Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats on the Keys: Geoff Keezer This week’s Short List introduces listeners to Geoff Keezer’s rise to the top rank of today’s jazzmen. If the relatively young – fortyish – pianist Geoff Keezer from Eau Claire, …
Cedar Rapids author Barb Feller has written a book that is part biography, part personal memoir exploring her journey learning about a man who had an extraordinary impact on the arts and culture not only of Iowa, but the entire world. Jay Sigmund was a friend and mentor to artist Grant Wood, and poet Paul …
John Kenyon is the director of the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, presenting the Iowa City Book Festival Oct. 1-7. Dozens of literary events, most of them free, will range from a talk by rapper and actor Common to the celebration of this year’s Paul Engle Award winner, Dina Nayeri. There will even …
Singer Ann Hampton Calloway performs “A Night of Chicago Jazz” with Ramsey Lewis Sept. 28 at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines. She tells Dennis Green about how she thinks musical improvisation and improv theatre are connected, as well as remembering growing up in a musical family in Chicago. Tickets and information at www.civicmusic.org.
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Cats on the Keys: Phineas Newborn, Jr. Phineas Newborn, Jr. is always mentioned in discussions of the greatest jazz pianists. His technicality was beyond question, and he could improvise at breakneck speed. His greatest influence was …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A gathering of legendary artists has come together to join the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Scotty Barnhart for “All About That Basie,” celebrating the iconic band from its earliest years, throughout the decades and through to today’s contemporary artists. An amazing array …
We caught up with jazz legend Ramsey Lewis at his Chicago home, just prior to heading out on the road for a tour with singer Ann Hampton Calloway. He talks to Dennis Green about his off again-on again retirement plans, becoming the interviewer rather than the interviewee on a past BET show, and “taming the …
Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) stops by with some suggestions of cool things to do this weekend, from musicals to museum exhibits. Details on these and hundreds of other events at www.culturalcorridor.org.
