Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Bob’s Baker’s Dozen: Horn Bands A couple of “horn bands” – Blood, Sweat, & Tears and Chicago – are Bob Naujoks’ favorite rock stylists because of their strong brass counterpoints. David Clayton-Thomas was distinctive for B-S-&-T, as …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of violinist Stephane Grapelli, songwriters Jimmy Van Heusen & Jerome Kern, trumpeter/singer Hot Lips Page, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, pianist/vibist Buddy Montgomery and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Anita O’Day Sings the Most” (1957), Hampton Hawes’ “Four!” (1958), …
The Corridor Quintet – comprised of students from City High, West High, Cedar Falls, and Cedar Rapids Washington – will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, February 7, at 5 p.m. The first set will be broadcast live on KCCK. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, …
Allison Talyat, a junior at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, has been chosen as the winner of the 2019 Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design. Allison will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM. Her design will serve as the cover of the “The Corridor Jazz Project XIII”, a compilation of recordings from the …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Bob’s Baker’s Dozen: Sauter-Finegan Orchestra An obscure big band from the 1950s. The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra had a nice five-year run with a dozen albums. Their Orchestra flirted with novelty effects, near modern classical compositions, and offered little …
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trombonists Juan Tizol and J.J. Johnson, drummers Jimmy Cobb and Jeff “Tain” Watts, singer Etta James and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” (1949), “Clifford Brown with strings” (1955), Lee Morgan Quintet’s “Take Twelve” (1962) and many …
Jessica Link of Cedar Rapids and Curtis Jackson of Chicago portray women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony and abolitionist Frederick Douglass in “The Agitators,” Jan. 24 – Feb. 16 at Riverside Theatre. It’s an Iowa premiere of a play that tells the true story of the 40-year tempestuous friendship between these two icons of the …
Jason Alberty is the founder of the Foundry Performance Laboratory, a new theatre group in Cedar Rapids which has three focuses: Getting veterans involved in theatre, providing an entertainment outreach to cancer patients and their families, and producing shows that are high on “actor nerd” bucket lists, but perhaps not well-known to the public. The …
