The good news reported in the Chicago Tribune this week is that, after closing their old location at the end of last year due to the high rent, one of the premiere live jazz spots in the Midwest will be back up and running this winter. The Jazz Showcase has announced that it’ll be opening …
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Thanks for 20 great years! — Dennis
Well, the 20th anniversary season of Jazz Under The Stars is history, and it’s full of fond memories and great music. We had four outstanding concerts (although it took us five weeks to get them all staged), concluding with a smokin’ set from GrooveShip. Thanks to the members of the Rod Pierson Big Band, Eddie …
Christian’s a Class Act-Dennis
Steve Carpenter, Public Information Director for Kirkwood (and former KCCK Manager) alerted us to a complimentary post jazz bassist Christian McBride made on his blog about his April performance in Cedar Rapids with the Kirkwood Jazz Ensemble and CR Jazz. He had particularly nice things to say about director Tim Feldkamp. Read it here. We …
Water, Water, Everywhere–Dennis
Maybe we should have known when we hired a band called GrooveShip that we should worry about excess water…. We’ve had to postpone tonight’s Jazz Under The Stars concert to next week, due to continued rain and saturated grounds at Noelridge Park, with the threat of more showers tonight. There is standing water all over …
A New Look for kcck.org–Dennis
If you came to the blog via KCCK’s website, you’ve already noticed the new and improved kcck.org. We’re really pumped about the new look and functions. One of the coolest new things is that we are now feeding the information from the online playlist directly to the home page, so when you visit, one of …
Listeners at all times of the day – George
We recently received a call from a listener who had trouble sleeping one night and caught “The Brazilian Hour” during the early morning hours of a Sunday. She really enjoyed the mix of traditional Brazilian and Brazilian-flavored jazz. She wondered if the show was repeated during the week. I told her that in addition to …
Webcasting Update-Dennis
Well, we’re still webcasting today. Late Friday, we received word that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting(CPB), and National Public Radio (NPR) were still in negotiation with Sound Exchangeto settle the issue of royalty payments for webcasting of public radio music programming. While no agreement was reached on a substitute for the March 2nd decision of …
Great Fest! — Dennis
Hope you were at the Pentacrest at some point this weekend for the Iowa City Jazz Festival. The weather was perfect, and the music spectacular. Our 20-hour live broadcast of the Festival ended with a delightful set from the Ben Allison Quartet Sunday afternoon (Record company restrictions would not allow us to broadcast the Derek …