YOU DID IT!! Thanks to everyone who contributed to KCCK’s Transmitter Fund! Over 200 donors have joined together to help us purchase a new transmitter, and we have reached the goal! Everyone who listens to Iowa’s Jazz Station can be proud of how our community joined together to fulfill this need. We’ll place the order …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Bob’s Baker’s Dozen: Victor Borge The joyful music and comedic performances of pianist Victor Borge deflated the pomposity of classical music with jokes, physical humor and hilarious melodic interplay. Four years after escaping the Nazi invasion, Borge …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters Charlie Spivak, Lew Soloff and Warren Vache, drummers Walter Johnson, Frank Isola Joe Labarbera and Joe Farnsworth, vocalists Nina Simone, Irma Thomas and Nancy Wilson, pianist/composer Tad Dameron and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Bessie …
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 …
