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 …
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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 …
Brush with Greatness-Dennis
Do you remember the episode of “Happy Days” where rock star Flash Cadillac stays with the Cunninghams for a few days but Richie can’t tell any of his friends? We had a similar experience this week when a call came from an LA ad agency, asking if they could rent our production facilities for a …
Edgy Stuff II–Dennis
Thanks for the wide range of comments to the earlier post (if you haven’t read them all, just page down. All are excellent thoughts). The bottom line is that we consider the main thrust of our mission to find ways to make jazz accessible to a greater number of people, without pandering. In other words, …