No more cardboard in the Iowa City landfill.
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Talking Pictures 1-17-18
The Shape of Water and The Post with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Monica
Schmidt.
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Clean Up Your Act 2-6-18
Cover crops might lead to better corn and soybean yields.
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Culture Crawl 319 “The Grant Wood of the East”
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has the world’s largest collection of works by Cedar Rapids native Grant Wood. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City is borrowing 27 of the CRMA’s collection for a big Grant Wood exhibit going up this spring. In return, the Whitney is sending several works by Edward Hopper, who is a mainstay of their collection, just as Grant Wood is at the CRMA.
Get a preview of which Hoppers are coming a few minutes into the video!
The exhibit opens Feb. 3. Information at www.crma.org.
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Special Programs: Week of January 15 – January 20
Short List with host Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Vocal Short List: Francis Wayne
Big Band singer Francis Wayne was a teenager when she left Boston for New York to sing with her brother’s band. She soon became the vocalist for Charlie Barnet’s orchestra, and then joined Woody Herman’s First Herd in the mid-1940’s. Wayne married trumpeter Neal Hefti and then both of them left Herman’s band. Francis Wayne had a nice 15-year career until she retired to raise a family. Hear the Short List weekday mornings at 8:35 and Saturday mornings at 7:00 on 88.3 KCCK, or with our free mobile app.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Tribute To Roswell Rudd
Jazz Corner of the World salutes the life and legacy of recently departed trombonist and composer, Roswell Hopkins Rudd. Craig will spin some select examples from Roswell’s 20+ recordings as a leader, as well as from his 40+ recordings as a sideman. Don’t miss this special tribute to the pioneering spirit of this complex and remarkable musician, composer, trombonist and jazzman!
Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM
Nat Adderley: Brotherly Swing
Nat Adderly was a fine trumpet player. But he spent most of his career in the shadow of his older brother, Julian “Cannonball” Adderly. Nat ran the band business and wrote many of their hits. When Cannonball died, Nat carried on, not only with the band, but also with the family tradition of educating the next generation.
Wednesday Night Special 
6:00 PM
Funk Daddies at Jazz Under The Stars
The Funk Daddies brought their signature brand of groove to Noelridge Park for a 2011 gig at Jazz Under the Stars. Saxman Skeeter Lewis, guitarist Craig Erickson, Ken Fullard on bass, vocalist Alicia Strong, and keyboard wizard Denny Ketelsen jammed on the horn-driven soul and R&B of Motown, Tower of Power, Earth, Wind & Fire, and their own originals. The crowd that night was definitely picking up what they were laying down. Funk Daddies was a popular choice in our recent 30th Anniversary poll of best Jazz Under the Stars performances. And you can hear it again, on this week’s Wednesday Night Special!
Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Muldrow Meets Mingus
Georgia Anne Muldrow is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist entrenched in the alternative R&B scene, but she was born out of jazz family. Her father Ronald was Eddie Harris’ guitarist (making Harris her Godfather) and her mother is singer Rickie Byers Beckwith who worked with Sir Roland Hanna and Pharaoh Sanders. Georgia also knew Alice Coltrane, who gave her the name Jytoni, which she uses as her “jazz alias.” Muldrow joins pianist Jason Moran and his cohorts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for a program featuring her own original music and their interpretations of music by Charles Mingus.
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler 
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Music of Woody Shaw, Part Two … His Blue Note Years
Craig focuses on another area of the career of this remarkable trumpet master and composer … his legendary work with famed artists of the classy, modern jazz record label, Blue Note Records. We’ll hear Woody performing in the company of jazz greats Andrew Hill, Horace Silver, Jackie McLean, McCoy Tyner, Hank Mobley, Booker Ervin, and others. Exciting jazz from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s!
