Fred Easker has been paining full time since 1994, and his landscapes are currently being featured at Gilded Pear Gallery. Fred talks about the very first landscapes he painted, and what locations other than his native Eastern Iowa environs that have inspired him. “Meditations on Moments in the Landscape” will be up through Oct. 2 …
Hey, Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/pianist Jimmy Rushing, reedman Buster Smith, composer Leonard Bernstein, saxophonist Lester Young, bassist Leonard Gaskin and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Mundell Lowe Quartet” (1955), “The Gerry Mulligan Quartets in Concert” (1957), Cannonball Adderley Quintet’s “Cannonball in Japan” …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Tribute to Chick Corea, Show 8 Host Craig Kessler continues his chronological look at Chick Corea’s stellar career. This episode begins with material from late 1984 and goes well into the 1990s. We’ll hear a bit more ECM material, as well as from Chick’s Elektric Band …
KCCK’s Jazz Under The Stars 2021 wraps up on August 26 with the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra. This all-female big band is the only one in the state. Directors Toni Lefebvre and Kelli Swehla say the band was formed to give women opportunities to perform and arrange, and also to spotlight female jazz composers, who …
Vocalist Lynne Rothrock hosts the first public event since March 2020 in the Opus Concert Cafe, when she debuts a brand new show, “American Songbook” Aug. 20 and 21. The program will run the gamut, with standards from Gershwin and Cole Porter, but also more recent classics from Carole King, Jimmy Webb, and Iowa native …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Mal Waldron, Carl Perkins and Bill Evans, singer Mary Stallings, saxman Ray Blue, bassist John Clayton and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Essential Jo Jones” (1955), Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Time Out” (1959), Herbie Mann’s …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Tribute to Ira “John” Rapson 2/4/53 to 7/21/21 Host Craig Kessler salutes the life and legacy of the recently departed John Rapson of the University of Iowa’s jazz department. Craig presents a variety of recordings that John was associated with, either as leader, composer, arranger, …
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00 PM Strata East Records, Show 3 Craig hauls into our KCCK studios another batch of overlooked recordings (mostly vinyl!!) from the Strata East label. We’ll hear a delicious array of wonderful music from a broad spectrum of Black artists from the 1970s, in a …
