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Jazz Under the Stars 2017 – Goose Town
Clean Up Your Act 8-9-17
Farm runoff from Iowa and other Midwest states is contributing to the largest dead zone ever in the Gulf of Mexico.
Culture Crawl 279 “300 Years of Music Experience”
Czech Village rocks with the Blues on Aug. 12 as Chicago’s Joanna Connor and the LCBS All-Stars take the stage for Czech Village Blues.
It’s a fund raiser to restore Cedar Rapids’ Riverside Roundhouse, a Czech Village attraction for decades, back to the area.
The concert is presented by the Linn County Blues Society (LCBS) and Friends of Czech Village. KCCK’s Bob DeForest will MC.
Tickets at www.czechvillagefriends.org, www.lcbs.org, and area music venues.
Talking Pictures 8-3-17
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), Spider-Man: Homecoming, Atomic Blonde, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Scott Chrisman.
Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet August 10, 2017
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place August 10, 2017. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Special Programs: Week of July 31 – August 6
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Short List: Jazz Clubs – The Lighthouse 
The Short List series on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present continues with another well-known West Coast jazz club – the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California. The Lighthouse is where a new style of playing was created – West Coast Jazz. It was the fortuitous meeting of bassist Howard Rumsey and club owner John Levine. Rumsey had the idea and musical contacts, and Levine the space. They started with Sunday afternoon jam sessions that soon became nightly performances with such excellent L.A. players like Teddy Edwards, Elmo Hope, Bob Cooper, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne. The place was “home” to what became Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars. Host Bob Naujoks offers a short tour of the 22-year history of live jazz at The Lighthouse.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Jazz Recordings from 1987”
Craig travels back 30 years to sample some of the tasty jazz records from 1987. We’ll hear from the likes of Steve Lacy, Dave Holland, Hank Roberts, John Zorn, Kenny Wheeler, Eliane Elias, Chick Corea, and many others. An enjoyable look back at music that has been out of the limelight for some time!
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter
Night Lights, is a weekly one-hour jazz radio program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from the 1945-1990 era—covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Night Lights also features many lesser-known talents of post-1945 jazz. Every program is archived after broadcast for online listening. This week: “Shorter Lee: Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter”. www.indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Louis Jordan: ‘Jukebox King’ 
Louis Jordan is a part of the NPR Basic Jazz Record Library for many reasons. He was among the first black entertainers to be successful in a wider pop market. Jordan and his Tympany Five influenced bands like Bill Haley and the Comets — his music is often cited as one of the roots of rock and roll. He was also underrated as a jazz musician, both a fine clarinetist and alto saxophonist. But most importantly, Jordan is a part of the Library because his music is guaranteed to put a smile on the faces of all who heard him.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
First Friday Jazz: Mike Maas Quartet at Opus Concert Café (Encore Broadcast)
Mike Maas Quartet at Opus Concert Café
Small in size but not in sound, this quartet of fine seasoned musicians features Mike Maas (guitar, vocals), Carlis Faurot (violin), John O’Connell (drums) and Ben Soltau (bass). Playing a range of genres, audiences will be entertained by the eclectic mix of Jazz, Swing, Cajun, Original and Folk. Surprising, never ordinary! 
The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin and contemporary music the first Friday of every month. Doors at Opus open at 4:30 p.m. with live music from 5-7 p.m. If you can’t be there in person, the first set of each performance of the series is broadcast live on KCCK. The Opus Concert Cafe is operated by Orchestra Iowa. More information at: http://www.artsiowa.com/opus
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
John Scofield (Loud and Quiet)
John Scofield
Guitar icon John Scofield is a one-of-a-kind virtuoso known for his signature blend of jazz, funk, rock, R&B, and soul. For Jazz Night in America Scofield will add new insights to two of his most revered albums, exploring them for the first time since their original release. The first of these albums is 1986’s Blue Matter, one of his first releases after leaving Miles Davis’ group. The second album to be explored is 1996’s Quiet, featuring Scofield on classical nylon guitar in a moving departure from his electric guitar wizardry.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Tribute to Pianist Geri Allen – 6/12/57 To 6/27/17“
Geri Allen
Craig salutes the life and legacy of educator, composer, and pianist extraordinaire, GERI ALLEN, who recently passed from complications of cancer. We’ll hear selections from some of her 20 albums as a leader, and from some of her 30 albums as a sidewoman…a star-studded career that began in the mid-1980s. Ms. Allen, who was recently the Director of Jazz Studies at the U of Pittsburgh, amassed a very impressive body of work that included work with the likes of Ron Carter, Charlie Haden, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Ornette Coleman, Marcus Belgrave, Woody Shaw, and so many others. She will be sorely missed.
