Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Miles On Columbia – 1982-1985 Craig Kessler celebrates Columbia Record’s latest in their Miles Davis Bootleg series, featuring some surprising unreleased music from 1982 through 1985. We’ll also hear some unusual live sets from the period. It’s an excellent sound picture of Mile’s creative …
Tim Hankewich’s birthday is Nov. 7, and as a part of Orchestra Iowa’s 100th season, he is giving a rare performance on piano with his friend, world-renowned cellist, Zuill Bailey, as well as the Orchestra’s Madeline Capistron, violin. They’ll perform a program that Tim says is pretty challenging for a “recovering pianist,” including Chopin and …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place November 10, 2022. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
The KCCK Featured Album for November is “Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite” by pianist Jason Yeager. While Vonnegut found his true calling as an author, he once speculated about becoming a jazz pianist. He also was a faculty member of the Iowa Writers Workshop for several years. On the 100th anniversary of the …
Family Folk Machine, Iowa City’s non-auditioned, intergenerational folk choir presents “Carry On: Songs for Living,” Nov.13 , 3pm at the Englert Theatre. Jean Littlejohn and Jon Ranard say the program consists of tunes ranging from They Might Be Giants to Robert Plant, sharing a theme of inclusiveness and offering each other our support during tough …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm The Compositions of Carla Bley, Part 2 Host Craig Kessler spins a fresh mix of Carla Bley charts. We’ll hear Carla’s own recordings of her remarkable material, as well as interpretations from other artists. The Wednesday Night Special …
Hey Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder, saxmen Illinois Jacquet, Herb Geller, and Booker Ervin, singers Carmen Lundy and Lyle Lovett, percussionist Carlos “Potato” Valdez and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey’s “Moanin’” (1958), Horace Silver’s “Song For My Father” …
Jerry Lee Lewis was not a jazz artist, but we have a unique connection to him here at KCCK. We house the historic piano which was used for many years at Cedar Rapids’ Danceland Ballroom. The ballroom was the concert nerve center of town for decades, in business from 1926-1968. Throughout the Swing Era, nearly …
