Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (Al Naylor)
Al Naylor
On The Short List this week trumpeter Al Naylor is the subject. He has been a steady influence on jazz education for nearly three decades leading the jazz programs at the Linn Mar Schools, Kirkwood Community College and as an trumpet instructor at Coe College. He has played with the top regional bands in the area, including the Orquesta de Jazz y Alto Maiz, Rod Pierson’s Big Band, the CR Jazz Band and his own I-380 Express. He came out of Jefferson (Iowa) High School, which had one of the first so-called stage bands in the state in the mid-1960s. In 2011 he produced his first album titled Legacy.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Julius Watkins and The French Horn in Jazz”
Craig presents music from the extraordinary French horn player and educator, JULIUS WATKINS. We’ll hear amazing examples of his work leading his own groups, and also with him alongside of some of the greatest jazz artists of all time….John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Johnny Griffin, Randy Weston, Charlie Rouse, Miles Davis, and others. We’ll also hear from several other horn players, such as Tom Varner, John Clark, and Gunther Schuller!
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: “Soul Eyes: The Early Mal Waldron Songbook”. http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017/1/
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Erroll Garner: ‘The Joy of a Genius’
Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner was one of the most original, intuitive, and purely exciting pianists to emerge during the modern jazz era. Although he is perhaps best known as the composer of “Misty,” Garner’s significance as a jazz innovator easily rivals his status as a successful songwriter. His approaches to melody, harmony, and especially rhythm are as fresh and inventive today as when he first introduced them in the mid ’40s. Interviewees include Steve Allen, Linton Garner, Martha Glaser, John Levy, Marian McPartland, and Dr. Billy Taylor.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Jazz Legends at the Iowa City Jazz Festival: Dr. Lonnie Smith
Dr. Lonnie Smith at the 2013 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Hammond B-3 organist, Dr. Lonnie Smith, started with guitarist, George Benson in 1967, followed by recording with alto saxophonist, David Fathead Newman, alto sax legend Lou Donaldson and his own solo Blue Note LPs. The Doctor is right up there with Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Charles Earland as one of THE all-time best Hammond organ players in jazz! Dr. Smith wears his trademark turban when he plays. Jazz Times magazine recently described Lonnie as “a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a turban!”
Dr. Smith insists that the organ is a tough instrument to play, but a listener wouldn’t know it based on the complete effortlessness with which he plays. “Right from the beginning I was able to play and I didn’t even know how. I learned how to work the stops and that was it; everything else came naturally.
Lonnie’s trio features guitarist and composer Jonathan Kreisberg, who at age 16, started at the New World School of the Arts, following by winning a scholarship to the University of Miami, where he held the guitar chair in the acclaimed Concert Jazz Band, touring Brazil. In addition to his performing with Lonnie, Jonathan has worked with Lee Konitz, Greg Tardy, Lenny White, Jane Monheit, Bill Stewart and Larry Grenadier. Kreisberg is known for his extraordinarily clean articulation, remarkable sax-like fluency, harmonic daring and rhythmically assured burn.
Drummer, Jamire Williams completes the Trio. Williams is a fiery drummer, who says, “I am not a jazz drummer! I’m a drummer that plays jazz really really really really good!” He also has performed with the Robert Glasper Trio and Kenny Garrett’s quartet, among other contemporary groups.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
“Cecile and Sullivan”
Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner
Tracing back to the earliest forms of jazz, the piano voice duo achieved a level of communication that created musical intimacy. Even if there wasn’t a romance, it was a love affair of voice and piano. Jazz Night in America spends the hour with the distinct chemistry between pianist Sullivan Fortner and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. Get to know the charming duo on stage at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola and beside a piano in a Harlem brownstone.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“The State of The Instrument — Current Jazz Organists” 
In this installment of “the state of the instrument series”, Craig uncovers the exciting music of some of today’s top jazz organists…. Pat Bianchi, Joey DeFrancesco, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Mike LeDonne!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Sturm und Drang” by Nils Wogram 
Nils Wogram (born November 7, 1972 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader. He counts as one of the most important jazz musicians in Europe. He began classical study at the age of fifteen. He was a member in the National German Youth Big Band, participated in classical competitions and formed his own bands at the age of 16. In 1992 he received a scholarship for the New School of New York City and stayed until 1994. During this time he released his debut album “New York Conversations” (1994) with his own Nils Wogram Quintett.
