Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: “The Hits” The Short List continues its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. Listen for Miles Davis’s Sketches Of Spain, Wynton Marsalis’s Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1, …
KCCK program director and morning personality Bob Stewart is recuperating at home after hip replacement surgery in February. In the interim, Ron Adkins has slid into the morning slot, and Saul Lubaroff is handling afternoons. “Things are going well,” Bob says. “A little less pain every day. Doing my rehab and exercises.” Bob hopes to …
Gilded Pear Gallery has two exhibits opening March 5. “Rhythm In Bloom” celebrates the work of long-time Cedar Rapids-area artist Ann Royer, working in some unique color palettes. And gallery director Lauren Tucci says “Polyphonous 2021 – Mimetic Lives II” is a jewelry exhibit featuring the work of Satomi Kawai and Jillian Moore, which is …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place March 11, 2021. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleaders Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller, saxophonists Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Richie Cole and Ricky Ford, singers Dinah Shore, Roseanna Vitro and Flora Purim, pianist Lou Levy and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Gene Ammons’ “All Star …
Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: “The Hits” The Short List continues its feature of great jazz in the popular mind. This week, host Bob Naujoks again spotlights albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity. Listen for Jean Pierre-Rampal & Claude Bolling’s …
The KCCK Featured Album for March is “This Bitter Earth” from Veronica Swift. The singer-songwriter has crafted an ingenious song cycle that tackles issues like sexism, domestic abuse, environmental issues, racism, and the dangers of fake news. The material gathered covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals and indie-rock, fortifying her position as a leading …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe venerated multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe Chambers makes a return to Blue Note Records on his new CD, “Samba de Maracatu.” In the mid-to-late 1960s, Chambers played drums for numerous Blue Note luminaries, appearing on some of the decade’s most progressive albums, including works by Wayne Shorter, Bobby …
