Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Keyboard Wizard Joe Zawinul, Show 3 It a special live evening edition of the Jazz Corner of the World, as host Craig Kessler presents selections from the later years of the group Weather Report, as well as work from the Zawinul Syndicate …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place July 13, 2023. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Hey, jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Johnny Hartman and Bill Withers, trumpeter/bandleader Doc Severinsen, trombonists Vern Friley and Frank Rehak, saxophonist Hank Mobley and more! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Duke Ellington at Newport” (1956), Buddy Rich Big Band’s “Mercy, Mercy” (1968), …
The KCCK Featured Album for July is “Bossas and Boleros” from bassist Gabriel Espinosa, who recently retired after 27 years as the Director of Jazz Studies at Central College in Pella,. The title of the disc honors the music that Gabriel grew up with as a teenager during the Sixties in Yucatan, Mexico, and his …
Larry Baker managed and owned movie theaters in Oklahoma before moving to Iowa and writing novels. His seventh book, “Harry & Sue,” takes place in just such a theater, populated by a variety of ghosts you will know, such as Marilyn Monroe, Harry Chapin, Mark Twain, Patsy, Cline, and Harry Houdini. But the ghosts, particularly …
Community Concert organizations were created in the 1930s, as smaller communities worked to bring musicians and entertainers to towns of all sizes, not just big cities. The Cedar Rapids Community Concert Association has been doing that very thing for 93 years. Board member John Haack says because the group is all-volunteer, they can keep ticket …
This is arguably the biggest week of the year for Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, as the patriotic-themed concerts around Independence Day are always popular. But Muni Band director Steve Shanley says the program will not only include expected favorites like America The Beautiful (featuring the Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale), Stars & Stripes Forever, and Armed …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Richard Rodgers and Frank Loesser, singers Lena Horne and Tierney Sutton, pianists Elmo Hope and Andrew Hill, trombonist Julian Priester, bassist Stanley Clarke and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1952), Nina …
