Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Liberty

Jacob Morgan and Theo DeSchinckel are founding members of the Liberty High School Jazz Ensemble. As they get ready to end their high school careers, they talk about being the first students in a new school, and play some of their favorite jazz recordings.

Theo and Jacob’s Playlist:

  1. “Kogi” – The Jacob Mann Band
  2. “I Know You Know” – Esperanza Spaulding
  3. “Dean Town” – Vulfpeck
  4. “Red Sky” – Moon Hooch
  5. “Outlier” – Snarky Puppy
  6. “Fusion in Blue” – H Zettrio
  7. “With the Love in My Heart” – Jacob Collier
  8. “Hold Music” – The Jacob Mann Band
  9. “Desire” – Kamasi Washington
  10. “I’ll Take Les” – Liberty High School Jazz Ensemble feat. Steve Grismore

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Talking Pictures 4-1-20

Stay-at-home streaming options and Vivarium (2019), Without Name (2016) and Foxes (2012) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Ron Adkins.

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Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet April 9, 2020

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place April 9, 2020. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Xavier

Avery Arens, Allison Talyat, and Juliana Karl are our guest DJs from Xavier High School, and came prepared with an outstanding variety of music, and also how the movie The Parent Trap jump-started their interest in jazz.

We also discussed the famous Jazz Band One pineapple, and learned there is now an additional mascot for the band, Peggy the sloth!

Playlist:

  1. “Tiger Rag” – Kid Ory
  2. “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You” – Tommy Dorsey
  3. “In the Mood” – Glenn Miller
  4. “Tio Macaco” – Snarky Puppy
  5. “Cantaloupe Island” – Herbie Hancock
  6. “Old Man Blues” – Duke Ellington
  7. “Phil’s Blues” – Chet Baker
  8. “The Doo-Bop Song” – Miles Davis
  9. “Symphony in Riffs” – Delfeayo Marsalis & The Uptown Jazz Orchestra
  10. “When You’re Smiling” – Louis Armstrong
  11. “Tonight, We Tango” – Xavier Jazz Band One feat. Todd Munnik & Nolan Schroeder

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KCCK’s Featured CD for April 2020

The KCCK Featured CD for April is the Corridor Jazz Project Volume Thirteen from Iowa’s Jazz Station. We celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month by highlighting the talented students from the area’s high school jazz programs. The bands are joined by special guest soloists who work with and mentor the ensembles during the recording process. This year they include Al Naylor, Steve Grismore, Tim Crumley, Eddie Piccard, Nolan Schroeder, Mike McMann, and Rod Pierson among others. And we welcome a new school to the Project this year as Center Point-Urbana joins for the very first time. Purchase the CD.

Culture Crawl 557 “Spinning Pinwheel of Death”

Katie Colletta and Keegan Christopher are interim co-artistic directors at Old Creamery Theatre. Like all performers, they are searching for ways to do their art during these crazy times. They have come up with the idea of holding a virtual cabaret, and have invited performers from Theatre Cedar Rapids, SPT Theatre, Riverside Theatre, and the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts to participate.

High School performers are also invited to submit a video recording of a song or performance piece, which may also be included.

“Songs to Make You Smile” will be streamed over YouTube at 7:30pm April 3. You’re asked to donate a minimum of $5.00 to watch the show. Proceeds will be shared among the five participating organizations.

Make sure you watch through to the end at Keegan and Katie give a little preview of their number in the show!

More details and the donation link at www.oldcreamery.com.

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Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – City

Ryan Carter, Kolbe Schnoebelen, and Peter Stolz are seniors at City High. Jazz band is a family tradition for these three, as they each had an older brothers in the City High Jazz Ensemble with them when they were freshmen!

Ryan and Kolbe both made the 4A All State Jazz Band, slated to perform in May at the Iowa Bandmasters Association (IBA) conference, and have their fingers crossed that it will happen. In the meantime, they joined Dennis remotely to play songs that ranged from a chart they remembered from eight grade band to several current artists who inspire them.

Playlist:

  1. “Corner Pocket” – Count Basie
  2. “Composition XII” – Immanuel Wilkins Quartet
  3. “Puddle Jumping” – Marshall Gilkes
  4. “The Instrumental Hip-Hoppa” ) Ryan Porter
  5. “Torque” – Alan Baylock Orchestra
  6. “Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot” – Justin Brown with Nyeusi
  7. “Shiny Stockings” – Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie
  8. “Busta Jones” – City High Jazz Ensemble feat. Cole Peterson

 

There were three songs we didn’t have time for, so you can think of these as being on the “director’s cut.”

  • Reginald Chapman – Mysterious Hope of Glory – Prototype
  • Wynton Marsalis – What is this thing Called love? – Live at the House of Tribes
  • Braxton Cook & Butcher Brown – Sao Paulo – Braxton Cook Meets Butcher Brown

 

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This Week In Jazz March 29 thru April 4

Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Astrud Gilberto, Frankie Laine and Norah Jones, trumpeters Booker Little and Herb Alpert, saxplayers Lanny Morgan, Dick Oatts and Harry Carney, guitarist Dave Stryker, drummer Jake Hanna and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Pepper’s “The Art of Art Pepper” (1957), Kenny Drew’s “This Is New” (1957), Bud Powell’s “The Complete Essen Jazz Festival Concert” (1960), Kenny Dorham’s “Una Mas” (1963) and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.