Culture Crawl 721 “Surreal Moments”

The James Theater in Iowa City is a new venue, opening this month in the Gilbert Street space formerly occupied by Riverside Theatre. Kicking off their grand opening month is the Curtis Taylor Quartet on June 11.

Curtis is finishing his first year on the UI jazz Faculty. An Ohio native, the trumpet player has performed with Cyrus Chestnut, James Carter, and Gregory Porter, as well as releasing two albums as a leader.

Two sets at 7 and 9pm. Tickets at www.thejamesic.com. 

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Clean Up Your Act 6-27-22

Good Neighbor Iowa is calling on people to reduce the use of pesticides on their lawns.

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Culture Crawl 720 “Putting the Revival in Revival Theatre”

Culture Crawl 720 “Putting the Revival in Revival Theatre”

Revival Theatre Company presents “The Color Purple,” June 10-19 at CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids. The cast is a mix of local performers, along with actors from out of the area, including one who spent time in this show’s touring company. Alicia Strong leads the cast as Celia, whose story from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is told against a backdrop of that incorporates jazz, blues, ragtime, African rhythms, and gospel.

Tickets and more information at www.revivaltheatrecompany.com.

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Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet June 9, 2022

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place June 9, 2022.  Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

Clean Up Your Act 6-22-22

Iowa’s air quality has improved dramatically.

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Talking Pictures 6-1-22

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and Stranger Things Season 4 (Netflix) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt. 

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KCCK’s Featured Album for June 2022

The KCCK Featured Album for June is “The Chopin Project” by Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jean-Paul Brodbeck. The legendary jazz guitarist and acclaimed Swiss pianist join forces on a historic collaboration which finds them reinterpreting the music of the classical composer Frederic Chopin. Brodbeck’s arrangements outline the beauty of Chopin’s compositional structures, while subtly reorganizing them into the logic of jazz, turning the familiar melodies into something profoundly new. “The Chopin Project” is on Heartcore Records. Purchase         

This Week In Jazz May 29 thru June 4


This week we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman, arranger Nelson Riddle, drummers Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes and Charlie Watts, saxmen Red Nolloway and Greg Abate, singers Ann Hampton Callaway and Ian Shaw and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia” (1956), Dexter Gordon’s “One Flight Up” (1964), Sarah Vaughan “Live at Rosy’s” (1978), Richie Cole’s “Popbop” (1987), Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note (1994) and many others, Mondays thru Fridays at noon on JAZZ MASTERS on Jaz 88.3 KCCK.