The KCCK Featured Album for November is “A Little Taste” from Rebecca Kilgore. The celebrated vocalist honors her good friend and colleague Dave Frishberg, who passed away in 2021, focusing on a program of his songs along with his collaborations with Johnny Hodges, Johnny Mandel and Alan Broadbent. Sadly, Ms. Kilgore was diagnosed with dementia …
In this second culture crawl installment of the Kirkwood fall production of “Into the Woods,” we chat with student actors Jacob Cacioppo (playing The Baker), Laci McHenry (playing The Baker’s Wife), and director Emma Kostiv. This funny, emotionally charged, mysterious, dark, and exciting show runs for two weekends with six showings, including two matinees. Nov …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Illinois Jacquet, Zoot Sims, Ted Nash, Booker Ervin and Lou Donaldson, composer/arranger Neal Hefti, trumpeter Clifford Brown, singers Ethel Waters, Cleo Laine, Andy Bey and Carmen Lundy, bassist/singer Richard Bona and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Lou Donaldson’s 98th Birthday Although the great alto man Lou Donaldson has retired from performing, he is still with us and deserves a salute! In this birthday program, we’ll spin great material from a variety of jazz labels that Lou recorded for, such as Argo, Cadet, Timeless, …
This week the Big Mo Pod Show usher in the upcoming Halloween holiday with a selection of blues tunes that in some way embody the spooky, the supernatural, and the dark, and discuss the value of maintaining a positive attitude in the face of that darkness. Songs featured in the episode: Watermelon Slim – “The …
Celebrate the 80th birthday of Iowa composer Jerry Owen with a concert featuring six of Owen’s own song cycles right here in Cedar Rapids. In the studio to tell us all about it is Thaddeus Ennen, CR Opera General Director, and Jerry Owen himself. It’s CR Opera’s “Jerry Owen’s 80th Birthday Concert,” Sunday, Oct. 27, …
Maestro Hankewich is back ahead of Orchestra Iowa’s first concert of this season’s Pops Series, “The Music of Harry Potter.” Delivered as a multifaceted production, music from all eight of the films will be performed by the orchestra along with the Orchestra Iowa youth choir, Discovery Chorus. To make the night even more magical, everyone …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Don Byas, Sonny Criss and Jimmy Heath, trumpeter/composer/bandleader Dizzy Gillespie, bassists Wendell Marshall and Hans Glawischnig, flutist Ali Ryerson, singer Dianne Reeves and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey & James Moody (James Moody’s …
