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Special Programs: Week of September 11 – September 16

The Short List with host Bob Naujoks

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

The Short List this week takes us to both coasts: Smalls in Greenwich Village and the Keystone Korner in San Francisco. Smalls is a unique place that records each performance and issues downloads and CDs of those sessions. The Keystone Korner started out as a topless bar but soon realized that music was a better fit. It was one of pianist Bill Evans favorite places and his final recordings were made there.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Tribute To Record Exec Joe Fields and His ‘Muse’ Label

Craig salutes the recently departed record producer and label owner, Joe Fields with an overview of Fields’s ‘Muse’ label. Craig will feature a variety of tasty jazz gems from Muse’s 500 + titles, many that are seldom heard. Don’t miss it!

Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson

Monday at 11:00 PM

Bud Powell: Bebop Pianism

After being brutally beaten by police at age 21, Bud Powell spent the rest of his short life fighting mental illness. His music revealed this constant state of struggle. Known to improvise like one possessed, Powell’s right hand could race through the upper registers of the keyboard with astounding clarity while his left hand grounded the lines with irregularly spaced dissonant bass chords. Bud Powell created a ferocious body of music that shattered the limits of bebop and influenced all who followed him.

Wednesday Night Special

6:00 PM

Jazz In The Stacks Featuring The Latin Jazz of Carlos Santana

Guitar master Carlos Santana has crossed musical boundaries his entire career, infusing it all with the infectious rhythms and melodies of Latin America. Drummer Dennis McPartland and saxman Peter Hart lead their ensemble in the Latin jazz of Carlos Santana. Join us for this special performance, recorded live as part of Jazz In The Stacks series at the Cedar Rapids Public Library.

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Eddie Palmieri’s Harlem River Drive (Revisited)

Pianist Eddie Palmieri turns 80 this month, and to celebrate Jazz Night in America presents the Latin jazz legend’s Harlem River Drive project, featuring an 18-piece orchestra recorded in Harlem. Eddie and the band trace the genesis and commercial failure of the 1971 cult album, and how the message is still relevant today.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

The Piano Artistry of Joanne Brackeen

Craig surveys the music of Joanne Brackeen, yet another amazing, yet largely overlooked and underrated pianist. She is truly an amazing and cutting edge musician and composer. We’ll hear from a number of her stunning releases as a leader, as well as some work with tenorman Stan Getz, vibraphonist Freddie McCoy, and others.

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 September 11, 2017

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

Critically acclaimed and one of the top flute players on the modern jazz scene, Gerald Beckett is a skilled and versatile improviser within the jazz tradition. He’s travelled the world, with a focus on the U.S. coasts, playing some of the hottest jazz clubs. It wasn’t until he moved to San Francisco in 1985 that he began immersing himself in the jazz idiom. He started listening to various flutists, from Eric Dolphy, Frank Wess and Herbie Mann to Hubert Laws, Dave Valentin and Paul Horn. He spent eight years studying flute at the San Francisco Conservatory, eventually conducting Master Classes of his own across the globe. His newest CD, “Oblivion,” is the result of five different studio recording sessions, either as a quartet, quintet or string quartet, involving some of the finest Bay Area musicians.

If you check the newest edition of Modern Drummer magazine, you’ll find Steve Smith on the cover. He’s a winner in three of the polls in the issue. He was also recently inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the rock band Journey, and toured Japan last year with the super group Steps Ahead featuring Mike Mainieri, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans and Tom Kennedy. Since 1983, Smith has led the jazz fusion group Vital Information, and just a few years back began its offshoot, Vital Information NYC Edition. It’s that band that is featured on the new release, “Heart of the City,” with Baron Browne on bass, Mark Soskin on piano and Vinny Valentino on guitar.

Also this week, vibraphone ace Behn Gillece is joined by trombonist Michael Dease, saxophonist Walt Weiskopf and trumpeter Bruce Harris on new septet CD, “Walk of Fire”.

Australian-born reedman and flutist Adrian Cunningham offers up his fifth disc as a leader, “Jazz Speak”.

L.A.-based saxophonist Jeff Benedict and guitarist Dave Askren lead a grooving quartet on “Come Together.”

Talking Pictures 9-7-17

Brigsby Bear, Wind River, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 40th Anniversary with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica Schmidt.

Culture Crawl 287 “Context Matters”

Orchestra Iowa’s 2017-18 season kicks off Sept. 9 with the 10^th edition of “Brucemorquestra,” on the lawn of Cedar Rapids’ historic Brucemore mansion. The program will be Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy,” which was also performed at the very first Brucemorquestra, just weeks after the 2008 flood. Joining the Orchestra will be Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, and college choruses from Kirkwood, Coe, and Mt. Mercy.