http://nilswogram.com/discography/nostalgia-trio/sturm-und-drang
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
d composer Emily Bear enjoys arranging, orchestrating and performing in a diverse collection of styles. Having made her professional debut at the Ravinia Festival at 5-years-old, she has since performed at many of the world’s most well-known venues including Carnegie Hall, The White House, Lincoln Center and the Monteux Jazz Festival, among others. At age 6, Emily was the youngest ever to receive the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and orchestras all over the world have performed her original compositions. Last year, she was the recipient of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Jazz Composer of the Year Award. She offers up a batch of her original tunes on her new CD, “Into the Blue.”
Also this week, with his newly-formed band The People, organ great Joey DeFrancesco expresses his viewpoints on current world events with uplifting compositions and emotional tributes on “Project Freedom”. 
ring Matt Wilson, Joel Frahm and Martin Wind, delve into “Post Cool Vol. 1: the Night Shift”.
Art Hirahara unveils a new batch of original compositions on his fourth disc as a leader, “Central Line.”
Don’t delay!! This is a specially priced experience and your commitment must be made by the end of March.
We’re heading to Italy this July 9 to 17 to experience jazz Italian style…an incredible trip to Rome and Umbria to find historic villages, delectable wines, incredible food and three nights with tickets to the Umbria Jazz Festival featuring Wayne Shorter and more.
Perugia is home to the legendary Umbria Jazz Festival taking place every July. Founded by Carlo Pagnotta in 1973, for ten days Perugia becomes an international music town, full of lights, colors, music in every corner and tens of thousands of jazz music lovers. During your stay here you get to experience a live music festival that brings together famous acts like Wayne Shorter Quartet featuring Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade., Brian Wilson and Pet Project and more. The concerts run from mid-day to midnight nonstop and the city beats to the sound of international jazz. There is nothing better than a summer night in a unique place with a magical atmosphere, listening to good live music and drinking excellent Italian wine! Each day we’ll tour cities of Umbria…Assisi, Orvieto and Gubbio and return each afternoon to settle in to our festival itinerary.
Orvieto, one of the most striking, memorable, and enjoyable hill towns in central Italy. Located between Florence and Rome, this town sits high above the valley floor on the top of a big chunk of tufo volcanic stone.
Gubbio is one of the most ancient towns of Umbria. The picturesque city is built beneath Mount Ingino on the eastern side of the Tiber; Gubbio was an important town of the ancient Umbrians in pre-Roman times. Gubbio’s Civic Museum displays the Eugubine Tablets, written in Umbrian language using the Latin and the Etruscan alphabets. The tablets, dating from the 2nd century BC, document the Umbrian civilization, from its religion to government. Your tour will take you through Gubbio’s most stunning medieval backstreets to the imposing 14th century Palazzo dei Consoli, said to rival Palazzo Vecchio in Florence in its beauty. Our trip returns to Rome and our flight home. 
Charles “Yardbird” Parker was a self-taught innovator who could fly higher and cut deeper than any other musician of his day. Parker pioneered the bebop movement in jazz with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. He influenced generations of musicians. He accomplished all of this and other feats despite a crippling drug addition that ended his life at thirty-four. The concluding half of this trip focuses on Bird’s influence on other musicians, his celebrated return to New York, his superstar acceptance in Europe, his experimentations with strings, and his premature, tragic death. Interviewees include Jackie McLean and Mitch Miller.
For over 60 years, the legendary Heath Brothers have been synonymous with great jazz. NEA Jazz Master tenor player, Jimmy Heath and his drummer, brother Tootie Heath, came to Iowa City to promote ‘Endurance’, their first CD since the passing of their beloved brother, legendary bassist Percy Heath.
Jazz Night in America presents Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society and their latest project entitled Real Enemies. Argue describes the piece as “an exploration of real world beliefs, of the present day folklore that we call conspiracy theories.” Musically, Real Enemies draws from on 12-tone compositional techniques along with a collage of found text and media from dozens of sources that trace the historical roots, iconography, ideology, rhetoric, and psychology of these conspiracies.
imed trombonist Scott Whitfield shows his remarkable instinct and soul with a feast of Carl Saunders charts on “New Jazz Standards (Volume 2).”