Special Programs for June 22 thru June 27

Short List with host Bob Naujoks   

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

B-3 Blitz: Wild Bill Davis

Widely regarded as the inventor of the organ combo, Wild Bill Davis got his start playing in one of the most celebrated ‘territory bands’ of the early 1940’s. Davis went on to play jump blues and boogie-woogie with Louis Jordan. Count Basie was a big fan of Davis, and his big band arrangement of the standard “April in Paris” became a huge hit for Basie. Organ legend Jimmy Smith credits Davis for his decision to switch from piano to the B-3.

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Cal Tjader & Vince Guaraldi

Craig takes a look at two career paths that often intersected each other surrounding Latin-styled jazz in the San Francisco area.  We’ll hear recordings from the 1950s and 1960s from pianist Vincent Anthony Dellaglio (Vince Guaraldi), and Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. (Cal Tjader). This is mostly material recorded for the SF-based Fantasy Records.  Keep your dancin’ shoes at the ready!

 

 

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Colossus at Jazz Under the Stars

Fresh off the release of their self-titled album, Colossus took the Noelridge Park stage at 2014’s Jazz Under the Stars. Trombonist Mike Conrad, a graduate of the acclaimed UNI jazz program, and 16 of his most talented friends, treated the crowd to original compositions and fresh arrangements of classic charts. Listen for the saxophone work of rising star Alexa Tarantino as you enjoy the show!

 

 

Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Dee Dee Bridgewater’s “Songs of Freedom” 

Jazz Night in America spotlights Grammy and Tony Award-winning and superstar Dee Dee Bridgewater on a program featuring “Songs of Freedom” from Jazz at Lincoln Center.  Dee Dee shares her memories of Abby Lincoln and Nina Simone.

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler 

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Jazz in the Movies  

It’s been several years since Craig has taken us to the cinema, so it’s high time we revisit the air-conditioned comfort of our local jazz show and lose ourselves in the music of Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Chico Hamilton, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers, and others.  Always great fun, thrills and chills!

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

The Way I Feel by Bernard Scavella on Monday; I Fall in Love Too Easily by Larry Willis on Tuesday; Smile by Bill Warfield & the Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra on Wednesday; Be Water by Christian Sands on Thursday; Live & Unreleased (Disc One) by the Brecker Brothers on Friday; Live & Unreleased (Disc 2) by the Brecker Brothers on Saturday; Gentle Beacons by Tim Shaghoian on Sunday

Gabe Medd

Dennis Green talks with Iowa City native and New York trumpeter Gabe Medd about his personal experience with COVID-19, and how he is making music during the pandemic, including a virtual performance with Gabe in his friend Chad LB’s Big Band.

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New Music Monday for June 22, 2020

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After several appearances as a guest with guitarist Dave Stryker’s Organ Trio, saxophonist Bob Mintzer, who serves as the principal conductor for the WDR Big Band of Cologne, Germany, had the idea to arrange some of Dave’s music to feature him with the ensemble. Bob thought Stryker’s hip take of ‘70s pop tunes from his Eight Track series as well as his originals would be a good fit for the dynamic big band. In March of last year, Dave was invited to Germany for a week of rehearsals, recording and performing with the WDR Big Band, the result of which is the new CD, “Blue Soul.”

 

 

     The United States has been in the midst of foreign military engagements nearly every year since guitarist and composer Joel Harrison’s birth in 1957. This endless state of war has had lasting impacts on the country’s well being, and far reaching repercussions on generations of soldiers and their families. Harrison’s new large ensemble recording, “America at War,” is a musical meditation on a lifetime of armed conflicts conducted by the United States.

 

 

 

                

Also this week, saxophonist and composer Alexa Tarantino offers up her second release as a leader for Posi-Tone Records, “Clarity”;

 

 

 

 

                

the trio La Lucha is joined by special guests Ken Peplowski on clarinet, Chuck Redd on vibes, and saxophonists Melissa Aldana and Houston Person on “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”;

 

 

 

           

 and “Look for the Light” marks the first release for bassist Jeff Reed as a leader, a collection of standards and original material inspired by the birth of his son in 2011.

 

 

 

Clean Up Your Act – 7-13-20

The similarities of dealing with COVID-19 and climate change.

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Talking Pictures 6-17-20

Judy & Punch (2020), The Good Liar (2019) and Game of Thrones (Season 8) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.

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Special Programs for June 15 thru June 20

Short List with host Bob Naujoks   

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

B-3 Blitz: Fats Waller & Count Basie

While Fats Waller is best known for his stride piano work, the pipe organ was his favorite instrument. He incorporated into his music throughout his career. Count Basie shared Waller’s affinity for the organ, learning how to play from Fats himself as Waller accompanied silent films in movie theaters. While there are very few recordings of Basie on the organ, he would often delight audiences from time to time during his live shows.

