Mank (2020), The Crown (Netflix 4th Season) and Happiest Season (2020) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.
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Culture Crawl 608 “Muscle Memory”
Fresh from her solo show at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Mary Zeran opens an exhibition at Gilded Pear Gallery entitled “Mission Happiness” Dec. 11. Mary and Gallery Director Lauren Tucci say the show will consist of early and recent work. Unlike the Museum of Art show, it’s also all for sale!
Reserve a spot for the opening and virtual reception Dec. 11, make an appointment to visit, or see the work online all at www.gildedpeargallery.com.
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Clean Up Your Act 1-5-21
Nearly 60% of Iowa’s bodies of water are impaired due to pollution.
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Special Programs for December 7 thru December 12
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Licorice Stick 2: Allan Vache
Allan Vaché may sound familiar to you. He spent 17 years with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and its Riverwalk Jazz public radio program, which aired on KCCK. After Cullum retired, Vache appeared regularly at Disney World and other regional venues. His dozen or so recordings show him to be a gifted and eloquent Swing style musician with traces of Benny Goodman and Ed Hall.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Jazz In 1950
Craig spins some of the “hits” (and “misses”) that were recorded 70 years ago, during the year 1950. We’ll hear a wide variety of good examples from the likes of Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, Anita O’Day, Charlie Parker, Teddy Wilson, and a host of others. Lots of fun!
The Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Joshua Redman at the Iowa City Jazz Festival
2018’s Iowa City Jazz Festival brought an impressive roster of talent to the main stage. All month long, KCCK presents some of that year’s best gigs. This week, it’s Joshua Redman’s recent project, Still Dreaming. With Ron Miles on cornet, Scott Colley on bass, and drummer Brian Blade, saxman Redman paid loving tribute to his father, Dewey Redman.
Jazz Night In America with host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Brubeck Remembered and Re-Imagined
Host Christian McBride discusses the enduring legacy of Dave Brubeck and his breathtaking body of work. Also, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tip their hat to Brubeck by playing a set of his classics, revamped for Big Band.
Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at 12:00 Noon
Jazz In 1960
Craig looks at some of the new directions in jazz that were recorded 60 years ago (during the year 1960). We’ll hear all sorts of goodies from all sorts of jazz practitioners … Ella, Bird, Miles, Jimmy Smith, Abbey Lincoln, John Coltrane, and many, many more!! Don’t miss it!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish.
2 Cents by Douglas Olsen on Monday; Christmas in 3D by the 3D Jazz Trio on Tuesday; Live at Blues Alley: Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite by the Eric Felton Jazz Orchestra on Wednesday; Christmas Vibes by Warren Wolf on Thursday; A Gulf Coast Christmas by Various Artists on Friday; Grass Ain’t No Greener on the Other Side by Peter Veteska & Blues Train on Saturday; Celebrate Me Home: The Holiday Sessions by Brian Bromberg on Sunday
This Week In Jazz December 6 thru December 12
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Ira Gershwin, pianist Dave Brubeck, singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams, Bob Dourough and Tom Waits, guitarist Chuck Loeb, drummer Robby Ameen and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Gerry Mulligan’s “Reunion with Chet Baker” (1957), John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps/Coltrane Jazz” (1959), Art Farmer Quartet feat. Jim Hall “Live at the Half-Note” (1963), Keystone Trio’s “Heart Beats” (1995) and many others throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK!!!
New Music Monday for December 7, 2020
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
For more than three decades as one of the most influential jazz musicians, Eric Reed has recorded close to 30 accomplished leader albums showcasing his virtuosic chops, intellectual clarity, unwavering will to swing, and ability to refract and coalesce a wide range of musical, spiritual, and personal influences into a single stream of consciousness. Perhaps the most personal of them all is “For Such a Time as This.” It is a powerful and uplifting program framed by the realities of global pandemic anxiety, persistent racism and racial injustice, and an acrimonious, fraught election season. By the end of June, Eric was ready and had assembled a gifted young quartet to record a set of recently penned originals, carefully chosen standard old chestnuts, and some restorative Gospel selections.
Multi-reedist Benn Clatworthy offers up “Bennie’s Lament,” his newest offering with his sextet System 6. A mainstay on the Los Angeles jazz scene since the mid-1980s, London-born Clatworthy has appeared on dozens of albums over the course of his 40+ year dynamic career. He has led various incarnations of his highly regarded group System 6 throughout the past ten years. The new disc is the second recording with the particular assemblage of some of Southern California’s finest instrumentalists.
Also this week, pianist George Kahn unveils his 10th album, “Dreamcatcher,” creating a late-night, smoky bourbon and ballad vibe for the disc;
the Sapporo, Japan, based Mercer Hassy Orchestra offers up a program of originals and jazz standards on “Sir Duke”;
and Japanese trumpeter and composer Takuya Kuroda marks the culmination of an evolving electric journey with “Fly Moon Die Soon.”
Culture Crawl 607 “An Irish Drinking Song About a Terrible Fruitcake”
City Circle Acting Company of Coralville presents “A Christmas Cabaret,” a brand-new online show streaming Dec. 18-20. Katie Colletta and Liz Tracey say it’s a brand new show, written by Katie, and will feature both well-known holiday favorites and some offbeat and hilarious songs, including one about a guy who must consume a horrible fruitcake.
Tickets available at www.coralvillearts.org.
Talking Pictures 12-2-20
The Wolf of Snow Hollow and The Boys (Amazon Prime) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Scott Chrisman.
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