Moana, Allied and Rules Don’t Apply with Dennis Green, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
This Week’s Shows: Week of November 28 – December 4
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: International Jazz Stars (Martial Solal) 
If you wonder if jazz is an international music, the story of pianist Martial Solal should be a good lesson. Solal was born in Algeria and became a French musical icon. He was well-known celebrated in the 1960s in the United States. Aside from his creative and individualist style on the piano, Solal has also composed over thirty film scores, starting with the cult classic, Breathless, in 1959. He is an octogenarian now and has been known as “the greatest European jazz pianist” of his age.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Art Tatum
Art Tatum, ‘The Musician’s Musician’
Though Art Tatum was almost completely blind from birth, it never held him back. He often doubled and even tripled the tempo of a piece without losing any articulation or sacrificing his light touch. This technique enabled him to express an enormous flow of ideas in just a few measures, in a way that no one before or since has been able to duplicate.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“The Music of Eli “Lucky” Thompson”
Craig pays a loving tribute to the legacy of saxophonist LUCKY THOMPSON. We’ll hear from a handful of Thompson’s dates as a leader, as well as, Thompson as a sideman with jazz notables like Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Oscar Pettiford, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton, Milt Jackson, and others. A true jazz master, playing astonishing music that is NOT to be missed!!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Alvin Batiste: Music Came
Alvin Batiste
Alvin Batiste was not famous. But once you start to explore the world of New Orleans music, his name starts to come up, again and again. He taught Henry Butler, and Branford Marsalis. He was a lifelong friend and collaborator with Harold Battiste (no relation). He founded the Jazz Institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge. Alvin Batiste was a musician’s musician.
And his approach to music wasn’t just a curriculum, it was a philosophy — the idea that there is no separation between types of music, and that they all are based in the same experiences.
In this episode of New Orleans Calling, host George Ingmire explores Alvin’s life and philosophy in his own words, from archived interviews. And he also speaks with one of his star pupils in his final years, clarinetist Gregory Agid, who describes meeting and studying with Alvin, and eventually becoming a protege to whom Alvin passed down one of his most difficult compositions, not through sheet music but through note-by-note practice over many months.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Moonglow (The Benny Goodman Story)
Will Anderson, Peter Anderson, Patrick Bartley and Janelle Reichman perform at Jazz at Lincoln Center in tribute to Benny Goodman
The story of jazz’s first popular integrated band – a decade before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball – is told by host Wendell Pierce (HBO’s Treme and The Wire), and performed by a rising star ensemble of pianist Christian Sands (in the role of Teddy Wilson), drummer Sammy Miller (Gene Krupa), 20-year-old vibraphone sensation Joel Ross (Lionel Hampton), and a host of special guest clarinetists. Peter Anderson, Will Anderson, Patrick Bartley, and Janelle Reichman each take a turn representing the unparalleled voice of Benny Goodman.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2016: Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band
Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Artist Profile by Laura Eckles, KCCK Programming Intern
One of the most influential Afro-Cuban jazz percussionists is without a doubt, Poncho Sánchez. Sánchez has been performing for more than three decades. Apart from his solo career, Sánchez has been featured on many albums including Tito Puente, Freddie Hubbard, Terrence Blanchard, and many others. His “Latin Soul,” received a Grammy award in 1999 for Best Latin Album.
