Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Bassist and composer Gabriel Espinosa’s “The Brazilian Project” is the realization of a lifelong devotion to the music that first stirred his imagination in the 1960s when the sounds of Jobim, Joao Donato and Sergio Mendes reshaped the global jazz landscape. Raised in Mexico on boleros and the Beatles, …
KCCK’s Memorial Day Special (May 25) All Day Monday from 6:00am to Midnight Celebrate Memorial Day with KCCK’s day-long rebroadcast of the 2025 Iowa City Jazz Festival. Hear headliner Stefon Harris & Blackout, plus the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra with Joel Frahm, fantastic student ensembles, BYO Brass, and all the main stage performances from this …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedmen Jimmy Hamilton, Albert Nicholas and Jim Snidero, bandleader Andy Kirk, singers Mamie Smith, Peggy Lee and Dee Dee Bridgewater, trumpeter/composer Miles Davis, pianist/composers Freddie Redd and Ramsey Lewis, bassist Eugene Wright and more. We’ll also mark the recording …
Wes Shirley is back in the studio after a successful first year of the CR Songwriter Series. After a series of trial and error over the course of the past four Songwriter Series concerts, Wes and his team are finding a groove with the community at Breathing Room Yoga, an intimate Cedar Rapids space with …
Summer of the Arts in Iowa City is well underway into this summer’s season of fun and festivities. Today LIsa Barnes and Eric Johnson are in the studio to chat everything Iowa Arts Fest. The festival is June 5-7 in downtown Iowa City with a vast range of art and music to enjoy. More information …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Certain songs have a way of lingering in the imagination—resonating long after we’ve last heard them. On his new album, “Enduring Sonance,” veteran saxophonist and flutist Steve Wilson celebrates the music that has left the deepest imprint on his musical life. Originally conceived as a ballads project, the disc …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Jazz Corner of the World Saturdays at 12:00 noon Miles Davis & the In a Silent Way Era Craig’s celebration of Miles Davis’s centennial month continues with an exploration of Miles’s music from his pre-Bitches Brew Columbia recordings. These tracks from 1968 and 1969 feature Dave …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist Rod Cless, Blues shouter Big Joe Turner, trombonist Kai Winding, arranger Bill Homan, bagpiper Rufus Harley, Saxmen Georgie Auld, Sonny Fortune and Tom Scott, bassists Cecil McBee, Kyle Eastwood and Vivan Shanley and more. We’ll also mark the …
