Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM
Vocal Short List 16: Thelma Carpenter
Thelma Carpenter’s roots were in the Big Band Era, and her resume included stints with Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins, and Count Basie. She became an attraction in New York nightclubs and later found work in films and on Broadway. She broke the color line in radio in 1945, becoming the first African-American singer as a permanent cast member on Eddie Cantor’s program.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Mondays at 6:00 PM
Chronological Andrew Hill, Part Two
Craig continues his listen back to the artistry of pianist and composer, Andrew Hill. This week, he picks up with a January 8, 1964 session that became the Blue Note release “Judgement!”, then moves on to Hill’s mid-1960’s recordings.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
Jarrett Purdy Project at the Opus Concert Café
Pianist and bandleader Jarrett Purdy unites talented musicians from the jazz programs of the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa into a tight, cohesive group. They brought their repertoire of both contemporary and traditional styles to the Opus Concert Café. It was a show full of energy and original sound.
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Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursdays at 11:00 PM
Crosscurrents
“Virtuosity” might best describe the bridge between David Holland and Zakir Hussain. But there’s also a deep cultural foundation behind their musical dialogue, which forms the beating heart of a project called Crosscurrents.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Saturdays at Noon
Herbie Nichols Centennial Celebration
Craig celebrates the 100th birthday of one of the all-time jazz greats – pianist and composer Herbie Nichols. Hear selections from recordings that Herbie made for Blue Note, Savoy, and Bethlehem Records, as well as some modern-day artists re-interpreting a variety of Herbie’s compositions.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Over the past ten years, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom has established itself as one of the most consistently inventive and hardest working bands in modern jazz. Fronted by the extraordinary drummer and composer Allison Miller and featuring violinist Jenny Scheinman, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, bassist Todd Sickafoose and pianist Myra Melford, the sextet has been embraced by both fans and music cognoscenti alike, regularly performing sold out shows and garnering critical praise around the world. The Wall Street Journal declared, “Boom Tic Boom has a razor-sharp precision that recalls classic drummer-led ensembles of 50 years ago—the music of Art Blakey, Art Taylor and Max Roach come to mind—but Ms. Miller’s band works from a diverse sonic palette that is unmistakably contemporary.” Their new CD, “Glitter Wolf,” was inspired by the collective need for community and self-acceptance in an incredibly unpredictable time.
Joe Lovano, widely acknowledged as one of the great tenor saxophonists of our time, has been a presence on ECM Records since 1981, appearing on key recordings with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn, John Abercrombie and Marc Johnson. “Trio Tapestry,” introducing a new group with pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi, is his first as a leader for the label. An album of focused intensity and expressive beauty, it features a program of eleven new compositions that Joe calls “some of the most intimate and personal music I’ve recorded so far.” It draws upon Lovano’s history and development as a player who has addressed both jazz tradition and exploratory improvisation.
Also this week, trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s third recording for ECM, “Imaginary Friends,” presents him fronting his longtime working quintet in its first recording since 2010;
Downbeat Rising Star vibraphonist Behn Gillece investigates the parallax of perspectives created by the individual approaches of introversion and extroversion which comprise the “Parallel Universe”;
and saxophonist Ken Fowser is supported by an all-star group, including organist Brian Charette, guitarist Ed Cherry, trombonist Steve Davis and trumpeter Joe Magnarelli on “Right On Time.”
An environmental law group is challenging many Trump administration deregulatory actions.
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Glass, The Other Side of the Wind and The Favorite with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
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Three composers, including Cedar Rapids native Robert Lindsay-Nassif, were given rare access to Grant Wood works by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art as they worked on a commission for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. To aid them in creating the works that would become “Strokes of Genius,” the composers were able to view works by Wood in storage at the Museum, in an area usually reserved only for staff.
CRMA director Sean Ulmer says the community will get its first taste of the product of these labors at the “Grant Wood Birthday Bash,” Feb. 13 at the CR Museum of Art, at 6pm. The composers will introduce segments of their pieces, which will be sung by Jessica Pray Patel, whom we interviewed in Culture Crawl #414.
There will be more Museum/Opera tie-ins in March and April, prior to the Opera premiere April 12-14. More information at www.crma.org and www.cr-opera.org.
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