Culture Crawl 467 “Band on the Tarp”

Steve Shanley, director of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band, outlines the next two shows in the Band’s season.

June 19, the band performs at The History Center for the very first time, and will feature Kevin Judge, bassoon professor at Iowa State, performing a Mozart concerto, Callie Fay from Xavier featured as a Young Artist, and music from Star Wars. The concert repeats June 23 at Ellis Park. Come at 6:30 to hear CR Jazz perform prior to the Muni Band.

June 26 and 30, Young Artist contest winner Jaden Hanson from Linn Mar will perform. Principal flutist Shivahn Dohse Morton will perform a very cool arrangement of “Ain’t No Sunshine,” which will also feature her husband, jazz bassist Drew Morton. Principal Oboist Lesley Fleer will guest conduct, and enjoy a Leonard Bernstein medley.

Municipal Band concerts are 7:30pm. Visit www.crmuniband.org for the full schedule and location info.

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This Week In Jazz June 16 thru June 22

Hey, Jazz fans!!!

 

Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer saxmen Lucky Thompson, Joe Thomas and Eric Dolphy, songwriter Sammy Khan, composer Lalo Schifrin, trombonist Jimmy Cheatham, bassist Jamil Nasser and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of ”Inglewood Jam: Bird & Chet” (1953), Elmo Hope “Trio & Quintet” (1953), The Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Cookbook, Vol. 1” (1958), Hank Mobley’s “Dippin’” (1965), Bill Evans’ “Montreux II (1970), George Benson’s “Bad Benson” (1974) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.

Special Programs For June 17 thru June 22

Short List with host Bob Naujoks    

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

Women In Jazz: Jane Ira Bloom 

We begin our summer-long series of Women in Jazz with Jane Ira Bloom. Hailed as one of the premier reed artists of the day, Bloom has recorded 20 critically-acclaimed albums. Always an innovator, the Grammy-winning soprano saxophonist’s latest work, “Wild Lines,” incorporates the poetry of Emily Dickenson into her music. NASA even named an asteroid for her.

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Prestige Records in 1959, Part 2

Craig looks in again on Prestige Records in 1959. In this second show, we’ll hear selections from the latter half of the year, with mega-tasty tunes from the likes of Benny Golson, Shirley Scott, Yusef Lateef, Willis Jackson, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, and a host of others. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM   

John Raymond & Real Feels at the 2017 Iowa City Jazz Festival 

As we get set for this year’s stellar lineup, we take a quick look back at one of the recent standout performances from the Iowa City Jazz Festival. John Raymond & Real Feels took the main stage in 2017 and gave the crowd a set of stellar jazz that pushed the boundaries. Downbeat Magazine hails Raymond for his live performances, and his 2017 Jazz Fest set proves them right.

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life 

Behind the music, Billy Strayhorn led a complex and often vice-driven life. While composing some of the most harmonically rich jazz of its time, often in the shadow of Duke Ellington, Strayhorn was an outlier in that he led an openly gay life as a black man in the homophobic 1940’s. This week, interviews with Strayhorn family members, Strayhorn’s biographer, and rare archival tape of Strayhorn himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon

The Music of Bill Evans, 1957 & 1958

Craig surveys more of the early recordings of the great Bill Evans. We’ll hear Evans as a leader, as well as performances with Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, George Russell, Chet Baker, and others. Very important listening from one of the biggest names in modern jazz piano. 

 

 

 

KCCK’s Midnight CD

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

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

New Music Monday for June 17, 2019

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

 For his landmark 25th album as a leader, iconic pianist, composer and bandleader Michel Camilo wanted to do something truly special. So the Dominican-born Grammy and Emmy Award winner reconvened his all-star big band for the first time in a quarter-century to explore the full scope and breadth of his remarkable career. “Essence” offers exactly that: the essence of Camilo’s artistry spanning the last 40 years. The music, arranged in collaboration with trumpeter and longtime collaborator Michael Philip Mossman, is drawn from key points along Camilo’s storied trajectory. Most of the material has only been heard in trio settings in the past, while much of it hasn’t been revisited in the studio since the original recordings.

 

 

 

 

     Saxophonist Walt Weiskopf started his career with the Buddy Rich band at the age of 21. In the years since, he has released twenty CDs featuring a stellar cast of the best contemporary jazz musicians including Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, Renee Rosnes, Joe Locke, and Conrad Herwig to name a few. Walt is also touring again this year, for the fifteenth year, with Steely Dan. For his new release, “Worldwide,” the tenor giant presents his European Quartet, featuring the Danish rhythm section of pianist Carl Winther, bassist Andreas Lang, and drummer Anders Mogensen. It was recorded in Copenhagen at the conclusion of the group’s European and Scandinavian tour earlier this year.

 

 

 

 

     

Also this week, saxophonist Alexa Tarantino, who performs and tours regularly as a leader and sidewoman in a wide variety of ensembles and genres, makes her recording debut as a leader with “Winds of Change”;

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            

 

Ryan Keberle & Catharsis, who play the Iowa City Jazz Festival on July 6, unveil “The Hope I Hold”;

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

 

 and the Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet offers up “The Rhythm of Invention,” on which Wallace uses the expanded palette of an orchestra to highlight the strengths of his core conjunto.

 

 

 

 

Clean Up Your Act 7-8-19

This summer’s “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico could be near record in size.

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Talking Pictures 6-12-19

X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Ma, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Booksmart with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.

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Culture Crawl 466 “History Detectives”

The History Center of Cedar Rapids is offering a series of summer camps for young people beginning June 17. Program Manager Jenny Thielman says kids will get to become detectives, investigating the History Center grounds for clues to local historical events and people, study the impact of women on Linn County history, and even make a silent movie!

Topics and session lengths vary for different age ranges. Visit www.historycenter.org for the calendar and more details.

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Culture Crawl 465 “Anyone Can Be King, Right?”

Riverside Theatre presents Shakespeare’s “Henry IV Part I” June 14-23 in the Iowa City’s Lower City Park. After Henry seizes the throne, England is gripped by the fear that if one king can be deposed, what’s to keep it from happening again? And again? Especially since Henry’s heir, Prince Hal, prefers pub crawls with Sir John Falstaff to affairs of state.

Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s most famous characters is played by Cedar Rapids native Elliott Bales, who otherwise works as an actor in Washington D.C. Director Adam Knight has twisted the original play by casting a woman, Katie Hahn, as Prince Hal, and setting the play in the World War I era.

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