Solo: A Star Wars Story and RBG redux with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica Schmidt.
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Clean Up Your Act 6-25-18
MidAmerican looks to produce enough renewable energy to meet Iowa customer demand.
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Special Programs for the Week of June 4 – June 9
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Shortlist: Matt Bernemann & Rich Medd
Featured this week on the Short List are short sketches of drummer Matt Bernemann and trombonist Rich Medd. Bernemann has been a teacher and player for two decades and has appeared with Shade of Blue, Saul Lubaroff and his own Bernemann Brothers Band. As well as being a top-tier musician with Ritmocano and Three Dogs and a Bone, Medd is also the award-winning educator and director of the Iowa City High School Jazz Band for over 20 years.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Prestige Records in 1968 – Part One
Craig travels back 50 years to look in on the recording activities at Bob Weinstock’s Prestige Records during the year 1968. We’ll hear classic “modern jazz” fare from the likes of Pat Martino, Sonny Criss, Don Patterson, Harold Mabern, Willis Jackson, Barry Harris, and many others. Prepare yourself for a healthy, heaping helping of “Soul Jazz”!
Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM
Bobby Hutcherson Tribute
Said one critic of Bobby Hutcherson, “It looks like he’s levitating when he’s playing!” Join host Nancy Wilson as she details the “whole body experience” and the incredible palette of colors that vibes master Bobby Hutcherson brings to his art.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Tom Harrell at the 2014 Iowa City Jazz Festival
KCCK’s Program Director Bob Stewart has heard countless world-class musicians as they’ve played the Iowa City Jazz Festival. This month, we dedicate our Wednesday Night Specials to some past performances Bob considers some of the best. This week, its Tom Harrell’s set at the 2014 Iowa City Jazz Fest. Trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Harrell has dozens of albums to his credit as a band leader. As a sideman, he’s sat in with the likes of Lionel Hampton, Lee Konitz, and Gerry Mulligan. His big band album was nominated for a Grammy award. Harrell played an energetic set for the crowd on the UI Pentacrest. Enjoy this encore of Tom Harrell, hand-picked by Bob Stewart, on the Wednesday Night Special.
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
D.C. Jazz Loft Trios
Jazz has its capital cities: major gathering places like New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. But the music manages to live plenty well in many other places, too. What goes into those smaller ecosystems to enable jazz to thrive? In search of some answers, we sought out the DIY concert producers of Capitalbop in Washington, DC, as they presented musicians from the Baltimore-Washington metropolis. Jazz Night In America looks in on the 2015 DC Jazz Festival, featuring three trios led by vibraphonist Warren Wolf and bassist Kris Funn.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Modern Jazz Artistry of Joe Chambers
Craig examines the recording career of drummer, pianist, vibraphonist, and composer Joe Chambers. We’ll hear from his dozen recordings as a leader, as well as from his 60+ recording dates as a sideman, with the likes of Hubert Laws, Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, and many more! This is excellent listening from one of the overlooked and underrated giants of jazz!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
Cuba – January 2019
MUSIC. CULTURE. EXPERIENCE.
Cuba – January 15-21, 2019
Discover Cuba with KCCK! Download the brochure.
Six Nights/Seven Days exploring the music and art of Havana, Trinidad and Cienfuegos.
Includes All-Access Havana Jazz Fest pass!
Highlights
• Melia Cohiba (or like property) close
to Jazz Festival and clubs.
• Old Havana Walking Tour UNESCO
• Plaza of the Revolution
• Recording studio, Nacional Hotel
• Hemingway’s Farm, Cojimar
• Cigar Factory, Salsa lesson
• Home & Studio of artist Jose Fuster
• San Jose Craft Market
• Trinidad walking tour UNESCO
• Bay of Pigs Museum, wetlands
• Havana Jazz Festival
• Morro Fortress, Colon Cemetery
Inclusions
• Professional bilingual guide
• Hotel transfers*
• 6 nights hotel, 13 meals
• Baggage handling, daily bottled water
• Interactions per itinerary
• Deluxe Air Conditioned motor coach
• All Access Havana Jazz Festival pass
• Gratuities for hotel porters, wait staff at included meals, and most People-to-People interactions.
Accomodations
4 nights Melia Cohiba, Havana or like property
2 nights Rancho Luna, Cienfuegos
Download the brochure.
Please contact Lisa Baum at 319.330.8595 or email jazztravelers@gmail.com for rates and more information.
New Music Monday for June 4, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Saxophonist Dave McMurray has cemented his reputation for versatility by playing with a vast array of musicians including B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock, Nancy Wilson, Geri Allen and Bob James. His Blue Note Records debut, “Music is Life,” is a reunion of sorts, given the long history he shares with the label’s president, and fellow Detroit native, Don Was. McMurray was a member of Was’ genre-defying unit Was (Not Was), first working on the band’s 1981 debut. He’s played on all of the band’s albums and many other Was projects in the years since. When Was signed McMurray, the reedman says that he gave him no imperatives as to which artist paths to take. “It was one of those situations where he just said ‘Do It,’’ McMurray explains.
For nearly three decades, the New England Jazz Ensemble has been at the forefront of contemporary jazz ensemble performance, collaboration and education in the northeastern U.S. With a book of original compositions and arrangements penned from within its ranks, the NEJE delivers on its mission to promote the jazz ensemble as a uniquely American art form. The ensemble commissions new works, does extensive concertizing collaborates with music educators in public schools and universities to perpetuate the jazz art form. Their new project is a reworking of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.”
Also this week, singer and songwriter Kat Edmonson delivers eleven original songs on “Old Fashioned Gal”.
Drummer Greg Burrows is joined by guitarist B
ob DeVos and bassist Harvie S on “Tell Your Story”.
Pianist Lynne Arriale returns with a new trio and special guest vocalist Kate McGarry for “Give Us These Days.”
Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet June 14, 2018
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place June 14,2018. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Get Well Soon, Big Mo!
We’re sorry to announce that John Heim, KCCK’s Big Mo, will be off the air for a while, after suffering a fall at home. John is in good spirits, and hopes to be back on the air as soon as his health allows.
Craig Kessler is subbing in on the ‘da Friday Blues for the time being, and John’s presence isn’t gone completely, as we’ll continue to air The Beaker Hour, Backstage Blues, and KCCK Jams from his archives while he’s off.
If you’d like to send a card, you can do so care of KCCK at the address at the bottom of the page, and we’ll see that he gets it.
KCCK’s Featured CD for June 2018
The KCCK Featured CD for June is “Concentric Circles” from the Kenny Barron Quintet. Eight years after being named an NEA Jazz Master, the esteemed pianist, bandleader, composer and educator reaches a couple of milestones. This year marks the 50th year of a remarkable recording career, while Mr. Barron notes his 75th birthday this month. Plus he introduces a new edition of his quintet with a sublime set of eight new originals. “Concentric Circles” is on Blue Note Records. Purchase the CD.