The Corridor’s newest jazz band, the Liberty High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ryan Arp, makes its Corridor Jazz Project debut with Chick Corea’s “Early Afternoon Blues,” with guest artist Steve Shanley, professor of music at Coe College and director of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band. Liberty students with solos include Spencer Knight, Brennan …
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New Music Monday for February 4, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. If not for trumpeter John D’earth, Kait Dunton might never have become a professional musician. The two met in 2001 at the University of Virginia. She’d been playing piano for 15 years but had no sense of turning her love of music into a career. …
Marion High School – 2019 Corridor Jazz Recordings
Today’s featured session from the 2019 Corridor Jazz recordings is the Marion High School Jazz Band One, performing “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise.” Directed by Logan Vander Wiel with guest artist Nolan Schroeder, saxophone. Nolan, a Linn-Mar graduate, is one of only two musicians who participated in the Corridor Jazz Project as students and …
Solon – 2019 Corridor Jazz Recording Session
Today’s Featured Session from the 2019 Corridor Jazz Project CD Recordings is the Solon High School Jazz Orchestra, directed by Desmond Cervantez. Mr. Cervantez didn’t have to go very far to find his guest artist. Just across the hall, in fact, and asked Solon Vocal Director Joel Foreman to join the band on vocals …
CR Jefferson – 2019 Corridor Jazz Recording Session
School may be cancelled today, but you can pass the time by watching the latest video from the Corridor Jazz Project 2019 recording sessions, featuring the Jefferson High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Jazz Ensemble, directed by Chad Allard. Guest soloist is Chris Jensen, drums, performing “Spirit of New Orleans” by Andy Classen for the 2019 …
City High – 2019 Corridor Jazz Recording Session
13 high school jazz bands recently went into the studio with a guest artist to record for The Corridor Jazz Project, KCCK’s annual jazz education program that matches student and adult musicians. Each day, we’ll feature a video of one of the recording sessions, held at Orchestra Iowa‘s Opus Concert Cafe. Today, it’s the Iowa …
New Music Monday for January 28, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Though she originally studied and performed in the classical field, the past few years have found bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton in many more diverse situations, especially in the world of jazz. She is a regular in the Broadway pit orchestras of New York City and is also a …
New Music Monday for January 21, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.A protégé of Quincy Jones, who took him under his wing when he defected to the U.S. in 2009, pianist Alfredo Rodriguez was schooled in the rigorous classical conservatories of Havana. His riveting artistry is informed as much by Bach and Stravinsky as it is by his Afro …