Rielly Gillaspie, a senior at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, has been chosen as the winner of the Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design. Gillaspie will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM and the design will adorn the cover of the “The Corridor Jazz Project IX”, a compilation of recordings from the top …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: A Personal History of Jazz – West Coast “Cool” This week on The Short List host Bob Naujoks surveys his enjoyment of the West Coast style cool jazz. His love for this genre first …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jerry Weldon is one of today’s leading proponents of soul jazz who represents the bar walkin’, hard-blowing tenor legends of the American jazz scene. His tenure with the Lionel Hampton Band in the early ‘80s allowed him to develop his performance skills and create within him …
Our friends at The Heritage Center, the University of Dubuque’s performing arts and campus center, presents the Emmy Award-winning dance troop Jump Rhythm Jazz Project on Saturday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m. Jump Rhythm Jazz Project celebrates the communal core of jazz performance — dancing, singing, and storytelling in rhythmically syncopated conversations to the beat-driven sounds …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: A Personal History of Jazz – Jackson / Parker / Gillespie / Cole / Farlow This week producer Bob Naujoks finishes up his love for traditional jazz with a friend’s work, the Chicago icon, Franz Jackson. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Always one to seek out new ways to express his musical vision, pianist Bill O’Connell has throughout his career embraced a broad stylistic swath of jazz, Latin and Brazilian idioms while experimenting with equally diverse orchestral formats, from a duo to unconventional trio settings and ensembles of …
We were unhappy to hear about the cancellation of Riverwalk Jazz, and we know many Jim Cullum fans were as well. We explained the situation in a previous post. While that means no more Riverwalk Jazz on KCCK, we have learned that you can still listen! Jim Cullum has donated all his archives to the …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: A Personal History of Jazz – Classic Jazz: Chicago / NY / New Orleans This week producer Bob Naujoks recounts the great traditional jazz that he found to his liking. It was Bobby Hackett’s recreation of …
