Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Alma Cogan English singer Alma Cogan, though not a chart-buster in the United States, was famous in the 1950’s for her “sunny” voice and demeanor. Cogan was the highest-paid vocal star in England at …
We kick off the summer of 2020 with a look back at one of 2019’s biggest jazz events, the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Listen all day for last year’s memorable performances, plus our exclusive backstage conversations with all the headliners. Our broadcast is a little bittersweet, as we learned Friday that the 2020 festival won’t take place, at …
Trumpeter Alicia Rau grew up in rural southwest Iowa, studied abroad in Senegal, and now makes her home in New York. She plays her trumpet each night at 7pm to join the daily tribute to New York’s essential workers, and has also recorded around 40 school songs to celebrate students whose graduations and other activities …
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 …
