The Craig Erickson Trio with Erickson on guitar, John Hall on bass and drummer Tim Crumley will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, November 1, 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 …
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This Week In Jazz October 20 thru October 26
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays trumpeter/composer/bandleader Dizzy Gillespie, pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton and singers Dianne Reeves and Milton Nascimento and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins” (1954), Miles Davis’ “‘Round About Midnight” (1955), Sarah Vaughan’s “In the Land of H-Fi” (1955), and Miles Davis Quintet’s “Relaxin’/Steamin’/Workin’/Cookin’” …
Special Programs for October 21 thru October 26
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Basses Loaded: Nicki Parrott Australian Nicki Parrott came to America on an arts grant to study with Rufus Reid, and stayed to first get a weekly gig with a Rhythm & Blues band. She would eventually spend …
New Music Monday for October 21, 2019
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 …
Culture Crawl 509 “No Pollinating Please”
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 …
Culture Crawl 507 “Without Fig Leaf”
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 …
Culture Crawl 506 “Gimme an I, Gimme a T”
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 …
This Week In Jazz October 13 thru October 19
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!!! …