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This Week’s Shows: Week of December 7 – 13
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Smalls (NYC) / Keystone Korner (SF) 
On the Short List this week we go to both coasts: Smalls in the Village in New York City and the defunct Keystone Korner in San Francisco. Smalls is a unique place that records each performance and issues downloads and CDs of those sessions. They also show free videos of live events on their website. The Keystone Korner started out as a topless bar but soon realized that music was a better fit. Many up-and-coming pop & rock stars had a start there, like Boz Scaggs and the Pointer Sisters. When Todd Barken joined the staff, it was jazz all the way. It was one of pianist Bill Evans favorite places and his final recordings were made there. Economics would force it to close in 1983.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Fletcher Henderson: ‘Architect of Swing’ 
Bandleader, arranger, and pianist Fletcher Henderson is one of the most influential yet least known masters in jazz. During his orchestra’s peak years in the ’20s and ’30s, he helped define the sound of big band jazz, pioneering musical devices such as the call and response between the brass and reeds. His bands featured a brilliant array of musicians including Louis Armstrong, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and many others.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“McCoy Tyner — His Impulse! Years”
Back in May, Craig presented a program of McCoy’s years at MILESTONE RECORDS (1/72 to 11/94), and in July, a program of McCoy’s years with BLUE NOTE RECORDS (6/60 to 10/70 and 2/85 thru 1989). Today, as we close in on Mr. Tyner’s 77th birthday (12/11), Craig looks at Tyner’s years at IMPULSE! RECORDS (5/23/61 to 11/23/65 and 1995 – ’97). We’ll hear from Tyner’s seven Impulse! recording dates as a leader, as well as the his majestic piano work in the company of John Coltrane and others. Don’t miss the culmination of our 3 shows spotlighting the career of one of the great jazz pianists…MCCOY TYNER!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“Festival Season”
After the glitter of Carnival Season is washed away by the spring rain in New Orleans, there’s suddenly something else in the air — it’s Festival Season. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is world famous, but there are hundreds of other free music festivals each year in New Orleans, and they’re on everybody’s calendars in the Crescent City: French Quarter Fest, Wednesdays in the Square, Jazz in the Park, the Louisiana Cajun/Zydeco Festival, Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival, Satchmo Summerfest, and something actually called Chaz Fest. So this week we’re bringing you into the parks, the streets, and even the backyards of New Orleans, to show you why festivals here are such a way of life.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Wayne Horvitz in Seattle
Wayne Horvitz
The keyboardist and composer Wayne Horvitz made his name in New York, but for over 20 years, he’s been synonymous with his adopted hometown of Seattle. He’s one of the key players of the town’s improvised music community — as a player, a bandleader, a venue operator, and a teacher at several levels. Jazz Night in America returns to Seattle to track his influence on the city’s jazz ecosystem through his students, his collaborators, and a concert he leads during the annual Earshot Jazz Festival of music inspired by the late local poet Richard Hugo.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2015: Atlantis Quartet
Atlantis Quartet at the 2015 Iowa City Jazz
The Atlantis Quartet has emerged as a leading voice in the twin cities’ burgeoning modern jazz scene since its inception in 2006. The group features four of Minnesota’s most exciting young jazz artists, saxophonist Brandon Wozniak, guitarist Zacc Harris, bassist Chris Bates, and drummer Pete Hennig; who have come together in this setting to create and explore fresh and organic sounds in the heart of and on the edges of jazz idiom. The ensemble’s blend of complexity and accessibility has proven a perfect fit for all listeners. The group headlined the opening night of the 2014 Minneapolis Jazz Festival.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Holiday Special 
On this 2006 Piano Jazz Holiday Special, host Marian McPartland takes a look back at some favorite Christmas and holiday songs performed on the show throughout the years. Melissa Walker sings “The Moon on Christmas Eve,” written by Kathryn Williams and Vana Gerig, who stop by to talk about the song’s genesis. Pianist Cleo Brown evokes the style of Duke Ellington as she plays the traditional Christmas hymn “Silent Night.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“The Birth Date Anniversary of Drummer Tony Williams”
Tony Williams
Today, Craig celebrates the birthday of one of the most influential and important drummers in modern jazz, Bostonian, ANTHONY TILLMON “TONY” WILLIAMS (12/12/45 to 2/23/97). We’ll hear from Tony’s numerous own dates as a leader, as well as Williams as a sideman with Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Kenny Dorham, Stanley Clarke, Stan Getz, Charles Lloyd, and many other top-notch jazz artists. A truly amazing legacy of great work!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
At the Jazz Band Ball: With Jazz Journalist Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff
NEA Jazz Master Nat Hentoff joins host David Holt to discuss his book, At the Jazz Band Ball, Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene and shares recollections of the genre’s important figures. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band sets the mood, performing music from the playing of early jazz greats.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Encantado” by Jim Stubblefield 
http://www.jimstubblefield.com/
Jim Stubblefield — well-known for his Latin-style acoustic guitar playing with the popular touring and recording group Incendio that he co-founded — unveils a new solo recording, Encantado, that demonstrates his versatility as a guitarist, composer and arranger. The album title derives from his appreciation of folklore and fantasy.
