Clear Creek-Amana is new to this year’s Corridor Jazz Project, so it was extra fun to welcome Adonis Fender, Ryan Humphrey, and Liz Schultz to KCCK to learn more about their school and music programs. Along the way, we also get to hear Cannonball Adderly, Chick Corea, Chet Baker, and even Glenn Miller. Click here …
Trombonist Sara Jacovino is in Iowa City, as guest artist for the City High’s Jazz Showcase. She stopped by with City High band director Aaron Ottmar to talk with Hollis Monroe.
Jennifer Fawcett, an Ontario native who spent several years living in Iowa City. Her plays, such as “Apples in Winter” have been performed multiple times in the Corridor. She has just published her first novel. “Beneath The Stairs” is a literary horror novel, that is to say, it’s scary, but also is driven by its …
The KCCK Featured Album for April is “Live from Vienna 1967” — a newly discovered recording of the extraordinary evening when the iconic Dave Brubeck Quartet was forced to take the stage as a trio. After going out on the town for one last evening to explore Hamburg, saxophonist Paul Desmond got distracted and missed …
Celebrated pianist Joyce Yang returns to Iowa to perform one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written, Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Orchestra Iowa, April 2 and 3. Tim Hankewich, a pianist himself, knows full well the challenge of performing this monumental piece, and says that coming to the pre-concert talks (6:45 in Cedar …
Violinist and composer Josh Henderson is wrapping up a year at the University of Iowa as a Grant Wood Fellow with a brand-new composition inspired by the memory of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and pilot Ralph Peterson, who died in the 1959 Clear Lake plane crash later tagged by singer Don MacLean …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Classic JCOTW Host Craig Kessler is on hiatus, so this week tune in for an encore broadcast of one of Craig’s favorite episodes. We’ll hear classic jazz from legendary performances, with a few artists rarely heard. The …
This week as we celebrate the birthdays of the unforgettable Billie Holiday, bassist Gene Ramey, percussionists Stan Levey, Jake Hanna, Mongo Santamaria, Art Taylor, and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey’s “The Jazz Messengers” (1956), Booker Little’s “Out Front” (1961), Donald Byrd’s “Black Byrd” (1972), Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff’s “On the …
