Author Kaz Makabe discusses the future of energy.
Talking Pictures 4-6-17
Boss Baby and Ghost in the Shell with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet April 13, 2017
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place April 13, 2017.
Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Special Programs: Week of April 3 – 9
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Emily Remler)
Emily Remler
On the Short List this week we start a new series on significant – but not necessarily well-known – women jazz instrumentalists. Up first is guitarist Emily Remler who died much too young – at age 32 in 1990 – from a heart attack brought on by her drug habit. Still, in her short career she was marked as a great talent early on by none other than Herb Ellis who brought her to the Concord Jazz Festival Stage in 1978. In a few years she had a recording contract with Concord Records. Her first real professional work was in New Orleans, and along the way she toured with Nancy Wilson and Astrud Gilberto.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
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!
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: “Dorothy Ashby – Hip Harpist”. www.indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Sun Ra: ‘Cosmic Swing’
Sun Ra
Pianist and bandleader Sun Ra has been both ridiculed as a charlatan and revered as an innovator of jazz theater and collective improvisation. This show travels the spaceways to find the meaning and magic behind an artist who arranged and played in a big band, cut R&B doo-wop sides, and ushered in an era of free improvisation and experimentation with his own band Arkestra.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Jazz Appreciation Month: United Jazz Ensemble at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
United Jazz Ensemble at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
During April the Wednesday Night Special will showcase some of our area’s finest student musicians. Every May, the United Jazz Ensemble, a collaborative high school venture, comes together to prepare for the Jazz Festival. Directed by Rich Medd and Ryan Arp, the band is composed of students from Iowa City High School and West High School in Iowa City. For 20 years, this group has served as of one of signature elements of the Iowa City Jazz Festival’s commitment to education outreach. The deep immersion of students in jazz over the summer not only strengthens their musical growth, but builds a strong bond between the programs at the two schools. Their sound swings so hard that you can’t help but agree about the bright future of the music!
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Ingrid Jensen Plays Kenny Wheeler
Ingrid Jensen
Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler’s stunning compositions and imaginative improvisations on trumpet and flugelhorn left deep impressions on generations of musicians. Two such devotees — trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and saxophonist Steve Treseler — revisited Wheeler’s compositions after his death in 2014 at age 84. And in doing so, they realized they wanted to record their arrangements, paying tribute to the man who catalyzed their own careers. So Jensen, raised in Vancouver and now based in New York, traveled back across North America to meet Treseler, who resides in Seattle, to make the album and play a gig while they were there.
Jazz Night in America explores the legacy of Kenny Wheeler through the music that Jensen and Treseler arranged and performed live at the Royal Room in Seattle. They’re accompanied by Jensen’s working rhythm section — pianist Geoffrey Keezer, bassist Martin Wind, drummer Jon Wikan — and local vocalist Katie Jacobson.Wheeler.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Larry Coryell Tribute”
Larry Coryell
Craig pays a heartfelt tribute to the recently departed, exceptional guitarist Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III, a.k.a. Larry Coryell (4/2/43 to 2/19/2017). We’ll hear a variety of mid-60s classic recordings with Coryell as a pioneering “fusion style” guitarist…right up to his last recording from 2016! Coryell was a terrific guitarist, on both electric and acoustic guitars, and will continue to be an inspiration to all guitarists for many years to come.
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Terma-yana” by Sonam Dorji 
https://itunes.apple.com/lk/album/terma-yana/id152334791
The Tibetan word ‘Terma’ means hidden treasure and the word ‘Yana’ a path, way or vehicle. The Sound Meditation recorded herein was created with the multi-tonal voice of a large ‘Earth’ Gong tuned to the vibrational signature of Ghia’s, nearly eternal, dance with Sol. Her weaving overtones will carry the listener down corridors and through portals into the domain of transcendence. It is a journey of profound reverberation – for within the sound ‘mandala’ are conduits which penetrate the realms of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
New Music Monday for April 3, 2017
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
In 2013, when t
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.’”
Now in the middle of a towering career as founder and leader of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, musical director for Ruben Blades, and pianist, arranger and producer for some of the biggest names in contemporary Latin music, three-time Grammy winner Oscar Hernandez takes a moment for himself and his working quintet, Alma Libre, with his new recording, “The Art of Latin Jazz.” Pulling from several lifetimes worth of musical experiences, Hernandez penned ten originals to perform with his Los Angeles-based ensemble, featuring the legendary saxophonist Justo Almario, and special guest, San Diego trumpeter Gilbert Castallanos.
Also this week, the Greek bassist and composer Petros Klampanis unveils his third album as a leader and his first large ensemble project, “Chroma”.
Guitarist Kevin Eubanks explores the chemistry he maintains with musicians from both coasts on “East West Time Line”.
Bassist Nathan E
ast is joined by Chuck Loeb, Kirk Whalum, Chick Corea and others on “Reverence.”
IOS Update 10.3 Breaks KCCK app
If you updated your iphone or ipad this week to IOS 10.3, your KCCK app may not work.
Our vendor has contacted us and told us the update broke many of their apps, including ours. They’re working on a fix, but in the meantime you can still listen to KCCK on your mobile device:
- Open kcck.org on Mobile Safari or Chrome.
- Click the 3 lines icon in the left corner.
- Click the “Listen Now” menu, and the “Listen Now” link below it.
- Click the web player.
We hope to have the app fixed soon!
KCCK’s Featured CD for April 2017
The KCCK Featured CD for April is “The Music of John Lewis” from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Few captured the sleek, swinging sophistication of jazz better than Mr. Lewis, the pianist, composer and leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet, who had a long, personal relationship with Jazz at Lincoln Center. In a sold-out concert in 2013, the JLCO set out to honor his legacy, teaming up with New Orleans pianist Jon Batiste in capturing the elegance and soulfulness of some of Lewis’s most iconic tunes and arrangements. The resulting disc, “The Music of John Lewis”, is from Blue Engine Records. Click here to purchase the CD.
Culture Crawl 240 “Kinda Like The Mafia”
After 36 years The Follies is just as much a family as it is a show. Some adult performers started in the show as kids, and it’s not uncommon for whole families to be involved.
Dennis Green is a past Follies cast member, as is his wife and two grown sons. Producer Jen Boettger reminds him that once you’re in the Follies Family, you can never leave!
“Showstoppers! Broadway Bursting with Song” comes to the Paramount April 8 & 9. Three shows only, featuring a cast of nearly 100 local performers and crew.
Tickets and information at www.crfollies.com.