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Culture Crawl 1016 “Nothing Says Christmas Like Burial Plots”
Ron Clark is with us ahead of “Christmas Express! On Air” a live radio show performance featuring music by Streamline Deluxe with special guest Annie Savage. It’s Friday, December 20th, 7:30PM at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. Tickets are $25. For tickets visit riversidetheatre.org or call 319-259-7099. Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture or …
This Week In Jazz December 15 thru December 21
Hey, jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedmen Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson and Harold Land, organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith, bassists Walter Booker and John Ore, guitarists Barry Galbraith, Cornell Dupree and John Abercrombie and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Buck Clayton’s “Jam Sessions from …
Culture Crawl 1013 “Filled with Melismas”
The Cedar Rapids Chorale is bringing all the bells and whistles this holiday season for their upcoming second annual “Handel’s Messiah Part One, Sing-Along” and director Gerry Kreitzer is in the studio to tell us all about it. This year you’ll get two chances to see the concert with performances on Saturday, December 14 at …
This Week In Jazz December 8 thru December 15
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Bob Dorough, trumpeter Donald Byrd, composer/arrangers Don Sebesky and Toshiko Akiyoshi, accordionist Richard Galliano and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Zoot Sims’ “Zoot” (1956), Donald Byrd’s “Freeform” (1961), Dexter Gordon’s …
This Week In Jazz December 1 thru December 7
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Ira Gershwin, producer Lester Koenig, pianists Dave Brubeck and Wynton Kelly, saxophonist Marshall Royal, bassist Art Davis, guitarist Jim Hall and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Gerry Mulligan’s “Reunion with Chet Baker” (1957), Art Farmer …
This Week In Jazz November 24 thru November 30
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Billy Strayhorn, saxophonists Paul Desmond, Gigi Gryce and Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson, brassmen Nat Adderley, Chuck Mangione and Terrell Stafford, singers Etta Jones and Holy Cole, pianists Jacky Terrasson and Jon Snell and and more. We’ll also mark the …
This Week In Jazz November 17 thru November 23
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, composer Johnny Mercer, singers June Christy and Sheila Jordan, trombonists Tommy Dorey and Jimmy Knepper, pianists Dr. John and Geoffrey Keezer and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain” (1959), …
This Week In Jazz November 10 thru November 16
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Benny Moten, Art Hodes, Hampton Hawes, George Cables and Ellis Marsalis, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Willie Cook, trombonist Helen Jones Woods, singers Jo Stafford, Ernestine Anderson and Mose Allison, bassists Sam Jones and Neil Swainsson and more. We’ll …