Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)
Saturdays at 6:00pm
Randy Weston Centennial Show
Craig celebrates the 100th birth date anniversary of pianist and composer Randy Weston, who passed away in 2018 at age 92. We’ll hear a diverse program spanning his earliest recordings from the early 1950s into the 2000s.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis at the Iowa City Jazz Festival
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis has been applauded for what critics called, “unpretentiously intelligent and profoundly moving blend of cinematic sweep and lush, ear-grabbing melodies.” The 2019 ICJF crowd got to hear this great, praise-worthy jazz for themselves.
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays at 12:00 noon
Prestige’s New Jazz Label
Craig explores some fine examples from Prestige’s New Jazz subsidiary. From 1956 through 1963, Prestige founder Bob Weinstock created New Jazz to spotlight unestablished artists. A great many of these artists, like Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, and Dorothy Ashby, became a very important part of jazz culture.
KCCK’s Midnight CD (April 6 – April 12)
Every Night at Midnight
KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.
Spring by Tierney Sutton & Tamir Hendelman on Monday; The Magic Touch by Donald Harrison on Tuesday; Duos by Bernie Senensky on Wednesday; Thank You Notes: The Music of Gregg Hill by the Paul Keller Orchestra on Thursday; Key of V by Peter Veteska & Blues Train on Friday; Jazz Interpretations of the Grateful Dead: Live at Old Rockhouse by Hard Bop Messengers on Saturday; Ode to the Possible by Tom Lippincott on Sunday.
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae, saxophonists Charlie Rouse and Gerry Mulligan, songwriter Yip Harburg, pianist/composers Andre Previn, Victor Feldman and Claude Bolling, horn man Freddie Hubbard, percussionists Art Taylor, Steve Gadd and Mongo Santamaria and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Johnny Griffin’s “A Blowing Session” (1957), Lou Donaldson’s “Alligator Boogaloo” (1967), Ella Fitzgerald’s “Ella in London” (1974), Joshua Redman’s “Freedom in the Groove” (1989), Peggy Stern’s “Actual Size” (1998), Al Jarreau & the Metropole Orkest, “Live” (2011), and many others, Mondays thru Fridays and at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
