When Steve Shanley played in the Cedar Rapids Municipal band, he often wondered why the band members weren’t featured more as soloists. Now that he is the director, he sets aside one concert every year to showcase members of the band. This week, Christine Bellomy, clarinet; Caleb Lambert, euphonium, and Thiago Ancelmo, clarinet; will all …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm A Deep Listen to Oregon, Part 2 Craig Kessler offers up another deep listen to the influential band Oregon. For this show, Craig spins some beauties from Elektra Records, ECM, and a few more Vanguard releases. Oregon was particularly popular at this point in …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxophonists Ernie Wilkins, Bill Perkins and Junior Cook, bassists Joe Comfort, Keter Betts and Peter Ind, singers Helen Merrill and Margaret Whiting, guitarists Al Di Meola and Joshua Breakstone and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jackie …
Poet Cecile Goding first heard her words set to music for a class at the Iowa Writers Workshop. This led her to the idea of creating a new opera inspired by the E.M. Forster short story, “The Machine Stops,” whose setting is a world where people never meet physically, but create relationships through the screen …
Percussionist Creighton Gaynor has been a part of the Corridor music scene for some years, in bands such as OSG and The Fez, as well as his own group, Jumbies. Jumbies plays in the “Soca” style, short for “Soul Calypso.” Soca originated in Trinidad-Tobago, and fuses traditional Caribbean Calypso with seventies Disco. Jumbies will join …
Culture Crawl 736 “Juggler’s Equivalent to ‘Play Misty’” Juggler Benjamin Domask-Ruh and Luke Lovegood, new Director of Choral Activities at Coe College, join the Cedar Rapids Municipal band this week. Luke Sings “Bring Him Home” and . Benjamin surprised Steve Shanley a bit, when the internationally award-winning juggler saw Leonard Bernstein’s “Slava” on the program …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm A Tribute to Grachan Moncur III Craig Kessler pays tribute to trombonist Grachan Moncur III, who recently passed away at age 85. Craig salutes his work as a leader, and as a sideman for Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jackie McLean, and many …
Culture Crawl 735 “They Tune To ‘A’” A team of recent Liberty High School grads are spending part of their summer staging the Jason Robert Brown musical Songs for “A New World.” Deuce Martin, Posey Stoeffler, and Killian Ritland say the process has been fun and challenging, and they’re excited for an audience to see …
