The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place February 10, 2022. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
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Culture Crawl 685 “Cool Kids of Iowa City”
Adam Knight and Mat Smart have been friends and collaborators since college, and now they’re working together on simultaneous world premieres: the first performance of Mat’s new play, “Eden Prairie, 1971” and the debut of Riverside Theatre’s brand new performance space, in the Crescent building on the Iowa City Ped Mall. “Eden Prairie, 1971” runs …
KCCK’s Featured Album for February 2022
The KCCK Featured Album for February is “Dear Love” from Jazzmeia Horn. When the pandemic hit, Ms. Horn took charge by writing a book, teaching college courses, and financing her third album. She wrote, arranged and produced all the music for the new work, which is one of the first times that a female vocalist …
This Week In Jazz January 30 thru February 5
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassist Joe Mondragon, trumpeter Snooky Young, saxmen Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz and Sadao Watanabe, John Handy and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of trumpeter Lee Morgan’s “Candy” (1957), Wynton Kelly’s “Piano!” (1958), Brother Jack McDuff’s “Honeydripper” (1961), …
Special Programs for January 31 thru February 6
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM West Coast Jazz #2 In this second of four “West Coast Jazz” presentations, host Craig Kessler takes a closer look at some relatively obscure artists, as well as major players Clifford Brown, Jack Montrose, Howard Rumsey, Bob Cooper, and others. Along the way, …
This Week In Jazz January 23 thru January 29
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Benny Golson, Jimmy Forrest and Bob Mintzer, composer/guitarist/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim, vibist Bobby Hutcherson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Hampton Hawes’ “Four!” (1958), Nat Adderley’s “Work Song” (1960), Keith Jarrett’s “The Koln Concert” (1975), …
Special Programs for January 24 thru January 30
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM West Coast Jazz #1 Join host Craig Kessler as he begins a four-week series on the phenomenon of “West Coast Jazz.” We’ll take a closer look at music from Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and other artists involved in the beginnings of the Pacific Jazz record …
Culture Crawl 684 “It’s The Chad Show!”
Zoom somehow pinned only Chad Sonka’s video and kept it up for this entire interview, so you get to see him listening thoughtfully to Dennis’s questions, instead of the picture switching between them, but Goldie B. Locks sounds like so much fun we’re not going to let that keep us from sharing the video. Goldie …