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
Kennedy Student Wins Corridor Jazz Art Contest
Grant Borchert, a junior at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, has been chosen as the winner of the 2018 Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design. Grant will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM and his design will adorn the cover of the “The Corridor Jazz Project XI”, a compilation of recordings from the top jazz bands from Jefferson, Kennedy, Prairie, Xavier and Washington High Schools in Cedar Rapids, Linn Mar and, Marion in Marion; Iowa City High, Iowa City West High, Solon, Mt. Vernon, and Lisbon.
Receiving Honorable Mention in the contest were eleven other students:
- Ana Schuttloffel, Marion
- Zoe Baum, Kennedy
- Trae Ellenz, Kennedy
- Payton Stelling, Kennedy
- Sienna Brown, Marion
- Emily Shaw, Kennedy
- Ashley Gordon, Marion
- Grace Stammeyer, Kennedy
- Elise Woolison, Kennedy
- Jaxon Steichen, Kennedy
- Abigayle Godsey, Kennedy
Grant’s original piece, and those receiving Honorable Mention will all be exhibited during the Corridor Jazz Project concert, March 6 at the University of Iowa Voxman Hall of Music.
The Corridor Jazz Project is a jazz education and mentoring program for jazz band students at the high schools in the Creative Corridor. The program, developed as a part of the education outreach of Jazz 88.3 KCCK, matches each school’s top jazz band with a professional jazz player, who performed as a guest soloist with the band. The subsequent recordings have been collected and will be released on a compilation CD. CDs will be made available to each school to sell and keep the proceeds. CDs will be available at local retail outlets as well.
Support for the Corridor Jazz Project comes from MidWestOne Bank, and West Music.
New Music Monday for January 15, 2018
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. 
Critically acclaimed vocalist Jeff Baker returns with his fifth release, “Phrases,” an alive and bristling set of originals and thoughtfully conceived pop and jazz standards. Collaborating with some of the most influential and compelling jazz musicians in the world today—Brian Blade, Steve Wilson, Marquis Hill, Clark Sommers and Geoff Bradfield—Baker and his musical director, pianist Darrell Grant, present a provocative collection of original songs and arrangements based on texts by writers such as Pablo Neruda, J.D. Salinger, A.A. Milne and Salvador Plascencia. Commenting on Bradfield’s most ambitious and personal recording yet, All About Jazz says, “The songs, the arrangements, the musicianship, the group dynamic, the singing are near perfection.”
For his newest CD, “Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933,” drummer and composer Guillermo Nojechowicz has given his most personal, profoundly moving project to date: a soundtrack for the story of his grandmother’s flight from Poland to Argentina in 1933, as the Nazis were coming to power in Germany. Nojechowicz wrote this cinematic music for his multi-national ensemble El Eco with bassist, fellow Argentine Fernando Huergo, Brazilian pianist Helio Alves, Italian saxophonist Marco Pignataro, New York Voices co-founder Kim Nazarian, and special guest, trumpeter Brian Lynch.
Also this week, Toronto guitarist and composer Harley Card introduces eleven new compositions written for his long-standing quintet on “The Greatest Invention”.
Seattle drummer Phil Parisot adds longtime fr
iend and collaborator, New York trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt, to his usual working quartet for “Creekside”.
“Mi Mundo” is the solo debut of Brenda Navarrete, a Cuban-based singer, songwriter, and percussionist who has previously made an impact with the internationally-acclaimed Cuban group Interactivo.
Culture Crawl 318 “Donuts With Some Meat”
Iowa City Community Theatre presents “Superior Donuts,” a play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Tracy Letts, and the inspiration for the CBS comedy of the same name.
Arthur Przybyszewski, a former 60s radical, must adjust to his new, energetic assistant who wants to update Arthur’s rundown donut shop.
Director Barry Schreier says the play is deeper and more dramatic than the sitcom it shares its name with, while still providing many hilarious moments to balance the pathos.
January 19-28 at the Iowa City Community Theatre. www.iowacitycommunitytheatre.com for tickets and information.
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