Bur Oak Land Trust will host a Free Family Day at their Turkey Creek location, Sunday May 21. Enjoy outdoor activities for kids of all ages, including birding, story telling, experiencing the sights and sounds of creek life, learning about different prairie trees and plants, and finding answers to all of your outdoor questions.
Directions to the site and more information at www.BurOakLandTrust.org.
Their Finest, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Absolutely Anything with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
In 2016, 10 of Soul was just completing their warmup when their concert was washed out by rain.
About fifty yards.
Jazz Under the Stars, Cedar Rapid’s longest-running jazz concert series, celebrates its 30th anniversary in Noelridge Park by moving a little bit to the west.
The new All-Inclusive Playground at Noelridge Park is being installed in the location where concerts like Jazz Under the Stars have traditionally taken place, necessitating a slight shift in location. The new site for the concert will be parallel to Council Street, near the park entrance.
“Like our original site, there is a natural slope that should provide good line-of sight to the performers,” says KCCK General Manager Dennis Green. “The new site makes the swimming pool lot even more convenient for parking, and the City says once the playground is finished, there will be a larger lot between the pavilion and playground.”
The 2017 lineup will have a healthy dose of funk, with performances by Goose Town, a band comprised of recent jazz students at the UI and UNI, and Quad Cities-based 10 of Soul, who’ll be returning to Noelridge after getting rained out in 2016.
Saxophonist and UI professor Damani Phillips will lead an organ trio, and the series will move for real to McGrath Amphitheatre for the closing performance by James Dreier and Ritmocano.
Here is the full lineup:
August 3 – Goose Town at Noelridge Park
August 10 – Damani Phillips Trio at Noelridge Park
August 17 – 10 of Soul at Noelridge Park
August 24 – James Dreier & Ritmocano at McGrath Amphitheatre.
All concerts begin at 7pm.
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Mimi Fox) 
West Coast guitarist Mimi Fox is little known in the Midwest, but is a significant part of the Bay Area jazz scene in San Francisco. When she started in music, it was the drums, but on hearing The Monkees and The Beatles, switched to guitar. Before she was 12 she was teaching older teens the rudiments of guitar playing. Out of high school she became a professional musician. When she moved from New York City to the West Coast, she came upon Bruce Foreman whose blues and bop style marked her for jazz. She was mentored by guitar guru Jim Hall and has played with many of the significant jazz guitarists of the past three decades.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Birthdate Anniversary Celebration For Pianist Red Garland”
Craig salutes William McKinley “Red” Garland, who was best known for his piano work as a sideman with Miles Davis and John Coltrane. We’ll hear from a tasty selection of the 44 recordings led by Red, and from the 20+ records that feature Red as a sideman. Wonderful material that displays the greatness of Mr. Garland!
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson 
Monday, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Corner the World)
Night Lights, is a weekly one-hour jazz radio program hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from the 1945-1990 era—covering artists such as Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone and themes ranging from jazz recordings of spirituals to avant-garde interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Night Lights also features many lesser-known talents of post-1945 jazz. Every program is archived after broadcast for online listening. This week: “Portraits in ‘Soul Jazz’ with Bob Porter”. www.indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Frank Sinatra: ‘The Voice’ 
Francis Albert Sinatra (1915 – 1988) was one of the great vocalists of the American century. This program will trace his roots in Hoboken, NJ and his early discovery by bandleader Harry James, to his breakthrough appeal to the “bobby soxers” as the vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940, to his second “golden era” with Capitol Records in the 1950s, where his recordings with Nelson Riddle and Billy May have achieved legendary status.
Wednesday Night Special
6:00 PM
Marquis Hill at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Highlights from the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival Mainstage: Marquis Hill Blacktet
In anticipation of the 2017 Iowa City Jazz Festival June 30 – July 2, we revisit one of the many wonderful Main Stage performances from last year’s festival.
Marquis Hill is best known as the winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition. With his combination of fleet, jabbing accents and soaring grace notes, Hill was singled out as something special. The South Side of Chicago native is a composer of conceptual pieces, through which he imparts a real vision about the world – about the places he calls home and the people he loves. As a bandleader, he lifts the game of everyone around him.
