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Talking Pictures 12-12-18

2.0, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, The Frontrunner and The Christmas Chronicles with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica Schmidt.

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Culture Crawl 409 “If Scrooge was an Astrophysicist”

Combined Efforts Theatre is the region’s only visual and performing arts company that specializes in collaborations between artists with and without disabilities. The group also runs a writers group, which led Ken Gayley, Ph.D., a UI professor of Astronomy and physics to write the play “Zwicky’s Air,” which explores both the secrets of the universe and the most intimate personal relationships.

Ken talks about the collaborative process of how his play came together, and the exquisite agony of a writer waiting for the audience reaction to a laugh line.

Directed by Matt Falduto, Dec. 14-16 at the ICCT Theatre on the Johnson County Fairgrounds. Tickets at the door or in advance at www.combinedefforts.org.

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Special Programs for December 10 thru December 15

Short List with host Bob Naujoks

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

Cats on the Keys: Phil Markowitz

Pianist Phil Markowitz’s personal discography is small, but he has a considerable resume as a sideman. His first major gig was a four-year gig with Chet Baker. Markowitz has worked with saxophonist David Liebman and with Bob Mintzer’s Big Band for almost two decades.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays at 6:00 PM

Hotbeds of Jazz – Detroit, Part 2

Craig throws the spotlight onto another dozen modern jazz giants from the Detroit area. In this week’s show, the second of four shows in this series, we’ll hear selections from Kirk Lightsey, Donald Byrd, Alice Coltrane, Roland Hanna, James Carter, Billy Mitchell, and many others.

Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson

Mondays at 11:00 PM

Duke Ellington (the Bandleader, Part One)

From his humble beginnings with a little six-piece band from Washington DC, Duke Ellington assembled one of the greatest orchestras in the history of jazz. Ellington developed jazz orchestration to levels never before imagined. The Duke Ellington Orchestra was an institution, something even the greatest musicians aspired to be part of.

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Corridor Jazz Project Concert 2017

We’re taking a look back at some of the recent Corridor Jazz concerts, as we prepare to record this year’s CD. These live performances culminate the experience for a dozen of the area’s best high school jazz bands, partnered with Eastern Iowa’s best jazz professionals and educators. They rehearse a chart, record it for a CD, then reunite on-stage for a live performance. This week, we hear the 2017 show.

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

In California With Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd, saxophonist, flutist and composer, turns 80 this year. We get a taste of Lloyd’s collaboration with Lucinda Williams, along with choice moments from his recent appearances at Jazz at Lincoln Center. We’ll also join producer Alex Ariff as he pays a visit to Lloyd’s home near Santa Barbara, California.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon and Mondays at 6:00 PM

The Tenor Artistry of Coleman Hawkins

Craig recently realized that it’s been about 8 years since we, as he puts it, “basked in the glory of Hawkins’ big, beautiful tenor sax sound … so, it’s time to get to it!” We’ll listen to gems from his beginnings in the 1920s, to the end of his career in the late 1960s. Hawkins was always on the cutting edge of all of the major changes throughout the history of jazz.

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 December 10, 2018

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

Jazz duo recordings can provide an exceedingly wide range of musical expression including, but not limited to, profundity, humor, tenderness, introspection and exuberance. This type of mercurial interplay is on full display on “Montreal Memories,” a previously unreleased live set from saxophonist Frank Morgan and pianist George Cables recorded at the Theatre Port-Royal in Montreal in 1989. The two played together frequently and their improvising was imbued with almost telepathic communication. Cables’ large piano tone was the perfect accompaniment to Morgan’s slightly dry, Bird-like sound.

The Czech pianist and composer Emil Viklicky has made numerous visits over the years to Cedar Rapids and the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library. He was recorded in concert on one such visit in May of 2008 in a trio with Dennis McPartland and Steve Charlson, just a few weeks before the great flood inundated the Museum and the city. Emil returned to the Museum this past May, ten years to the day after the first recording, to once again perform in the now restored and relocated Museum, this time with his Grand Moravian Trio featuring Czech bassist Petr Dvorsky and veteran Chicago-based drummer Ernie Adams. The resulting disc, “Humoresque,” includes a mix of originals, jazz standards and traditional Moravian pieces.

Also this week, saxophonist Jorge Nila is joined by guitarist Dave Stryker in paying tribute to some of jazz’s tenor masters on “Tenor Time”.

Bassist and composer Gabriel Espinosa, who heads up the jazz program at Central College in Pella, is joined by singer Kim Nazarian of New York Voices on his latest project, “Nostalgias de Me Vida”.

Boston-based composer and band leader Ayn Inserto, a protégé of Bob Brookmeyer, releases her Jazz Orchestra’s first new album in a decade, “Down a Rabbit Hole.”

Talking Pictures 12-5-18

The Possession of Hannah Grace with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.

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Culture Crawl 408 “Bite-Size Messiah”

The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale presents Handel’s landmark work “Messiah” in its 2018-19 season.

But not all at once.

Instead, the Chorale will break the work up into the seasons we associate it with. Part 1, which celebrates The Nativity, will be the centerpiece of “Holiday Handel,” Dec. 8 at First Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids.

Chorale director Dr. Gerry Kreitzer, who also directs the Mount Mercy choirs, says that even though the Hallelujah Chorus is not actually a part of this segment, he’ll be including it, and inviting the audience to sing along.

The Mt. Mercy choir will also perform at the concert.

Tickets and more information at http://www.crchorale.org/.

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Culture Crawl 407 “Bill Lives On”

Iowa City’s Extend The Dream Foundation operates Uptown Bill’s, a coffee shop, performance hall, and meeting space named for Bill Sackter, a disabled man who moved to Iowa city with his guardian, screenwriter Barry Morrow, in the late 1970’s. Morrow told Bill’s story in a TV movie starring Mickey Rooney.

Saturday, December 8, the Foundation will hold a benefit concert featuring Dave Moore, an Iowa City folk singer and composer known around the world for his many appearances on Prairie Home Companion. Also performing will be fiddle player Al Murphy, and the group Pennies on the Rail.

The concert will be at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 2355 Oakdale Rd., Coralville. Admission is a free will donation. More information at http://uptownbills.org/.