Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Galloping Guitars: Joe Beck
Joe Beck was an outstanding jazz guitarist for over three decades. He played with important instrumentalists and singers, like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, John Abercrombie, Tom Scott and Ali Ryerson. He was so good that one writer said, “When Joe Beck played guitar, his sound all but shone like the sun, like museum-piece gold.”
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Hotbeds of Jazz: Detroit, Part Four
In the fourth and final show of this series, Craig focuses on another group of prominent Detroit jazz artists. We’ll hear from Barry Harris, Yusef Lateef, Dorothy Ashby, Craig Taborn, Howard McGhee, Cecil Brooks III, Louis Hayes, and others.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Euforquestra at the Iowa City Jazz Festival
Eastern Iowa’s Euforquestra have ignited dance floors for well over a decade. Their music defies description In any given set (or song), you can hear world music of all genres, heavily influenced by funk, pocket, soul, and groove. They brought this unique sound and energy to the Iowa City Jazz Festival in 2008.
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Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
The DIVA Jazz Orchestra’s 25th
The DIVA Jazz Orchestra celebrates 25 years with the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra. Also on the program, one of the last surviving members of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm reflects on the legacies of all-female big bands.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at Noon
Great Bands of the 1970’s – Keith Jarrett
Craig revisits a key cog in the music of the 1970’s. We’ll hear records led by Jarrett on the Atlantic, ECM, Impulse!, and Columbia labels. We’ll hear Jarrett’s “American Quartet,” the “European Quartet,” solos, duos, and in other settings. It’s hard to imagine jazz in the 1970’s without the exciting new sounds and ideas from this firebrand pianist and composer.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: