Special Programs For June 24 thru June 29

Short List with host Bob Naujoks    

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

Women In Jazz: Marjorie Hyams 

Our summer-long series of Women in Jazz continues with vibes master Marjorie Hyams. She was also a prolific arranger, and led her own band trio and quartet in the late 1940s. Through the course of her career, she collaborated with Woody Herman, George Shearing, Mary Lou Williams, Tal Farlow, and many others.

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

The Music of Bill Evans, 1957 & 1958

Craig surveys more of the early recordings of the great Bill Evans.  We’ll hear Evans as a leader, as well as performances with Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, George Russell, Chet Baker, and others.  Very important listening from one of the biggest names in modern jazz piano. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM   

Amanda Monaco at the 2017 Iowa City Jazz Festival 

We continue our brief look back at standout performances from recent Iowa City Jazz Festivals. Guitarist Amanda Monaco got everyone’s attention with her stellar CD release, Glitter, featuring her best friend, saxophonist Lauren Sevian. She brought her bestie along to the Iowa City Jazz Festival in 2018 and gave the crowd on the UI Pentacrest a fun, energetic set.

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Sweet Papa Lou 

Christian McBride joins saxman “Sweet Papa Lou” Donaldson to hear work from his quartet and to sit down and discuss his amazing career. This NEA Jazz Master has collaborated with countless legends – from Art Blakey to Thelonious Monk to Clifford Brown – and in the process has created a wealth of immortal music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon

The Annual Iowa City Jazz Festival Preview Show

Craig presents a look at some of the key performers for the 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival. We’ll hear from Jane Bunnett, The Bad Plus, Ryan Keberle, Danilo Perez, Chris Potter, and others.  We’ll also hear from some of the side stage performers such as Blake Shaw, Steve Grismore, The Heartland Trio, Saul Lubaroff, Jarrett Purdy, Ritmocano, and others. Get in on all the fun! 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: 

http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/

New Music Monday for June 24, 2019

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With “Songs Were Made to Sing,” vocalist Mary Stallings has crafted an exquisite collection of classic songs that reflect a life well and passionately lived. Although she didn’t write any of the lyrics on the disc, each one represents a chapter in her life. The soulful chanteuse worked closely with pianist David Hazeltine, who tailored the disc’s vibrant arrangements to Stalling’s singular voice and to the stellar band that was assembled for the date, which brings together such greats as trumpeter Eddied Henderson, saxophonist Vincent Herring and drummer Joe Farnsworth. “It’s amazing how you can feel things in your heart and in your mind but not find the words to say them,” Ms. Stallings says. “So I pick tunes that seem to apply to me personally, and a story grows out of that.”

 

 

 

 

Trumpeter, bandleader, composer and arranger Rich Willey is firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. His horn playing draws upon the wellspring of bebop with a contemporary freshness. His compositions and arrangements are thoughtful and substantial. And he’s one of only a select few jazz trumpeters to add the bass trumpet to his musical palette. Over the years, he’s worked with Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Hank Mobley, Tommy Flanagan and Chris Potter among other greats. For his fourth disc as a leader, “Down & Dirty,” Rich has collaborated with Michael Abene, Gordon Goodwin, Wally Minko and Chris Walden in arranging his compositions for the 18-piece Boptism Big Band.

 

 

 

 

 

     

Also this week, George Cables, who has been pianist of choice for Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Art Pepper and other jazz giants over the years, is joined by trio mates Essiet Essiet on bass and Victor Lewis on drums for “I’m All Smiles”;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  

 

the Anat Cohen Tentet follows up its 2017 debut with the stirring “Triple Helix”;

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

   and organist Akiko Tsuruga, guitarist Graham Dechter and drummer Jeff Hamilton, who appeared at the Iowa City Jazz Festival several years ago, unveil “Equal Time.”   

 

 

 

 

 

Clean Up Your Act 7-10-19

Iowans might face higher health risks because of nitrates in drinking water.

