2021 marks KCCK’s fourth year airing Soundtrack to the Struggle, our on-going series celebrating jazz’s contributions to the fight for racial equality. We here at KCCK often say that, in jazz, every month is Black History month. The stories of jazz and Black America are inexorably joined, and those stories are endless. You can hear …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Harold Arlen and Alec Wilder, percussionist/bandleader Machito, vocalists Irma Thomas, Randy Crawford and Dena DeRose, saxmen Maceo Parker, Pete Christlieb, Chad Eby and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges’ “Side by …
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 celebrates full jazz albums that became widespread hits. We’ll hear stories and songs from Miles Davis’s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFive brilliant and focused musicians, against odds imposed by history and impossibility, have risen to the occasion to create a recording that provides depth, joy and emotional outreach in times of isolation and hardship. Developing their musical voices on the Seattle jazz scene, bassist Ben Feldman and …
Legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea passed away February 9 after a battle with cancer. He appeared in the Corridor many times, most recently in 2019 with his Trilogy Trio at Hancher in what would be his final tour. In 2010, he played a solo piano gig at the Englert. Prior to the concert, he had …
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art opens “Grant Wood Revealed” Feb. 13, an exhibit of rarely-seen work by the master artist, taken from the Museum’s 300-piece Grant Wood collection (the world’s largest), and pieces from private collectors. “Seriously Funny,” an exhibit of American Gothic parodies continues as well. Learn more at www.crma.org.
Diego Loria-Eivins, a freshman at City High School in Iowa City, has been chosen as the winner of the 2021 Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design. Diego will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM. His design will serve as the cover of the “The Corridor Jazz Project XIV”, a compilation of recordings from the top jazz bands from …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Eubie Blake and Sir Roland Hanna, bassist Walter Page, singer Roberta Flack, vibist Ben Gillece and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of John Lewis’ “Grand Encounter” (1956), John Coltrane and Red Garland’s “Soultrane” (1957), Art Blakey’s …
