For nearly 24 years our affable local curmudgeon, Mark Yother, offered us his weekday “Got A Minute” commentaries – his sometimes skewed perspective on what everybody else is up to. Occasionally serious; always more or less reality-based. Mark wrote all of his scripts for “Got A Minute” on his typewriter. He kept every single one filed …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made in impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed discs and countless sideman credits. In 1983, he began a fourteen-year association with pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi, making seven recordings and touring …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Carol Welsman) Over the years there have been a host of great jazz performers who came over the northern border to make a splash in the United States, including pianist Oscar Peterson, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. From his roots in music-rich Memphis through his work with legends ranging from B.B. King to Max Roach to Slide Hampton and his renowned tenure with the Miles Davis Quintet, saxophonist George Coleman established himself as one of jazz’s most soulful and expressive voices. Last year he joined …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Alexis Cole) Alexis Cole is just starting to really get noticed as a fine jazz singer, but she’s been that way for quite a time. Born in New …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. To record “Culcha Vulcha,” their 11th album and first true studio disc in eight years, Snarky Puppy decamped to a pecan orchard at the remote Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, a five-minute walk from the Mexican border. The Texas-bred/Brooklyn-based collective used a week in …
KCCK’s “Big Band Memories” host Murray Kent, an expert on the music of the Twenties and Thirties, helped Marcus Eckhardt, curator of the Hoover Library and Museum in West Branch, locate music to provide just the right soundtrack for “Ain’t Misbehavin’ – The World of the Gangster.” The exhibit runs through Oct. 23. [embeddoc url=”http://www.kcck.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/The_Gazette_20160425_A07_1.pdf” viewer=”google”]
Friends, former colleagues, and fans of KCCK personality Mark Yother gathered to say goodbye at a memorial on April 23. Held at Tommy’s Restaurant in Cedar Rapids, Mark’s daily lunch haunt for decades, friends and family told stories for more than two hours. We remembered a true original with laughter and a few tears. Mark’s …
