Even though in-person performances for the 2020 Iowa City Jazz Festival have been cancelled, we still think the airwaves should be filled with live jazz July 3-5. Since 2001, KCCK has recorded and broadcast nearly all of the mainstage performances. That’s nearly 500 hours of unforgettable shows! In addition to the online performances that Summer …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Cole Porter, guitarists Les Paul, Tal Farlow and Joe Negri, pianists Chick Corea, Geri Allen and Monika Herzig, drummers Shelly Manne and Bernard Purdie, saxophonist Tina Brooks and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Clifford …
The Iowa Arts Festival will take place online this weekend, but will still have opportunities for you to browse and buy quality art pieces, and hear great music. Summer of the Arts Executive Director Lisa Barnes says you can go to the Artists page at www.summeroftheARTS.org to see work by the artists invited to this …
The KCCK Featured CD for June is “One for 25” from the Posi-Tone Swingtet. Founded in 1995 by producer Marc Free and engineer Nick O’Toole, the Posi-Tone jazz label has built an impressive roster of young players and composers over that twenty five years, including Behn Gillece, Michael Dease, Steve Davis, Ed Cherry, Wil Bernard, …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place June 11, 2020. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Jimmy Lunceford, arranger/bandleader Nelson Riddle, drummers Specs Powell, Al Harewood, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes, Charlie Watts and Peter Erskine, saxophonists Red Holloway, Hal McKusick, and Oliver Nelson, singers Morgana King and Ian Shaw and more!!! We’ll also …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Sophie Milman Canadian singer Sophie Milman was barely 20 when she made her first album in 2004. Three years later, her recording, Make Someone Happy, won a JUNO Award for the best jazz vocal …
The Civic Music Association of Des Moines has announced it’s 2020-21 season. Jazz highlights include a concert with Jazz at Lincoln Center lead trumpeter Sean Jones, and tributes to Ray Charles (featuring Take 6), as well as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone. But first, we need to “pick up the spare” from 2019. …
