Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays at 6:00pm Iowa City Jazz Festival Side Stage The 2026 Iowa City Jazz Festival boasted three stages full of music all weekend long. This month, we feature outstanding performances from the side stages. Starting off, it’s the David Donald Trio (the only act to play before the Friday night rain-out), followed …
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This Week In Jazz August 30 thru September 5
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, singers Velma Middleton, Teri Thornton and Van Morrison, saxmen Art Pepper, Clifford Jordan and Paul Winter, pianists Horace Silver and Gene Harris, bassists Trigger Alpert, Essiet Okon Essiet and Lonnie Plaxico, trumpeter/bandleader Gerald Wilson, drummer …
Culture Crawl 1246 “Write Something In An Odd Meter”
UNI student, Brody Schoon, is in the studio ahead of the release of his first album, “Mr. Mostly Alright.” The album releases on August 28 and an album release party will be held at Octopus in Cedar Falls on September 4. Doors open at 8pm with High Def Duo opening at 8:30pm. For more information …
Culture Crawl 1245 “I Want To Be A Sheep”
Patrick DuLaney is in the studio as Crooked Path Classics and University of Northern Iowa Presents William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” DuLaney, Co-Artistic Director of Crooked Path Theatre and director of this production, says this show will make you slow down in fast-paced world. It’s “As You Like It,” August 28 through September 6 …
New Music Monday for August 24, 2026
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Russ Anixter is an arranger, orchestrator, and bandleader whose music exists at the intersection of jazz, rock, free improvisation, and orchestral craft. A graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where he studied jazz composition with Manny Albam and Rich DeRosa, Anixter further developed his orchestral expertise through more …
This Week’s Shows August 24 – August 30
Jazz Masters with Hollis Monroe Monday Encore from 12 noon to 4:00pm Join host Hollis Monroe as he presents a listen to the jazz masters who left their indelible mark on America’s music. Hollis celebrates anniversary recordings, birthdays of jazz geniuses legendary and obscure, and immortal charts that have become signature tunes. …
This Week In Jazz August 23 thru August 30
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Jimmy Rushing and Cecile McLorin Salvant, composer/pianist/conductor Leonard Bernstein, saxmen Lester Young, Buster Williams, Med Flory, Wayne Shorter and Branford Marsalis, pianist Kenny Drew, bassists Leonard Gaskin, Charles Fambrough, and Peter Washington, guitarist Pat Martino and more. We’ll …
Culture Crawl 1244 “He Didn’t Know I Could Sing”
The fourth and final week of this summer’s Jazz Under The Stars series put on by KCCK is upon us. This week features headlining group, Vandello, with the Chase Beightler Trio (Coe College) opening. In the studio is Vandello lead vocalist, Meg Adam. It’s JUTS week four, Thursday 8/27, 6:30pm at Noelridge Park in Cedar …