Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Kenny Rankin While not strictly a jazz singer, Kenny Rankin’s music has been embraced by the jazz audience over the years. He grew up in New York City and absorbed multiple influences – …
Red Cedar Chamber Music presents “A Little Klesmer Between Friends,” featuring Christine Bellamy, principal clarinetist with Orchestra Iowa and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, in a program that will feature both old and new compositions in Klesmer, a traditional Jewish folk music that began in the 19th Century in Germany, and has been greatly influenced …
Tim Hankewich from Orchestra Iowa joins Dennis Green to talk about “Past is Prologue,” a concert that demonstrates some common threads between pieces composed in three different centuries, one from 1986, practically last week by Classical music standards. Also on the program is Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2, which features a trumpet part so challenging, for …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Amanda Randolph This week, The Short List profiles singer-actress Amanda Randolph, whose recorded output is slim, but is an accomplished performer nonetheless. She was the first African-American to have a daytime television program, …
Beth Dowd, Jan Ahrens, Shirley Knapp, and Dianne Gray are members of a quartet from the Metromix Chorus, who will fan out on Feb. 14 to deliver Singing Valentines in barbershop harmony in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. They’ll give a live demo! There are still slots available to publicly embarrass your Valentine with this …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place February 8, 2018. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Ever wonder what a Corridor Jazz Project recording session looks like? We recorded each band and guest artist at work. Check out your favorite band on this YouTube Playlist:
Best Improvised Jazz Solo (For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter’s name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.) • Miles Beyond John McLaughlin, soloist …
