Have some us changed enough through the years that you’re not sure who’s who on the KCCK Holiday card? Answers below! Top Row (L-R): Amira Kellison – Jazz Fest 2007 Murray Kent – With Bob Hope in Des Moines 1972 Craig Kessler – Passport photo from 50 years ago Lydia Kilgore Bob DeForest 2nd Row …
Ron Clark is with us ahead of “Christmas Express! On Air” a live radio show performance featuring music by Streamline Deluxe with special guest Annie Savage. It’s Friday, December 20th, 7:30PM at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. Tickets are $25. For tickets visit riversidetheatre.org or call 319-259-7099. Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture or …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm John Abercrombie’s Birthday Salute On the occasion of guitarist John Abercrombie’s birth date anniversary, Craig spins the cream of the crop from more than 160 recordings. We’ll hear Abercrombie as both a leader and as a sideman between the years 1969 to 2017. …
Welcome back folks! As the holiday season rapidly approaches the boys at the singing cowboys studio spread a little Christmas cheer with some holiday themed blues! Every track in the episode has at least something to do with the season, and is accompanied by the same witty commentary as always. Song featured in the episode: …
The Cedar Rapids Chorale is bringing all the bells and whistles this holiday season for their upcoming second annual “Handel’s Messiah Part One, Sing-Along” and director Gerry Kreitzer is in the studio to tell us all about it. This year you’ll get two chances to see the concert with performances on Saturday, December 14 at …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm A Tribute to Benny Golson Craig salutes the recently departed jazz giant, composer, arranger, and tenor man Benny Golson with a dazzling program of great recordings featuring Benny. We’ll also hear some of his greatest compositions, like “Whisper Not,” “Along Came Betty,” “I Remember Clifford,” “Killer …
With another Big Mo Blues show comes the Big Mo Pod Show! As always this week’s episode features a selection of five tracks from Friday night’s show, and similar to every episode they cover a wide range of blues tones from many genres and eras. This week Noah and John discuss the importance of giving …
The KCCK Featured Album for December is “This Year at Christmas” from the supergroup Band of Other Brothers. In the spring of this year, acclaimed pianist Jeff Babko received a text from veteran bassist Will Lee that simply read “Band of Other Brothers needs to do a holiday record.” Babko immediately wrote a new piece …
