We had a rollicking hour of music and laughs with Paladin, Leona, and Kayla from the Solon Jazz Orchestra. We heard about their plans for next year, and also the story of Mr. C (Solon director Desmond Cervantes) drop-kicking a stuffed animal across the band room. And loads of great music, too, from Gordon Goodwin, …
Local favorites the Evan Stock Band and Glass Leaf Company will appear at the Ideal Theater on April 20 with the Omaha-based Kris Lager Band. Both our guests keep busy schedules outside of performing. Evan coordinates youth bands for the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy, and Adam Sines of Glass Leaf Company co-owns Up In Smoke …
Orchestra Iowa presents the next installment in its historic 100th season, “Percussive Fire,” featuring “Dreamachine,” a composition by Cedar Rapids native Michael Daugherty featuring up and coming percussion star Britton René Collins. Tim says the opening piece by Arturo Marquez will literally make you want to get up and dance, and if all this didn’t …
2023 marks the very first year that Mid-Prairie High School participated in the Corridor Jazz Project, adn they made the most of if, bringing in not just one, but two guest artists, Randy Swift, guitar, and the legendary Gary McCurdy a.k.a The Tubador, on tuba. Jacob Carillo and Emily Righter brought the heat with Big …
The jazz unit of Iowa City’s New Horizon Band, the Silver Swing Band, presents its spring concert April 20, 7:00pm at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. You’ll hear tunes ranging from Buddy Rich to Cannonball Adderley to traditional New Orleans, as well as work featuring Silver Swing director, Adolfo Mendonca on piano. Tickets …
The Centerpoint-Urbana Jazz Band is fresh from a trip to the Iowa Jazz Championships, guest DJ Delaney Jacobi is one of them. She, Ben Heiderscheit and Jaden Patterson break down the year at CPU (and maybe tell a couple tales about Delaney’s parents, CPU directors Dan and Dorothy Jacobi).
Jazz Corner of the World Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm A Tribute to Wayne Shorter Host Craig Kessler celebrates the late Wayne Shorter’s stellar career by presenting his work from Columbia, Verve, Prestige, Blue Note, and other labels. We’ll hear the 12-time Grammy-winning saxophonist with Miles Davis, Bobby Timmons, Art Blakey, and Joe Zawinul. Shorter will always …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Bud Freeman, Gene Ammons and John Ellis, clarinetist Johnny Dodds, pianists Claude Bolling and Walter Bishop, Jr., singers Vanessa Rubin and Shameika Copland, vibist Teddy Charles and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Red Garland …
