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 …
Sherrie Maricle, founder and leader of DIVA, the world-renown all-female jazz big band, will perform at KCCK’s Corridor Jazz Project Concert, March 10 at the Solon Center for Arts. “Sherrie is one of the leading performer and clinicians in the country,” says Dennis Green, KCCK general manager. “She will be adjudicating in Nebraska a couple …
Allison Talyat, a junior at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, has been chosen as the winner of the 2019 Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design. Allison will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM. Her design will serve as the cover of the “The Corridor Jazz Project XIII”, a compilation of recordings from the …
It is possible that when Katie Shatzer agreed to become the new Marketing Director the National Czech & Slovak Museum and Library, she was unaware of the “most recent hire has to wear the kolache costume in the Houby Days parade” rule. But she’s game, and the parade is just one of many events coming …
Maddy Steen and Cedar Zangerle join us from the saxophone section of the Mt. Vernon Swinging’ STANGS. They tell us about the importance of taking good care of your chicken, and play some of their favorite singers, including Abbey Lincoln, Sarah Vaughan, Stacey Kent, and even Lady Gaga!
Chris Cannon and Abbie Larson from the Lisbon Jazz Ensemble play a lot of their own music, including past Corridor Jazz tunes and some from a recent Cornell College Jazz concert. Plus a nice helping Basie, Coltrane, Chuck Mangione, and more.
It’s Nathan Wylie’s third go round as a KCCK guest DJ. He’s joined by fellow trumpet player Anna Kelly. They lead off with a vintage recording of the UI’s Johnson County Landmark, featuring then-students Aaron Nuss, now a Linn-Mar band director, and Mike McMann, leader of 10 of Soul, but more importantly, Anna’s cousin. Plus, …
Lillian Prybil and former KCCK intern Maggie Cremers from City High play Kenny Garrett, Count Basie, Marshall Gilkes, and the Bob Florence band. Along the way, Maggie refuses to dish on her section-mate (and Corridor Jazz soloist) Kolbe, but some disturbing allegations are made about cheating at the annual City Jazz Band Gingerbread House-making contest.
