The drum section takes over the Corridor Jazz Guest DJ Show as percussionists Johnny Mallie and Henry Streuber share some big news from Lisbon, and it’s not just that the band made Jazz Championships. The Lisbon band is very fond of Charles Mingus, so we hear a lot of him, as well as Maynard Ferguson, and even some music from the anime series “Cowboy Bepop.”
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Nina Torkelson was the Corridor Jazz Guest DJ Show’s first solo act when Jonah and Matt couldn’t come due to illness. But she took it in stride, sharing some fun stories about music at West Branch High School, which joined the Corridor Jazz Project for the first time this year. She even played some of the songs Jonah and Matt picked, in an hour that includes Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and The Flying Neutrinos.
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Clear Creek-Amana is new to this year’s Corridor Jazz Project, so it was extra fun to welcome Adonis Fender, Ryan Humphrey, and Liz Schultz to KCCK to learn more about their school and music programs. Along the way, we also get to hear Cannonball Adderly, Chick Corea, Chet Baker, and even Glenn Miller.
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Trombonist Sara Jacovino is in Iowa City, as guest artist for the City High’s Jazz Showcase. She stopped by with City High band director Aaron Ottmar to talk with Hollis Monroe.
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Jennifer Fawcett, an Ontario native who spent several years living in Iowa City. Her plays, such as “Apples in Winter” have been performed multiple times in the Corridor. She has just published her first novel.
“Beneath The Stairs” is a literary horror novel, that is to say, it’s scary, but also is driven by its complex and flawed characters. Jennifer started the novel when she had time on her hands following her graduation from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Its genesis comes from a real-life secret trip a teenage Jennifer and her friends took to a house near their rural homes that was rumored to be haunted.
“Beneath The Stairs” is available from all the usual book sources. Find links and more information at www.jenniferfawcettauthor.com.
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The KCCK Featured Album for April is “Live from Vienna 1967” — a newly discovered recording of the extraordinary evening when the iconic Dave Brubeck Quartet was forced to take the stage as a trio. After going out on the town for one last evening to explore Hamburg, saxophonist Paul Desmond got distracted and missed the flight to Vienna. The disc marks the only recording of Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright performing in a trio context. “Live from Vienna” is from Brubeck Editions Records. Purchase.
See for Me (2021), King of Thieves (2018-Netflix) and Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount Plus) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.
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Celebrated pianist Joyce Yang returns to Iowa to perform one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written, Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Orchestra Iowa, April 2 and 3.
Tim Hankewich, a pianist himself, knows full well the challenge of performing this monumental piece, and says that coming to the pre-concert talks (6:45 in Cedar Rapids, and 1:30 in Coralville) to hear Joyce talk about the piece herself, will be a must-see.
Tickets at www.orchestraiowa.org.
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