“Eric Thompson’s Fun Time Music Hour”
From First Friday Jazz Oct. 1, 2015. Posted by Jazz 88.3 KCCK-FM on 10/02/2015 (5 items)
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First Friday Jazz – October 1, 2015
This Week’s Shows – Week of October 5
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live – The Blue Note 
Jazz Clubs Live Short List series about famous jazz clubs both past and present, continues with the Blue Note club which is probably a familiar name even to those whose musical taste does not start with jazz. It was Danny Bensusan who had the vision of a jazz club in New York’s Greenwich Village that would treat the artists with respect and offer a venue that would give them a place to offer their music. The first night at the Blue Note back in 1981 featured the Nat Adderley Quintet. Since then, even artists that had given up nightclub work, graced the Blue Note stage: Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan to Chris Botti and Keith Jarrett and Kenny Werner in the recent past. Even Ray Charles came in for a week each year at two shows a night.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Wes Montgomery: ‘The Unmistakable Jazz Guitar’
Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery created the first new sound on jazz guitar since Charlie Christian revolutionized the instrument in the late ’30s. His innovations such as his celebrated octaves and his style of playing with his thumb rather than a pick continue to have an influence today. Wes also became a popular musician, whose later recordings sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Prestige Records in 1965”
Craig travels back 50 years to look in on some of the nearly FORTY recording sessions done by Bob Weinstock and his crew at the PRESTIGE RECORDS jazz label back in 1965. We’ll hear a variety of top-notch jazz records by giants such as Jack McDuff, Lucky Thompson, Jaki Byard, Bobby Timmons, Chet Baker, and many others. This is classic modern jazz, laying the groundwork for exciting things to come!!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“Where Ya From?”
French Quarter – New Orleans
New Orleans is filled with beautiful neighborhoods, beyond the well-known French Quarter. And a walk through a New Orleans neighborhood is a chance to witness a different way of life. From the balconies of the Vieux Carre to the hidden countryside that’s still within the city limits, life here is lived to the fullest, present in every moment, but there’s also an understanding that these neighborhoods are built of memories as much as of bricks and wood. These memories are alive, in the musicians and everyday people of New Orleans — and we’re hearing them, as well as a great set from Little Freddie King recorded live at Basin St Station, in this week’s episode.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Wein’s World
George Wein
“Impresario,” “jazz fanatic,” “producer,” and “musician” are just a few titles we can give to George Wein. The man who invented the jazz festival turns ninety this month and we’re toasting his legacy with an exclusive interview on his career highlights. The music this hour comes handpicked by George featuring Tom Harrell, Bria Skonberg and Scott Robinson at the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars 2015: Dan Moore and Friends (new)
Dan Moore at Jazz Under the Stars 2015
Dan Moore is an internationally known musician, composer, and educator. Dr. Moore is professor of music and associate director of the University of Iowa School of Music. As head of Iowa Percussion, he has created a student-centric program that encompasses contemporary chamber music, concert percussion, electronic music, steel band, traditional Chinese drumming and other ethnic music, and improvisation. He travels the globe exploring the many expressive capabilities of percussion. His distinctive brand of improvisational music ranges from classic jazz to experimental music in acoustic and electronic settings. Dan has recorded three CDs while at the U. of I. and describes his Innova Records release: “Misfit Toys: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” (2013) “…as surreal wiseacre jazz version of MOR pop.”
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Sammy Price
Sammy Price
Pianist Sammy Price (1908 – 1992) began his career in the 1920s. He became a session pianist for Decca Records in 1938, and he led his own band, the Texas Bluesicians, which included greats such as Lester Young. He also played with trumpeter Henry “Red” Allen for nearly a decade. On this 1986 Piano Jazz, Price demonstrates his boogie-woogie style and performs jazz standards by Cole Porter and Duke Ellington.
