Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Al Muirhead is a true institution in Canadian jazz, widely recognized as one of the country’s elder statesmen of jazz trumpet. Since moving to Calgary in 1966, Al has been a cornerstone of the Western Canadian jazz scene, performing and touring with luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Guido Basso, …
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Diane Schuur, organist Jimmy Smith, trumpeter/violinist/singer Ray Nance, trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianists McCoy Tyner and Beegie Adair and composer/pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Anita O’Day’s “This …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Jackie McLean’s Prestige Records Craig presents a variety of jazz jewels from the 19 Prestige sessions featuring the great alto saxophonist, band leader, composer, and educator Jackie McLean. Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays at 6:00pm Betsy & Ron’s Christmas Party …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra is one of the Midwest’s most prominent jazz bands. Founded in 2013, the CCJO is a17-piece not-for-profit ensemble dedicated to performing, preserving and teaching jazz as a living art form. Over the years, they have presented big band arrangements of works by Ellington, Mingus, …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Soul Jazz & the Prestige Organ Groups Craig closes the curtains on this month-long celebration of Prestige Records with a look at some of the top-notch Prestige organists and their groups, like Shirley Scott, Charles Earland, Jack McDuff, Larry Young, Freddie Roach, and Don Patterson. We’ll …
Cedar Rapids Community Orchestra presents, “Literary Inspirations & Holiday Favorites,” with special guests Amy Friedl and Tyros Orchestra & MMU Strings. Director Josh Reznicow and board member/violinist Dean Straub are in the studio with the details. It’s Sun Dec. 7, 3pm at Ballantyne Auditorium on the Cedar Rapids Kirkwood campus. Tickets can be purchased at …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Kinda Out West” is Edmonton bassist Aretha Tillotson’s second album as a leader, an ode to the musicians of her native Alberta and the neighboring province of British Columbia—artists whose work is fueled by the prairies and grasslands; by the ocean and the mountains. Tillotson’s quartet follows in the …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Prestige In The 60s & 70s Craig continues his deep dive into Prestige Records’s legendary catalog with more choice samplings from Cedar Walton, Eric Kloss, Pat Martino, Billy Butler, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Hampton Hawes, Sonny Stitt, and many, many others. …
