Hiya, Jazz Fans!!! Jazz birthdays we’ll be celebrating this week include those of drummers Buddy Rich, Victor Jones and Mike Clark, bassists Oscar Pettiford, Eddie Gomez, Curtis Lundy and Steve Swallow, saxmen Von Freeman and Ronnie Laws, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and more! We’ll also salute the recording anniversaries of The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM The Bass Players: Milt Hinton Milt Hinton was not only a virtuoso bassist, adept at bowing, pizzicato, and slapping, but was also the ultimate sideman. He perfectly fit his considerable talent to accentuate whatever piece he …
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen John Coltrane, Frank Foster, Sam Rivers and Gary Bartz, singers Ray Charles, Marlena Shaw, Les McCann, Herb Jeffries Irene Reid and Rebecca Kilgore, composer George Gershwin, pianist/composers Bud Powell and Dan Knight and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker at …
Native American flute player Jonny Lipford welcomes indigenous performers from all over the country to Iowa each year for the Sweetgrass Flute and Nature Festival, held at Prairie Woods in Hiawatha, Sept. 27-29. KCCK’s Ron Adkins is the Festival MC, and lets us in on who he is excited to see perform. And as always, …
The Rod Pierson Quartet will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, October 4, at 5 p.m. The first set will be broadcast live on KCCK. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin, contemporary music and more in an intimate, upscale environment. For a $12 cover, …
The Iowa City Community Theatre presents the musical “Pippin,” Sept. 20-29. Known for the Broadway (and 70s-80s show Choir) standards “Magic to Do” and “Corner of the Sky,” director Josh Sazon and music director Wes Hable say this production, while staged in the intimate ICCT space at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, still boasts intricate choreography …
Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance drops by for her monthly visit, reminding us that there is a full weekend of fun stuff to do in the Corridor, highlighting theatre, music, and Art in the Alley. Details on these and hundreds of other events at www.culturalcorridor.org.
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM The Bass Players: Charles Mingus The Short List begins a new series on outstanding jazz bass players, starting with the great Charles Mingus. Mingus was an intense, sometimes volatile performer, but he was also revered as …
