Old Creamery Theatre presents the second edition of their online cabaret, “Songs to Make You Smile: A Virtual Encore,” May 23 at 7:30pm. The show will benefit four area theatres: Old Creamery, Riverside, City Circle, and Theatre Cedar Rapids, with performances from more than a dozen of the Corridor’s favorite performers. In this show, several …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/singer/composer Fats Waller, clarinetist/bandleader Artie Shaw, vibist Joe Roland, saxmen Jackie McLean, Dewey Redman and Sonny Fortune, singers Rosemary Clooney, Jackie Cain and Blues shouter Big Joe Turner, drummers Larance Marable, Dick Berk and Victor Lewis, bagpiper Rufus Harley …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Melody Gardot Melody Gardot whose soft and gentle expressions come naturally and by necessity. When she was nineteen, an SUV ran her down while she was riding her bicycle. Music was her therapy. She …
In the Seventies and Eighties, many Iowa natives found themselves on the coasts, meeting, performing, and forming lifelong friendships with some of the musicians who would go on to become the most important players of their generation. Dennis Carlson moved from Cedar Falls to Boston, where Gary Burton offered him a position teaching at Berklee. …
Grant Lapointe is not just a talented jazz pianist, who KCCK listeners have heard at Jazz Under the Stars, Taste of Jazz, and many other events. The rising junior at Cedar Rapids Washington also recently solicited vocal tracks from all sixteen members of the Wash vocal group Slice of Jazz, and put them together for …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist/bandleader King Oliver, composer Irving Berlin, pianist/composers Gil Evans and Red Garland, singers Barbara Dane and Betty Carter, bassist Buddy Catlett, trumpeters Al Porcino and Stu Williamson, harmonicist Gregoire Maret and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Joe Lee Wilson Joe Lee Wilson made his start in southern California and Mexico, but in the early 1960s moved to New York City. There he sang with Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard …
Author Derrick Bang has chronicled the life of pianist Vince Guaraldi and has also written dozens of articles on the Charles Schulz and the Peanuts comic strips. But he recently turned his attention to making an exhaustive survey of the role of Jazz in the music of TV and movies. His two-volume set, Crime and Spy …
