Special Programs For The Week of September 4 – 10

The Short List with host Bob Naujoks    

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

The legendary Village Vanguard is the oldest jazz club in New York City. It started out as a place for poets and folk singers, but soon jam sessions could be heard with the greatest swing players in the late 1930s. By 1957 the club featured jazz musicians almost exclusively, and it still does.

 

 

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler

Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Art Pepper – The Galaxy Years

Craig celebrates the birth date anniversary of saxophonist Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (9/1/25 to 6/15/82), with a look at Pepper’s later career and his 15 + recordings for Galaxy Records.  Don’t miss this loving look back at one of the greatest alto saxophonists in modern jazz!

 

 

Jazz Profiles with host Nancy Wilson    

Monday at 11:00 PM 

Bud Powell: Bebop Pianism

After being brutally beaten by police at age 21, Powell spent the rest of his short life fighting mental illness. His music revealed this constant state of struggle. Known to improvise like one possessed, Powell’s right hand could race through the upper registers of the keyboard with astounding clarity while his left hand grounded the lines with irregularly spaced dissonant bass chords. Bud Powell created a ferocious body of music that shattered the limits of bebop and influenced all that followed him.

 

 

Wednesday Night Special               

6:00 PM   

Jazz In The Stacks Featuring The Music of Rodgers & Hart

 

Drummer Dennis McPartland leads an all-star band in the music of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Their prolific collaboration produced some of the most enduring musicals from the golden age of Broadway and Hollywood. Join us for this special performance, recorded live as part of Jazz In The Stacks series at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. McPartland and Company will perform songs like “Isn’t It Romantic” from Love Me Tonight, and “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered” from Pal Joey, that are now part of the Great American Songbook.

 

 

 

Jazz Night in America with host Christian McBride

Thursday at 11:00 PM

Cyro Baptista 

In the world of Brazilian percussion, few players have shared the stage with Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo-Ma, Trey Anastasio (Phish), and Sting. Cyro Baptista transcends borders and styles, and with more than three decades of wizardry and ingenuity, he brings his craft to Jazz at Lincoln Center. Our concert showcases Cryo’s wild take on traditional Brazilian grooves like forro and samba, with jazz, experimental and funk undertones. This episode of Jazz Night in America also follows Cyro as he creates a new percussion instrument for his arsenal.

 

 

Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler     

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

Tribute To Record Exec Joe Fields and His ‘Muse’ Label

Craig salutes the recently departed record producer and label owner, Joe Fields with an overview of Fields’s ‘Muse’ label. Craig will feature a variety of tasty jazz gems from Muse’s 500 + titles, many that are seldom heard. Don’t miss it!

 

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 September 4, 2017

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

On July 3, 2016, the world changed forever for Mike Stern. The guitarist was hailing a cab outside his apartment in Manhattan when he tripped over some hidden construction debris, breaking both of his arms in the fall. Not only did Stern fracture both humerus bones, he was left with significant nerve damage in his right hand that prevented him from doing the simplest tasks, including holding a pick. Following his initial surgery, he had to play seated while wearing a black glove outfitted with Velcro to help him hold onto his Velcro-fitted pick. After a second surgery, the guitarist gained more control over his nerve-damaged picking hand and subsequently devised a scheme where he literally glues his right-hand fingers to the pick, which strengthens his grip, allowing him to more fully realize his signature speed, precision and fluidity. Feeling sufficiently fortified, Stern and his stellar crew of sidemen recorded his 17th album as a leader. The guitarist’s sly, self-deprecating sense of humor comes across in the title of the album, “Trip.”

 

 

When Chicago’s TimeLine Theater performed the final production of its 20th Anniversary 2016-2017 season this summer—the Midwest premiere of “Paradise Blue” by Dominique Morisseau—it featured original music by one of the city’s most admired jazz artists, trumpeter Orbert Davis. The music, performed by Davis and members of his Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, underscored the jazz-infused drama about a gifted but troubled trumpeter in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood. The music, which the Chicago Sun-Time called “…a splendid original score” is now on a CD entitled “Paradise Blue” on Orbert’s own 3Sixteen record label.

 

 

 

 

Also this week, Moscow-born pianist/composer Yelena Eckemoff once again demonstrates uncommon lyricism and a gift for melody on “In the Shadow of a Cloud,” her 11th recording since transitioning from the classical world to jazz in 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

Nigerian-born, Paris-based percussionist and Afrobeat legend Tony Allen explores his early jazz influences on “The Source

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D.C.-based trumpeter Harold Little fuses jazz, funk and R&B on his second disc as a leader, “Akoben.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Culture Crawl 286 “Get Muddy in Dirty Face Creek”

The Bur Oak Land Trust has two big events in September. Family Day is a free event on Sept. 10 at the Trust’s Belgum Grove property near Hills. Raptors will be on display, there will be birding, storytelling, and other outdoor activities.

“Under a Cider Moon” is September 30, a live and silent auction fundraiser in the Celebration Barn in Solon.

Information, maps and other details at www.BurOakLandTrust.org.

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Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet September 14, 2017

The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place September 14, 2017. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.

Culture Crawl 285 “We May Cut Loose”

The Old Creamery Theatre presents “Footloose” opening Sept. 7.

Like other stage musicals whose movie roots are just as much in music as story (“Mama Mia” being the prime example), “Footloose” the Musical contains all the songs you remember from the 80s movie. But it dives a little deeper into the story of how a community heals from tragedy, giving the story a deeper meaning. Which isn’t to say it isn’t a lot of fun, and challenging for choreographer Keegan Christopher, who had design choreography for a show that takes place in a town that doesn’t allow dancing!

Information and tickets at www.oldcreamery.com.

Clean Up Your Act 9-25-17

Urban Forests – a book about the history of trees in U.S. cities over the past two centuries.

Talking Pictures 8-31-17

Ingrid Goes West, Annabelle: Creation, The Salesman, My Life as a Zucchini with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.