The KCCK Featured Album for October is “Quartet+” from Helen Sung. The pianist, composer and Guggenheim Fellow celebrates the work of influential women composers, crafting new arrangements of tunes by Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland and Toshiko Akiyoshi while carrying the tradition forward with her own stunning new works. The album …
The Metro Marching Band Classic returns Oct. 11 after a 2020 pandemic hiatus. Carol Vester says that the event, in its 24th year, is the only opportunity to see all of the Cedar Rapids and Marion high school marching bands in one place. Special guest band will be the Iowa State University Cyclone Football Varsity …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist Bud Powell, drummer Buddy Rich, bassist/cellist Oscar Pettiford, horn man Red Rodney and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris” (1953), “Johnny Smith and His New Quartet” (1956), Bobby Timmons Trio …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Bennie Maupin’s Reed Artistry Host Craig Kessler looks at the terrific jazz recordings from master flautist, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist Bennie Maupin. Bennie is probably best known for his work on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and several of Herbie Hancock’s classics. But we’ll also hear …
“Esteban and The Children of the Sun” is the final work from the prolific musical mind of John Rapson, the long-time leader of the University of Iowa Jazz program, completed just days before he died in August of 2021. It’s a story of a Moroccan Muslim who was the first African to journey across North …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Slam Stewart, Tommy Potter, Red Mitchell and Jimmy Woode, saxophonists John Coltrane and Frank Foster, singers Ray Charles, Irene Reid, Les McCann and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Charlie Parker at Storyville” (1953), “The Kenny …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Strata East Records, Part 4 Host Craig Kessler totes in another batch of CDs and vinyl from this top-notch, extremely hard to find, ‘power’ jazz record label. We’ll hear a tasty array of jazz styles from a broad spectrum of vaunted Black artists, mostly …
Join KCCK for a live broadcast of Brucemorchestra with Orchestra Iowa this Saturday at 7pm! Orchestra Iowa, Revival Theatre, and Iowa’s Jazz Station team up with award-winning singers performing Broadway classics on the Brucemore lawn. That’s this Saturday, live at 7pm on Jazz 88.3 and worldwide on the KCCK mobile app.
