Jazz Corner of the World Encore
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Muse Records, Part One
Host Craig Kessler takes a first look at this rather extensive label that operated between 1972 and 1995, with some 560-plus titles in its catalog. Owner Joe Fields made this a veritable blue collar, meat-and-potatoes jazz label, sporting terrific artists such as Don Patterson, Sonny Stitt, Etta Jones, Charles Earland, Pat Martino, Kenny Barron, Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Heath, and dozens more.
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Eric Marienthal at Kirkwood
Saxophonist Eric Marienthal started his career with Al Hirt’s band. He later joined Chick Corea for his Elektric Band, garnering two Grammy’s over his six-album stint. Marienthal has played the full spectrum of jazz – from mainstream to fusion to smooth jazz. He’s first chair alto for Gordon Goodwin’s Big Fat Band, and is a fixture of the Rippingtons. In 2013, he added a gig with the Kirkwood Jazz Ensemble and the CR Jazz Big Band to his resume.
Jazz Night in America
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Remembering Phil Schaap
Host Christian McBride examines the life and legacy of 2021 NEA Jazz Master Phil Schaap with music from Jazz at Lincoln Center and a rare live album produced by Schaap himself at the West End Café in Manhattan. Sadly, Schaap died recently, at age 70.
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Strata East Records, Part 4
Host Craig Kessler totes in another batch of CDs and vinyl from this top-notch, extremely hard to find, ‘power’ jazz record label. We’ll hear a tasty array of jazz styles from a broad spectrum of vaunted Black artists, mostly from the mid-1970s, like John Betsch, Shamek Farrah, poet Jayne Cortez, Weldon Irvine, and others. It important music from a very important record label!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
Then & Now by the Al Williams Jazz Society on Monday; Plenitude by the Raul de Souza Generations Band on Tuesday; Bredux: Collected Edges by Kayle Brecher on Wednesday; Sounds from the Ancestors by Kenny Garrett on Thursday; Broke Down Busted Up by Tas Gru on Friday; Tony Holiday’s Porch Sessions, Volume 2 by Various Artists on Saturday; Transparent Sky by Lisa Hilton on Sunday