Jazz Comes Home with Dick Oatts October 6, 2018 Featuring Dick Oatts with a trio of Iowa’s top musicians Plus selections performed with an all-star ensemble of local high school students. Coralville Center for the Performing Arts 1301 5th Street, Coralville IA 52241 Ticket Prices: Adults $45.00, Students $15.00 (plus $2 facility fee) …
KCCK’s Featured CD for October is “Quiet Revolution” from bassist Ben Allison, guitarist Steve Cardenas and saxophonist Ted Nash. The trio honors jazz legends Jim Hall and Jimmy Giuffre and the quieter music they embraced in the 1950s and ’60s that merged elements of free playing with blues-based folk qualities. As Mr. Allison describes it, …
The Bob Washut Trio will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, October 5, 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 music and more in an intimate, upscale environment. For a $12 cover, …
The KCCK Featured CD for September is “Heaven and Earth” from Kamasi Washington, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2015 set “The Epic.” Once again, the saxophonist utilizes a choir and orchestra to augment his 10-piece band for what the All Music Guide calls “a major dose of Afro-Futurism, establishing Washington as a composer and …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Formidable Flutes: Paul Horn While much of Paul Horn’s later work defies classification, his early roots are firmly in the jazz tradition. He played with Chico Hamilton’s quintet in the mid-50’s and quickly established himself as …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place September 13, 2018. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Old Creamery Theatre presents “A Comedy of Tenors,” Sept. 6-30 in Amana. A sequel to Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me A Tenor,” the show is a side-splitting, comedy, full of door slamming, pratfalls, and mistaken identities. Cast members Keegan Christopher and Sean McCall tell Dennis which parts of their bodies ache the most! Information and tickets …
Cabala was an Iowa-based rock and show band that toured the Midwest in the Seventies & Eighties, playing the music of Steely Dan; Earth, Wind & Fire; plus their own compositions to thousands every week. The band is reuniting for the first time in over 35 years this weekend, to be inducted in the Iowa …
