The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place May 9, 2019. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
KCCK’s Featured CD for May 2019
The KCCK Featured CD for May is “Bolden” from Wynton Marsalis. Buddy Bolden ranks among the most influential yet obscure figures in the pantheon of American music and is widely credited by musicians of the era as being the first jazz musician and bandleader in history. In his playing, composing, arranging and musical direction of the soundtrack to a brand new biopic, Mr. Marsalis captures the spirit of the legendary cornetist and his greatest musical descendant Louis Armstrong. It includes a mix of classic tunes associated with the pair along with Marsalis originals. “Bolden”, the original motion picture soundtrack by Wynton Marsalis on Blue Engine Records. Purchase the CD.
Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Mt. Vernon
Maddy Steen and Cedar Zangerle join us from the saxophone section of the Mt. Vernon Swinging’ STANGS. They tell us about the importance of taking good care of your chicken, and play some of their favorite singers, including Abbey Lincoln, Sarah Vaughan, Stacey Kent, and even Lady Gaga!
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Corridor Jazz Guest DJs – Lisbon
Chris Cannon and Abbie Larson from the Lisbon Jazz Ensemble play a lot of their own music, including past Corridor Jazz tunes and some from a recent Cornell College Jazz concert. Plus a nice helping Basie, Coltrane, Chuck Mangione, and more.
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Clean Up Your Act 5-20-19
A local group is encouraging fighting climate change with diet change. Vegan Outreach.
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Special Programs for April 29 thru May 4
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Galloping Guitars: Kurt Rosenwinkel
Kurt Rosenwinkel joined Gary Burton’s quartet while studying at Boston’s Berklee School of Music. He toured and recorded with Burton, while building steady success in clubs and overseas. He has worked for decades with the cream of contemporary musicians.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Jean-Luc Ponty – The Early Years
Craig presents early music from this prolific titan of jazz violin. We’ll hear trios, quartets, and more, in the company of George Duke, Wolfgang Dauner, NHOPederson, Leo Wright, Carmell Jones, Ernie Watts, Buell Neidlinger, Bud Shank, and many more.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
2018 Homecoming Concert with Dick Oatts
Saxman Dick Oatts returned to Iowa for KCCK’s second annual Homecoming Concert. The crowd at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts heard two solid sets of new material and favorites from his long and storied career. Oatts even jammed with some hand-picked student musicians on a chart they’d composed together. It was a night of fun memories and great jazz!
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Abdullah Ibrahim’s South Africa
Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, also known by the nickname “Dollar Brand,” is the composer of symphonic works, choral works, film scores and, in his early 80s, is still very active with his band touring the world. This concert comes from Town Hall in New York City on 2017’s South Africa Freedom Day. In addition to his own compositions, Ibrahim revisits music from his years in the Jazz Epistles (1960), a short lived, legendary South African bebop band.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at Noon
Great Bands of the 1970’s – Keith Jarrett, Part 2
Craig presents another helping of 1970s brilliance from pianist, saxophonist, and composer, Keith Jarrett. We’ll hear fine offerings from Keith’s recordings on ECM and Impulse, featuring selections from Jarrett’s “American Quartet” and the “European Quartet.” Jarrett’s music from this period helped defined jazz in the 1970s.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
Culture Crawl 449 “Because… SCIENCE!”
Psychologists have found that the average person’s musical taste “freezes” in their late twenties or early thirties, so for those of a certain age, the music of the Seventies is indelibly stamped on our brains.
Doug and Gayle Elliott are taking advantage of this with a cabaret show, “Shamelessly 70s,” where they will revisit famous songs from that decade that for one reason or another, we might not hear so much anymore. All with a 2019 spin, with instrumental support from Gerard Estella, Jason Wright, and Greg Kanz.
May 10 and 11 at Opus Concert Café. Tickets at www.artsiowa.com.
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This Week In Jazz April 28th thru May 5th
Hey, Jazz fans!!!
Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Blossom Dearie, Bing Crosby, Shirley Horn, and Willie Nelson, brassmen Mario Bauza, Maynard Ferguson, Jimmy Cleveland, and Richard Williams, organist Richard “Groove” Holmes and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Clark Terry’s “Serenade to a Bus Seat” (1957), Gene Simmons’ “Blue Gene” (1958), John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” (1959), “Thelonious Monk Quartet plus Two – At The Blackhawk” (1960) and many more throughout the week and Mondays thru Fridays at noon on our ‘JAZZ MASTERS’ program on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.