Soul Sacrifice will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, January 3, 2018 at 5 p.m. The first set will be broadcast live on KCCK. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin, contemporary music and more in an intimate, upscale environment. For a $12 cover, enjoy live music and drink specials at the Opus Concert Café bar the first Friday of every month. Purchase tickets.
First Friday Jazz January 3
Culture Crawl 532 “Glitter Everywhere”
Brucemore mansion in Cedar Rapids is a top holiday attraction in the Corridor, but it’s not too late to schedule a holiday tour. In fact, you can experience Brucemore for the holidays through Dec. 29. Melissa Porter says tours are offered Wednesday through Saturday. On Thursdays and Sundays you can also enjoy holiday tunes on the fully restored Skinner Pipe Organ.
www.brucemore.org for advance tickets and tour schedule.
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Special Programs for December 16 thru December 21
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Bob’s Baker’s Dozen: Leroy Carr
Bluesman Leroy Carr’s short, prolific career in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s was not without its impact. Carr was a considerable influence on the vocal styles of Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, and T-Bone Walker. Compositions like “Blues Before Sunrise” and “Hurry Down Sunshine” are covered today. Carr’s works are among the go-to songs for the Count Basie Orchestra, Memphis Slim, and Eric Clapton.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Verve Records in 1959
Craig journeys back 60 years to look in on many of the classiest jazz records ever made … Verve Records in 1959. We’ll hear from jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hodges, Sonny Stitt, Mel Torme, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, and many others. Don’t miss this one!!
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Dee Alexander Christmas Special
‘Tis the Wednesday before Christmas, and KCCK presents Chicago’s First Lady of Jazz for a special holiday treat. Join us as Dee Alexander sings holiday favorites old and new, backed by her award-winning combo. Then, stay tuned for an uninterrupted hour of KCCK’s Christmas Channel. It’s a commercial-free playlist of the greatest holiday jazz ever recorded. Guaranteed to melt away that inner Grinch! You can also find the Christmas Channel all season long at kcck.org/jazz2.
Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
ECM Records at 50
Host Christian McBride takes us to the Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville for the 50th anniversary celebration of ECM records. Featured are riveting performances by three ECM artists carrying the torch today – Carla Bley, Avishai Cohen, and Nik Bartsch.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
The 2019 Holiday Show
Craig spins a tasty mix of holiday jazz faves, some holiday obscurities, and some easy going ultra-mellow jazz gems, to cook up the perfect recipe for a relaxing, yet spirited holiday presentation. We look forward to sharing some cheer and glad tidings with all of our listeners! Best wishes to all!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish. Tune in at Midnight for:
Yesun by Roberto Fonseca on Monday; Live at Rossmoor by Lionel Hampton Big Band featuring Jason Marsalis on Tuesday; Bird at 100 by Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson & Gary Bartz on Wednesday; A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band by Big Band of Brothers on Thursday; Yesterday’s Gone by Nicholas David on Friday; Mississippi Blend by Ghalia on Saturday; Modern Ancestors by Carmen Lundy on Sunday.
This Week In Jazz December 15 thru December 21
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/bandleader Stan Kenton, songwriter Andy Razaf, flutist Sam Most, organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith, saxmen Joe Farrell, Sonny Red and Eric Marienthal, trumpeter Bobby Porcelli and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Stitt’s “Kaleidascope” (1950), Sonny Rollins & the MJQ (1951), Bill Evans’ “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” (1958), Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery’s “Bags Meets Wes” (1961), Sathima Bea Benjamin’s “Southern Touch” (1989), Louie Bellson & His Big Band “Live from New York” (1993) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
New Music Monday for December 16, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Bassist Richie Goods credits jazz luminary Mulgrew Miller for helping him hone his jazz skills early in his career. He toured and recorded with the pianist for nine years. That opportunity brought Richie to the attention of many in the jazz community and afforded him the opportunity to record and tour with a variety of jazz artists ranging from the Headhunters, Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderly Legacy Band and Milt Jackson to Russell Malone, Vincent Herring, and the Manhattan Transfer. Now he pays tribute to Mulgrew with “My Left Hand Man,” featuring fresh takes of Miller’s compositions.
The Mediterranean Sea is framed by cultures that have shaped modern thought and art. The music of the region is wildly diverse but remarkably interconnected. Spanish pianist Chano Dominguez and Israeli flutist Hadar Noiberg have found each other, and their musical languages fit beautifully, as can be heard on their new recording, “Paramus.” Dominguez has long been considered one of the most influential pianist to emerge from Spain. His work in incorporating the flamenco styles of his native Andalusia into the improvised language of jazz has been revolutionary. The classically trained Noiberg went to New York from Israel to further her studies when she was 21. Since then she has been involved in musical projects of all sorts including work with Anat Cohen and Dave Valentin.
Also this week, pianist and vocalist Jon Batiste releases the second of a two-part series recorded during a six-night residency in the Fall of 2018, “Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard”;
award-winning guitarist Jim Robitaille is joined by sax great Dave Liebman for his first group recording in nearly decade, “A View From Within”;
and pocket trumpeter, composer and vocalist Ginetta Minichiello leads her band Ginetta’s Vendetta on “A Pocketful of Cool.”
Holiday Jazz When You Want It!
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Talking Pictures 12-11-19
Dolemite Is My Name, Cold War and Never Look Away with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Scott Chrisman.
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Culture Crawl 531 “She’s Gonna Need a Bigger Gown”
Because she’s bringing her show to a bigger stage!
Singer Amy Friedl Stoner brings her Christmas Cabaret to the Paramount Theatre for one night only, Dec. 13. She tells Dennis how she and her music and a/v team are going to make sure that the intimate and personal atmosphere of the cabaret translates well to one of the Corridor’s larger venues.
And also, Amy’s love/hate relationship with Elf on a Shelf.
Tickets at www.artsiowa.com.
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