Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Stan Levey, Art Taylor, Pete Laroca and Steve Gadd, percussionist Mongo Santa Maria, pianists Andre Previn, Claude Bolling and Victor Feldman, saxophonists Charlie Rouse, Stanley Turrentine, Gerry Mulligan and Pat LaBarbera,guitarists Gene Bertoncini and John Pizzarelli, vocalist Carmen …
John Heim, KCCK’s Big Mo, often receives praise and positive feedback from listeners. These days more than usual, as homebound music fans turn to the radio for an entertainment fix. But he has never gotten a phone call quite the one he received on April 3. John was in the midst of his “Beaker Street …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Snorre Kirk—the composer, bandleader and drummer—has long since made his mark on listeners in Scandinavia and further south. He was 16 when he went from Norway to Helsingor in Denmark. The relocated Norwegian, an exquisitely flexible musician with a keen eye for tradition, sits behind the kit with …
Lewis Kleman and Emily Kelly are seniors at Cedar Rapids Washington and three-year members of the top jazz band, the Revolutionists. They got their start in jazz at KCCK’s Jazz Band Camp in middle school. Dave Sharp of Indian Hills Community College was their combo director, and they still remember things he told them all …
Jacob Morgan and Theo DeSchinckel are founding members of the Liberty High School Jazz Ensemble. As they get ready to end their high school careers, they talk about being the first students in a new school, and play some of their favorite jazz recordings. Theo and Jacob’s Playlist: “Kogi” – The Jacob Mann Band “I …
Avery Arens, Allison Talyat, and Juliana Karl are our guest DJs from Xavier High School, and came prepared with an outstanding variety of music, and also how the movie The Parent Trap jump-started their interest in jazz. We also discussed the famous Jazz Band One pineapple, and learned there is now an additional mascot for …
Ryan Carter, Kolbe Schnoebelen, and Peter Stolz are seniors at City High. Jazz band is a family tradition for these three, as they each had an older brothers in the City High Jazz Ensemble with them when they were freshmen! Ryan and Kolbe both made the 4A All State Jazz Band, slated to perform in …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Astrud Gilberto, Frankie Laine and Norah Jones, trumpeters Booker Little and Herb Alpert, saxplayers Lanny Morgan, Dick Oatts and Harry Carney, guitarist Dave Stryker, drummer Jake Hanna and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Pepper’s …
