Chris Cannon and Abbie Larson from the Lisbon Jazz Ensemble play a lot of their own music, including past Corridor Jazz tunes and some from a recent Cornell College Jazz concert. Plus a nice helping Basie, Coltrane, Chuck Mangione, and more.
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A local group is encouraging fighting climate change with diet change. Vegan Outreach.
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Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Galloping Guitars: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Kurt Rosenwinkel joined Gary Burton’s quartet while studying at Boston’s Berklee School of Music. He toured and recorded with Burton, while building steady success in clubs and overseas. He has worked for decades with the cream of contemporary musicians.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Jean-Luc Ponty – The Early Years
Craig presents early music from this prolific titan of jazz violin. We’ll hear trios, quartets, and more, in the company of George Duke, Wolfgang Dauner, NHOPederson, Leo Wright, Carmell Jones, Ernie Watts, Buell Neidlinger, Bud Shank, and many more.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
2018 Homecoming Concert with Dick Oatts
Saxman Dick Oatts returned to Iowa for KCCK’s second annual Homecoming Concert. The crowd at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts heard two solid sets of new material and favorites from his long and storied career. Oatts even jammed with some hand-picked student musicians on a chart they’d composed together. It was a night of fun memories and great jazz!
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Abdullah Ibrahim’s South Africa
Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, also known by the nickname “Dollar Brand,” is the composer of symphonic works, choral works, film scores and, in his early 80s, is still very active with his band touring the world. This concert comes from Town Hall in New York City on 2017’s South Africa Freedom Day. In addition to his own compositions, Ibrahim revisits music from his years in the Jazz Epistles (1960), a short lived, legendary South African bebop band.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at Noon
Great Bands of the 1970’s – Keith Jarrett, Part 2
Craig presents another helping of 1970s brilliance from pianist, saxophonist, and composer, Keith Jarrett. We’ll hear fine offerings from Keith’s recordings on ECM and Impulse, featuring selections from Jarrett’s “American Quartet” and the “European Quartet.” Jarrett’s music from this period helped defined jazz in the 1970s.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
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Psychologists have found that the average person’s musical taste “freezes” in their late twenties or early thirties, so for those of a certain age, the music of the Seventies is indelibly stamped on our brains.
Doug and Gayle Elliott are taking advantage of this with a cabaret show, “Shamelessly 70s,” where they will revisit famous songs from that decade that for one reason or another, we might not hear so much anymore. All with a 2019 spin, with instrumental support from Gerard Estella, Jason Wright, and Greg Kanz.
May 10 and 11 at Opus Concert Café. Tickets at www.artsiowa.com.
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Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Blossom Dearie, Bing Crosby, Shirley Horn, and Willie Nelson, brassmen Mario Bauza, Maynard Ferguson, Jimmy Cleveland, and Richard Williams, organist Richard “Groove” Holmes and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Clark Terry’s “Serenade to a Bus Seat” (1957), Gene Simmons’ “Blue Gene” (1958), John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” (1959), “Thelonious Monk Quartet plus Two – At The Blackhawk” (1960) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
Family Folk Machine is Iowa City’s intergenerational, non-auditioned folk choir. They sing American folk tunes as well as new compositions created by the members. Directors Jean Littlejohn and Gayla Drake say Family Folk Machine offers not just vocal practice and songwriting, but also lessons on traditional folk instruments.
The choir’s spring concert, “Many Voices/One Voice: We Are One Community,” May 11 at 2pm at the Englert Theatre. Admission is free, with a freewill offering.
Details at www.familyfolkmachine.org.
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Brittany Anjou has explored everything from Ahmad Jamal to Bikini Kill at the piano on three continents, between roiling original compositions inspired by Bartok, Stravinsky, Red Garland and McCoy Tyner. It makes great artistic sense that the title of her first major piano trio album and the five-part suite contained within is in Esperanto, the ‘constructed’ international language. Just as Anjou’s English-language title, “Reciprocal Love,” becomes “Enamigo Reciprokataj,” so too does the mainstream language of the piano jazz she loves get translated into something strikingly different. With its minimalist repetitions, free-jazz-meets-Rachmaninoff flourishes and electronic framing, there’s a trippy sense of expansiveness in the music.
Created in 2004, the SFJazz Collective is a one-of-a-kind octet comprised of some of the most creative and acclaimed improvisers, composers and bandleaders in the contemporary jazz world. It aims to celebrate and renew the jazz tradition, with each member composing a new work for the instrumental voices in the band that year, as well as arranging a piece by one of the modern masters the Collective has spotlighted annually. The new set, “The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions,” was recorded live during last year’s season at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco and features, among others, Miguel Zenon, David Sanchez, Etienne Charles, Robin Eubanks and Warren Wolf.
Also this week, saxophonist Jim Snidero is joined by trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and piano phenom Orrin Evans for “Waves of Calm”;
drummer Kenneth Brown has Nicholas Payton and Chris Potter on the front line for his sophomore release, “2nd Chances”;
and keyboardist Keiko Matsui offers up a collection that is elegant, playful, melodic and full of heart with “Echo.”
Penguins, The Last Laugh, The Best of Enemies, The Curse of La Llorona and a preview of Avengers: Endgame with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Scott Chrisman.
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