Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. While the recording studio offers an ideal, controlled environment for audio fidelity and perfectionist tinkering, the bandstand is where any musician’s mettle is tested—live in the moment, under the scrutinizing gaze of a rapt audience. On the new CD, “Kalamazoo,” trombonist/composer Delfeayo Marsalis places his gift for entertaining …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats On The Keys 4: Jaki Byard This week’s Short List features the long-overlooked but excellent pianist Jaki Byard. He has a legacy of 35 solo recordings and another 50 as a sideman. Byard played with …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Nothing gets music lovers in a celebrating mood like listening to their favorite Christmas carols, and a new CD, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” from trumpeter Chris Pasin delivers a whopping dose of holiday cheer. Pasin has proved himself among the most versatile of musicians. Besides fronting …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats On The Keys 4: Mulgrew Miller Pianist Mulgrew Miller is the subject of this week’s Short List. Miller started poking at the piano when he was six, and began formal lessons two years later. As …
A group of UNI graduates, most of whom hail from Cedar Rapids, nabbed the top spot on KCCK’s Best of Jazz Under The Stars poll. Commons Collective played Jazz Under the Stars in 2014, and have also been one of the most popular groups to play at First Friday Jazz. Congratulations to Brian, Nolan, Jon, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With his career spanning almost three decades, Willie Jones III has become one of the jazz world’s most respected and highly accomplished modern jazz drummers of our time. His associations with legendary artists such as Cedar Walton, Milt Jackson, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins and Roy Hargrove speak …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats On The Keys 4: Cyrus Chestnut Cyrus Chestnut’s accessible mix of gospel, blues and bop-tinged piano jazz has emerged as a strong voice in just the last decade. Though he started his career with such …
You may have heard us refer to “Talking Pictures” host Denny Lynch as the very first Star Wars fan. If you wondered just how he got that designation, a recent article in the Jefferson, Iowa paper (where Denny managed the theatre at one time), tells the whole story. Read the article at this link. Catch …
