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Make Your Own “I’m The Boss” Bumper! – Dennis
By now, you’ve probably heard of our new way of referring to KCCK donors: The Boss. It’s a light-hearted and hopefully fun way of reminding you that as a non-profit, KCCK runs on donations from people who want to support our jazz radio programming and jazz education programs. In radio parlance, a quick recorded line …
New Music Monday for April 13, 2015
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Eliane Elias’ “Made in Brazil” marks a musical homecoming for the multi-Grammy-nominated keyboardist/singer/composer. In her three-decade long career as a solo artist, this is the first time she’s recorded a disc in her native Brazil since moving to the United States in 1981. Along with co-producers …
New Music Monday for April 6, 2015
New Music Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Onstage and on record, the music of Anat Cohen positively glows—with virtuosity, with charisma, with the sheer joy of creation—and never more brightly than on her seventh CD as a bandleader, “Luminosa.” The disc sees the clarinetist/saxophonist play singing, dancing originals, interpret Brazilian classics by the likes …
CD of the Month – April 2015
The KCCK Featured CD for April is “Afrodeezia” by Marcus Miller. Inspired by his role as a UNESCO Artist for Peace and spokesperson for the Slave Route Project, the bassist went back to the source of the rhythms that make black musical heritage so rich, following them like footprints from their beginnings in Africa to …
New Music Monday for March 30, 2015
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jazz innovator Marc Cary, voted Rising Star-Keyboardist in this year’s annual DownBeat Critics Poll, updates one of the most adventurous concepts of his career with the release of “Rhodes Ahead Vol. 2.” Cary’s breakthrough disc of 1999 incorporated elements of drum n’ bass, electronic funk, house, …
Live from the Opus Concert Cafe
The Opus Concert Cafe, located next to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids, continues its jazz series April 3 with permisson Jim Dreier. Dreier is a drum set, Latin percussion and jazz educator, clinician and performer who is also a full-time “Lecturer” in Jazz Studies at the University of Iowa. The First Friday Jazz …
New Music Monday for March 23, 2015
New Music Monday Playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Afrodeezia” was inspired by bassist Marcus Miller’srole as a UNESCO Artist for Peace and spokesman for the organization’s Slave Route Project. It was recorded in locations around the world including Paris, Morocco, Rio, New Orleans and Los Angeles, and features a wide range of guests including …
Heat up Sundays with KCCK!
“Tropical Heat” is the Corridor’s only locally-produced World Music show, featuring Jazz and Worldbeat sounds from the Tropics, The Caribbean, and around the world. The show is hosted by Togo native Kpoti Senam Accoh, who managed a music club before emigrating to the U.S. Listen for “Tropical Heat” Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. Email Kpoti at kpoti@kcck.org or follow …