Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On the Keys 3 (Willie “the Lion” Smith) Our summer Shortlist “Cats on the Keys” series 3 continues with one of the “Big Three” of Stride Piano from the 1920s: Willie “the Lion” Smith. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist and composer Chris Cheek has come to feel at home in a variety of musical contexts, from the infectious grooves of Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout to the challenging global music of Guillermo Klein. Much of his compositional style’s effectiveness stems from his love and use of …
Thanks to everyone who voted in our Best of The Fest contest, choosing your favorite performers from the past fifteen years of the Iowa City Jazz Festival. We will play back the Top 13 on July 4, beginning at 9am. 2008 was the year that placed the most acts on top, with three. The earliest …
Fourth of July Specials: The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: Jazz Heritage Series 2016 Radio Broadcasts with guest soloists Stefon Harris, Marvin Stamm with Bill Mays and Walt Weiskopf (6:00 am – 9:00 am) The Airmen of Note is the premier jazz ensemble of the United States Air Force. Created in 1950 …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. It’s no secret that the Branford Marsalis Quartet can be as freewheeling off the bandstand as in performance. The saxophonist and his ensemble, made up of pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner, are each bold personalities with strong opinions, equally intense in …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Sachal Vasandani) The Short List this week brings you a new voice—one in the making during the last decade. It is the instrument of Sachal Vasandani who can croon with the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. At a time when jazz bandleaders from across the musical and generational spectra regularly lament the difficulty of keeping a band together, it’s all the more remarkable that a supergroup like One For All has stuck it out for twenty years. But the impeccably swinging …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Renée Yoxon) Another Canadian import is featured on the Vocal Short List 14 this week. It’s Renée Yoxon who was raised in Ottawa, but now is in Montreal, going to …
