Culture Crawl 271 “Live From The Moon”

The important role that Cedar Rapids-based company Collins Radio played in the space program is being told in a trilogy of documentaries produced by the Arthur A. Collins Legacy Association, Wired Productions, and Busbee Communications.

The second film in the series, “Live From The Moon,” details the role that Collins played in the Moon landing. In the process, producers discovered that if not for Collins pushing the idea of video, NASA might never have decided to send video as well as audio of the event!

“Live From The Moon” premieres on the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, July 20, 10-:30am at The Collins Rd. Theatre.

More information about further showings or getting the documentaries DVD at www.arthurcollins.org.

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Talking Pictures 7-3-19

Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.

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KCCK’s Featured CD for July 2019

The KCCK Featured CD for July is “Essence” by Michel Camilo. For his landmark 25th album as a leader, the iconic pianist, composer and bandleader reconvened his all-star big band for the first time is a quarter century. The music is drawn from key points along Camilo’s 40-year career, most of which has only been heard in trio settings, while much of it hasn’t been revisited in the studio since the original recordings. “Essence” is on Resilience Records. Purchase the CD.

Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet July 11, 2019

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place July 11, 2019. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

Special Programs for July 1 thru July 6

Short List with host Bob Naujoks    

Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM   

Women In Jazz: Joanne Brackeen 

Our Women in Jazz summer series continues with pianist and educator Joanne Brackeen. After graduating from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, she became the west coast’s go-to keyboardist, collaborating with Dexter Gordon, Chick Corea, Teddy Edwards, and Ornette Coleman. She moved to New York and worked with Stan Getz and Joe Henderson. She recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

The Annual Iowa City Jazz Festival Preview Show

Craig presents a look at some of the key performers for the 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival. We’ll hear from Jane Bunnett, The Bad Plus, Ryan Keberle, Danilo Perez, Chris Potter, and others.  We’ll also hear from some of the side stage performers such as Blake Shaw, Steve Grismore, The Heartland Trio, Saul Lubaroff, Jarrett Purdy, Ritmocano, and others. Get in on all the fun!!

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM   

Matt Wilson at the 2018 Iowa City Jazz Festival 

As we look forward to this year’s Iowa City Jazz Festival, we look back at 2018 to one more standout performance. Drummer Matt Wilson’s most recent project, Matt Wilson’s Honey & Salt, was a groundbreaking synthesis of original music and the poetry of Carl Sandburg. It was a captivating set, as members of the Iowa City literary community joined Wilson on stage to perform Wilson’s and Sandburg’s works. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Independence Day Special

Thursday

July 4th with the Airmen of Note 

Join KCCK as we celebrate Independence Day with the United States Air Force Big Band. The Airmen of Note are joined on-stage by a who’s who of guest stars — Cyrille Aimee, Steve Turre, Stephon Harris, Kenny Barron, Brandford Marsalis, and many others — for swinging sets of patriotic favorites and classic standards. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon

The Annual Iowa City Jazz Festival Preview Show

Jazz Corner of the World is pre-empted this week, as Craig and KCCK bring you complete live coverage of the 2019 Iowa City Jazz Festival. Join us on the University of Iowa Pentacrest, or tune in to 88.3 or kcck.org to hear every mainstage performance and backstage interviews with the musicians! 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at: 

http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/

This Week In Jazz June 30th thru July 6th

Hey, Jazz fans!!!

Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Milt Hinton and Reggie Workman, guitarist Johnny Smith, singers Helen Humes, Tierney Sutton and Georgie Fame, pianists Elmo Hope and Bill Cunliffe and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young’s “Blue Lester” (1944), “Hampton Hawes Trio, Vol. 1” (1955), The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “Django” (1953), Dave Brubeck’s “Time Out” (1959), Gerry Mulligan’s “Jeru” (1962), Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt “Left Bank Encores“ (1973) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

Clean Up Your Act 7-17-19

A prairie area at Squaw Creek Park has been dedicated in honor of Gazette outdoor writer Orlan Love.

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New Music Monday for July 1, 2019

      Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.

On November 26, 1961, saxophonist Stan Getz and his relatively new quartet with Steve Kuhn, John Neves, and Roy Haynes performed at New York’s Village Gate. The show was professionally recorded, possibly for eventual release, but was soon forgotten and the tape languished in the vaults for almost 58 years. Now available for the first time, the recording, “Getz at the Gate,” and this quartet both serve as a sort of ‘road not taken’ for Getz. Having just returned from living in Europe, Getz assembled a new quartet and was exploring a slightly more modern and aggressive sound with this group. By 1962, though, Getz’s album, “Jazz Samba,” with guitarist Charlie Byrd was released and the ensuing bossa nova boom dictated the course of his career for the next few years.

 

 

 

 

     Very few journeys have been as adventurous and unpredictable as the musical path Avishai Cohen has been walking for the last twenty plus years. Ever since the highly acclaimed Israeli bassist/composer became a bandleader, his recordings have shown a constant evolution. His previous outing became his most commercially successful so far and introduced him to a pop audience that for the most part wasn’t even aware of his vast catalog and work. His new CD, “Arvoles,” (‘trees’ in the ancient Ladino language) is very different in tone and feel. “It’s a reflection of my world over the last couple of years,” he explains, showing “another part of my personality.” It’s a collection of mostly original compositions recorded with Israeli drummer Noam David and Azerbaijani pianist Elchin Shirinov.

 

 

 

   

Also this week, pianist David Kikoski, who has taken deep dives with everybody from Randy Brecker to Roy Haynes to the Mingus Big Band during his three-plus decades on the scene, offers up “Phoenix Rising”;

 

 

 

 

 

                    

 

 Latin Grammy-winning percussionist, composer and writer Avishai Cohen releases his seventh album, “Songs of the Firebird,’ a set of songs that serve as the soundtrack to his new book of short stories;

 

 

 

 

         

       and Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa gathers up her trio mates for her eighth recording, “Keep Talkin’.”