Special Programs for May 24 thru May 30

Short List with host Bob Naujoks   

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

Vocal Short List: Alma Cogan

English singer Alma Cogan, though not a chart-buster in the United States, was famous in the 1950’s for her “sunny” voice and demeanor. Cogan was the highest-paid vocal star in England at the time. She was not only the first Jewish female superstar, but was also the first female singer to have her own television show.

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Preempted this Monday to present KCCK’s Memorial Day Special — the 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival

 

 

 

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Fred Woodard at Jazz Under the Stars

Guitarist Fred Woodard and his trio led off the 2009 Jazz Under the Stars celebration with a big helping of “straight-ahead jazz spiced with R&B.” Woodard was raised in Iowa City before studying at Boston’s Berklee School of Music. He’s made a career of taking sounds from styles other than jazz and making them new jazz standards.

 

 

 

Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Stefon Harris’s Lesson in Empathy 

Vibraphonist Stefon Harris has won countless awards and accolades for his playing. But, as host Christian McBride learns, all that praise means very little to him. “My ultimate passion,” says Harris, “is the proliferation of the empathy.” Harris explains what he means by this, and we hear a standout performance from the premier vibist of our age.

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler 

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Herbie Hancock & the Mwandishi Era, Part 2

Craig presents the second of at least 3 shows spotlighting the recordings of this stunning jazz group that Herbie operated from ’69 thru ’73. We’ll hear both studio and live recordings from Herbie and his artistic cohorts, Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, and Patrick Gleeson. This is some of the most incredible and overlooked music of the 20th century!

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

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

Paraphernalia: The Music of Wayne Shorter by Dave Askren & Jeff Benedict on Monday; Hypocrisy Democracy by Dave Glasser on Tuesday; Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation (Disc 1) by the Peripheral Vision on Wednesday; Plays the Music of Sam Jones by The Tnek Jazz Quintet on Thursday; Live at Rosa’s by Linsey Alexander on Friday; No Border Blues Japan by Johnny Burgin on Saturday; Across the Universe by Al Di Meola on Sunday

This Week In Jazz May 24 thru May 30

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of Miles Davis, bassists Eugene Wright, Max Bennett and Niels-Henning Osted-Pedersen, trumpeters Claudio Roditi, Wallace Roney and Randy Sandke, singers Peggy Lee, Gladys Knight, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Dee Dee Bridgewater and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Red Garland’s “Groovy” (1957), Hank Mobley’s “Far Away Lands” (1957), Duke Ellington’s “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959), Charles Mingus’ “Mingus Revisited” (1960), Dexter Gordon’s “Gettin’ Around” (1964), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974), Maynard Ferguson Live in San Francisco (1983) 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 May 25, 2020

       Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
Six years after Pat Metheny’s last studio recording, and fifteen years after the final Pat Metheny Group album, comes a set of brand new pieces recorded with a new band. “From This Place” features drummer Antonio Sanchez, bassist Linda May Han Oh and pianist Gwilym Simcock along with special guests Gregoire Maret on harmonica, Meshell Ndegeocello on vocals and Luis Conte on percussion. Pat also split up tracks on the disc and assigned them to two of the most distinguished and advanced arrangers on the scene today, the magnificent Alan Broadbent and the endlessly inventive Gil Goldstein. They produced brilliant charts for the band and the Hollywood Studio Symphony under the direction of Joel McNeely.

 

 

     Drummer Brian Andres unleashes an electrifying new project with the release of “Mayan Suite,” the inaugural recording of his Trio Latino. Though it finds Andres stepping back from his longtime leadership of the eight-piece Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, the new trio featuring pianist Christian Tumalan and bassist Aaron Germain shows itself to be every bit as musically rich as the larger ensemble. The album’s striking originals and zesty interpretations find the band equaling that richness with audacity. “There’s much more space to explore, for creative expression, and with that freedom there’s greater responsibilities for all three of us,” Brian explains. “Whether it’s bomba or mambo, even though there’s no hand drummer, those rhythms are represented.”

