Zombieland: Double Tap, Attraction, Joker, Bordertown (1935) and The Ironmen with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica Schmidt.
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Culture Crawl 511 “Don’t Get Ahead of The Lollipop Guild”
Orchestra Iowa plays a live symphonic soundtrack to “The Wizard of Oz,” Oct. 25 and 26 at the Paramount Theatre.
This is the third “play-along” movie the Orchestra has performed and music director Tim Hankewich says Oz may be the most challenging. Not only must the orchestra accompany the movie’s singing in perfect time, but he also reports the score is more than challenging.
Tickets and more info at www.orchestraiowa.org.
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Culture Crawl 510 “Ghost on the Stairs”
Marvin Cone is mainly known for his tranquil and colorful cloud scenes and landscapes. But he also did a series of paintings that is downright spooky, centered on a rickety, dark staircase and the creepy visage of a ghost (?) who has come to be known as Uncle Ben.
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has brought these paintings together in “Haunted – Marvin Cone’s Ghosts,” now on exhibit through Dec. 8. The Cone exhibit is paired with “Up All Night,” a collection that explores how artists have depicted the night and darkness.
Executive Director Sean Ulmer also reminds us that the museum’s annual gala is Nov. 1 at the Cedar Rapids Country Club, which benefits educational and outreach programs at the museum.
More information and tickets at www.crma.org.
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First Friday Jazz November 1
The Craig Erickson Trio with Erickson on guitar, John Hall on bass and drummer Tim Crumley will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, November 1, at 5 p.m. The first set will be broadcast live on KCCK. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin, contemporary music and more in an intimate, upscale environment. For a $12 cover, enjoy live music and drink specials at the Opus Concert Café bar the first Friday of every month. Purchase tickets.
This Week In Jazz October 20 thru October 26
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays trumpeter/composer/bandleader Dizzy Gillespie, pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton and singers Dianne Reeves and Milton Nascimento and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins” (1954), Miles Davis’ “‘Round About Midnight” (1955), Sarah Vaughan’s “In the Land of H-Fi” (1955), and Miles Davis Quintet’s “Relaxin’/Steamin’/Workin’/Cookin'” (1956), and many others through and out the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
Special Programs for October 21 thru October 26
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Basses Loaded: Nicki Parrott
Australian Nicki Parrott came to America on an arts grant to study with Rufus Reid, and stayed to first get a weekly gig with a Rhythm & Blues band. She would eventually spend a decade with guitar icon Les Paul in his last years. She has recorded prolifically and appeared with such jazz stalwarts as Ken Peplowski, Harry Allen, Scott Hamilton and Houston Person. Parrott even worked a couple of Broadway shows.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
50th Anniversary of ECM Records, Part 4
Craig looks at another batch of unique material from the early years of the label (this show is mostly from the year 1973). We’ll hear from top-notch artists, such as Eberhard Weber, Keith Jarrett, Art Lande, Dave Liebman, Gary Burton, and others. This is the good stuff!
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Christopher’s Very Happy. Band.
Week 3 of the 2019 Jazz Under the Stars featured Christopher’s Very Happy. Band. Led by Chris Mertz, Director of Jazz Studies at UNI, this quartet of fun loving jazzers eschew the notion that jazz must be stuffy and hard to comprehend. Mertz and the band delivered two sets of jubilant original compositions that the crowd at Noelridge Park totally “got” and fully enjoyed!
Jazz Night In America with Host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Joey DeFrancesco’s Brotherly Love
Christian McBride sits down with Joey DeFrancesco to talk about their Philly roots. We also get to sit in on DeFrancesco’s set at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola with his trio, and get a special sneak listen to his upcoming CD project
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at Noon
Herbie Nichols Centennial Celebration, Part 4
Craig spins more fantastic music from Herbie’s own recordings, as well as a number of enticing interpretations from a host of other artists from the last 50 years. Once again, this is all new material that should not be missed!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
Every Night at Midnight
Each night, KCCK gives you the chance to hear a new CD played start-to-finish. Tune in at Midnight for:
Blue Dawn — Blue Nights by Wallace Roney on Monday; Blue World by John Coltrane on Tuesday; Eleven by Mike Stern & the Jeff Lorber Fusion on Wednesday; The Quartet by George Coleman on Thursday; Live by Johnny Burgin on Friday; Love at the All Night Cafe by Jon Gindick on Saturday; Scary Beautiful by Ricardo Peixoto on Sunday.
New Music Monday for October 21, 2019
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Reedman Adrian Cunningham celebrates the music of iconic composer Frederick Loewe this fall with “Adrian Cunningham & his Friends Play Lerner & Lowe,” featuring pianist Fred Hersch, bassist John Hebert and drummer Eric McPherson along with special guests Randy Brecker on trumpet and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone. Cunningham began the process with research. “I watched all the movies, “My Fair Lady,” “Camelot,” “Brigadoon” and Paint Your Wagon,” he explains. “I knew the songs in the basic repertoire, but I wanted to go deeper, do some detective work, present songs that perhaps hadn’t been widely known. I am happy to create something fresh with vintage material. So much great American music can continue to be reborn and reshaped into something new.”
A Florida native who landed in North Carolina in 2002, trumpeter, educator and bandleader Rich Willey has been around the block. Starting in the early 1980s, he cut his teeth in the jazz clubs of Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New Jersey and New York City before stints on the road with Maynard Ferguson and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Between recording sessions with his Boptism bands, he continues to compose music and write books. He follows his Boptism Big Band release of this past summer with his new Boptism Funk Band release, “Conspiracy.”
Also this week, guitarist Joshua Breakstone celebrates the 100th anniversary of Art Blakey’s birth date by presenting music composed by members of the Jazz Messengers, including Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Cedar Walton, Hank Mobley and others, on “Children of Art”;
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band offers up another batch of incredible charts on “The Gordian Knot”;
and Los Angeles-based singer Gretje Angell debuts on disc with “In Any Key.”
Culture Crawl 509 “No Pollinating Please”
It’s a Halloween theme again this year, “Orchids Are A Scream II,’ October 26 & 27 at the Elks Lodge in Cedar Rapids. Nile Dusdieker from the Eastern Iowa Orchid Society talks about the allure of these mysterious plants, and what to look for when you attend the show. Hundreds of orchids from all over the country, and seminars for beginners as well as experts.
www.easterniowaorchidsociety.org for more information.
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