Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of arranger/bandleader Nelson Riddle, drummers Specs Powell, Charlie watts and Peter Erskine, singers Morgana King, Dakota Staton, Yolande Bevan and Ian Shaw, saxophonist/composer/arranger Oliver Nelson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “’Round About Midnight” (1956) …
Social psychologist, DEI expert, and author, Dr. Evelyn Carter, is in the studio today ahead of two upcoming events promoting her new book, “Was That Racist?” Dr. Carter will be in Iowa City at Prairie Lights on June 9 and on June 11 she will be in Cedar Rapids at the African American Museum of …
Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre presents “The Laramie Project,” by Moises Kaufman & The Tectonic Theater Project coming up June 5-7 & 12-13 at First Street Community Center. Director Grant Freeman and cast member Mary Morgan-Blacharski are in the studio with the details. Shows on June 5, 6, 12, and 13 are at 7:30pm with a …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist and composer Gabriel Espinosa’s “The Brazilian Project” is the realization of a lifelong devotion to the music that first stirred his imagination in the 1960s when the sounds of Jobim, Joao Donato and Sergio Mendes reshaped the global jazz landscape. Raised in Mexico on boleros and the Beatles, …
KCCK’s Memorial Day Special (May 25) All Day Monday from 6:00am to Midnight Celebrate Memorial Day with KCCK’s day-long rebroadcast of the 2025 Iowa City Jazz Festival. Hear headliner Stefon Harris & Blackout, plus the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra with Joel Frahm, fantastic student ensembles, BYO Brass, and all the main stage performances from this …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedmen Jimmy Hamilton, Albert Nicholas and Jim Snidero, bandleader Andy Kirk, singers Mamie Smith, Peggy Lee and Dee Dee Bridgewater, trumpeter/composer Miles Davis, pianist/composers Freddie Redd and Ramsey Lewis, bassist Eugene Wright and more. We’ll also mark the recording …
Wes Shirley is back in the studio after a successful first year of the CR Songwriter Series. After a series of trial and error over the course of the past four Songwriter Series concerts, Wes and his team are finding a groove with the community at Breathing Room Yoga, an intimate Cedar Rapids space with …
Summer of the Arts in Iowa City is well underway into this summer’s season of fun and festivities. Today LIsa Barnes and Eric Johnson are in the studio to chat everything Iowa Arts Fest. The festival is June 5-7 in downtown Iowa City with a vast range of art and music to enjoy. More information …
