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This Week’s Shows July 8 thru July 14

Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)

Mondays at 6:00pm

The Bari Sax (Special Live Show)

In a special Monday evening live broadcast, host Craig Kessler features the baritone sax players. We’ll hear goodies from Gerry Mulligan, Cecil Payne, Gil Melle, Sahib Shihad, Ronnie Cuber, and a number of others.

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

The Diplomats at Jazz Under the Stars

Our listen back to 2023’s Jazz Under the Stars continues with veteran groove masters The Diplomats of Solid Sound. Along with their vocal trio, the Diplomettes, these hip cats treated the Noelridge Park crowd to a night of fun retro soul.

Jazz Night in America

Thursdays at 11:00pm

Jane Bunnett’s Cuba

Host Christian McBride guides us on a musical tour of Cuba … or as close as we can get. We’ll hear Jane Bunnett and Maqueque – her all-woman band of Cuban musicians – on stage at Jazz at Lincoln Center and in Little Havana, Miami.

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm

The Piano Artistry of Kenny Barron

Craig surveys the lengthy career of piano great Kenny Barron. We’ll hear gems from groups led by Kenny, as well as a variety of recordings that feature Kenny as a sideman with Cindy Blackman, Freddie Hubbard, Dave Holland, Arthur Blythe, Stan Getz, Sonny Fortune, and many others.

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.

Stanco’s Time by Anthony Stanco on Monday; Love Cole Porter by Antonio Adolfo on Tuesday; As It Is by Gabriel Genest on Wednesday; Songs My Mom Liked by Anthony Branker & Imagine on Thursday; Spirits by Kid Anderson on Friday; Soul by Lisa “Little Baby” Andersen on Saturday; Relentless by the Fernando Huergo Big Band on Sunday.

Culture Crawl 938 “Interesting Sense of Claustrophobia”

Julia Jessen and Rachel Schneider from the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art are in the studio today to talk about four summer exhibitions currently on display. “Thinking Big” (through 9/15), “Tiny Wonders” (through 9/1), “ROY G. BIV” (through 10/27) and “The Vessel” (through 3/30) can all be viewed for free through the museum’s Free Summer Admission program through 9/1.

Keep up with the going ons at CRMA through instagram @cr_museum_of_art and their Facebook page, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and Grant Wood Studio.

For more information visit the CRMA website at www.CRMA.org

Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture or search “Culture Crawl” in your favorite podcast player. Listen Live at 10:30am most weekdays on Iowa’s Jazz station. 88.3 FM or kcck.org/listen.

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Jazz Fest Is Here!

Perhaps our favorite weekend of the year, the Iowa City Jazz Festival takes over Iowa City!

Twenty bands, two stages, three days of music as Iowa City becomes the jazz capital of the world. Don’t miss headliners Ingrid Jensen w/ the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra, 3X Grammy nominee Lackecia Benjamin, Matt Wilson, Iowa City native Emiliano Lasansky, Fareed Haque, and more. Plus more than a dozen top local and regional groups, food, fireworks, and fun for the whole family.

The fun starts at 5pm Friday and continues until Sunday afternoon. Take your smartphone or radio along to hear KCCK’s exclusive backstage interviews and all the mainstage performances during our live broadcast all three days.

Click here for the full schedule.

Talking Pictures 7-3-24

Inside Out 2 (2024) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.

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Culture Crawl 937 “All-Muni Band Issue”

This week, the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band celebrates America with a show featuring patriotic music. The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale joins the band to add their voices to “American The Beautiful” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic, as well as a Samuel Barber march and Glenn Miller medley.

Steve and Dennis also discuss recent features on the Muni Band in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, and the culmination of a decade-long project to record and post recordings of marches composed by past director Frank Piersol.

July 3 at Guthridge Park, Hiawatha, July 7 at Bever Park. All shows at 7:0pm. Livestream at facebook.com/crmuniband. More information at crmuniband.org.

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KCCK’s Featured Album for July 2024

The KCCK Featured Album for July is “Suite for Africa” from Amina Figarova. The Azerbaijani-born pianist and composer was inspired to write the suite by her experiences meeting students during her travels to South Africa, and a chance encounter during a travel mishap with the Matsiko World Orphan Choir, who brought the stirring piece fully to life The suite is bracketed by five complementary originals inspired by African rhythms and the folk music traditions of the composers native country. “Suite for Africa” is on Amfi Records. Purchase

Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet July 11, 2024

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place July 11, 2024. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

This Week in Jazz June 30 thru July 6

Hey, jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Lena Horne, Johnny Hartman and Melissa Walker, pianists Richard Wyands, Ahmad Jamal and Michael Abene, organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, saxman Teodross Avery and more.

We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1952), Lee Morgan’s “The Gigolo” (1965), Keith Jarrett’s “Standards Live” (1985), Steve Kuhn Trio “Live at Birdland” (2006) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS, and our exclusive “live” broadcasts from the 2024 Iowa City Jazz Festival beginning Friday, July 5th on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.