 

 

                   

Also this week, flutist Gerald Beckett showcases finely played covers and original compositions with an ensemble cast of San Francisco’s finest musicians on “Mood”;

 

 

 

 

            

 trumpeter Farnell Newton gets up on the good foot and heads of “Rippin’ & Runnin’”on his second release as a leader, with Brandon Wright’s hard-swinging tenor sax, alongside the all-star rhythm section of organist Brian Charette and drummer Rudy Royston;

 

 

 

           

    and Leni Stern, dubbed a “genre-defying adventurer” by Guitar Player magazine, showcases crystalline guitar work, West African rhythms and multilingual songs on her new release, “4.”

 

 

Iowa City Jazz Festival Memorial Day Broadcast

Danilo Perez, Chris Potter, and Ben Street onstage at the 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival

We kick off the summer of 2020 with a look back at one of 2019’s biggest jazz events, the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Listen all day for last year’s memorable performances, plus our exclusive backstage conversations with all the headliners.

Our broadcast is a little bittersweet, as we learned Friday that the 2020 festival won’t take place, at least not in the format we are used to. Please enjoy the 2019 performances as we all look forward to gathering again in downtown Iowa City in 2021.

Approximate Broadcast Schedule

6:00am – Craig Taborn’s Daylight Ghosts Quartet

7:10am – Sasha Berliner

8:35am – United Jazz Ensemble

9:20am – Ryan Keberle’s Catharsis

11:00am – Nayo Jones

12:20pm – North Corridor All Stars

1:10pm – Jane Bunnett & Macaqueque

2:40pm – Danilo Perez Trio

4:25pm – Craig Taborn’s Daylight Ghosts Quartet

5:35pm – Sasha Berliner

6:50pm – United Jazz Ensemble

7:35pm – Ryan Keberle’s Catharsis

8:55pm – Nayo Jones

10:15pm – North Corridor ll Stars

11:05pm -Jane Bunnett & Macaqueque

12:35am – Danilo Perez Trio

 

“Little by Little, You Catch the Monkey” – Alicia Rau

Trumpeter Alicia Rau grew up in rural southwest Iowa, studied abroad in Senegal, and now makes her home in New York. She plays her trumpet each night at 7pm to join the daily tribute to New York’s essential workers, and has also recorded around 40 school songs to celebrate students whose graduations and other activities were cancelled by the pandemic.

Visit her at www.aliciarau.com to hear more of her music, and check out her YouTube channel for her video series for kids “The Adventures of Squeaky T.”

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Talking Pictures 5-20-20

Emma (2020), Ozark (Netflix) and A Field in England (2013) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.

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Culture Crawl 571 “Disinfected Tiara”

Old Creamery Theatre presents the second edition of their online cabaret, “Songs to Make You Smile: A Virtual Encore,” May 23 at 7:30pm.

The show will benefit four area theatres: Old Creamery, Riverside, City Circle, and Theatre Cedar Rapids, with performances from more than a dozen of the Corridor’s favorite performers.

In this show, several youth performers will be featured, including Katey Halverson and Shea Saunders, who team up with their voice teacher, Mia Fryvecind Gimenez to perform “I Know It’s Today,” from Shrek.

The first Songs to Make You Smile raised $17,000 for the participating theatres, and organizers hope for a similar outcome this time.

Admission is a suggested $5 donation at https://donorbox.org/encore. Watch the live stream on any of the four organizations’ Facebook pages.

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This Week In Jazz May 17 thru May 23

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singer/composer Fats Waller, clarinetist/bandleader Artie Shaw, vibist Joe Roland, saxmen Jackie McLean, Dewey Redman and Sonny Fortune, singers Rosemary Clooney, Jackie Cain and Blues shouter Big Joe Turner, drummers Larance Marable, Dick Berk and Victor Lewis, bagpiper Rufus Harley and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Jazz Contrasts” (1957), Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959), Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1963), Grant Green’s “Matador” (1964), Ella Fitzgerald – In Budapest (1970), Ahmad Jamal in Concert (1980) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.