chosen standard old chestnuts, and some restorative Gospel selections.

 

 

     Multi-reedist Benn Clatworthy offers up “Bennie’s Lament,” his newest offering with his sextet System 6. A mainstay on the Los Angeles jazz scene since the mid-1980s, London-born Clatworthy has appeared on dozens of albums over the course of his 40+ year dynamic career. He has led various incarnations of his highly regarded group System 6 throughout the past ten years. The new disc is the second recording with the particular assemblage of some of Southern California’s finest instrumentalists.

 

 

             

Also this week, pianist George Kahn unveils his 10th album, “Dreamcatcher,” creating a late-night, smoky bourbon and ballad vibe for the disc;

 

 

 

 

                    

 the Sapporo, Japan, based Mercer Hassy Orchestra offers up a program of originals and jazz standards on “Sir Duke”;

 

 

 

 

         

    and Japanese trumpeter and composer Takuya Kuroda marks the culmination of an evolving electric journey with “Fly Moon Die Soon.”

 

 

 

Culture Crawl 607 “An Irish Drinking Song About a Terrible Fruitcake”

City Circle Acting Company of Coralville presents “A Christmas Cabaret,” a brand-new online show streaming Dec. 18-20. Katie Colletta and Liz Tracey say it’s a brand new show, written by Katie, and will feature both well-known holiday favorites and some offbeat and hilarious songs, including one about a guy who must consume a horrible fruitcake.

Tickets available at www.coralvillearts.org.

Talking Pictures 12-2-20

The Wolf of Snow Hollow and The Boys (Amazon Prime) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.

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Culture Crawl 606 “The Official TCR Holiday Mouse”

It’s Christmas memories from many of your favorite performers in an online holiday variety show called “At Home for the Holidays,” opening Dec. 11 from Theatre Cedar Rapids.

TCR Artistic Director Angie Toomsen says the show is inspired by the holiday variety shows we grew up with, particularly the Muppet variety, as the host is a mouse, puppeted by Joe Link.

Opening Dec. 11. Get your virtual tickets or sign up for the whole TCR Winter package, which includes the return of the Divas, Lynne Rothrock and Janelle Lauer, and the return of Working Group Theatre’s original show, written right here in the Corridor, “Out of Bounds,” at www.theatrecr.org.

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Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet December 10, 2020

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place December 10, 2020.  Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

This Week In Jazz November 29 thru December 5


Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Billy Strayhorn, pianists John Bunch and Wynton Kelly, trumpeter Jack Sheldon, guitarist Jim Hall and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Satchmo at Symphony Hall” (1947), The Thelonious Monk Quartet w/ John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (1957), John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” (1959), The Art Farmer Quartet feat. Jim Hall Live at the Half-Note (1963) Hilton Ruiz’ “Strut” (1988) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!