Tim Hankewich says this is no coincidence, as the symphony’s theme of brotherhood and standing together rings even more true today as ten years ago.

Tim also hints at some unique audience participation for the encore!

Tickets at www.orchestraiowa.org.

Special Programs For The Week of September 4 – 10

The Short List with host Bob Naujoks

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

The legendary Village Vanguard is the oldest jazz club in New York City. It started out as a place for poets and folk singers, but soon jam sessions could be heard with the greatest swing players in the late 1930s. By 1957 the club featured jazz musicians almost exclusively, and it still does.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Art Pepper – The Galaxy Years

Craig celebrates the birth date anniversary of saxophonist Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (9/1/25 to 6/15/82), with a look at Pepper’s later career and his 15 + recordings for Galaxy Records. Don’t miss this loving look back at one of the greatest alto saxophonists in modern jazz!

Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson

Monday at 11:00 PM

Bud Powell: Bebop Pianism

After being brutally beaten by police at age 21, Powell spent the rest of his short life fighting mental illness. His music revealed this constant state of struggle. Known to improvise like one possessed, Powell’s right hand could race through the upper registers of the keyboard with astounding clarity while his left hand grounded the lines with irregularly spaced dissonant bass chords. Bud Powell created a ferocious body of music that shattered the limits of bebop and influenced all that followed him.

Wednesday Night Special

6:00 PM

Jazz In The Stacks Featuring The Music of Rodgers & Hart

Drummer Dennis McPartland leads an all-star band in the music of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Their prolific collaboration produced some of the most enduring musicals from the golden age of Broadway and Hollywood. Join us for this special performance, recorded live as part of Jazz In The Stacks series at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. McPartland and Company will perform songs like “Isn’t It Romantic” from Love Me Tonight, and “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered” from Pal Joey, that are now part of the Great American Songbook.

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Cyro Baptista

In the world of Brazilian percussion, few players have shared the stage with Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo-Ma, Trey Anastasio (Phish), and Sting. Cyro Baptista transcends borders and styles, and with more than three decades of wizardry and ingenuity, he brings his craft to Jazz at Lincoln Center. Our concert showcases Cryo’s wild take on traditional Brazilian grooves like forro and samba, with jazz, experimental and funk undertones. This episode of Jazz Night in America also follows Cyro as he creates a new percussion instrument for his arsenal.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Tribute To Record Exec Joe Fields and His ‘Muse’ Label

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 September 4, 2017

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

On July 3, 2016, the world changed forever for Mike Stern. The guitarist was hailing a cab outside his apartment in Manhattan when he tripped over some hidden construction debris, breaking both of his arms in the fall. Not only did Stern fracture both humerus bones, he was left with significant nerve damage in his right hand that prevented him from doing the simplest tasks, including holding a pick. Following his initial surgery, he had to play seated while wearing a black glove outfitted with Velcro to help him hold onto his Velcro-fitted pick. After a second surgery, the guitarist gained more control over his nerve-damaged picking hand and subsequently devised a scheme where he literally glues his right-hand fingers to the pick, which strengthens his grip, allowing him to more fully realize his signature speed, precision and fluidity. Feeling sufficiently fortified, Stern and his stellar crew of sidemen recorded his 17^th album as a leader. The guitarist’s sly, self-deprecating sense of humor comes across in the title of the album, “Trip.”

When Chicago’s TimeLine Theater performed the final production of its 20^th Anniversary 2016-2017 season this summer—the Midwest premiere of “Paradise Blue” by Dominique Morisseau—it featured original music by one of the city’s most admired jazz artists, trumpeter Orbert Davis. The music, performed by Davis and members of his Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, underscored the jazz-infused drama about a gifted but troubled trumpeter in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood. The music, which the Chicago Sun-Time called “…a splendid original score” is now on a CD entitled “Paradise Blue” on Orbert’s own 3Sixteen record label.

Also this week, Moscow-born pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff once again demonstrates uncommon lyricism and a gift for melody on “In the Shadow of a Cloud,” her 11^th recording since transitioning from the classical world to jazz in 2010.

Nigerian-born, Paris-based percussionist and Afrobeat legend Tony Allen explores his early jazz influences on “The Source

D.C.-based trumpeter Harold Little fuses jazz, funk and R&B on his second disc as a leader, “Akoben.”

Culture Crawl 286 “Get Muddy in Dirty Face Creek”

The Bur Oak Land Trust has two big events in September. Family Day is a free event on Sept. 10 at the Trust’s Belgum Grove property near Hills. Raptors will be on display, there will be birding, storytelling, and other outdoor activities.

“Under a Cider Moon” is September 30, a live and silent auction fundraiser in the Celebration Barn in Solon.

Information, maps and other details at www.BurOakLandTrust.org.