Join Iowa’s Jazz Station for 38 hours of uninterrupted holiday music to bring the seasonal spirit to this unusual year. We’ll kick off our holiday programming at 10am Christmas Eve and continue all the way through Christmas night. All commercial free, of course.
Of course, if you can’t wait, KCCK’s Christmas Channel is pumping out the best jazz of the season right now!
Upgrade your holiday music experience on KCCK’s mobile app, at www.kcckjazz2.org, or at 88.3-2 on your HD Radio.
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummer/bandleader Panama Francis, saxmen Hank Crawford, Frank Morgan and Ronnie Cuber, and Ralph Moore, singers Esther Phillips, singer/bandleader Cab Calloway and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Django” (1954), John Coltrane Quartet’s “Ballads” (1961), Lee Morgan’s“: The Sidewinder” (1963), David “Fathead” Newman’s “Fire” (1971) Patricia Barber’s “The Cole Porter Mix” (2007) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Short List: “The Hits”
The Short List begins a series about jazz tunes that became popular hits. There have been a number of significant jazz artists who have charted well. This week we look back at some Number One hits of the 1950s and 1960s – Acker Bilk’s “Stranger On the Shore,” Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly,” Ray Charles’s “Georgia On My Mind” & “Hit the Road Jack,” and Herb Alpert’s “This Guy’s in Love With You.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
JCOTW’s 2020 Holiday Show
As we do every year, Craig spins all manner of jazz holiday goodies, including material from Duke Ellington, Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, Kenny Burrell, and many others! You’ll hear some familiar favorites, as well as some beautiful mellow pieces designed to help bring down the levels of some of our holiday stress. We hope that you can join us.
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
A Dan Knight Christmas
KCCK presents a musical “Christmas card” to brighten the holiday season, as we present “A Dan Knight Christmas.” Pianist Dan Knight is joined by special guests for some seasonal favorites and new classics, full of heart, soul, and swing! Stoke the yule log, pour another mug of nog, and enjoy!
KCCK’s Christmas Channel
Enjoy the hippest Holiday music on KCCK’s Christmas Channel, Christmas Eve and all day Christmas Day.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Jazz in 1970
Craig looks at a wide variety of jazz goodies in all styles, that were recorded 50 years ago, during the year 1970. We’ll hear all sorts of great examples from folks like Miles, Chick, Herbie, McCoy, Alice Coltrane, and a throng of other jazz greats. Be There!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
Cachai by Anibal Rojas on Monday;Volume 1 – To the Nth by The Nimmons Tribute on Tuesday; Straight Round by Four80East on Wednesday; Enjoy KCCK’s Christmas Channel on Thursday; So Much Trouble by the David Rotundo Band on Friday; Are You Ready? The Mississippi Sessions by Danny Brooks & Lil Miss Debi on Saturday; This Dream of You by Diana Krall on Sunday
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
Hailing from Indianapolis, David Childs has worked as a professional pianist in the Northeastern United States for over 30 years. He has shared the stage with jazz greats like Jimmy Heath, James Moody, Bill Watrous and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. “Playing music well is not child’s play; however, with the right people in the right setting, it can feel easy, instinctive, and unrestrained,” say Childs of his new release, “Childs Play.” Along with world-renowned bassist Brian Torff and New York Ciy-based drummer Greg Burrows, Childs features a set of songs that highlights his intrigue with “the inherent dualities and contrasts in this music we call jazz.”
Ulas Hazar, known professionally as Hazar, is a superb guitarist who deserves to be discovered in North America. A virtuoso who is classically trained, he is also a brilliant jazz improviser and a swinging soloist. Hazar, who grew up in Germany, spent years dealing with the saz, a three-stringed long-necked lute, microtonal music, and polyrhythms, inspired by Paco de Lucia. Following the advice of John McLaughlin, he then took up the acoustic guitar. On his new CD, “Reincarnated,” Hazar and his quartet are teamed with guest guitarist Al Di Meola on a set of material that ranges from Brazilian music to Gypsy Swing to hard-swinging bebop.
Also this week, Russian-born Los Angeles-based bassist and bandleader Igor Kogan offers up nine original compositions written for his quintet on “In a Big City”;
saxophonist Derek Brown’s third studio album, “All Figured Out,” features his original music as performed by the Holland, Michigan, Concert Jazz Orchestra;
and Vancouver-based flutist Tom Keenlyside unveils a new quartet recording, “Fortune Teller.”
The Swiss Family Bostian is back! “Holidays with Wolfgang” is a post-Christmas concert streamed on YouTube by Red Cedar Chamber Music. Principals Miera Kim and Carey Bostian will be joined by their sons Oliver and Adrian for a program that includes a well-known Mozart piece and the premiere of a composition by Red Cedar composer-in-residence Michael Kimber that Kimber wrote in 1964 when he was just nineteen!
Two performances streamed live on December 27 and 28. Details at www.redcedar.org.
Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (The Godfather: Part III recut), Valentine: The Dark Avenger (2017) and Krampus (2015) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Ron Adkins.
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The Englert Theatre and Filmscene of Iowa City are in the “Final Act” of their $6 million Strengthen Grow Evolve Campaign, which ends just after the first of the year.
An exciting symbol of the campaign’s progress will the lighting of the completely refurbished Englert marquee, Dec. 18 at 5pm. Limited in-person attendance will be available, and you can also watch online.
Details at www.englert.org and www.strengthengrowevolve.org.
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Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of horn man Clark Terry, pianists Phineas Newborn, Jr. and Barry Harris, composer/bandleader Stan Kenton, reedman Sam Most, singer Abbe Lane and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers” (1945), Red garland’s “Groovy” (1956), Bill Evans’ “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” (1958), George Cables’ “Cables’ Vision” (1979), singer Melissa Walker’s “Moment of Truth” (1998) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!