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Talking Pictures 6-19-19

Men In Black: International, Late Night, The Souvenir, Chernobyl and Good Omens with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica Schmidt.

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Culture Crawl 468 “Dueling Newsies”

Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) is in with a roundup of upcoming events. Don’t miss your chance to see not one, but two excellent productions of “Newsies” in the Corridor, as well as the final two weeks of Old Creamery’s “Once A Ponzi Time,” and more.

Details on these and hundreds of other events at www.culturalcorridor.org.

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Culture Crawl 467 “Band on the Tarp”

Steve Shanley, director of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, outlines the next two shows in the Band’s season.

June 19, the band performs at The History Center for the very first time, and will feature Kevin Judge, bassoon professor at Iowa State, performing a Mozart concerto, Callie Fay from Xavier featured as a Young Artist, and music from Star Wars. The concert repeats June 23 at Ellis Park. Come at 6:30 to hear CR Jazz perform prior to the Muni Band.

June 26 and 30, Young Artist contest winner Jaden Hanson from Linn Mar will perform. Principal flutist Shivahn Dohse Morton will perform a very cool arrangement of “Ain’t No Sunshine,” which will also feature her husband, jazz bassist Drew Morton. Principal Oboist Lesley Fleer will guest conduct, and enjoy a Leonard Bernstein medley.

Municipal Band concerts are 7:30pm. Visit www.crmuniband.org for the full schedule and location info.

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This Week In Jazz June 16 thru June 22

Hey, Jazz fans!!!

 

Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer saxmen Lucky Thompson, Joe Thomas and Eric Dolphy, songwriter Sammy Khan, composer Lalo Schifrin, trombonist Jimmy Cheatham, bassist Jamil Nasser and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of ”Inglewood Jam: Bird & Chet” (1953), Elmo Hope “Trio & Quintet” (1953), The Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Cookbook, Vol. 1” (1958), Hank Mobley’s “Dippin’” (1965), Bill Evans’ “Montreux II (1970), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

Special Programs For June 17 thru June 22

Short List with host Bob Naujoks    

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

Women In Jazz: Jane Ira Bloom 

We begin our summer-long series of Women in Jazz with Jane Ira Bloom. Hailed as one of the premier reed artists of the day, Bloom has recorded 20 critically-acclaimed albums. Always an innovator, the Grammy-winning soprano saxophonist’s latest work, “Wild Lines,” incorporates the poetry of Emily Dickenson into her music. NASA even named an asteroid for her.

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Prestige Records in 1959, Part 2

Craig looks in again on Prestige Records in 1959. In this second show, we’ll hear selections from the latter half of the year, with mega-tasty tunes from the likes of Benny Golson, Shirley Scott, Yusef Lateef, Willis Jackson, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, and a host of others. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM   

John Raymond & Real Feels at the 2017 Iowa City Jazz Festival 

As we get set for this year’s stellar lineup, we take a quick look back at one of the recent standout performances from the Iowa City Jazz Festival. John Raymond & Real Feels took the main stage in 2017 and gave the crowd a set of stellar jazz that pushed the boundaries. Downbeat Magazine hails Raymond for his live performances, and his 2017 Jazz Fest set proves them right.

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life 

Behind the music, Billy Strayhorn led a complex and often vice-driven life. While composing some of the most harmonically rich jazz of its time, often in the shadow of Duke Ellington, Strayhorn was an outlier in that he led an openly gay life as a black man in the homophobic 1940’s. This week, interviews with Strayhorn family members, Strayhorn’s biographer, and rare archival tape of Strayhorn himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon

The Music of Bill Evans, 1957 & 1958

Craig surveys more of the early recordings of the great Bill Evans. We’ll hear Evans as a leader, as well as performances with Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, George Russell, Chet Baker, and others. Very important listening from one of the biggest names in modern jazz piano. 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: 

http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/