Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Mt. Vernon

The underclassman speak for the Mt. Vernon Swingin’ STANGS! Aden Grudzinski and Trystan Lashley are both first-year members of the band and are working hard to be future leaders. Trystan plays tuba, and has a feature in the band’s tune on this year’s Corridor Jazz Project CD.

Playlist:

  1. “Bessie’s Blues” – John Coltrane
  2. “Midnight Blue” – Kenny Burrell
  3. “Sing, Sing, Sing” – Benny Goodman
  4. “In the Mood” – Glenn Miller
  5. “What a Wonderful World” – Louis Armstrong
  6. “Moanin’” – Charles Mingus
  7. “Cantaloupe Island” – Donald Byrd
  8. “Fly Me to the Moon” – Franks Sinatra
  9. “Mudbug Strut” – Mt. Vernon Swingin’ STANGS feat. Tim Crumley

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Corridor Jazz Guest DJs On The Air (remotely)


Students from area high school jazz programs join Dennis Green remotely to talk about music, and play some of their favorite songs. Each show will air twice at 4pm most weekdays during April.

If you miss a show, click the listen link below or subscribe to the KCCK Specials podcast channel.

Here is the schedule:

March 30: Ryan Carter, Kolbe Schnoebelen, & Peter Stolz – City (listen)

March 31: Avery Arens, Juliana Karl, & Allison Talyat  – Xavier (listen)

April 1: Jacob Morgan & Theo DeSchinckel – Liberty (listen)

April 2: Emily Kelly & Lewis Kleman  – Washington (listen)

April 6: Alan Colton & Noah McLaughlin  – Solon (listen)

April 7: Declan Green, Rufaro Muskwe, & Dylan Sines – Kennedy (listen)

April 8: Liam Easton, DJ Jacobi, & Emma Midcalf  – CP-U (listen)

April 9: Reddyn Brunner-Luse & David Riesner – Marion (listen)

April 13: Anna Kelly & Cavan O’Hara – Linn-Mar (listen)

April 14: Brody Joens & Ryan Neubauer – Prairie (listen)

April 15: Maddie Miller & Shannon Morgan  – Jefferson (listen)

April 16: Emma Bock & Renee Hasselbusch- Lisbon (listen)

April 17: Aden Grudzinski & Trysten Lashley – Mt. Vernon (listen)

April 20: Declan Green, Rufaro Muskwe, & Dylan Sines – Kennedy (listen)

April 21: Liam Easton, DJ Jacobi, & Emma Midcalf  – CP-U (listen)

April 22: Reddyn Brunner-Luse & David Riesner – Marion (listen)

April 23: Jacob Morgan & Theo DeSchinckel – Liberty (listen)

April 24: Ryan Carter, Kolbe Schnoebelen, & Peter Stolz – City (listen)

April 27: Emily Kelly & Lewis Kleman  – Washington (listen)

April 28: Emma Bock & Renee Hasselbusch- Lisbon (listen)

April 29: Aden Grudzinski & Trysten Lashley – Mt. Vernon (listen)

April 30: Anna Kelly & Cavan O’Hara – Linn-Mar (listen)

May 1: Avery Arens, Juliana Karl, & Allison Talyat  – Xavier (listen)

May 4: Maddie Miller & Shannon Morgan  – Jefferson (listen)

May 5: Brody Joens & Ryan Neubauer – Prairie (listen)

May 6: Alan Colton & Noah McLaughlin  – Solon (listen)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clean Up Your Act 5-13-20

The two rivers that border Iowa are among the nation’s most endangered.

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Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Lisbon

Emma Bock and Renae Hasselbusch have been friends since they were little, and are finishing up their senior year at Lisbon. And they independently decided to attend Iowa State and major in Biology, so they’ll continue to be classmates in college!

The Lisbon Jazz Band has had a great year under first-year director Joseph Arch, making the Iowa Jazz Championships. During their guest DJ hour, they talk about how the band is a group of tight-knit friends, due to the fact that as a small district, they’ve been playing together since middle school. And they reveal which Mingus tune became the band’s informal theme!

Playlist 

  1. “Flamenco Sketches” – Miles Davis
  2. “Fables of Fabus” – Charles Mingus
  3. “Blue Cellophane” – Duke Ellington
  4. “Charade” – Henry Mancini
  5. “Little Sunflower” – Freddie Hubbard.
  6. “Moanin'” – Art Blakey
  7. “Satin Doll” – The Lisbon Jazz Band featuring Aaron Ottmar

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Culture Crawl 564 “Virtual Walk-Through”

Gilded Pear Gallery isn’t letting the pandemic keep them from opening a new exhibition. John Beckelman’s show “Stillness and Occurrence” begins April 17th and runs through May 30. The gallery’s traditional opening reception has been moved to a closing event, scheduled for May 22.

The show combines John’s paintings and unfired clay work, and you can look at them all in a virtual gallery at www.gildedpeargallery.com.

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Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Jefferson

Maddie Miller and Shannon Morgan miss a lot about band while they’re on “pandemic break” but it’s possible that getting to school for a 6:50am jazz band rehearsal isn’t one of them. Fortunately, their guest DJ show did not require them to get up that early! They picked several charts that they played in band to share with us, along with one that was a definite first, “Oogie Boogie’s Song” from “The Nightmare Before Christmas!” 

Playlist:

  1. “The Chicken” – Jefferson Jazz Ensemble with Mike McMann (Corridor Jazz 2016)
  2. “Spirit of New Orleans” – Turner Center Jazz Orchestra
  3. “Isfahan” – Duke Ellington Orchestra
  4. “Oogie Boogie’s Song” – The Nightmare Before Christmas
  5. “In The Mood” – Glenn Miller
  6. “Sunny Side of the Street” – Frank Sinatra
  7. “Arnge Drank” – The Jefferson Jazz Ensemble feat. Steve Shanley (Corridor Jazz 2014)
  8. “Blue Monk” – JJ Johnson & Kai Winding
  9. “Ludicrous Speed” – Richard Elliot
  10. “Georgia On My Mind” – Ray Charles
  11. “Back in Time” – Jefferson Jazz Ensemble feat. Al Naylor (Corridor Jazz 2020)

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Talking Pictures 4-15-20

Bloodshot (Amazon), Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Netflix) and Freud (Netflix) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.

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Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Prairie

This time next year, Brody Joens and Ryan Neubuaer will be finishing up their first year at Dordt University and Wartburg College, respectively. But today they are guest DJs on KCCK, representing Prairie Jazz I. They tell the story of how Gordon Goodwin’s “Jazz Police” became the unofficial theme “rev-up” tune for Jazz I this year, and spin a fun variety of jazz and blues tunes from a variety of eras and traditions.

Playlist:

  1. “Donna Lee” – Cory Henry
  2. “Spain” – Al Jarreau
  3. “The Jazz Police” – Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band
  4. “How Blue Can You Get” – B.B. King
  5. “Single Petal of a Rose” – Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra feat. Joe Temperly
  6. “Beaulah Witch” – “Burning for Buddy – A Tribute to Buddy Rich”
  7. “Melancholy Serenade” – The Jackie Gleason Orchestra
  8. “On the Sunny Side of the Street” – Dizzy Gillespie feat. Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt
  9. “Clair De Lune” – Kamasi Washington
  10. “Everyday I Have the Blues” – Prairie Jazz I feat. Eddie Piccard

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