Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
B-3 Blitz: Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was not the first keyboardist to take up the B-3, but he is considered the preeminent virtuoso. Smith’s improvisation technique popularized the electric organ as a jazz instrument. Smith’s influenced generations of younger B-3 masters, and he worked within the whole spectrum of music – from Oliver Nelson and Kenny Burrell to Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Monday Night Live
Join Craig for a special live Monday night broadcast featuring, a tribute to six jazz artists who have passed on during the previous 9 months. Craig honors pianist Harold Mabern, trumpet and flugelhorn master Herbert Joos, guitarist Vic Juris, pianist Wolfgang Dauner, bassist Henry Grimes, and reedman Giuseppi Logan.
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
The Fez at Jazz Under the Stars
The Fez, 15 of Eastern Iowa’s finest musicians (and biggest fans of Steely Dan), served the Jazz Under the Stars crowd a huge helping of jazz/rock fusion. They’re dedicated to the works of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and the audience had a blast “rocking the Dan.”
Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Conversation with Wynton Marsalis
Host Christian McBride sits down with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s director, Wynton Marsalis, for a conversation on art and its effect on societal change. Marsalis won the Pulitzer Prize for his magnum opus, Blood on the Fields. He and McBride explore the question, “What is the job of the artist during a time of social upheaval?”
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Tribute to Robert Northern
Craig pays tribute to jazz French horn player, Bob Northern (aka “Brother Ah”). We’ll hear from a number of his own releases, as well as from a number of jazz classics by the likes of John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Gil Evans, Andrew Hill, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, and many others.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
Moon Walk by Fred Randolph on Monday; Reed Between the Lines by Jake Reed on Tuesday; For Now by Brian Landrus on Wednesday; The Intangible Between by Orrin Evans & the Captain Black Big Band on Thursday; MacDaddy Mojeaux by Gregg Martinez on Friday; CD Woodbury by the Johnny Burgin on Saturday;All in All by Dan Wilensky on Sunday
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Short List with host Bob Naujoks 
The Wednesday Night Special
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Richard Rodgers pianists Richard Wyands and Ahmad Jamal, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Frank Loesser, singers Lena Horne, Johnny Hartman and Melissa Walker, bassist Stanley Clarke and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young’s “Blue Lester” (1944), Johnny Hodges’ “Used to Be Duke” (1954), Blue Mitchell’s “Big 6” (1958), Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out” (1959), Gerry Mulligan’s “Geru” (1962), The Gene Harris Quartet’s “Black and Blue” (1991), James Moody & the Hank Jones Quartet’s “Our Delight” (2006) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
Iowa City native Bridget Kearney has toured the world and performed on The Tonight Show, Stephen Colbert, and countless others as a part of Lake Street Dive. In fact, just before the pandemic shut everything down, legendary singer Mavis Staples sat in with the band!