Talking Pictures 5-18-22

Firestarter (2022) and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Ron Adkins.

Culture Crawl 716 “The Joke is on the Musicians”

 Orchestra Iowa’s final concert for the season is focused on pieces with a sense of humor, such as Hayden’s “Surprise Symphony,” written expressly to wake up an audience member who habitually fell asleep during Hayden’s concerts. But Tim says that doesn’t mean the pieces are easy to play! He also says violinist Max Hagen’s performance on Korngold’s Violin Concerto is not to be missed.

Plus, Tim reveals what he is most looking forward to next year during the Orchestra’s Centennial Celebration. www.orchestraiowa.org for tickets to this concert and advance purchase for the 100th.

Special Programs for May 16 thru May 22

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Early Milestone Records  

Host Craig Kessler takes a look at Milestone Records, founded in 1966, and carrying on the modern jazz traditions begun at Riverside Records.  We’ll hear from the the label’s early days, including recordings by Gary Bartz, Lee Konitz, Wes Montgomery, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Thelonious Monk, and many others.

 

 

 

 

The Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Christopher’s Very Happy. Band. at Opus

Saxophonist and composer Chris Merz brought one of his most recent projects to Opus Concert Café for a ground-breaking, entertaining, and eclectic First Friday Jazz set. Joining Chris on stage were bassist Drew Morton, drummer Dave Tiede, and pianist Mike Conrad.

 

 

 

 

 


Jazz Night in America

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Montavilla Jazz Festival

Trumpeter Charlie Porter headlines Portland, Oregon’s Montavilla Jazz Festival. Plus, host Christian McBride relates the history of how a singing drag queen inspired Montavilla Jazz non-profit initiative to bring jazz to the doorsteps of Portland residents.

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World

Saturdays at 12:00 Noon

Third Stream Jazz, Part 2  

Host Craig Kessler plays more wonderful examples of “Third Stream Jazz” (music that combines characteristics of improvised jazz, and European classical music).  In this second of three shows, you’ll love the offerings from Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Don Ellis, Gary Burton, Joe Lovano, Eberhard Weber, and a host of others. 

 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

Every Night at Midnight

Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.

Under the Stars by the San Gabriel 7 featuring Sinne Eeg on Monday; Glass Spheres  by Chris Mondak on Tuesday; Mid-Century Modern, Vol. 3 by Gabriel Mark Hasselbach on Wednesday; The Chopin Project by Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck on Thursday; Straight From the Heart by Kenny Neal on Friday; Golden Girl by Trudy Lynn on Saturday; Opus 1 by J3 on Sunday

This Week In Jazz May 15 thru May 21


Hey, Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/singer Fats Waller, bandleader Woody Herman, singer Betty carter, saxmen Paul Quinichette, Dewey Redman and Jackie McLean and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1947), Grant Green’s “Matador” (1964), New York Jazz Quartet’s “Blues for Sarka” (1978), Charles Earland’s “Third Degree Burn” (1989), Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio Live in Bern (2014) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS ‘on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.  

New Music Monday for May 16, 2022

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify 
“Late Bloomin’ Jazzman,” the newest album by vocalist and songwriter Mark Winkler, is an homage to growing older and all the blessings and drawbacks that come with it. The album is Winkler’s 20th as a leader. He wrote lyrics to eight of the 12 tunes, and covers a lot of personal topics on the album. He writes about his love of George Gershwin, film noir, and the songs of Rio. He also writes of about losing his husband, finding love again, and about a close friend ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease.

 

 

 

 

 

      Guitarist and vocalist Phill Fest was born in Minneapolis. He grew up in a musical family and was exposed to Brazilian music and American jazz from the start. Phil’s father was Brazilian keyboardist and recording artist Manfredo Fest, who worked with Sergio Mendes in the 1970s, and his mother was a composer and music teacher. Phill has toured the world with many national acts, performing jazz, Brazilian, and Tropical jazz. “Seresta” is his fourth release as a leader.

 

 

 

 

                          

Also this week, the Italian musical prodigy Alberto Pibiri, who has worked with Sheila Jordan and Dave Stryker among others, unveils his fourth recording, “Stardust”;

 

 

 

               

 Armenian-born Los Angeles-based pianist Tigran Hamasyan offers up a program of standards and originals on “Standart”;

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

and drummer Daniel Glass, who has recorded and performed with several chart-topping artists from the Brian Setzer Orchestra to the Royal Crown Review, creates a virtuosic sound that is infectious, fun and incredibly entertaining on his new trio disc, “Bam!”

 

 

 

 

Clean Up Your Act 5-31-22

The plan to bring back the trees.

Talking Pictures 5-11-22

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), The Automatic Motorist (1911-YouTube) and His House (2020) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Denny Lynch. 

Culture Crawl 713 “Actual Animal Sounds Will Be Played”

The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale will be joined by a jazz combo to present Paul Winter’s Earth Mass “Missa Gaia,” May 15 at 2:30pm at Sinclair Auditorium.

It’s a stunning chorale work by an artist who is perhaps better known for his Jazz and New Age compositions on soprano sax in the Paul Winter Concert. Tickets at www.crchorale.org