Hill studied his trade in the South Shore Youth Jazz Ensemble and with the Ravinia Jazz Mentors, and at Northern Illinois University and DePaul University. It’s easy to see his influences when compared to the chain of trumpeters leading from Roy Eldridge to Dizzy Gillespie to Roy Hargrove, but he commands his own category.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Thursday at 11:00 PM
The British Invasion (In Austin)
Moses Boyd Ensemble perform for Jazz in the Round – 29/04/13
Jazz Night in America visits South By Southwest to talk with and listen to new artists on the British scene like tenor saxophonist Shabaka, drummer Moses Boyd and more.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Jazz In Paris – Part Three” 
Once again, Craig throws the spotlight on some fine examples of Jazz from Paris. We’ll hear guitarist Henri Crolla, violinist Stephane Grapelli, saxophonist Sonny Criss, clarinetist Hubert Rostaing, organist Eddy Louiss, guitarist Rene Thomas, and a host of others. Don’t miss it!!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Slim Profile” by Dimitri K 
Dimitri Kovachev a.k.a. Dimitri K won National Contest for Youth Pop Composers in 1982 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since then have written over 250 songs for many top singers and instrumentalists. Many became the hit songs of the 80s in Bulgaria. Some songs sold over 250,000 copies at a time. He wrote the cover songs for the Melody of the Year National TV Show in 1987 and 1988.
Contestants from quite a few different countries performed his songs as part of the ongoing International Golden Orpheus Festival on the Black Sea. His recorded music is part of the Golden Music Library of the National Radio in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Dimitri K moved to The USA in 1991. He produced for Prestige Records in London Medieval Voices; the CD was recorded with Sredetz Chamber Choir Sofia. Since then, through DSM Producers, New York, he released background and theme music for Saturday Night Live, Maury Povich Show, and other national prime time TV shows.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s71cj780e9t5dxh/AACQ7VTrsgocSQtovDGRtWQma?dl=0
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.
It’s been 30
years since bassist extraordinaire Charnett Moffett burst onto the scene with his recording debut. Barely 20 years old but already drawing attention for his virtuosic, soulful contributions to seminal recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Jordon, Moffett immediately staked out his position as one of the leading voices of his generation. His new CD, “Music From Our Soul,” brings together an all-star line-up of collaborators from throughout the bassist’s life in music, in a variety of contexts and combinations that range from an Ellington classic to original compositions spanning free-jazz combustion, Coltrane-inspired spiritual seeking to blistering funk workouts, vigorous swing and powerhouse rock fusion. The cohorts include legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, ground-breaking guitarist Jordan, journeyman lead pianist Cyrus Chestnut, and iconic drummers Jeff “Tain” Watts, Mike Clark and Victor Lewis.
Ray Mantilla is a veteran percussionist, composer, bandleader and arranger who has played with such giants as Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Eartha Kitt, Cedar Walton and countless others. His new recording, “High Voltage,” features the Cuban trumpeter Guido Gonzalez, saxophonist Ivan Renta and vibraphonist Mike Freeman, among others, in a terrific setlist of jazz and Latin standards with a few surprises thrown in. The session is a kind of amalgamation of Mantilla’s Puerto Rican roots and the Afro-Caribbean style typified by his stint with Gato Barbieri.
Also this week,
trumpeter Nicholas Payton draws on a global array of beats, melodies and harmonic consciousness on his new set, “Afro-Caribbean Mixtape”.
Toronto-based trumpeter Rebec
ca Hennessy is joined by her Fog Brass Band for her first full-length release at the helm, “Two Calls”.
Trombonist 
Brett Gold debuts his New York Jazz Orchestra on “Dreaming Big.”
Summer of the Arts is the organization charged with planning pretty much every summer activity in downtown Iowa City. Their season begins May 19 with the opening of the Friday Night Concert Series, nearly every Friday (and one Wednesday) at 6:30pm at the Fountain Stage in the Pedestrian Mall.
Son Volt and Elephant Revival headline the music at the Iowa Arts Festival, June 2-4, which will also feature a juried art show with more 125 vendors, food booths, kids Fun Zone, and much more. Nearly every activity is free.
Details at www.summerofthearts.org.
“Playing It Forward”
From Taste of Jazz 2017. Posted by Jazz 88.3 KCCK-FM on 5/04/2017 (179 items)
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From Corridor Jazz Project Concert 2017. Posted by Jazz 88.3 KCCK-FM on 3/06/2017 (188 items)
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