Sanchez’s first big break came when his idol, vibraphonist Cal Tjader, hired him after hearing him play just one set with Tjader’s band. His last album released was, “Chano y Dizzy (2011),” a collaborative album with Terrence Blanchard. Sánchez and Blanchard emit ebullient and passionate playing into this afro-cuban jazz album. . Today, Sánchez is internationally acclaimed by percussionists and jazz experts. His albums include the technique of layering Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, salsa, bop, funk, and rhythm and blues
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“Tribute To Mose Allison”
Mose Allison (11/11/27 – 11/15/16)
Craig pays tribute to the recently departed jazz and blues master, Mose John Allison, Jr. (11/11/27 to 11/15/16), with a tasty sampling of goodies from Allison’s 150+ original compositions. We’ll hear him as a sideman with Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Stan Getz, as well as a leader on records from Prestige, Blue Note, Columbia, and several other record labels. Mose created a unique blend of jazz and blues, and wrote many songs that have become popular standards in both genres. And, of course, Mose was a master jazz pianist (and an accomplished trumpeter). Don’t miss Craig’s loving tribute to this artistic genius, whose songs will live forever!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Selected Works 1979 to 1983” by Ryo Kawasaki 
Japanese Jazz and electronic music legend, Ryo Kawasaki Selected Works Focus on the period of ’70s and the ’80s, pulling together five delicious slices of Kawasaki bliss from a boundary pushing discography that spans writing, arranging, producing and playing. For an introduction to Kawasaki, this release is near perfect, taking in sublime jazz through heaving slabs of funk to out-there electronic vibes. Despite being only five tracks long, this recording still feels like a generous rifle through the Ryo’s archives. Take a small journey through the amazing repertoire of Ryo with the 5 tracks that take in sublime jazz through to out there electronic vibes. https://soundcloud.com/nunorthernsoul/nuns008-ryo-kawasaki-selected-works-1979-to-1983-sampler
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
New Music Monday for November 28, 2016
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Kurt Elling has investigated matters of the soul and of faith throughout his career. He’s done so through his choice of repertoire; his inventive use of poetry, some of which dates back to the thirteenth century; and through his own writing. Filling an entire album with such matters required a different effort. Making that disc an inclusive ode to Christmas raised the bar. “The Beautiful Day” is definitely a jazz record, but the material draws from several genres—from traditional carols to the modern soul of Donny Hathaway and the folk rock of Dan Fogelberg, with several delightful songs written by Leslie Bricusse for the lesser known 1970 film musical “Scrooge.” The arrangements come from Elling himself in collaboration with guitarist John McLean, bassist Clark Sommers, pianist Kendrick Scott and others.
Kenny Burrell has appeared on so many essential jazz recordings that jazz history and his biography seem irretrievably intertwined. He has recorded 97 albums under his own name and several hundred with other artists including Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong. On “Unlimited 1” the guitarist is captured live at the West Coast jazz mecca, Catalina’s, with a well-oiled big band, The Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra Unlimited, which is made up of some of the West Coast’s greatest jazz men and studio players. He leads the group, solos and sings through a set list of original tunes and standards.
Also this week, Detroit’s Planet D Nonet, known nationally for curating some of the best in early jazz traditions, features musical selections associated with the composer, lyricist, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn on “A Salute to Strayhorn”.
Trumpeter Charles Lazarus offers up sounds of the season from Latin to lounge, groove to gospel on “Merry & Bright”.
The NOLA Players dish out a gumbo of Crescent City holiday cheer with “Christmastime in New Orleans.”
Culture Crawl 213 “The Money Pit Meets Green Acres”
The Iowa City Community Theatre presents the Moss/Hart comedy, “George Washington Slept Here” Swede. 2-11. Director Rachael Lindhart explains the classic play is the model for all “man vs. remodeling” comedies that followed it, in particular the movie, “The Money Pit,” set in a country atmosphere that probably inspired the show “Green Acres,” as well.
Talking Pictures 11-24-16
Fantasitc Beasts and Where to Find Them and Shut In with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
KCCK’s Special Thanksgiving Day Holiday Broadcast
Thursday, November 24th 6:00 am – 12:00 Midnight
THE FIRST FRIDAY JAZZ BROADCASTS – 18 Hours, 18 Different Bands!
Mike Maas Quartet at Opus Concert Café
We have so much to be thankful for – including all the incredibly talented musicians who performed over the past two years for the First Friday Jazz Series at Opus Concert Café in downtown Cedar Rapids. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin and contemporary music the first Friday of every month. KCCK broadcasts the first set from each band LIVE and for a real holiday treat we’re bringing you almost an entire day’s worth of some of the area’s most celebrated jazz artists captured in the spontaneous environment and intimate setting of Opus Concert Café. For our complete broadcast schedule of bands go to: http://www.kcck.org/blog/firstfridayjazz-schedule/
Clean Up Your Act 12-2016
A call for more action to clean up the Mississippi River watershed.