Talking Pictures 11-7-18

Bohemian Rhapsody and The Happy Prince with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Scott Chrisman.

Clean Up Your Act 11-20-18

Toxic bacteria blooms are impacting public drinking water systems in Iowa.

Join KCCK for a Week in The Big Easy!

Iowa’s Jazz Station is headed back to New Orleans for an unforgettable week of music, food, and sightseeing! We depart in May for a trip that includes a day at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, preparing gumbo with world famous chefs, a tour of the French Quarter, riverboat cruise, and more.

Everything New Orleans from beignets at Café du Monde to dinner at the famous Court of Two Sisters.  

 

5 Days May 2-6, 2019

Highlights

  • 4 Nights in the French Quarter
  • New Orleans Jazz Festival
  • French Quarter Walking Tour
  • Steamboat Natchez Cruise
  • Café du Monde
  • Court of Two Sisters Dinner
  • New Orleans School of Cooking
  • New Orleans City Tour
  • Oak Alley Plantation

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND TO DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE.

Special Programs for November 5 thru November 10

Short List with host Bob Naujoks    

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

Cats on the Keys: Kenny Werner  

Kenny Werner is one of the most creative of all contemporary jazz players. He found his musical direction at the Berklee School of Music. He prefers the traditional piano trio, but has worked with peers like Lee Konitz, Jane Ira Bloom, Randy Brecker, and singers Betty Buckley and Roseanna Vitro, In the 1980s, Werner was the pianist for the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM 

Verve Records in 1958

Craig travels back 60 years to look in on the jazz recording activities of producer Norman Granz at Verve Records in 1958. He’ll spin a wide variety of goodies from Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hodges, and many others. Join Craig for a concise look at “mainstream” jazz of the 1950s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson

Mondays at 11:00 PM 

Red Norvo – “Mr. Swing”

Red Norvo is the lesser known of the two early pioneers of the vibraphone in jazz (the other is Lionel Hampton). This show looks at the multi-faceted career of Norvo, from his earliest experiments with avant-garde jazz, to his big bands with wife/singer Mildred Bailey, to his critically acclaimed trio with bassist Charles Mingus and guitarist Tal Farlow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM   

2013 Kirkwood Fall Big Band Concert with Gabe Medd 

The Wednesday Night Special looks back at the beginnings of trumpeter Gabe Medd’s brilliant career, as we hear the 2013 Kirkwood Fall Big Band Concert. Gabe and trumpet mentor Al Naylor shared the podium to conduct an evening of standards and originals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Chick Corea Back Home in Boston

Jazz Night in America caught up with Chick Corea during a recent gig at Scullers in Boston —just across the river from Chelsea, Massachusetts, where he was born and raised. He was on tour with a new trio he calls Vigilette, with Carlitos Del Puerto on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums.

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon and Mondays at 6:00 PM

The Piano Artistry of Junior Mance

Craig looks back at the storied Chicago pianist from his early days with Gene Ammons, Lester Young, and Sonny Stitt, through his many recordings on Verve, Jazzland, Riverside, and many others.  Mance recently turned 90, and has amassed a remarkable legacy of music.

 

 

 

 

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 November 5, 2018

    Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.

Richie Cole is an internationally recognized jazz legend who began his career as the lead altoist in the Buddy Rich Big Band. He later started his own quintet and toured worldwide popularizing bebop and his Alto Madness style. He has recorded over 50 albums as a leader. These days he spends much of his time working with the Pittsburgh Alto Madness Orchestra comprising four horns and rhythm. For his new release, “Cannonball,” Cole has put together a sextet, featuring trombonist Reggie Watkins, to feature the music of his musical hero, Cannonball Adderly.

 


     With his accessible and entertaining new CD, “Ornettiquette,” trumpeter Chris Pasin and his adventurous band mates take a joyous look at the music of saxophonist/composer/innovator Ornette Coleman and his long-time sonic partner, trumpeter Don Cherry. It’s the fourth release as a leader for the New York native, a longtime practitioner of jazz from straight-ahead to avant-garde. “I became acquainted with the music of Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Albert Ayler as a teenager and played along with their records,” Pasin recalls. “It was not until a couple of years ago that the idea of a band playing the music inspired by these heroes occurred to me, thus engendering Ornettiquette.”

 

 

 

Also this week, guitarist Bobby Broom embraces the rhythm-and-blues core of jazz with his new group, the Organi-Sation, playing interpretation of pop melodies from the Beatles to Motown on “Soul Fingers”.

 

 

 

 

            

Saxophonist Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler offer up another batch of tunes taken from a 2015 concert in Orlando on “R & D”.

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 Drummer Matt Kane releases his fourth album, “The Other Side of the Story,” the first to feature entirely his original compositions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet November 8, 2018

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place November 8, 2018. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

KCCK’s Featured CD for November 2018

The KCCK Featured CD for November is “Math Camp” from lyricist and vocalist Lorraine Feather. It’s Ms. Feather’s twelfth album of originals and follows four consecutive Grammy nominated discs. Her inspiration this time around is math and physics, using them as metaphors for modern love. Collaborating again with composers Eddie Arkin and Shelly Berg, Lorraine’s all-star lineup also includes Fred Hersch, Russell Ferrante, Grant Geissman, James Genus and Terri Lyne Carrington. “Math Camp” is on Relarion Records. Purchase CD.

Talking Pictures 10-31-18

The Old Man & the Gun and Venom with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica Schmidt.