Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
B-3 Blitz: Milt Buckner
Keyboardist Milt Buckner’s pioneering parallel chords style influenced many of the jazz elite, including Red Garland, George Shearing, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson. Buckner is also credited with popularizing the Hammond organ. He got his start with Cab Calloway’s band, and spent many years off and on with Lionel Hampton as his keyboardist and staff arranger.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Jazz in the Movies
It’s been several years since Craig has taken us to the cinema, so it’s high time we revisit the air-conditioned comfort of our local jazz show and lose ourselves in the music of Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Chico Hamilton, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers, and others. Always great fun, thrills and chills!
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Thelonious Assault at Jazz Under the Stars
Like their name says, Thelonious Assault attacks bebop and never lets up. Saxophonists Lynne and Peter Hart led the charge on a hot summer night at Jazz Under the Stars. The Noelridge Park crowd was treated to some choice Don Sickler arrangements of Monk classics, as well as some original charts.
Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Christian Scott’s “Stretch Music”
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah returns to his hometown New Orleans to explore what he calls “stretch music” – a boundary-breaking search for new ways of expression by “stretching jazz’s rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic conventions to encompass as many musical forms, languages, and cultures” as he can.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Jazz Corner of the World is pre-empted this week to bring you KCCK’s “Best of Fest,” the best acts from past Iowa City Jazz Festivals, as selected by you!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
Clarity by Alexa Tarantino on Monday; Hypocrisy Democracy by Joel Harrison on Tuesday; Look For the Light by Jeff Reed on Wednesday; Blue Soul by Dave Stryker with Bob Mintzer & the WDR Big Band on Thursday; Higher Vibrations by Mark Telesca on Friday; Dark Spaces by the Bridget Kelly Band on Saturday; Everybody Wants to Rule the World by La Lucha on Sunday