Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
B-3 Blitz: Fats Waller & Count Basie
While Fats Waller is best known for his stride piano work, the pipe organ was his favorite instrument. He incorporated into his music throughout his career. Count Basie shared Waller’s affinity for the organ, learning how to play from Fats himself as Waller accompanied silent films in movie theaters. While there are very few recordings of Basie on the organ, he would often delight audiences from time to time during his live shows.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Dial Records & the 75th Anniversary of Be-Bop
Craig presents a look at another early independent record label that documented the new “modern jazz” (be-bop of the mid-1940s). Formed in Hollywood in 1945 with the purpose of recording Parker, Dial also recorded Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Howard McGhee, and a number of others. Don’t miss this look at yet another important record label in the development of modern jazz!
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Music of the Civil Rights & Black Consciousness Movements
Countless musicians have contributed to the conversation on race, equality, and social justice in America. Join KCCK as we examine and reflect, through the music and words of Nina Simone, Max Roach, Gil Scott-Heron, Archie Shepp, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and many others, as well as the history makers and social revolutionaries of that era.
Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Muldrow & Moran Play Mingus
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist Georgia Anne Muldrow is entrenched in the alternative r&b scene, but she was born out of jazz family. She joins pianist Jason Moran and his band at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for a program featuring her own original music and their interpretations of music by Charles Mingus.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Cal Tjader & Vince Guaraldi
Craig takes a look at two career paths that often intersected each other surrounding Latin-styled jazz in the San Francisco area. We’ll hear recordings from the 1950s and 1960s from pianist Vincent Anthony Dellaglio (Vince Guaraldi), and Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. (Cal Tjader). This is mostly material recorded for the SF-based Fantasy Records. Keep your dancin’ shoes at the ready!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
I Love to See You Smile by 3D Jazz Trio on Monday; Anemone by Vito Dieterle on Tuesday; A Wake of Sorrows Engulfed in Rage by Alain Mallet on Wednesday; Swallow Tales by John Scofield on Thursday; Orange by No Name James on Friday; Lounging at the Wood by The Soul Searchers on Saturday; Ode to the Road by Dena DeRose on Sunday