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 Thelonious Sphere Monk”
Thelonious 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!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
Ben Pollack: White Hot in Chicago
Ben Pollack (seated)
Widely regarded as one of the most influential white bandleaders of the late 1920s, drummer Ben Pollack also had an eye for talent spotting. Among other jazz giants, he employed Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden and Jimmy McPartland early in their careers. Jim Cullum Jazz Band drummer Hal Smith discusses unique aspects of Pollack’s drumming style and the Band plays tunes from the Pollack repertoire.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Voice of Ages” by The Chieftains 
Website:
http://www.thechieftains.com/main/
Overview: The Chieftains are a traditional Irish band formed in Dublin in November 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy. The band had their first rehearsals at Moloney’s house, with Tubridy, Martin Fay and David Fallon. Their sound, which is almost entirely instrumental and largely built around uilleann pipes, has become synonymous with traditional Irish music and they are regarded as having helped popularise Irish music across the world.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
New Music Monday for October 5, 2015
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
With 40 years of professional recording under his belt, John Scofield is one of the most distinctive and versatile modern jazz guitarists; his capacity to play in fusion, blues, bebop, county, avant garde and pop settings while retaining his distinctive voice is peerless. In addition to leading numerous ensembles and recording more than three dozen albums as a leader, Scofield has played with a who’s who of jazz greats that include Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Joe Henderson and Herbie Hancock. For his new disc, “Past Present,” he updates his classic quartet of the early ‘90s with saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Bill Stewart by recruiting Larry Grenadier to fill the bass chair. Scofield describes the CD as “futuristic blues,” on which he and Lovano craft unison melodies before the two separate, then intertwine invigorating improvisations.
In an unlikely pairing of piano and banjo in 2006, Chick Corea and Bela Fleck joined together to explore the unexplored. Their project, joining one of jazz’s most prominent instruments with one relegated to ‘miscellaneous’ in critics polls, was uncharted territory. But Corea—an admirer of the banjoist’s bluegrass-meets-bebop band the Flecktones—and Fleck, long inspired by Corea’s Return to Forever, went into the studio with all new material. The result was not only deemed one of the best records of 2007 but also sparked multi-year international live tours for sold-out crowds. The most compelling performances culled from those years of touring comprise the new two-disc set, “Two.”
Also this week, Grammy-recognized contemporary jazz luminaries Bob James and Nathan East join together for “The New Cool”; singer-songwriter Lizz Wright unveils her first release in five years, “Lean In”; and the pairing of the Beegie Adair Trio with saxophonist Don Aliquo is “Too Marvelous For Words.”
Clean Up Your Act 10-14-15
Annihilation of Nature – Author says some wildlife faces extinction because of humans.
Culture Crawl 100 “Typhoons, Octopi, Wombats… and Three Actors”
Culture Crawl 100 “Typhoons, Octopi, Wombats… and Three Actors”
This Week’s Shows – Week of September 28
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live (new Series)
Birdland in NYC
The Short List series begins programs on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present. The first segments are about Birdland in New York City. The neon sign said “The Jazz Corner of the World” and the awning still does. The original Birdland club was organized and opened in December 1949 and named to associate the place with the high-flying jazz artist, Charlie Parker. For a time he would be their main headliner. There were three versions of the club over the years before it finally closed in the mid-1960s. Aside from Bird, all the great players of three decades appeared there.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Erroll Garner: ‘The Joy of a Genius’
Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner was one of the most original, intuitive, and purely exciting pianists to emerge during the modern jazz era. Although he is perhaps best known as the composer of “Misty,” Garner’s significance as a jazz innovator easily rivals his status as a successful songwriter. His approaches to melody, harmony, and especially rhythm are as fresh and inventive today as when he first introduced them in the mid ’40s. Interviewees include Steve Allen, Linton Garner, Martha Glaser, John Levy, Marian McPartland, and Dr. Billy Taylor.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“John Coltrane — The Prestige Years – 1955 to 1958”
For this year’s annual John Coltrane ‘birth week’ celebration, Craig takes us on a tour of the Prestige recording sessions that ‘TRANE’ was involved with, both as a leader and as a sideman with folks like Red Garland, Miles Davis, Mal Waldron, Paul Quinichette, and others, during the years of 1955 and 1958. We’ll hear Trane’s first appearance on the label for a Miles Davis date that took place 11/16/55, all the way through to his last appearance on the label for his own recording date that took place 12/26/58!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
“Stomp in the Name of Love”
Ira “Dr. Ike” Padnos. photo by Joe Rosen
The wedding reception of New Orleans anesthesiologist and avid record collector, Ira “Dr. Ike” Padnos in 2000 was so amazing—featuring blues acts ranging from Magic Slim and the Teardrops to R.L. Burnside—that his friends persuaded him to put on another show like it. And another. And another. Now in its twelfth official year, the Ponderosa Stomp festival remains devoted to celebrating and revitalizing the careers of long-lost rock, soul, R & B, rockabilly, country, blues, and garage musicians. Dr. Ike and his small staff (known as The Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau, an homage to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s “Feast of the Mau Mau”) bring recognition to forgotten artists still roaming the Earth through both the festival and their multifaceted nonprofit organization, the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation. Host George Ingmire talks with “Dr. Ike” about the festival’s history and sample music from some of the musicians appearing at this year’s event Oct. 1-3 in New Orleans.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Wayne’s World: Wayne Shorter at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter revisits some of his most career-defining work in this rare opportunity to hear a true jazz master exploring his back catalog. Joined by the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, Shorter touches on a lifetime of brilliance and trail-blazing in this special episode of Jazz Night In America.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Howard Levy with the CR Jazz Band
Howard Levy
Multiple Grammy- Award Winner Howard Levy is an acknowledged master of the diatonic harmonica, a superb pianist, innovative composer, recording artist, bandleader, teacher, producer, and Chicago area resident. His musical travels have taken him all over the geographical world and the musical map. Equally at home in Jazz, Classical music, Rock, Folk, Latin, and World Music, he brings a fresh lyrical approach to whatever he plays. This has made him a favorite with audiences worldwide, and a recording artist sought after by the likes of Kenny Loggins, Dolly Parton, Paquito D’Rivera, Styx, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon. As a sideman, Howard has appeared on hundreds of CDs and played on many movie soundtracks. He is perhaps best known for the four CD’s he recorded with Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, a unique band that set the musical world on its ear back in the early 1990’s. This performance, airing for the first time on KCCK, is from the Spring 2015 Kirkwood Big Band Concert. Al Naylor directs the CR Jazz Band
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Joe Lovano and Dave Holland
Dave Holland and Joe Lovano
Saxophonist Joe Lovano and bassist Dave Holland first recorded together in 1992 on the album From the Soul. Lovano toured with the Woody Herman Thundering Herd in the 1970s and went on to join the John Scofield Quartet. Holland was part of the London jazz scene of the late ’60s before playing with Miles Davis’ band. On this Piano Jazz from 2000, Lovano and Holland share their dynamic energy with host McPartland in a trio collaboration.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“Prestige Records in 1965” 
Craig travels back 50 years to look in on some of the nearly FORTY recording sessions done by Bob Weinstock and his crew at the PRESTIGE RECORDS jazz label back in 1965. We’ll hear a variety of top-notch jazz records by giants such as Jack McDuff, Lucky Thompson, Jaki Byard, Bobby Timmons, Chet Baker, and many others. This is classic modern jazz, laying the groundwork for exciting things to come!!
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
Bing and Louis: A Pocketful of Dreams with Author Gary Giddins
Louis Armstrong with Bing Crosby
Louis Armstrong called Bing Crosby a “natural genius.” Bing, in return, referred to Armstrong as “the greatest pop singer in the world.” Author Gary Giddins joins host David Holt to discuss the long friendship between two of America’s celebrated musical icons, as The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performs music of Armstrong and Crosby.
Tropical Heat with Kpoti Accoh
Sunday, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: Toumani & Sidiki 
Artists: Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
Website: http://www.toumaniandsidiki.com/
Overview: Described as “the finest Toumani collaboration since his classic work with Ali Farka Touré” (The Guardian) ‘Toumani & Sidiki’ is a dialogue conducted through the kora, the 21-string West African harp which the Diabaté dynasty has elevated into the most iconic of African instruments. Father-and-son collaborations are rare enough but the ties binding Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté are particularly profound and evocative. Descended from a line of griots – custodians of the ancient oral traditions of West Africa’s Mandé people stretching back seven hundred years – the names Toumani and Sidiki are significant names in the annals of African music.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/