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This Week’s Shows July 21 thru July 27

Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)

Mondays at 6:00pm

Guitarist Gabor Szabo

Craig takes the first of several listens to the underrated Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo’s work between 1958 thru 1982. We’ll hear Szabo in the company of Ron Carter, Charles Lloyd, Chico Hamilton, Gary McFarland, Richard Davis, and many others.

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Group X Reunion at Jazz Under the Stars

Our listen back to 2024’s Jazz Under the Stars continues with a reunion of four musicians and life-long friends. In the early 2000’s, a quartet of UNI undergrads – Jennifer Tiede, Joel Nagel, Dave Tiede, and Mike Conrad – formed Group X and recorded an album. They’re back on stage for the first time in well over a decade, playing some of their classic charts.

Jazz Night In America

Thursdays at 11:00pm

Fred Hersch at 70

Pianist Fred Hersch, who turns 70 this year, looks back on a storied career filled with some of the most daring and imaginative collaborations in jazz. He shares some of his personal favorites, plus brand-new music.

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

Happy Birthday Kenny Burrell!

Craig celebrates Kenny Burrell’s 94^th birthday with an exciting overview of this all-time great guitarist’s career, from the years 1951 up to his latest.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.

Pyrography by Paul Hecht on Monday; Time Shift by Tim Jago on Tuesday; In the Beginning by Something Blue on Wednesday; Threads of Time by Alan Broadbent on Thursday; Just Stay High by The Alexis P. Suter Band on Friday; Roadhouses, Juke Joints & Honky-Tonks by Rusty Ends & HillBilly HooDoo on Saturday; Love Endures by Tyler Henderson on Sunday.

Big Mo Pod Show 070 – “In The Pocket”

Hey Folks! This week’s show features the usual mix of old and new blues artists, with topics of discussion that range from how music can heal, and the musical science that goes behind creating a funky track! Songs featured in the episode:

Monster Mike Welch – “Living Till I Die”
Little Ed and the Blues Imperials – “Walking The Dog”
Hamilton Loomis – “What It Is”
Warren Haynes – “Lies Lies Lies”
Dumpstaphunk – “I Wish You Would”

Listen to ‘da Friday Blues with Big Mo each week at 6pm, and catch the podcast for a behind the scenes look at the show!

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Headwinds

Congress has approved the Rescission package that eliminates funding for public media. This means a near-immediate loss of around $150,000 dollars to KCCK, with other costs to come as services provided to us by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) are wound down. This represents around 20% of our budget.

While this is not the outcome we had hoped for, we are grateful and proud of our community for your calls and emails to our representatives and messages of support to us through this trying time. You showed politicians the strength and passion of our community. While we can no longer count on any federal support, I am confident that this community will continue to sustain KCCK.

This transition won’t come without pain. We will have to make cuts, so it’s likely that some things you are used to hearing on the station will not continue. But local producers, live shows, and education programs are the heart of our service, and will be the very last things to be cut. We’re not quitting. In fact, despite this significant challenge, we’re intensifying our commitment to you. We must build a stronger, more resilient, more sustainable KCCK. It’s a model that relies — especially now — on the support of the people who value what we do.

So, we turn to you, our listeners and friends… our family, to help us shape and fund KCCK as we move forward into a new normal. If you would like to help now, click the DONATE button to make a gift or set up a monthly donation. Contact us if you’d like to increase your sustaining gift.

Again, thanks to everyone who fought the good fight and advocated for us and for all of public media. Together, we can keep KCCK strong and make sure that despite these headwinds, there is a home for local, non-profit, community media now and in the future.

Culture Crawl 1094 “Hiding in the Bass Drum”

Ghanian drummer and composer Paa Kow chats with Dennis over the phone ahead of another “One World” music series concerts put on by Natural Talent Music.

It’s 7:30pm Sat, Aug 9 at The James Theater. Paa Kow will have an 8 piece band performing a fusion of jazz and afro-pop. Parranderos Latin Combo will also take the stage.

For tickets visit thejamesic.com.

For more info visit paakowmusic.com & parranderosmusic.com.

Keep up with Natural Talent Music on FB at facebook.com/nattalmus.

Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture or search “Culture Crawl” in your favorite podcast player. Listen Live at 10:30am most weekdays on Iowa’s Jazz station. 88.3 FM or kcck.org/listen.

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Talking Pictures 7-16-25

“The Shrouds” (2024) and “Superman” (2025) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.

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Culture Crawl 1093 “Back Into the Elements”

It’s week 7 of the Cedar Rapids Muni Band season and Steve Shanley is here with the details. The band will be in Ellis Park on Wed, Jul 16, and in Bever Park on Sun, Jul 20. Music begins at 7:30pm.

Shanley is also at KCCK’s Jazz Band Camp this week with performances on Fri, Jul 18 at 10:45am & 3:30pm @Ballantyne Auditorium.

For more info visit crmuniband.org.

To watch the livestreams visit facebook.com/CRMuniBand.

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This Week In Jazz July 13 thru July 19

Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Dorothy Fields, guitarist Mary Osborne, singers Little Jimmy Scott, Ruben Blades and Angelique Kidjo, drummers Philly Joe Jones, Alan Dawson and Joe Morello, pianist Larry Fuller, vibist Cal Tjader and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy” (1954), Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie’s “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (1963), Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis 4’s “Montreux ’77” (1977), “Parker’s Mood: Sadao Watanabe Live at Bravas Club ’85” (1985), “Kenny Burrell and the Jazz Heritage All-Stars – Live at the Blue Note” (1996), Robin McKelle’s “Mess Around” (2009) and many others Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

This Week’s Shows July 7 thru July 13

Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) (June 30)

Mondays at 6:00pm

Impulse! Records, Show 2 (Live)

On a special live Monday evening presentation, Craig digs up some more choice material from Impulse! Records. We’ll hear interesting recordings from Sonny Rollins, Shirley Scott, Max Roach, Michael White, Gil Evans, and many others.

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

BYOBrass at Jazz Under the Stars

We’re getting warmed up for KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars in August with a listen back to all the great music from 2024. BYOBrass kicked everything off with their infectious mix of jazz, New Orleans front-line, funk, and even a little rock. Opening the show that night was the Sam Ross Quartet.

Jazz Night In America

Thursdays at 11:00pm

“Ain’t No Wongnotes”

Hear a funky set from guitarist Cory Wong and the Wongnotes from the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival, plus stories from Cory about his past, process and the evolution of the Minneapolis Sound.

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

Soul Jazz & the Hammond B-3

Prepare to get your groove on as Craig presents jazz organ works from some relatively obscure artists like Freddie McCoy, Roosevelt Willette, and Freddie Roach, plus well-known organists Jimmy Smith, Don Patterson, Jack McDuff, and others.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.

Eclecticity by Albare on Monday; Onta by Alyn Cosker on Tuesday; Transverse by Chad McCullough on Wednesday; City Life: the Music of Gregg Hill (Disc 2) by Michael Dease on Thursday; God Bless the USA by Aki Kumar on Friday; Talkin’ Heavy by D.K. Harrell on Saturday; Mellow Tones by Dena DeRose on Sunday.