Ryan Humphrey and Jackson Schloss learned the hard way why you never use Google Maps to get to KCCK (it sends you to a random building on the north end of campus). But they arrived just in time to host their show, with music from Cannonball Adderly, Clifford Brown, Herbie Hancock, and more!
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Orquesta Alto Maiz, Iowa’s Salsa Band, is still going strong in its 37th year. Original members Ed East and Jim Dreier sat down with us to talk about how the band actually created much of today’s interest in salsa and Latin Jazz. Along the way, members of the band who were, or who became teachers, educated a new generation of fans, some of whom are now performing in the band!
Orquesta Alto Maiz headlines KCCK’s Taste of Jazz this Friday. If you weren’t lucky enough to get tickets, you’ll have another chance to see them this summer, when the Salsa Band returns to one of their favorite haunts, the Iowa City Jazz Festival. on July 2.
Follow the band on Facebook or at www.salsaband.band.
Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at www.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 www.kcck.org/listen.
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The Citizens Climate Lobby says individuals alone can’t solve climate change…but they can pressure elected officials to take action.
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) and a review of Ebertfest 2023 with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.
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It’s been quite a year for the Linn-Mar Music Department. The Colton Center Jazz Ensemble took 2nd place in the 4A Jazz Championships, the highest placement of any area school. Linn-Mar’s Show Choir, Tenth Street Edition, took first place at the Show Choir Nationals in Nashville.
Senior sax players Ryan and Abbey break down this unforgettable season, and present tunes from Dave Brubeck, Miles, Davis, Herbie Hancock, and more.
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Jazz Corner of the World
Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Grant Green as a Leader, Part 2
In this second of two shows featuring guitarist Grant Green as a leader for Blue Note Records, host Craig Kessler presents more prime examples of his fabulous work, including Idle Moments, Matador, Solid, Talkin’ About, Green Is Beautiful, and many other albums, have become essential listening.
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Corridor Jazz Project Concert, Part 2
It’s more great music from the area’s top high school jazz bands and their guest professionals, reunited on the Paramount Theatre stage for KCCK’s Corridor Jazz Concert 16! This week, we’ll hear the performances from Linn-Mar, Center Point-Urbana, Kennedy, Solon, Anamosa, Jefferson, Iowa City West, Liberty, and Washington.
Jazz Night in America
Thursdays at 11:00pm
Crowning the 2023 NEA Jazz Masters
Jazz Night in America honors the 2023 NEA Jazz Masters: drummer Louis Hayes, violinist Regina Carter, saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and jazz advocate Sue Mingus. These newly-crowned masters have plenty of music, stories, and memories to share.
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays from 12 noon to 4:00pm
Herbie Hancock on Blue Note, Part 1
The 85th anniversary celebration of Blue Note Records continues, as host Craig Kessler spins the first of two shows featuring Herbie Hancock. We’ll hear classic material that showcases Hancock as a leader, like My Point Of View, Inventions & Dimensions, and Speak Like A Child. We’ll also track through selections spotlighting Herbie as a sideman with Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Bobby Hutcherson, Lee Morgan, and many others
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
The Toronto Project by The Composers Collective Big Band on Monday; Live by the Towner Galaher Organ Trio on Tuesday; Menjunje by Roy McGrath on Wednesday; To Swing Is the Thing by Mike Melito on Thursday; Motel Mississippi by Tony Holiday on Friday; Real Gone by Ally Venable on Saturday; Opening by Chris Keefe on Sunday.
Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/bandleader Duke Ellington, singers Ella Fitzgerald and Blossom Dearie, trumpeter Mario Bauza, drummers Denzil Best and Connie Kay, saxmen Johnny Griffin, and Joe Henderson, guitarist Steve Khan more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lee w/ George Shearing “Beauty and the Beat” (1959), Jimmy Smith’s “Back At The Chicken Shack” (1960), Supersax’ “Chasin’ The Bird” (1978), Dianne Reeve’s “I Remember” (1988), Herbie Mann’s “America/Brasil” (1995), Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet’s Intent and Purposes (2014) and many others 10am to 2pm, Monday thru Friday, with Jazz Masters at noon.
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
Taj Mahal can rightfully be called a living legend for his contributions to popular music. With a voice that is as instantly recognizable as Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles or Dr. John, Taj Mahal throughout his career has pushed the envelope of American music forward by incorporating sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, traditional blues and jazz. With “Savoy,” he takes a new direction in his musical journey, exploring classics from the American songbook. Recorded with the hottest musicians in San Francisco, the disc is a loving throwback to the sounds of the swing jazz big band era, titled as a tribute to Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom.
Saxophonist/composer Wayne Escoffery grew up in London, moving often throughout his adolescence before settling in Connecticut, where he studied with the legendary Jackie McLean. A Grammy winner and DownBeat Critics Poll winner, he is one of the musical directors of the Mingus Big Band and has performed with a who’s who of jazz. He celebrates the chemistry shared by his closest musical collaborators on “Like Minds,” featuring special guest appearances by renowned vocalist Gregory Porter, legendary trumpeter Tom Harrell, innovative guitarist Mike Moreno, and vital percussionist Daniel Sadownick, who join Escoffery’s highly acclaimed working quartet of pianist David Kikoski, bassist Ugonna Okegwo, and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr.
Also this week, Grammy-nominated alto saxophonist/composer/arranger Christopher McBride offers up “Ramon”;
Chicago-based singer Tammy McCann blends a mix of jazz, gospel and blues on her new CD, “Do I Move You?”;
and muscular modern jazz is served up by drummer Jae Sinnett’s Zero to 60 Quartet on “Commitment,” with special guest Randy Brecker.