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Toto Bissanthe Chante Haiti” by Toto Bissanthe 
https://www.discogs.com/Toto-Bissainthe-Chante-Ha%C3%AFti/release/2397653
With her deep, theatrical voice set to traditional rara rhythms often played by just bass and percussion, Haiti-born Creole vocalist Toto Bissainthe introduced the music of her homeland to the international stage. The BBC praised her for taking “an experimental approach to her island’s traditional drum and vocal music, creating an exhilarating and, sometimes startling, mix of relentless grooves and moving ballads.” Leaving Haiti after the country was taken over by dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier in the early ’60s, Bissainthe spent many years living in exile in Paris. Bissainthe appeared in the Raoul Peck-directed film L’Homme Sur Les Quais (The Man By the Shore) in 1993.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
New Music Monday for July 31, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Ahmad Jamal’s
story and journey through music from his birthplace of Pittsburgh is nothing if not astonishing. He was inspired early on after meeting virtuoso pianist Art Tatum and became a professional musician at age 17, forming quartets and then trios. His 1958 disc, “At the Pershing,” spent 108 weeks on the Billboard chart and spawned the jukebox hit “Poinciana.” Over the next four decades, Jamal would record consistently, exploring a range of settings that included electric groups and strings, but throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s he really defined himself as a master of the acoustic piano trio. At the age of 86, he remains at the peak of his creative powers. His new CD, “Marseilles,” carries a very personal expression of the sincere and longstanding mutual admiration that has existed between the pianist/composer—a recipient of the highly prestigious Chevalier De L’Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres—and French audiences.
Stanton Moore is busy all the time. Besides his solo projects, studio and TV work, and teaching, he’s the drummer of Galactic, the funky New Orleans conglomeration now in its third decade of touring, and he still finds time to record and travel with his trio. The trio had a new record ready to record in 2015 when they heard of Allen Toussaint’s passing. The New Orleans producer, songwriter, arranger, bandleader, pianist, singer and all-around figure of elegance had been a vital, active presence in the city since the 1950s. Moore immediately shelved his planned disc and began working up pieces of Toussaint’s vast repertoire. Supplementing the trio with some of New Orleans’ living legends, they reimagined Toussaint’s songs, conceptualizing and building out an album on the fly. Special guests on the resulting disc, “With You in Mind,” include Nicholas Payton, Donald Harrison, Cyril Neville, Trombone Shorty and Maceo Parker.
Also this week, celebrated guitarist Mark Whitfield, who has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock and others over his nearly three decade career, is captured “Live & Uncut” at Manhattan’s Rockwood Music Hall.
Los Angeles-based trumpeter Ron Francis Blake steps away from the sidelines with his debut, “Assimilation”.
Singer Patti LaBelle unveils a program of jazz standards on “Bel Hommage.”
KCCK’s Featured CD for August 2017
The KCCK Featured CD for August is “New Angle” from the All Angles Orchestra. Led by Iowa native and UNI grad Mike Conrad, the 15-piece ensemble combines the worlds of classical and jazz to produce a wide variety of fascinating colors and textures. They are joined on their debut album by trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, a veteran of the Dave Holland Big Band and the Mingus Dynasty, who calls the Orchestra “an absolutely amazing team” and describes the project as “a small group mentality with a large orchestra sound.” “New Angle” is on Outside In Music. Purchase the CD or purchase a digital download.