Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Formidable Flutes: Moe Koffman
Canadian Moe Koffman was not only a gifted saxophonist and flautist, he was also a much-sought-after composer and arranger, as well. During his 50-year career, Koffman was one of Canada’s most prolific musicians, working steadily in clubs and recording sessions, and releasing 30 albums. His 1957 record Cool and Hot Sax made Koffman one of the first Canadian jazz musicians to record a full-length album. Koffman was also a long-time member of Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Chronological Early Years of Chick Corea, Part 2
Craig continues his chronological survey of Chick’s early recordings, beginning where we left off in last month’s program – November 17, 1966. We’ll hear Chick working with Miles Davis, Blue Mitchell, Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, and others, as well as his first several recordings under his own leadership. This is historically interesting and very important music from one of today’s pillars of jazz!
Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM
Mary Lou Williams, “Perpetually Contemporary”
Mary Lou Williams achieved and maintained a status that many women in jazz found elusive: unwavering respect from male colleagues as a musical equal. Her accomplishments are many as arranger and pianist with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy, with her own small groups, and with the be-bop artists of the ’40s. Throughout, she was always — as Duke Ellington once said — “perpetually contemporary.”
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
10 of Soul at the 2017 Jazz Under the Stars
Our countdown to KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars 2018 continues with another look back at the artists who made 2017’s Thursday night jams at Noelridge Park such a success. This week, we spotlight a true jam band. 10 of Soul rocked the park at their Cedar Rapids debut. Their high energy and infectious groove tunes had the crowd up and dancing. Join us for 10 of Soul, live at Jazz Under the Stars 2017!
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
In Conversation With Benny Green
Christian McBride sits down with hard-bop pianist Benny Green to talk about his life, career and influences. On the table will be Benny Green’s very early work with Eddie Henderson, as well as his time with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and Betty Carter’s band. He’s been out front leading his own trio for many years and currently teaches at the University of Michigan. They talk about it all on this week’s Jazz Night In America.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Prestige Records in 1968 – Part Two
Craig travels back 50 years once again to look in on the recording activities at Bob Weinstock’s Prestige Records in 1968. In this week’s show, Craig spins records from the second half of the year (June thru December). We’ll hear Pat Martino, Don Patterson, Jaki Byard, Pepper Adams, Richard “Groove” Holmes, and many others. Mighty fine material that’ll make you feel mighty fine!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
When saxophonist Cory Weeds gets an idea for a project and decides to pursue it, chances are it’s going to happen. Case in point: “Explosion” by the Cory Weeds Little Big Band. The idea to form a little big band—so named because there are eleven musicians in the ensemble and not 16 or 17, the typical number in big band—came to Weeds after he looked at the liner notes for two classic albums he hugely admires by the Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Big Band (“Trane Whistle”) and Gene Ammons (“Late Hour Special”). He was shocked to see that neither tenor-led recording from the early 1960s used a full big band, yet both have an impactful big band sound. Weeds curated a dream lineup of top players from Vancouver, Edmonton and New York, and was equally ambitious in commissioning two of Vancouver’s best big band arrangers—Jill Townshend and her husband Bill Coon—to create the charts.
Also this week, “Nightconcert” is a never-before-released performance by the Erroll Garner Trio from 1964 at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. 
Non-Profit will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, August 3, 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. 
Short List with host Bob Naujoks 
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Bassist/composer and New Zealand native Matt Penman has spent much of the past decade developing and presenting music for the illustrious SFJazz Collective and the fantastic James Farm collective. That had left a gap between solo recordings that he felt it was time to abate. The ensemble that Penman assembled for “Good Question” features regular collaborators and friends, including saxophonist Mark Turner, pianist Aaron Parks and drummer Obed Calvaire. There are also guest appearances by guitarist Nir Felder, saxophonist Will Vinson and percussionist Rogerio Boccato. “The music on this recording is a series of questions I posed to my bandmates over two days,” Penman explains, “that I might get their input on a range of subjects that interest me…I wrote these tunes in the hopes of starting a dialogue that could provoke reactions, new angles and corollaries that were unforeseen, yet welcome.”
A powerhouse player who is equally conversant in jazz and funk, Indianapolis-based saxophonist Rob Dixon joins forces with a couple of heavyweights in 7-string guitar marvel Charlie Hunter and drumming legend Mike Clark on “Coast to Crossroads.” This slamming affair finds the tenorist knee-deep in Clark’s signature Oakland funk beats and irrepressible Texas shuffles alongside Hunter’s grooving, syncopated bass lines and distinctive organ-styled comping on his hybrid axe. Trombonist Ernest Stuart, a former member of the Brooklyn-based bhangra party band Red Baraat, provides close harmonies on the front line, playing Fred Wesley to Dixon’s Pee Wee Ellis. “The album is called ‘Coast to Crossroads’ because I’m based in Indiana, the Crossroads state, but I also work a lot on the West Coast and East Coast,” says Dixon, who hails from Atlanta but settled in Indy in 2003 after spending several years on the New York City jazz scene.
Also this week, two-time Grammy winning composer and saxophonist Ted Nash releases his first concert recording in over 25 years, “Live at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola”. 
