Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Soul Jazz & the Prestige Organ Groups Craig closes the curtains on this month-long celebration of Prestige Records with a look at some of the top-notch Prestige organists and their groups, like Shirley Scott, Charles Earland, Jack McDuff, Larry Young, Freddie Roach, and Don Patterson. We’ll …
Cedar Rapids Community Orchestra presents, “Literary Inspirations & Holiday Favorites,” with special guests Amy Friedl and Tyros Orchestra & MMU Strings. Director Josh Reznicow and board member/violinist Dean Straub are in the studio with the details. It’s Sun Dec. 7, 3pm at Ballantyne Auditorium on the Cedar Rapids Kirkwood campus. Tickets can be purchased at …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Kinda Out West” is Edmonton bassist Aretha Tillotson’s second album as a leader, an ode to the musicians of her native Alberta and the neighboring province of British Columbia—artists whose work is fueled by the prairies and grasslands; by the ocean and the mountains. Tillotson’s quartet follows in the …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Prestige In The 60s & 70s Craig continues his deep dive into Prestige Records’s legendary catalog with more choice samplings from Cedar Walton, Eric Kloss, Pat Martino, Billy Butler, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Hampton Hawes, Sonny Stitt, and many, many others. …
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Scott Joplin, keyboardists Wild Bill Davis, Richard Tee and Lyle Mays, saxophonist/composers Paul Desmond and Al Cohn, cornetist Nat Adderley, singers Etta Jones and Holly Cole and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Lester Young w/ …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Noam Lemish’s new album, “There’s Beauty Enough in Being Here,” offers a gently ravishing program inspired by a Fernando Pessoa poem about experiencing the numinous nature of even the most everyday occurrences. It’s the latest project from the Juno Award-nominated pianist/composer, who’s created an enthralling body of work exploring …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Prestige & Its Subsidiaries Craig presents another listen to treasures from Prestige Records, including a look at their subsidiary labels, Swingville, Moodville, and Bluesville. We’ll hear from Coleman Hawkins, Ken McIntyre, Red Garland, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, and many others!! Wednesday Night Special …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/composer Johnny Mercer, saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Vincent Herring and Don Braden, guitarists Skeeter Best and Sal Salvador, singers June Christy and Sheila Jordan and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young/Flip Phillips/Roy Eldridge/Hank Jones/Ray Brown/Max Roach …
