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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Clean Up Your Act 7-1-19

Mississippi River mayors call for action from Congress to deal with repeated flooding.

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This Week In Jazz June 9th thru June 15th

Hey, Jazz fans!!!

Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Cole Porter, drummers Shelly Manne and Billy Drummond, pianists Chick Corea, Geri Allen, Kenny Barron, guitarist Les Paul and more!!! We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Clifford Brown Memorial Album (1953), Benny Carter’s “Jazz Giant” (1957), Grant Green’s “Solid” (1964), “Chet Baker in Tokyo” (1987), Wynton Marsalis Septet’s “Joe Cool’s Blues” (1994) 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 10 thru June 15

Short List with host Bob Naujoks

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

Galloping Guitars: Russell Malone

Russell Malone was largely self-taught and played professionally when in high school. His first big gig was with B3 master Jimmy Smith. He spent four years with Harry Connick Jr’s big band and came to prominence during his four years with singer-pianist Diana Krall. Since then he has been a strong, sought-after presence on the jazz scene.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Mondays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Great Bands of the 1970’s – Keith Jarrett, Part 3

Craig presents the final Jarrett sessions of the 1970’s with this show. We will again hear brilliant recordings from both the “American Quartet” and the “European Quartet.” Jarrett’s music from this era helped define jazz of the 1970’s.

Wednesday Night Special

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM

Students Take Over, Part 6

We finish our student hours with the 2019 Corridor Jazz Project musicians. This week, saxophonists Cedar and Maddie from the Mt. Vernon High School Swingin’ Stangs, and saxophonist Abby and trombonist Chris from the Lisbon High School Jazz Band join Dennis Green, and share their insights on band, music, and their futures, and play some of their favorite charts.

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursdays at 11:00 PM

Pianist Cyrus Chestnut has collaborated with the Turtle Island Quartet for a decade with Carry Me Home. The program illustrates what Turtle Island bandleader David Balakrishnan calls “a blend kind of mentality,” describing both their work with Chestnut and the on-going American experiment.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturdays at Noon

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.

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 10, 2019

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

Celebrated within the jazz community as a multi-talented musician, Lisa Maxwell finally releases a long-awaited album of her own material, dedicated to a special cohort. “My dear friend Lew Soloff and I talked about recording my arrangements many times over the years,” she remembers. “Then he died suddenly and I realized I had to stop thinking about it and get it done!” Lisa pulled together a group of New York’s top jazz and studio players, all of whom had a connection with Lew. “Shiny” establishes her talents as a gifted composer and arranger in styles ranging from boogaloo to straight ahead, from shuffle to funk to swing.

Wayne Alpern is a New York composer, arranger, and scholar who integrates popular and jazz idioms with classical techniques and repertoire to create a sophisticated contemporary style of cross-genre, or even post-genre music. After years of composing complex new music, he embraced his personal history and indigenous musical culture and fused them with his classical background and training. His work includes numerous jazz arrangements, string quartets, woodwind and brass quintets, mixed ensembles, pieces for string orchestra, and several piano works. His new project, “Skeleton,” features classic jazz tunes and original compositions arranged for a brass ensemble of eight trombones, two trumpets and a rhythm section.

Also this week, trumpeter Brad Turner unveils his first quartet recording in eight years, “Jump Up,” with special guest and fellow Canadian Seamus Blake on tenor sax;

Australian-born bassist, singer, arranger and composer Nicki Parrott, who worked in the ensemble of guitarist Les Paul for ten years, has collected fourteen songs that comprise a tale of two cities, “From New York to Paris”;