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Join us for Taste of Jazz, Friday, April 24! A food, wine, beer, and music fundraising event for KCCK’s Jazz Education Programs! Featuring Music by BYOBrass and Six Man Trio.

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Each spring, KCCK, The Hotel at Kirkwood Center, the Kirkwood Culinary Arts Department, and Kirkwood’s Hospitality Arts Department collaborate for a night of wine and beer, food and music on the Kirkwood campus at The Hotel At Kirkwood Center.  All to benefit KCCK’s Jazz Education Programs.

The event features wine and beer tastings, heavy hors d’oeuvres, dessert and a silent auction.

KCCK’s Featured Album for April 2026

The KCCK Featured Album for April is “Spring” by Tierney Sutton and Tamir Hendelman. With nine Grammy nominations and widespread critical acclaim to her credit, the singer now adds a new chapter to her distinguished career with her first voice-piano duo project. The pair celebrate the season with springtime songs by Gershwin, Jobim, Peggy Lee, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Simon and others, capturing the effortless rapport between two jazz masters. “Spring” is from BFM Records.

Talking Pictures 4-1-26

“Project Hail Mary” (PG-13 2026 Sci-Fi/Adventure), “Wuthering Heights” (R 2026 Romance) and “I, Claudius” (1976  Drama) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown, Dennis Green and Ron Adkins.

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2026 Guest DJs-Clear Creek-Amana

Odin Hankins and Elijah Thompson

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2026 Guest DJs-Linn-Mar

Peyton Stoller, Tom Fireman, Grant Dupree and  Thomas Brough

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Culture Crawl 1187 “There Are Words!”

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art curator, Julia Jessen, is in the studio to chat about current CRMA exhibits and upcoming events. “From the Outside Looking In: Interior Spaces” is open through May 3 & “Art is the Word: Text in Art” is open through May 17. Upcoming juried exhibit, “Threading the Needle: Fiber Art in Iowa,” is now calling for entries with submissions due Friday, May 29.

For more information visit crma.org.

Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture or search “Culture Crawl” in your favorite podcast player. Listen Live at 10:30am most weekdays on Iowa’s Jazz station. 88.3 FM or kcck.org/listen.

 

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2026 Guest DJs-Iowa City West

Derick Doresca, Lea Abou Alaiwa and Sean Kearney.

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This Week’s Shows March 29 – April 5

Horace Parlan: On The Spur Of The Moment (Japanese paper sleeve edition)Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)

Saturdays at 6:00pm

Pittsburgh Pianist Horace Parlan

Craig presents a tasty variety from Horace Parlan’s many releases on Blue Note and Steeplechase Records, as well as his work with Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Frank Foster, Dexter Gordon, and many others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Jane Bunnett at the Iowa City Jazz Festival

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, an all-female, multi-cultural ensemble, proved that they are the new driving force in Afro-Cuban jazz. Their 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival set was a hot mix of smokin’ originals and Latin classics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Randy Weston - The Modern Art Of Jazz - Blue SoundsJazz Corner of the World

Saturdays at 12:00 noon

Randy Weston Centennial Show

Craig celebrates the 100th birth date anniversary of pianist and composer Randy Weston, who passed away in 2018 at age 92. We’ll hear a diverse program spanning his earliest recordings from the early 1950s into the 2000s.

 

 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD   (March 23 – March 29)

Every Night at Midnight

KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.

Quiet Flow by Sam Yahel on Monday; Buckshot Blues by Steve Kovalcheck on Tuesday; Daggerboard, the Skipper and Mike Clark by Daggerboard, the Skipper and Mike Clark on Wednesday; A New Chapter by the Jeff Hamilton Trio on Thursday; Roots & Wings by Amani Burnham on Friday; Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues by Selwyn Birchwood on Saturday; Fortune Telling by Chris Fagan on Sunday.