Pianist Dan Knight has recently moved back to Iowa after a decade in North Carolina. He celebrates his homecoming at “An Evening With Dan Knight,” Friday, January 20 at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City. Dan drops some hints about what he has planned for his first Iowa City appearance in more than 10 years, …
Jazz Corner of the World Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Wayne Shorter on Blue Note The Jazz classics of Wayne Shorter continue to inspire artists old and new. Join host Craig Kessler as he plays a variety of Wayne Shorter’s appearances with other Blue Note artists, plus all of his Blue Note sessions as a …
Jazz Corner of the World Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Tribute to Sam Salomone Host Craig Kessler celebrates the life and memory of recently departed Sam Salomone by spinning a number of selections that Sam was always interested in, as well as a number of Sam’s true favorites. We’ll hear from Larry Young, Don Patterson, Jimmy …
Hiya, Jazz Fans!!! Jazz birthdays we’ll be celebrating this week include those of drummers Kenny Clarke, Max Roach and Osie Johnson, singers Betty Roche, Ruth Brown and Jay McShann, trombonist/arranger/bandleader Melba Liston, saxophonists Jane Ira Bloom and more. We’ll also salute the recording anniversaries of Harold Land’s “Harold in the Land of Jazz” (1958), McCoy …
It’s Opera Week on the Culture Crawl, as we talk to the casts of two different Cedar Rapids Opera productions happening in the coming days. Cedar Rapids elementary students get a rare treat over the next few weeks, as they’ll see the world premiere of a new opera for children, commissioned by Cedar Rapids Opera. …
KENNEDY STUDENT WINS CORRIDOR JAZZ ART CONTEST McKenzie Hitzel, a junior at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, has been chosen as the winner of the 2023 Corridor Jazz Project Art design. She will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM. Her design will serve as the cover of the “The Corridor Jazz Project XVI”, a compilation of …
It’s Opera Week on the Culture Crawl, as we talk to the casts of two different Cedar Rapids Opera productions happening in the coming days. First up, the MainStage production of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte,” a famous comedy of love and mistaken identity, but this show has a twist – it takes place on the …
The KCCK Featured Album for January is “On a Clear Day” from the Oscar Peterson Trio. In 1971, the ensemble was in transition. It was the beginning of a long musical partnership and close personal friendship between Oscar and bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, and the continuation of his years working with drummer Louis Hayes, which …
