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This Week In Jazz January 21 thru January 27
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wellman Braud, Curtis Counce and Eberhard Weber, guitarist Django Reinhardt, instrumentalist/composers Juan Tizol and Antonio Carlos Jobim, arranger Marty Paich, saxman/composer Benny Golson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s first Carnegie Hall Concert …
Culture Crawl 889 “Two Guys in a Cubicle”
Iowa City’s Riverside Theatre is bringing Iowa alum Samuel D. Hunter back to his roots with their production of his play, “A Case for the Existence of God” and director Adam Knight is in the studio to tell us all about it. Running Jan 19-Feb 4. Tickets at www.riversidetheatre.org. Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at …
This Week In Jazz January 14 thru January 20
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Gene Krupa and Sid Catlett, singers Irene Kral, Eartha Kitt and Cheryl Bentyne, lyricist Irving Mills, pianists Cedar Walton, Horace Parlan, Cyrus Chestnut and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert (1938), …
Culture Crawl 887 “The Caitlin Clark of Jazz”
Mike Conrad, founder and director of The Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra, talks about some of his experiences as a renowned composer and gets us excited for upcoming IJCO gig at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts on Jan 21 at 2pm. Tickets at www.coralvillearts.org. More info on the band at www.iowajazzcomposersorchestra.com. Subscribe to …
Culture Crawl 886 “Even Michael Bolton Recorded It”
It’s time for another night at the opera with the Cedar Rapids Opera’s upcoming production of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. Cast members Chaz’men Williams-Ali, Maria Natale, and Norman Garrett share insight to Puccini’s dramatic work and spoiler alert, you’re going to want to stay for Act II. Shows are Friday, January 19 at 7:30pm and Sunday, …
This Week In Jazz January 7 thru January 13
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Kenny Clarke, Osie Johnson and Max Roach, singers Betty Roche and Ruth Brown, trombonists Wilbur de Paris and Willie Dennis, saxophonists Allen Eager and Jane Ira Bloom and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Toots Thielemans’ …
This Week in Jazz December 31 thru January 6
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Wild Bill Davison, trumpeter Dizzy Reece, pianist Herbie Nichols, drummers Chuck Flores and Dede Ciccarelli, singers Arthur Prysock and Johnny Adams, saxophonist Roger Neumann and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Count Basie and His Orchestra’s …
This Week In Jazz December 24 thru December 30
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, composer/pianist Steve Allen, bassist Monty Budwig, saxman Ronnie Cuber and more. We’ll also countdown our Top 88 Albums of 2023 beginning Tuesday December 26 and reaching #1 on Friday the 29th.