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Help Keep Music In Our Parks!
The City of Cedar Rapids’ mobile band shell, which has brought entertainment to the community for nearly sixty years, has just about reached the end of its life. For thirty of the those years, the Band Shell has been the home of KCCK’s Jazz Under The Stars, and faced with the potential loss of this …
New Music Monday for August 3, 2015
George Cables is one of the world’s greatest jazz pianists, one who helped define the sound of the instrument as we know it today. He’s been making unostentatious music at the keyboard for decades. His new release, “In Good Company,” though focusing on people Cables has known in the past, is not a tribute album …
Culture Crawl 081 “Good Vibes”
World-renown vibraphone and marimba player Dan Moore brings his trio to Noelridge Park Aug. 6 for his first-ever appearance at Jazz Under The Stars. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dan also talks about the new UI Music Building (he is percussion chair at the University of Iowa), and also why he likes to pick songs not …
Gospel Brunch
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Jazz Under The Stars 2015!
Summer’s Last Great Party is here! Jazz Under The Stars takes place each Thursday in August. Listen to KCCK for updates and interviews with each week’s artists, or visit the JUTS section of kcck.org for more information. Here is the lineup: August 6: The Dan Moore Trio in Noelridge Park August 13: Local On The …
New Music Monday for July 27, 2015
Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick pays tribute to the North American Midwest on a new CD of intensely melodic compositions which reflect thematically upon journeys and homecomings both literal and spiritual. The original inspiration for “Midwest” came during an arduous tour of the U.S. and Canada. “We’d started on the West Coast and were driving long …
New Music Monday for July 20, 2015
Pianist Donald Vega’s origins were in Sandinista-era Nicaragua, where he spent the first fourteen years of his journey. His mother then brought him to Los Angeles, where he would eventually meet drum icon Billy Higgins. Higgins nurtured Vega’s will to swing, to play jazz without a ‘Latin accent,’ turning him on to Bud Powell and …
New Music Monday for July 13, 2015
In a musical world where keeping a working band has been difficult for many bandleaders, drummer Steve Smith has managed to keep three bands working for the past three decades. His jazz-rock band Vital Information has been touring and recording for more than thirty years, while his straight-ahead groups Buddy’s Buddies, made up of Buddy …