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Dial Records & the 75th Anniversary of Be-Bop

Craig presents a look at another early independent record label that documented the new “modern jazz” (be-bop of the mid-1940s). Formed in Hollywood in 1945 with the purpose of recording Parker, Dial also recorded Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Howard McGhee, and a number of others. Don’t miss this look at yet another important record label in the development of modern jazz!

 

 

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Music of the Civil Rights & Black Consciousness Movements

Countless musicians have contributed to the conversation on race, equality, and social justice in America. Join KCCK as we examine and reflect, through the music and words of Nina Simone, Max Roach, Gil Scott-Heron, Archie Shepp, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and many others, as well as the history makers and social revolutionaries of that era.

 

 

 

Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Muldrow & Moran Play Mingus 

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist Georgia Anne Muldrow is entrenched in the alternative r&b scene, but she was born out of jazz family. She joins pianist Jason Moran and his band at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for a program featuring her own original music and their interpretations of music by Charles Mingus.

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler 

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Cal Tjader & Vince Guaraldi

Craig takes a look at two career paths that often intersected each other surrounding Latin-styled jazz in the San Francisco area.  We’ll hear recordings from the 1950s and 1960s from pianist Vincent Anthony Dellaglio (Vince Guaraldi), and Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. (Cal Tjader). This is mostly material recorded for the SF-based Fantasy Records.  Keep your dancin’ shoes at the ready!

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

I Love to See You Smile by 3D Jazz Trio on Monday; Anemone by Vito Dieterle on Tuesday; A Wake of Sorrows Engulfed in Rage by Alain Mallet on Wednesday; Swallow Tales by John Scofield on Thursday; Orange by No Name James on Friday; Lounging at the Wood by The Soul Searchers on Saturday; Ode to the Road by Dena DeRose on Sunday

This Week In Jazz 14 thru June 20

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Jerry Jerome, Joe Thomas, Lucky Thompson and Javon Jackson, pianists Erroll Garner, Jaki Byard and Kenny Drew, Jr., bassists Chuck Rainey and Chuck Berghofer, singers Dave Lambert and Dominic eade, songwriter Sammu Kahn and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Chet Baker’s “Inglewood Jam: Bird & Jet” (1952), Elmo Hope’s “Trio & Quintet” (1953), Horace Silver Quintet’s “Six Pieces of Silver” (1958), Gene Ammons “Boss Tenor” (1960), Hank Mobley’s “Straight, No Filter” (1966), Miles Davis’ “Filles de Kilimanjaro” (1968), Bill Evans’ “Montreux II” (1970), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974), The Nagel-Heyers All-Stars’ “Uptown Downtown: A Salute to the Big Apple” (1999) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

New Music Monday for June 15, 2020

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It may be somewhat ironic, yet ultimately fitting, that the final recording by Larry Willis brought the veteran pianist and composer back to the place where he first began his impressive career as a recording artist, a career that spanned six decades. He first entered the hallowed halls of Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey studios as a twenty-two year-old graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in January of 1965 to record with Jackie McLean for Blue Note Records. Willis’s expansive resume includes entries with the likes of Cannonball and Nat Adderly, Stan Getz, Carmen McRae, Woody Shaw, and many more. He appeared on hundreds of albums as a sideman and dozens more as a leader. His final CD, “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” features long-time friends Victor Lewis and Joe Ford and his relatively new colleague Jeremy Pelt.

 

 

 

     With a lyrical modern jazz sensibility, saxophonist and composer Tim Shaghoian’s debut album is a thoughtful exploration of hope and wonder. His compositions developed as gentle beacons guiding him toward a sense of clarity in understanding life events that have impacted him most. His nine original pieces, performed by his California-based quintet, dance with subtle shifts of emotion while song-like melodies are framed in unexpected rhythmic and harmonic structure.     

 

 

 

 

Also this week, trumpeter-composer-arranger Bill Warfield has one foot deeply embedded in funk and the other striding into the further reaches of jazz while leading his Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra on “Smile”;

 

 

 

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 pianist Christian Sands reunites with bassist Yasushi Nakamura and saxophonist Marcus Strickland, and is joined by trumpeter Sean Jones, trombonist Steve Davis, guitarist Marven Sewell and drummer Clarence Penn for his third full-length recording, “Be Water”;

 

 

 

     

and “The Way I Feel” is the latest from Chicago saxophonist  Bernard Scavella.