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Homecoming – Jazz Comes Home with Dick Oatts

Jazz Comes Home

with Dick Oatts

October 6, 2018

Featuring Dick Oatts

with a trio of Iowa’s top musicians

Plus selections performed with an all-star ensemble of local high school students.

Coralville Center for the Performing Arts 1301 5th Street, Coralville IA 52241

Ticket Prices: Adults $45.00, Students $15.00

(plus $2 facility fee)

Buy tickets at coralvillearts.org or call 319.248.9370.

“Homecoming” celebrates the impact that Iowans are making on the national and international jazz scene by bringing a local native back home to headline a special concert.

One of the top saxophonists on the New York scene today, Dick Oatts, returns to Iowa Oct. 6 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

The concert is a fund raiser which will support KCCK’s jazz education programs, Schoolhouse Jazz and The Corridor Jazz Project, which serve nearly 4,000 students each year and are offered free to area schools.

Dick Oatts is a Jefferson, Iowa native and was brought up in a musical family. His father Jack, also a saxophonist, was a legendary Iowa jazz educator who is largely credited with introducing the idea of jazz band to high schools in the state.

Dick attended Drake University before starting his professional career in Minneapolis/St. Paul and then moving to New York in 1977. Shortly after arriving in the city, he joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, and has toured, recorded, and performed both as a sideman and a leader with Bob Brookmeyer, Joe Lovano, Terrel Stafford, Flim and The BBs, Fred Hersch and dozens of other leading players.

He’s been a featured artist with the Metropole Orchestra, the WDR Big Band, the Mats Holmquist/Dick Oatts Orchestra, and is the artistic director and lead alto for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He’s recorded ten solo CDs and co-led five others on the Steeplechase label. He’s appeared at jazz festivals as a soloist and clinician through the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a professor at the Boyer School of Music and Dance at Temple University and “Artist in Residence” at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

Performing with Dick will be a trio of Iowa’s top musicians, Jason Danielson-Piano, Dave Tiede-Drums, and Blake Shaw-Bass. Dick will also do a clinic with a group of student players, who will join him at the concert.

Tickets for Homecoming are $45, with a special $15 price for students with a school or college ID. There will be a dessert reception and meet-and-greet with the musicians after the concert.

Thank you to our generous Sponsors!

West Music and That Cellular Place

KCCK’s Featured CD for October 2018

KCCK’s Featured CD for October is “Quiet Revolution” from bassist Ben Allison, guitarist Steve Cardenas and saxophonist Ted Nash. The trio honors jazz legends Jim Hall and Jimmy Giuffre and the quieter music they embraced in the 1950s and ’60s that merged elements of free playing with blues-based folk qualities. As Mr. Allison describes it, “this music has a unique kind of sophisticated simplicity that has stood the test of time.” “Quiet Revolution” is on Sonic Camera Records. Purchase the CD.

First Friday Jazz October 5

The Bob Washut Trio will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, October 5, at 5 p.m. The first set will be broadcast live on KCCK. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin, contemporary music and more in an intimate, upscale environment. For a $12 cover, enjoy live music and drink specials at the Opus Concert Café bar the first Friday of every month. Purchase tickets.

KCCK’s Featured CD for September 2018

The KCCK Featured CD for September is “Heaven and Earth” from Kamasi Washington, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2015 set “The Epic.” Once again, the saxophonist utilizes a choir and orchestra to augment his 10-piece band for what the All Music Guide calls “a major dose of Afro-Futurism, establishing Washington as a composer and arranger of dizzying potential.” Critic Nate Chinen calls it Washington’s “strongest musical statement of his career,” adding “Washington remains enamored of the jazz tradition even as he insists on reshaping it.” “Heaven and Earth” is from Beggars Group/Young Turks Records. Purchase the CD.

This Week’s Special Programs – September 3 thru September 8

Short List with host Bob Naujoks

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

Formidable Flutes: Paul Horn

While much of Paul Horn’s later work defies classification, his early roots are firmly in the jazz tradition. He played with Chico Hamilton’s quintet in the mid-50’s and quickly established himself as a sought-after West Coast session player. He recorded with the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s “Suite Thursday” project and collaborated with Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, and many others. He even scored the 1959 animated TV series “Clutch Cargo.” The latter part of his career focused on global music and atmospheric tones – often recording inside sacred places around the world.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Monday’s Jazz Corner of the World is pre-empted this week. Tune in to KCCK’s Labor Day Special — the 2018 Iowa City Jazz Festival!

Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson

Monday at 11:00 PM

Monday’s Jazz Profiles is pre-empted this week. Tune in to KCCK’s Labor Day Special — the 2018 Iowa City Jazz Festival!

Wednesday Night Special

6:00 PM

Commons Collective at the Opus Concert Cafe

The Commons Collective came together in the fall of 2011 as a UNI school ensemble. They were initially coached by renowned jazz educator and musician Dr. Bob Washut, but soon struck out on their own. Each member of the band contributes to their eclectic repertoire of original work, drawing upon blues, rock, classical, and pop – yet firmly roots itself in improvisation and the jazz tradition. The Cedar Rapids Gazette dubbed them, “one of the most popular young, professional groups in Eastern Iowa.”

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursday at 11:00 PM

The Eminence of J.J. Johnson

Jazz Night in America presents the music of trombonist J. J. Johnson curated by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Vincent Gardner. Gardner invites his section parter Elliot Mason to tackle material from the “Jay and Kai”project, which featured trombonist Kai Winding. Also, Jazz Night in America pulls back the curtain on Johnson, the composer, courtesy of archival interview tape provided by biographer Joshua Berrett, and we learn about Johnson, the man, from Carolyn Johnson who was Johnson’s wife from 1992 until his death in 2001.

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Blue Note Records in 1968, Part Two

Craig travels back 50 years to look in on the recording activities at Blue Note Records in 1968. In this second of two presentations, we’ll hear fabulous examples of recordings that were made during the last half of the year … July thru December of 1968 … gems from Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Lee Morgan, among many others! This is another great show displaying how the “times, they were a-changing!”

KCCK’s Midnight CD

The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:

http://www.kcck.org/midnight-cd/

Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet September 13, 2018

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place September 13, 2018. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

New Music Monday for September 3, 2018

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

One of the most energetic and visceral voices in jazz, trombone master Steve Turre delivers a surprising set of lush ballads accompanied by a superb all-star band and inspiring strings on “The Very Thought of You.” Backed by pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Willie Jones III, Turre welcomes special guests George Coleman for two songs on tenor sax and Russell Malone for four songs on guitar. A string octet, arranged and conducted by Marty Sheller, adds an almost indescribable beauty to four tracks.

Miki Yamanaka is a New York-based pianist from Kobe, Japan, who was one of three pianists selected in 2015 to participate in “Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead,” an intensive composition residency at the Kennedy Center. She’s appeared in concert with many notable musicians including Steve Nelson, Jerry Dodgion, Victor Lewis and Peter Bernstein. She holds weekly residencies at Smalls and Mezzrow Jazz Clubs in New York City and is currently the pianist in the Phillip Harper Quintet and the Roxy Coss Quintet. Now comes her debut release as a leader, ‘Miki,” featuring Nelson on vibes, Bill Stewart on drums and Orlando Le Fleming on bass.