The Cedar Rapids Municipal Band opens its 2019 season with guest narrator Dennis Green, somewhat unaccustomed to being both subject and interviewer in this shows. It’s a stirring piece in observance of the 75th anniversary of D-Day called “The Greatest Generation.” But lest you think Muni Band director Steve Shanley is getting all sentimental, also …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Galloping Guitars: Kevin Eubanks Kevin Eubanks worked with countless other musicians during his nearly 20-year association with the Tonight Show. Away from Hollywood, he has collaborated with some of the greatest talents in jazz, including Miles …
High School Combos Come to Noelridge Park for the first time Iowa’s Jazz Station doubles the entertainment this year, as student combos are coming to Jazz Under The Stars. Three groups, consisting of students from area high schools will perform in KCCK’s Young Artist Series at three of the four Jazz Under the Stars concerts, …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place June 13, 2019. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
The KCCK Featured CD for June is “Friends” from trumpeter Al Naylor. Al’s been a fixture on the Eastern Iowa jazz scene for more than five decades, both as a player and an educator. From leading the I-380 Express Big Band to his work in the Blue Band and Orquesta Alto Maiz, he’s made an …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedmen Oliver Nelson, Tina Brooks, Anthony Braxton and Paquita D’Rivera, guitarists Tal Farlow, Grant Green and Paul Bollenback, drummers Peter Erskine and Cassius Goens and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie’s “Bird …
The National Czech & Slovak Museum and Library is celebrating the demise of the Eastern Bloc, including what is now the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, begun by the fall of the Berlin Wall, thirty years ago this year. Street artist Ganzeer, forced to leave his native Egypt after using his art to protest …
Orchestra Iowa completes its season with “Titan,” by Gustave Mahler, June 1 at the Paramount Theatre. Tim Hankewich describes the work as uplifting, spiritual, and a bucket list piece for musicians. But when Mahler composed it, the musicians found it so difficult to play that Mahler ended up getting forced out of that job! Also …
