Multiple storm systems are bringing severe weather to much of the U-S…the 2024 Iowa legislature opens today.
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This Week In Jazz January 7 thru January 13
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Kenny Clarke, Osie Johnson and Max Roach, singers Betty Roche and Ruth Brown, trombonists Wilbur de Paris and Willie Dennis, saxophonists Allen Eager and Jane Ira Bloom and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Toots Thielemans’ …
Special Programs January 8 thru January 14
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Happy Birthday Blue Note It’s an encore presentation of Craig Kessler’s 85th birthday party for the legendary Blue Note Records, founded January 6, 1939. Craig celebrates by spinning some unusual and obscure titles. We’ll hear the likes of Sal Salvador, Wynton Kelly, Frank …
News Digest 1-5-24
Reaction to the school shooting in Perry…Haley and DeSantis hold back-to-back town halls in Iowa.
News Digest 1-4-24
The White House is pressuring House Republicans to approve a government spending plan…Iowa business groups are pushing for legislation to allow foreign businesses to buy Iowa farmland for large developments.
News Digest 1-3-24
Harvard’s president is resigning following criticism of her congressional testimony over antisemitism…students in Iowa are calling on the legislature to make changes to the state’s gun laws.
KCCK’s Featured Album for January 2024
The KCCK Featured Album for January is “Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings.” On May 15, 1953, five of jazz’s most influential musicians–Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach–gathered at Toronto’s Massey Hall for what would result in their first and only known recording as a quintet. This …
News Digest 1-2-24
Nearly 50 people are dead following an earthquake in Japan…the suspect in a drive-by shooting is dead after an officer-involved shooting in Cedar Rapids.