Iowa’s Jazz Station kicks off our Fall Fund Drive in an unusual way. By going off the air!
Around noon Thursday, we’ll go dark for an hour or so to replace an important light on our tower.
While we’re off, we’re asking you to donate! Everyone who calls or pledges online during the outage will receive a t-shirt or coffee mug.
We’ll keep you posted on our progress on our social media channels and the webcast. Give while KCCK is off the air briefly, to make sure it never happens permanently. Play It Forward. Donate during the outage or anytime at kcck.org. Or call 800-373-KCCK.
The Metro Marching Band Classic is your only chance to see all seven of the Cedar Rapids-area high school marching bands in one sitting. This year, the Classic will be held at Kingston Stadium, Oct. 10. Gates open at 5:30pm, show at 6pm. Special guests will be the UI Hawkey Marching Band.
Advance tickets at www.metromarchingbandclassic.ludus.com.
Creighton Gaynor’s Natural Talent Music is a relatively new organization designed to promote and raise visibility to local and national Worldbeat, jazz and hip-hop bands. Natural Talent’s “One World” series continues with Jonathan Scale’s Fourchestra Sept. 30 at the Englert. Scales is a next-level steep an artist, taking that instrument well beyond its cruise ship and Caribbean island roots.
Follow Natural Talent Music on Instagram at NatTalMus to learn about upcoming events, or just to get exposed to some cool bands. Or contact Creighton at NatTalMus@gmail.com.
Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at www.kcck.org/culture or search “Culture Crawl” in your favorite podcast app. Listen Live at 10:20am most weekdays on Iowa’s Jazz station. 88.3 FM or www.kcck.org/listen.
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer/pianists George Gershwin and Bud Powell, singers Julie London and Patrice Rushen, drummer Buddy Rich, hornman Red Rodney and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Clifford Brown Sextet In Paris” (1953), Jackie McLean’s “Tippin’ The Scales” (1962), Tony Bennett & Bill Evans’ “Together Again” (1976), Art Pepper/Zoot Sims’ “Art n’ Zoot” (1981), Rosemary Clooney’s “Dedicated To Nelson” (1995), Jennifer Wharton’s Bonegasm’s “Not A Novelty” (2020) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
Host Craig Kessler begins a short series looking at some of the truly great sounds from Mood Records. Formed in Germany in the 1970s, the label helped showcase the new sounds of jazz-rock, like jazz innovators Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Mariano, and Ian Carr.
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Mike Conrad Trio & Corey Kendrick’s Organ-i-zation
The Wednesday Night Special wraps up its feature on the great acts who took the Local Stage at the 2022 Iowa City Jazz Festival. Up this week are the Mike Conrad Trio and Corey Kendrick & the Organ-i-zation from the PedMall Stage.
Jazz Night in America
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Young Bloods: Sean Mason
Host Christian McBride’s five-part series, “Young Bloods,” features five young artists who are shaking up the jazz scene. This week, he spotlights pianist Sean Mason, whose melody-driven jazz conveys a deep connection to his southern roots.
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Miles Davis with George Coleman
This week, Craig Kessler offers up some work with yet another of Miles’ transitional tenors, George Coleman, who played with Miles in 1963 and early 1964. Don’t miss classic studio recordings, as well as some rather obscure live dates that feature the remarkable work of Coleman.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK lets you hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
I’ll See You in My Dreams by Doug MacDonald on Monday;That Sunday That Summer by The Reid Hoyson Project on Tuesday; Crossroads by Charlton Singleton on Wednesday; Cyclic Journey by Marshall Gilkes on Thursday; Blood Red Moon by Jeff Dale & the South Woodlawners on Friday; Hello Mojo! by Derrick Procell with Zac Harmon on Saturday; Cantar by Dafnis Prieto featuring Luciana Souza on Sunday
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Drummer, activist and educator Terri Lyne Carrington has published a groundbreaking new lead sheet book of 101 jazz compositions written exclusively by women, from Mary Lou Williams and Alice Coltrane to Esperanza Spalding and Maria Schneider and beyond. A companion album, “New Standards Vol. 1,” is the first in a series featuring some of those compositions as performed by Terri Lyne and her band along with special guests like Ambrose Akinmusire, Ravi Coltrane, Dianne Reeves, Samara Joy, Somi, and Julian Lage.
The members of the original 1990s Joshua Redman Quartet—Joshua on saxophone, Brad Mehldau on piano, Christian McBride on bass and Brian Blade on drums—reunited in 2020, 26 years after their 1994 debut album, for their Grammy-nominated disc, “RoundAgain.” They now return with the follow-up, “LongGone,” featuring another batch of Redman originals. Of his first group as a bandleader, which was together for approximately a year-and-a-half, Redman says, “They were, without a doubt, for our generation, among the most accomplished and innovative on their respective instruments. I knew better than anyone just how incredibly lucky I was to have even that short time with them.”
Also this week, guitarist Julian Lage and his trio are joined by special guest guitarist Bill Frisell for “View With a Room”;
D.C.-based guitarist Shawn Purcell dives deep into the classic tradition of the organ trio, celebrating his hard-bop heroes on “180”;
and the Ann Arbor-based trio Roe Bickley Kramer, featuring pianist Rick Roe, bassist Rob Bickley and drummer Jesse Kramer, unveil their third album, “Lucid Dream.”
Michael Conrad brings the Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra to The James Theater in Iowa City on Oct. 2 for their first local appearance.
The ensemble specifically performs new jazz compositions for big band by Iowa composers. Besides works from familiar Eastern Iowans John Rapson, Chis Merz, Bob Washut, and Mike himself, the show will also include pieces written by Sioux City native Ryan Kisor, who went on to play lead trumpet in Wynton Marsalis’s Lincoln Center Orchestra, and even a new arrangement of a Bix Beiderbecke tune.
More info about the band at www.iowajazzcomposersorchestra.com, tickets for the Oct. 2 event at www.thejamesic.com.
Iowa’s Jazz Station kicks off our Fall Fund Drive in an unusual way. By going off the air!
Jazz Corner of the World Encore
Jazz Night in America
