KCCK’s Year-End Fireworks with 25 Live and Top 88

Iowa’s Jazz Station ends 2025 the same way we spent this banner year: Giving you great music!

Each during during the final week of 2025, we’re  look back at the year’s best jazz releases with KCCK’s Top 88 of 2025. Listen at 11am each day  for our annual countdown of the most-played CDs from this year.

On New Year’s Eve, we’ll play back your choices from KCCK’s 50th anniversary music events. Our “25 Live” special includes Jazz Under The Stars Reunion shows with Daugherty, Davis, & McPartland, Kings of ‘da Blues, and Al Naylor’s I-380 Express. Plus student bands 10th Street Rapids and the Go Benesh Quartet. And from the Iowa City Jazz Festival, the Mike Conrad Trio and BYO Brass. The fun starts at 1pm Wednesday, Dec. 31.

Then, on New Year’s Day, we’ll count down the entire Top 88 beginning at 6am, from 88 all the way to number one.

Relax into 2026 with America’s Music on KCCK!