Encantado is a term that means charm, enchantment and even intimacy. It appears in Brazilian folklore as the general designation for a legend that begins in an underwater realm called “Encante” and encompasses mythical creatures including spirit beings, shape-shifting snakes and especially the “boto encantado” pink dolphin that lives in the Amazon River and its tributaries (the myth says that the boto is able to turn into a human form). There are tales of the dolphin attending dances and celebrations in villages along the rivers, and having intimate relations with humans (some South Americans claim to be related to the boto). The Encantado album cover illustration depicts a guitar next to a Brazilian river with a snake and pink dolphin.
“It’s a legend believed by many people who live deep in the Brazilian rain forests,” says Stubblefield. “I love that type of folklore. It obviously evolved from tribes swimming in rivers with friendly and playful dolphins. Encantado is an enchanting, mystical tale that I thought would serve as a good album title.”
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
New Music Monday for December 7, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Coinciding with celebrating its 80th anniversary, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra continues to make music history with the release of “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas.” The first full-length yuletide album in the expansive Basie discography, the disc boasts classic holiday songs, rendered in quintessential Basie style, under the masterful direction of longtime Basie trumpeter Scotty Barnhart. The disc also showcases such guest artists as legendary singer Johnny Mathis, award-winning R-and- B singer Ledisi, veteran pianist Ellis Marsalis and iconic tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson. It also represents the return of the multi-Grammy winning Basie composer-arranger Sammy Nestico and 2015 multi-Grammy winning arranger Gordon Goodwin.
Cory Weeds like to build bridges. Within the 14 years that Cory elevated the Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver to one of the most highly regarded stops on the circuit, he forged alliances with jazz communities in New York and Seattle as well as across the Canadian jazz landscape. Now we can add a bridge to the Los Angeles scene as well. Jeff Hamilton is a mainstay of the Southern California jazz scene as co-leader of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and a first call session player as well as fronting the eponymous trio heard on the new CD with Weeds, “This Happy Madness.” His trio mates, Christoph Luty on bass and Tamir Hendelman on piano, are also first call plays and featured players with the Orchestra.
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Also this week, the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra celebrates the season with “Joyful Jazz,” featuring Freddy Cole on vocals and Sean Jones on trumpet; 
L.A.-based saxophonist and composer Kirsten Edkins, with the help of her mentor and friend Bob Sheppard, debuts on disc with “Art and Soul”; and drummer 
Chester Thompson, who has worked with everyone from Weather Report and Freddie Hubbard to Frank Zappa and Genesis, charges out of the box with the secondrecording from his straight-ahead jazz trio, “Simpler Times.”
Kirkwood Board of Trustees to Meet Dec. 10
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place Dec. 10, 2015.
Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
This Week’s Shows: Week of November 30 – December 6
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Village Vanguard (NYC)
The Village Vanguard in New York
The Village Vanguard in New York is a celebrated jazz venue, and it should be; it’s been there eighty years plus. It was first opened in February 1935 and has been running ever since, except for one day following the death of its founder, Max Gordon, in 1989. The Village Vanguard is the oldest jazz club in New York City. It started out as a place for poets and folk singers, but soon jam sessions could be heard with the greatest swing players in the late 1930s. By 1957 the club featured jazz musicians almost exclusively. It still does.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Carmen McRae: ‘Painter of Song’
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae was an outstanding song stylist whose great strength was in her phrasing and interpretation of lyrics. She was also an excellent pianist, whose personal approach and musicianship developed during her occasional performances at Minton’s Playhouse during the early years of bebop.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“The Birthdate Anniversary Celebration For Unheralded Jazz Master, Gigi Gryce”
Craig celebrates the birthday of noted reedman, composer, arranger, and educator, George General “Gigi” Gryce (11/28/25 to 3/14/83) by spinning an impressive array of Gigi’s work as a leader, a sideman, and as a remarkable composer and arranger. Gigi worked with many of the biggest names in jazz in the 50s and 60s — Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, Teddy Charles, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, etc., but remains relatively unknown. Tune in to catch a glimpse of why so many of his contemporaries thought so highly of him!!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“Bayou Road Blues”
Ernie Vincent
Ernie Vincent is one of four Bluesmen from New Orleans profiled this week on New Orleans Calling. Regardless of how long they have been part of the musical landscape of the Crescent City, New Orleans bluesmen draw upon the rich, multi-cultural fabric and tradition of blues, Soul, R&B, Funk, Gospel and Jazz to inform their individual style making New Orleans Bluesmen unique among the many greats of the genre.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Uncore: A Tribute to the Late Kenny Wheeler
A young 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.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2015: Dave Douglas & High Risk
Dave Douglas & High Risk at the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Dave Douglas is a prolific trumpeter, composer and educator from New York City. His unique contributions to improvised music have garnered distinguished recognition, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland award and two Grammy nominations.
