Short List with Bob Naujoks      

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

Short List: Jazz Clubs – The Jazz Bakery

The Jazz Bakery in Culver City, CA.

The Short List series on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present continues with another well-known and current West Coast jazz club, The Jazz Bakery, which was created by the jazz singer Ruth Price. She was in on the ground floor of drummer Shelly Manne’s “Manne Hole” in Los Angeles. And after she retired from the road, opened her own club in 1992. The model for the Jazz Bakery opened up in a photographer friend’s studio on weekends. It was a non-profit venture and continues that way to this day. A jazz and art-loving patron, Wally Marks, Jr., found a suitable location and supported the venture until his death in 2009. Currently The Jazz Bakery has no permanent home, but a space designed by architect Frank Gehry is being constructed. The Bakery will move from jazz club to performance space.        

Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler

Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

“The Guitar Artistry of Terje Rypdal (TERR-ya  Reep-doll)”      

Craig presents a stimulating overview of the 50+ year career of the Norwegian electric guitarist. Mr. Rypdal was on the scene around the beginnings of the ECM record label (c.1970), and continues to be involved with the sphere of ECM and its artists.  We’ll hear wonderful examples of his work from his 25+ ECM recordings, as well as material as a sideman with George Russell, Barre Phillips, Jan Garbarek, and others.                    

Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson

Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World) 

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: “After the All-Stars: Live at the Lighthouse 1960 – 1972”. www.indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017

Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson    

Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)

Bill Evans: ‘Piano Impressionism’

Bill Evans

Pianist Bill Evans turned out to be one of the most influential pianists of his generation. Before his untimely death in 1980, he had made nearly one hundred recordings. He became well known for his work with Miles Davis. He broke new ground with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro in the development of the jazz trio.                                                                                       

Wednesday Night Special               

6:00 PM   

A Jazz Under the Stars 2017 sneak preview with Damani Phillips and ¡RIMTOMCANO!  

In anticipation of another wonderful season of free Thursday night concerts in August at KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars, we’re previewing two exceptional groups performing this summer! 

Damani Phillips

Dr. Damani Philips is a native of Pontiac, Mich., where he began playing at the age of 10.  He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Iowa, where he teaches applied jazz saxophone, directs jazz combos and teaches courses in African-American music, jazz history, jazz theory and improvisation. He has earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from DePaul University and The University of Kentucky in classical saxophone; and a second Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Wayne State University. Phillips completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder; becoming one of the first African-Americans in the country to do so. As a performer, Phillips has performed with artists/groups such as Lewis Nash, Christian McBride, Terrence Blanchard, Wycliffe Gordon, and more.

Phillips is joined by organ player Sam Salomone, the Chicago-born, Tama-raised master of the Hammond B3. Salomone has played with a who’s who of Iowa jazz and blues payers, and was inducted into both the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame and the Iowa Jazz Hall of Fame. On drums, the trio features another long-time Iowa player, Pella-based Tim Crumley.

Damini Phillips performs at Jazz under the Stars Aug. 10th. at 7 p.m. at Noelridge Park in Cedar Rapids. 

James Dreier’s ¡RIMTOMCANO!

¡RIMTOMCANO! is a 6 – 7 piece Latin jazz group from Iowa City led by percussionist James Dreier (formerly of Orquesta Alto Maiz) that features some of the best jazz musicians in the Midwest. ¡RIMTOMCANO! plays many styles from various regions of Latin jazz, including mambo, cha cha chá, rumba and bembé from Cuba, samba, bassa nova and maracatú from Brazil, merengue, calypso form the Caribbean and much more.  Of course, American jazz elements also play an important part of this energetic and entertaining genre. Although ¡RIMTOMCANO! is not a “salsa” band (strictly for dancing), it is hard to sit in your seats through entire performance.

Dreier was a founding member of Orquesta Alto Maiz from 1986 until 2012. Dreier has long had a dream of forming a more jazz-oriented Latin group. ¡RIMTOMCANO! is the realization of that dream. Although born and raised in Iowa, Dreier has been a life-long student of Latin music, studying it at Berklee College of Music in Boston, traveling to Cuban and Brazil numerous times and of course, playing and touring for 26 years with Orquesta Alto Maiz. The formation of ¡RIMTOMCANO! is simply the latest path on this long road of discovery.

¡RIMTOMCANO! performs at Jazz Under the Stars Aug. 24th. at 7 p.m. at the McGrath Amphitheatre in Cedar Rapids.

Both groups were recorded at the Iowa City Jazz Festival.

Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Spaces from Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis presents his new work for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra entitled Spaces. Each movement corresponds to a different animal in the animal kingdom and Jazz Night in America explores Wynton’s process of writing, drawing on different mythology and origin stories.  Wynton included dancers Jared Grimes and Lil Buck in the performances, introducing another interpretation to the “space” around the orchestra.  Along with the music, Jazz Night in America will trace the intertwined history of jazz and dance.                           

Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler     

Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and 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!                       

Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)

Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Featured Album: “Cambodge. kong nay. un barde cambodgien. kong nay. a cambodian bard” by Kong Nay    

https://www.amazon.com/Cambodge-barde-cambodgien-cambodian-bard/dp/B00165OYNW

 Kong Nay (born 1946) is a Cambodian musician who plays the chapei dong veng. He is one of relatively few great masters to have survived the Khmer Rouge era, and is known as the “Ray Charles of Cambodia”. The troubadour wielding a stringed instrument and singing praises, dance tunes, love songs, histories or wry comments is a nearly universal figure in traditional music, from Appalachian banjo pickers to Moroccan gnawa musicians to West African griots to Japanese minyo singers.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:

http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/