Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (Dr. Craig Dove)
Dr. Craig Dove
Dr. Craig Dove is mainly known for his inspiring bass work, but he also plays piano and sings. On his albums he often does all three. Dr. Dove is a REAL doctor – a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation – but his other joy is playing jazz which started when he was in college in the Quad Cities. He played with and was mentored by the noted pianist, Warren Parrish, on a two-year gig at a prominent club in Rock Island, Illinois. He even traveled on a Holiday Inn tour one summer.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Blue Note Records in 1967”
Craig travels back 50 years to sample some of the jazz goodies that were provided by Blue Note Records in 1967. We’ll hear classic Blue Note dates from major figures like Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Larry Young, Lou Donaldson, and many others.
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
Thelonious Monk and Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 1964. Photo by Moneta Sleet
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: “Pannonica de Koenigswarter: Jazz Baroness – patron of bebop”.
www.indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Red Norvo: ‘Mr. Swing’
Red Norvo
Red Norvo is the lesser known of the two early pioneers of the vibraphone in jazz (the other is Lionel Hampton). This show looks at the multi-faceted musical career of Norvo, from his earliest experiments with avant-garde jazz, to his big bands with wife/singer Mildred Bailey, to his critically acclaimed trio with bassist Charles Mingus and guitarist Tal Farlow.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Betsy Hickok live at the Opus Concert Café
Betsy Hickok at the Opus Concert Café
Betsy Hickok has performed as a solo jazz vocalist and as a member of the Iowa City-based group “Too Much Yang.” In 2006, she released her first solo jazz album, “Body and Soul,” featuring musicians Dan Knight, pianist, and Craig Dove, bassist. Jim Musser, music reviewer for the Iowa City Press-Citizen, said of her album, “Betsy Hickok boasts a cool, clearwater delivery, impeccable timing, and the knowing gift for phrasing that can only come from a long, loving immersion in classic jazz.” Hickok has appeared in the Iowa City Jazz Festival, the Jazz from Riverside Theatre series, and in numerous local and regional venues.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Muldrow Meets Mingus
Georgia Anne Muldrow Photo by Tony Lujien
Georgia Anne Muldrow is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist entrenched in the alternative R&B scene, but she was born out of jazz family. Her father Ronald was Eddie Harris’ guitarist Ronald Muldrow (making Harris her Godfather) and her mother is singer Rickie Byers Beckwith (Roland Hanna and Pharaoh Sanders.) Georgia also knew Alice Coltrane, who gave her the name Jytoni, which she uses as her “jazz alias.” Muldrow joins pianist Jason Moran and his cohorts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for a program featuring her own original music and their interpretations of music by Charles Mingus.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“The Birth Date Anniversary of Pianist ‘Duke’ Jordan” 
Craig celebrates the career of Irving Sidney “Duke” Jordan (4/1/22 to 8/8/2006) by spinning a tasteful variety of Duke’s amazing jazz recordings. We’ll hear from the dozens of records released under Jordan’s name, as well as examples from the dozens of releases that feature Jordan as a sideman…records from Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell and many others. Duke Jordan was a fantastic pianist who certainly deserves another look!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “En Vivo 1972” by Quinteplus 
Quinteplus, their self-titled debut came out in 1972 and has gone on to be one of the holy grails of soul-jazz hardcores. While the core sound owes a debt to Adderley’s amazing ’60s quintet, there’s also burbling, African flavored percussion and a very Jamaican production sensibility that suggests Quinteplus is a jazz cousin to what Bob Marley and Miles Davis were cutting during the same period. This bops and grooves with relaxed confidence. Santiago Giavobble anchors everything with one of the first Fender electric pianos to make it to Argentina. His fingers dance with the shock of the new, and that sizzling enzyme touches his compatriots throughout the six gently swerving originals on the studio debut. Vampisoul ups the ante by adding four lengthy previously unavailable live cuts from 1972, where the band adds an electric guitarist, downs a few shot glasses of Bitches Brew and hits like golden glove, including a 14-minute reworking of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billy Joe” that teases the pop song’s melody into some strange new territory.
https://www.discogs.com/Quinteplus-En-Vivo-1972/release/6163590
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/
he Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis set out to honor the legacy of the Modern Jazz Quartet’s maestro John Lewis, they teamed up with New Orleans’ own Jon Batiste. The bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and a prodigious talent in his own right, Batiste joined the JLCO to tackle some of Lewis’s most iconic tunes during a sold-out concert in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s House of Swing. Few captured the sleek, swinging sophistication of jazz better than pianist, composer, bandleader John Lewis who had a long, deep personal relationship with Jazz at Lincoln Center. “He used to always call our program a miracle,” says Marsalis. “He used to always say, ‘Keep that miracle going.’”
Also this week, the Greek bassist and composer Petros Klampanis unveils his third album as a leader and his first large ensemble project, “Chroma”.
ast is joined by Chuck Loeb, Kirk Whalum, Chick Corea and others on “Reverence.”
“Swimming in Place” is the new album from Dallas-based drummer and composer Stockton Helbing. The disc features nine originals, all by Helbing, performed by his working quintet of the past few years. “This album is all about my life,” Helbing says. “The simple, small, funny, odd, and ordinary things that are part of my daily experiences…Each song that I wrote has both a musical concept that I was experimenting with, as well as a story or topic that has a direct correlation to my life.”
Also this week, pianist Billy Childs reaches back to the start of his almost astoundingly varied musical experience, leading a small jazz ensemble on “Rebirth,” featuring saxophonist Steve Wilson, drummer Eric Harland and bassist Hans Glawischnig.