High Risk is an exciting new electro-acoustic quartet led by Douglas. At the vanguard of modern jazz and electronic music, High Risk incorporates elements of improvisation into its sound, beat and song. On bass and drums, current scene leaders Jonathan Maron and Mark Guiliana explore new territory through groove and electronic manipulation. With the addition of up-and-coming DJ and remixer Shigeto, the group fuses melodic lyricism, stuttering, textured electronics, deep bass lines and driving drums. Building on the excitement of the pioneering ensemble Keystone, this quartet is the latest chapter in Douglas’ involvement in electronic jazz—an exciting and colorful new exposition of improvised possibilities.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen
Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen has built a strong reputation among critics and peers, and McPartland praised the warmth and virtuosity of her playing. Her performances as a leader and featured soloist have taken her around the world, and she can be heard as a soloist with the Christine Jensen Orchestra, her own quartet and quintet formations, and a number of other New York-based bands. Jensen is McPartland’s guest on this 2000 Piano Jazz, with musical selections including “A Child Is Born” and “Chelsea Bridge.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“McCoy Tyner — His Impulse! Years”
McCoy Tyner (left) with John Coltrane
Back in May, Craig presented a program of McCoy’s years at MILESTONE RECORDS (1/72 to 11/94), and in July, a program of McCoy’s years with BLUE NOTE RECORDS (6/60 to 10/70 and 2/85 thru 1989). Today, as we close in on Mr. Tyner’s 77th birthday (12/11), Craig looks at Tyner’s years at IMPULSE! RECORDS (5/23/61 to 11/23/65 and 1995 – ’97). We’ll hear from Tyner’s seven Impulse! recording dates as a leader, as well as the his majestic piano work in the company of John Coltrane and others. Don’t miss the culmination of our 3 shows spotlighting the career of one of the great jazz pianists…MCCOY TYNER!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
Class of ‘26: Soundtrack of the Jazz Age 
America was booming in 1926. The country enjoyed peace and prosperity— and the 20s roared. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the soundtrack of the Jazz Age with music from the repertoires of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and Jelly Roll Morton with special guests: guitarist Marty Grosz, vocalist Nina Ferro and Vernel Bagneris, and more.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Real Blues” by St. Germain 
http://www.last.fm/music/St.+Germain/Real+Blues
One of the few producers to pursue a real fusion of jazz and house music, Frenchman Ludovic Navarre began recording in the early ’90s using various aliases (Subsystem, Modus Vivendi, Deepside) for a range of French imprints. St. Germain debuted in 1994 for Laurent Garnier’s F Communications label and Navarre released his first album, Boulevard, in 1996. Featuring trumpeter Pascal Ohse, the album worked as a hybrid of American R&B and jazz with the growing French house scene exemplified by Garnier, la Funk Mob, and Dimitri From Paris. Tourist, issued at the turn of the century by Blue Note, took the concept further, with Navarre working post-production on a fuller complement of musicians. Navarre has also remixed such varying artists as Björk, Pierre Henry, and the Suburban Knight.
As St. Germain he signed with Nonesuch in early 2015. In May he announced a self-titled offering — his first album of new material in 15 years. Inspired by his longtime love of Malian music, the album was recorded in Navarre’s Paris studio. His stable of studio musicians included Brazilian percussionist Jorge Bezerra, Malian kora player Mamadou Cherif Soumano, Malian guitarist and n’goni player Guimba Kouyate, and longtime associate Martiniquais keyboardist Didier Davidas. St. Germain’s pre-release single “Real Blues” was issued in May, while the album was released that October.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: