This Week In Jazz January 26 thru February 1

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays songwriter Jerome Kern, trumpeters Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge, saxmen Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott and Bob Mintzer, drummer Jimmie Smith, vibist Bobby Hutcherson, pianist Buddy Montgomery, guitarist Fareed Haque and more.

We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Hampton Hawes’ “Four!” (1958), Nat Adderley’s “Work Song” (1960), Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay” (1970), Carmen McRae’s “Carmen Sings Monk” (1988), “Joe Pass Quartet Live at Yoshi’s, Vol. 1 & 2” (1992), The Lonnie Plaxico Group “Live at Jazz Standard” (2003) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

This Week’s Shows January 27 thru February 2

Jazz Corner of the World  (Encore)

Mondays at 6:00pm

Jazz in 1975

Craig travels back 50 years to look in on the exciting variety of jazz recorded in 1975. We’ll hear from Chick Corea, Joe Farrell, Dexter Gordon, Lenny White, Keith Jarrett, and many others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Da’Bluesapalooza 2024, Part One

A truckload of Iowa’s legendary blues artists gathered last February at the Olympic Southside Theatre for KCCK’s annual daBluesapalooza. The celebrity benefit to support da’Blues on KCCK, featured Craig Erickson, Homebrewed, Dennis “Daddy-O” McMurrin, Charlie Morgan, and Ship of Fools, was again the jam of the year.  

 

 

 

 

Music | Mary StallingsJazz Night In America  

Thursdays at 11:00pm

Mary Stallings Not Stopping

Christian McBride celebrates Mary Stallings, a stalwart of vocal jazz, who has shared the stage with many legends – Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, to name a few. Still swinging at 84 years old, she shows no signs of stopping. She joins the Emmet Cohen Trio for a special night of singing from Dizzy’s Club in New York City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the WorldJutta Hipp: albums, songs, playlists | Listen on Deezer

Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

Jutta Hipp Centennial Celebration

Craig plays samplings from German pianist Jutta Hipp and her 1950s American Blue Note releases, as well as great material from all of her known earlier European recordings. Born in Leipzig in 1925, Hipp was brought to the U.S. by Alfred Lyon. We’ll hear fabulous music, amazing stories, and her mysterious history.

 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

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

Kiko by Jim Mullen on Monday; Hidden Gems by Brent Laidler on Tuesday; Breakthrough by Erik Jekabson on Wednesday; Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.G. Korngold & Max Steiner by Peter Erskine & the JAM Music Lab Allstars on Thursday; Here We Are by Sierra Green & the Giants on Friday; Saratoga by Eddie 9Volt on Saturday; Almost in Your Arms by Claire Martin on Sunday.

Big Mo Pod Show 048 – “Share The Load”

This week’s show features another round of varied blues tracks that your hosts discuss with manic delight! This episode covers a few obscure artists and discusses the unique way that the blues can bring people together, tune in to find out how! Songs featured in the episode: 

  1. Magnificent Seventh Brass Band – “When The Saints Go Marching In” 
  2. Howlin Wolf – “Highway 49” 
  3. Professor Longhair – “Red Beans” 
  4. Duke Robillard – “Do The Memphis Grind” 
  5. Junior Parker – “Love Aint Nothin But A Business Goin On” 

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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Culture Crawl 2022 “Weirdest Target Commercial Ever”

Iowa filmmakers Dylan Sires and Kristian Day are in the studio to talk about their new documentary “ChiefsAholic: A Wolf in Chiefs Clothing.” This wild story follows Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar… a serial bank robber. Now streaming on Amazon Prime.

For more info you can visit dylansires.com and kristianday.com.

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 1-22-25

Wolf Man (2025) and Shooting the Past (1999 BBC Mini-Series) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Ron Adkins.

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This Week In Jazz January 12 thru January 19

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trombonists Juan Tizol and J.J. Johnson, trumpeter Ray Anthony, drummers Jimmy Cobb and Jeff “Tain” Watts, guitarist Django Reinhardt, bassist Curtis Counce, vibist Gary Burton, singer Lizz Wright and more.

We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” (1949), Rosemary Clooney/Duke Ellington & His Orchestra’s “Blue Rose” (1956), The Oscar Peterson Trio’s “West Side Story” (1962), Bill Evans “The Tokyo Concert” (1973), Pharoah Sanders’ “Heart Is a Melody” (1982), Giacomo Gates’ “Fly Rite” (1998), David Larsen’s “The Mulligan Chronicles” (2020) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

This Week In Jazz January 19 thru January 26

Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trombonists Juan Tizol and J.J. Johnson, trumpeter Ray Anthony, drummers Jimmy Cobb and Jeff “Tain” Watts, guitarist Django Reinhardt, bassist Curtis Counce, vibist Gary Burton, singer Lizz Wright and more.

We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” (1949), Rosemary Clooney/Duke Ellington & His Orchestra’s “Blue Rose” (1956), The Oscar Peterson Trio’s “West Side Story” (1962), Bill Evans “The Tokyo Concert” (1973), Pharoah Sanders’ “Heart Is a Melody” (1982), Giacomo Gates’ “Fly Rite” (1998), David Larsen’s “The Mulligan Chronicles” (2020) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

New Music Monday for January 20, 2025

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify 

Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars celebrate the music of two iconic Viennese composers with the new release, “Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold and Max Steiner.” The composers who, after moving to Hollywood in 1920 and 1934, transformed the dynamic of film as they set the standards for movie scoring. Through their work on “Gone with the Wind,” “King Kong,” and many dozens more, their role in shaping popular culture since is legend. First exposed to the music in the late ‘70s as he was touring with Weather Report, Erskine heard Joe Zawinul playing a beautiful melody and learned it was by Korngold. He was moved to search out transcripts and recordings ever since.

 

Guitarist, composer and arranger Brett Laidler mined fake books going back as far as the 1920s to find music that he could reshape into hip compositions for his newest album, “Hidden Gems.” He conceived the project during the Covid lockdown. With three dozen old, printed fake books, many more in PDF form, and at least 14,000 tunes on his phone, he spent his time sightreading and listening to his large collection of recorded music. Most of the original music he used as sources never became standards, even though some were written by well-known composers; nevertheless, he felt that many of the tunes had very well-crafted changes that were amenable to reworking in a more modern idiom.

 

                                                             

 

Also this week, 78-year-old Scottish guitarist Jim Mullens is joined by a Chicagoan and two Danes from Copenhagen on the new quartet recording, “For Heavens Sake”; British singer Claire Martin is backed up by her Swedish trio on “Almost in Your Arms,” with contributions from guest vibraphonist Joe Locke; and trumpeter Erik Jekabson debuts thirteen new original orchestral compositions, weaving together jazz and minimalism into a mesmerizing sound all his own on “Breakthrough.”