Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Reedman Adrian Cunningham celebrates the music of iconic composer Frederick Loewe this fall with “Adrian Cunningham & his Friends Play Lerner & Lowe,” featuring pianist Fred Hersch, bassist John Hebert and drummer Eric McPherson along with special guests Randy Brecker on trumpet and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone. Cunningham …
It’s a Halloween theme again this year, “Orchids Are A Scream II,’ October 26 & 27 at the Elks Lodge in Cedar Rapids. Nile Dusdieker from the Eastern Iowa Orchid Society talks about the allure of these mysterious plants, and what to look for when you attend the show. Hundreds of orchids from all over …
The Iowa Composers Forum hosts a concert on October 20 that will feature composers by resident Iowans Michael Kimber, Randy Wells, Robert Martin, Brooke Joyce, and Jerry Owen. Plus on very famous ex-pat, world renown composer Michael Daugherty’s work based on Mark Twain’s “The Diaries of Adam and Eve.” October 20, 2:30pm at the Opus …
Bur Oak Land Trust’s annual fundraiser “Under a Cider Moon” is coming up October 27 at the Celebration Barn near Solon. Development Director Tammy Wright says there will be entertainment, and a live and silent auction that includes a signed Green Bay Packers football, and two letters from the former Iowa State Bank and Trust …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Art Tatum and Bill Charlap, bassists Ray Brown, Palle Danielsson and Reid Anderson, drummers Cozy Cole and Des Moines native Bill Stewart, guitarists Steve Grismore, Barney Kessel and Howard Alden, saxman Lee Konitz and Pharoah Sanders and more!!! …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Basses Loaded: LeRoy Vinnegar Bassist Leroy Vinnegar was one of the stalwarts in “West Coast Jazz.” More than that, he was the epitome of a “walking bass” player. His steady and creative 4/4 time was heard on …
RHCR Theatre of Cedar Rapids presents the Female Version of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” Oct. 18-20 and 25-26. Jennifer Smith and Stephenie Meek portray Olive Madison and Florence Unger, in the play that Simon re-wrote and released in the 80s. Director Kimberli Maloy has kept the play in it’s original period, so expect big …
Michael Collins is the son of Collins Radio founder Arthur Collins, and a vice-president of the Arthur A. Collins Legacy Association, an organization devoted to preserving the history of Collins and the company he founded, now known as Collins Aerospace. Michael will give a talk entitled “Arthur A. Collins: A Personal Retrospective,” at the Marion …
