This Week’s Shows – Week of October 12
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Shelly’s Mann-Hole in L.A. circa 1965
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – Shelly’s Manne-Hole
Jazz Clubs Live Short List series about famous jazz clubs both past and present, continues with Shelly’s Manne-Hole. In jazz history drummer Shelly Manne is held in high esteem, but more than that Manne kept alive the sounds of jazz on the Los Angeles scene with his Manne-Hole jazz club during the 1960s into the early 1970s. In a way it was a refuge from the commercial movie, sound track and pop recording job where Shelly made the greater part of his living. Shelly fronted a quintet many nights and brought in high quality people on weekends. The décor was termed “comfortably funky” and for a dozen years was the big draw in L.A.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday: ‘Lady Sings the Blues’
Billie Holiday was the consummate jazz singer. She could take any song and make it her own. She could re-work a melody, sing a lyric with impeccable diction, add her unique phrasing and embrace it with the raw emotional intensity of her life experience. All of the great bandleaders loved Lady Day: Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw. Billie’s personal battles are legendary — with a racist society, with men, with drugs — and it was that pain that fueled her songs. But she worked at her craft, found her own voice, and inspired countless singers and musicians. This show focuses on Billie’s music and its impact on jazz. Interviewees include her longtime accompanist Bobby Tucker, biographer Robert O’Meally, Abbey Lincoln, and Joni Mitchell.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Birth Date Anniversary Celebration for Thelonious Sphere Monk”
Craig celebrates Monk’s birthday with a delightful presentation of Monk’s COLUMBIA RECORDS years (October, 1962 to November, 1968). We’ll hear a number of his most memorable sides from records like, “Monk’s Dream”, “It’s Monk’s Time”, “Criss Cross”, “Monk.”, and all of the rest of the Columbia gems!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Historic Basin Street Station in New Orleans
Basin Street Station
This week’s episode of New Orleans Calling features live performances recorded especially for NOC listeners at New Orleans’ historic Basin Street Station. Basin St. Station, the Cultural Crossroads of New Orleans, exhibits the fascinating history, rich culture and unique attributes of New Orleans in the only remaining railroad building of the City. Featured are trumpeter Leroy Jones, singer Sharon Martin, Clarinetist Evan Christopher, and other New Orleans notables.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Jason Moran
Moran and Monk
Jason Moran defies the constraints of history itself in this celebration of “the first pianist who made me want to be a pianist.” Using archival footage, interviews, and live music, Moran re-imagines the classic Monk At Town Hall concert from 1959 to paint a portrait of one of the unique and influential musicians in jazz history. Backed by The Big Bandwagon, Moran performs his tribute to Thelonius Monk live at the Kennedy Center.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars 2015: Local on the 8s (new)
Local on the 8s at Jazz Under the Stars 2015
Local on the 8s, a group of musicians from across Iowa, utilizes a compelling combination and mixture of progressive rock, jazz, R&B, hip hop and funk music. Performing original compositions as well as the music of Trombone Shorty, Roy Hargrove, Kneebody, Christian Scott, Snarky Puppy and many others, Local on the 8s offers high energy music, steeped in tradition and sophistication, that will make anyone dance. Local on the 8s seeks to erase the lines between the mainstream and the underground – straight ahead and rock/funk. The band features Eric Thompson; drums and vocals, Ben Soltau; bass and vocals, Jon Snell; keys and vocals, Steve Grismore; guitar and vocals, Robert Espe; saxophones and vocals, Brett Messenger; trumpet / flugelhorn and lead vocals.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Phil Woods (1931- 2015)
Phil Woods
We remember the great alto saxophonist Phil Woods who passed away September 29th at the age of 83. Phil Woods was a true master of all things bop. He’s been called one of the top alto players since his debut in the 1950s, and the musical heir to Charlie Parker. He cut his teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Buddy Rich, and since 1973 his quartet has been redefining bebop. On this session from 2003, Woods joins host McPartland, bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin on “How About You” and “Fine and Dandy.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“Birth Date Anniversary Celebration for Guitarist, Barney Kessel”
Barney Kessel
Craig celebrates the birthday of the award winning jazz guitar master, Barney Kessel (10/17/23 to 5/6/2004) by spinning a wonderful selection of tasty jazz guitar items from throughout his lengthy career (mid 1940s into the early 1990s). We’ll hear Barney in a variety of settings with jazz giants such as Shelly Manne, Billie Holiday, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, and a host of others.
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
Jazz Goes to the Movies: A Look at Jazz Music & Musicians in Film
Scene from the movie “Stage Door Canteen” (1944)
From ‘soundies’ and ‘musical shorts’ to full-length Hollywood movies, jazz and jazz musicians were featured in many films from the 1920s through the 50s. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performs hot jazz from movie soundtracks, and writer Scott Yanow, author of Jazz on Film, offers favorite picks for viewing classic jazz in film.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Masques” by Brand X 
Overview: Brand X was a jazz fusion band active between 1975–1980 and 1992–1999. Noted members included John Goodsall (guitar), Percy Jones (bass), Robin Lumley (keyboards), and Phil Collins (drums). Goodsall and Jones were the sole constant members throughout the band’s existence.
Website: http://www.allmusic.com/album/masques-mw0000205064
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
New Music Monday for October 12, 2015
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Amina Figarova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical pianist. She came to the States in 1989 to complete her studies at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where she met her husband flutist Bart Platteau. After more than a decade of working major U.S. jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals, the couple gained legal immigrant status in 2014. Amina introduces ten colorful, compelling new compositions performed by her touring sextet and guests on “Blue Whisper,” her 13th disc since her 1994 debut. Her deeply personal, highly evocative responses to social turmoil, distinctive personalities she’s encountered and universal transactions of life inform the music on the new release.
Oran Etkin moved from Israel to the United States at age four. He heard Louis Armstrong at age nine and became entranced by the trumpeter’s soulful sound, swing and melody. Armstrong inspired Etkin to search for a way to express himself through music with honesty and integrity. That search led him to Benny Goodman, a musician also raised in a Jewish immigrant home and transformed by hearing Armstrong. On his imaginative new tribute to Goodman, “What’s New: Reimagining Benny Goodman,” the clarinetist is inspired by two historic moments when Goodman used music to transform American society. The first was Goodman’s famous concert at the Palomar Ballroom in 1935, cited by historians as launching the swing era. And a few months later, the newly ordained King of Swing revolutionized society again forming America’s first mainstream integrated band with the addition of pianist Teddy Wilson to his trio.
Also this week, Jill Townsend and her big band honor the late Canadian saxophonist and composer Ross Taggart with “Legacy: the Music of Ross Taggart”; pianist Stephen Anderson of the University of North Carolina jazz faculty and his 360 Degree Jazz Initiative unveil their debut disc, “Distracted Society”; and trombonist Michael Dease has put together a new quintet for his sixth CD as a leader, “Decisions.”
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Clean Up Your Act 10-21-15
ISU architecture students make the environment more humane for women prisoners.