Gilded Pear Gallery is bringing in the big guns for their next show, “Collector Showcase.” It will feature some of the best-known names in art history with connections to Cedar Rapids, including pieces by Grant Wood, Mauricio Lasansky, Conger Metcalf, Bertha Jaques, and Marvin Cone. The Cone piece is the first time his work has …
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassist Walter Page, singer Roberta Flack, pianist Sir Roland Hannah, drummers Chick Webb Walter “Baby Sweets” Perkins and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Chet Baker Sings” (1954), Sonny Rollins’ “Freedom Suite” (1958), Art Blakey’s “Free for All” (1964), VanguardJazz Orchestra’s “Monday Night …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Steve Allen: Comedian-musician-composer This week brings you the creative work of comedian-musician-composer and show host Steve Allen. By his estimate Allen wrote over 85-hundred songs in his lifetime, including words to the pop and jazz hits: This …
RHCR Theatre presents “5 Women Wearing the Same Dress” Feb. 14-22, the story of five bridesmaids “hiding out” during an 80s wedding reception. Janette Little and Carlee Glenn play two of the bridesmaids, and are ready to paint the town in their 80s hair, but maybe not in the titular dress. RHCR Theatre head honcho …
Tom Cook of Iowa City has written a book that tells the story of Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, and the revolutionary treatment for clubfoot he developed at the University of Iowa. Dr. Ponseti grew up in Spain, and as a young physician, become enmeshed int he Spanish Civil War and lived in exile in France and …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Bob’s Baker’s Dozen: Nelson & Paxton Music icon Willie Nelson’s jazz crossover album, 1978’s Stardust, was a huge hit and the first of eight recordings of jazz, blues, and classic standards. Tom Paxton’s songs have embedded themselves …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Howard McGhee, Snooky Young,Conrad Gozzo, pianist/composers Lil Hardin Armstrong and Eubie Blake, saxophonists Sonny Stitt, Red Prysock and Stan Getz and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers” (1955), Lee Morgan’s …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place February 13, 2020. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
