The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has two new exhibits going up, “Carved” and “America on Paper.” Both deal with woodcuts and print-making, with examples that range from the Sixteenth Century to today.
Curator Kate Kunau invites the whole family can get involved in learning about and making prints Feb. 4 during a Family Fun Day at the Museum called “How Printeresting.”
Details at www.crma.org.
Gold, Fences, Resident Evil 7, Jackie, A Dog’s Purpose with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place February 9, 2017.
Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
The KCCK Featured CD for February is “Concert of the Century” by Dizzy Gillespie and Friends. On November 24th, 1980, Dizzy invited five jazz legends–Milt Jackson, James Moody, Hank Jones, Ray Brown and Philly Joe Jones–to join him onstage in Montreal to pay tribute to the legendary Charlie Parker. A limited quantity bootleg album of the concert soon appeared, and then disappeared, from the marketplace and the tapes lay dormant for over thirty years. The pristinely restored and fully re-mastered disc features beautiful ballads and rollicking jams that give everyone a chance to stretch out. “Concert of the Century: A Tribute to Charlie Parker” is on Justin Time Records. Click here to purchase the CD.
Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
Corridor Jazz (Steve Grismore)
Steve Grismore with The Beaker Brothers at KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars 2015. Photo by Ann Kinney
Guitarist Steve Grismore has his own trio, but also appears with organist Sal Salomone’s trio and the Beaker Brothers. He was a member of the famed Orquesta Alto Maiz group for ten years. Steve also has been a teacher of jazz music at the University of Iowa for nearly 30 years. His appearances in the Corridor are numerous as well as his performances at many festivals across the country. He even made an appearance at Montreux in 1998.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler (new time)
Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Jazz In Paris — Part One”
Nearly 9 years ago, Craig first presented a series of 3 or 4 shows dealing with jazz in Paris. This week, he begins a new series looking at French jazz artists, as well as Americans living and/or performing in Paris. We’ll hear from Pierre Michelot, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Alain Goraguer, Earl Hines, Henri Crolla, Django Reinhardt, and a host of others…full of lots of surprises!
Night Lights (Classic Jazz) with David Brent Johnson (new) 
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—a timespan that, as Johnson notes, “weirdly parallels Miles Davis on record and the Cold War.”
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, such as saxophonist J.R. Monterose, trumpeter Freddie Webster, and piano/singer duo Dick and Kiz Harp.
Every program is archived after broadcast for online listening. This week: “SAVOY RECORDS”. http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/archives/2017/1/
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson (new time)
Monday at 11:00 PM (follows Nightlights)
Remembering Max Roach, Rhythmic Innovator
Max Roach
An innovative drummer, bandleader, composer, and educator, Max Roach is a musical renaissance man. He was Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie’s drummer of choice as they developed bebop in the ’40s, and his innovations forever changed the way drums are played. In the ’50s he co-led (with trumpeter Clifford Brown) one of the seminal groups of jazz, bringing bebop to new levels of sophistication. In the ’60s, he created a range of compositions reflecting the struggle for civil rights.
Gentle Jazz with Bob Naujoks and Ron Adkins (expanded replay at a new time)
Tuesday, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Bob Naujoks) / 9:00 PM – 12:00 Midnight (Ron Adkins)
Wednesday Night Special (new time)
6:00 PM
Jazz Legends at the Iowa City Jazz Festival: Legends of the Bandstand
Cedar Walton
An all-star group of jazz veterans dubbed Legends of the Bandstand –Cedar Walton on piano, David “Fathead” Newman on tenor sax, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Earl May on bass and Louis Hayes on drums-gave a virtual clinic in the art of swinging with sophistication and verve in their set at the 2002 Iowa City Jazz Festival. Sadly, only Louis Hayes is alive today.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride (new day and time)
Thursday at 11:00 PM
Marilyn Maye: The Queen of Cabaret
Marilyn Maye at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola
88-year old singer and actress Marilyn Maye is a living legend. She’s shared the stage with artists like Count Basie and Charlie Parker, and appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson an unprecedented 76 times. Now, for the first time, May performs at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s most intimate venue — Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Jazz Pianist, Jutta Hipp” 
Craig notes the birth date anniversary of the extraordinary German jazz pianist, JUTTA (YOO-tuh) HIPP. She was born in Leipzig, Germany February 4th, 1925 and passed away April 7, 2003. We’ll hear from her classic Blue Note releases as well as from a number of European recordings…trios, quartets, and quintets, studio recordings, as well as live material, all from the 1950s. Check out this obscure and underrated player!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “Musica Di Natale” by Newpoli 
http://www.newpolimusic.com/listen.php?psi=30
The Christmas Story told through the folk music of Southern Italy, through shepherd songs from the Appenini Mountains to the music of the courts and piazzas of Naples. Two singers and seven instrumentalists bring the stories to life in a dramatic fashion. Newpoli is a group of exceptionally talented musicians, all alumni from Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music, who specialize in Southern Italian Folk Music from the regions of Campania, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia. Newpoli integrates a wide variety of styles such as Tarantella-Pizzica, Tammuriata, Villanella, Moresca and the Neapolitan Canzone, encompassing music from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
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.
Mads Tolling is a two-time Grammy Award winner, and was named last year’s winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Award for Violin. He’s a former longtime member of Stanley Clarke’s band and the Turtle Island String Quartet, and has also played with Kenny Barron, Ramsey Lewis and Paquito D’Rivera. As a burgeoning young master growing up in Copenhagen, listening to a Miles Davis cassette introduced Mads to the ‘60s sounds of jazz, soul and early R&B. He harkens back to that era on his new CD, “Mads Tolling & the Mads Men: Playing the 60s.” It features fun and exciting interpretations of timeless movie themes, popular TV classics, and celebrated songs ranging from “Mission Impossible,” “The Pink Panther” and “Meet the Flintstones” to Georgia on My Mind” and “A Taste of Honey.”
50 years ago, magic was made on the stage of the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, when the timeless cool of Frank Sinatra met the robust swing of the Count Basie Orchestra. “Sinatra at the Sands” has remained a beloved classic ever since, the perfect marriage of old-school pop and big band jazz. Singer, songwriter and saxophonist Curtis Stigers has been bringing those worlds together in his own music for the last three decades, which makes him an ideal candidate to reinterpret Ol’ Blue Eyes’ cherished repertoire for modern ears. On “One More For the Road,” Stigers finds his own version of that elusive Sinatra-Basie chemistry with the virtuosic and ebulliently swinging musicians of the Danish Radio Big Band. Recorded in the band’s headquarters in Copenhagen, the bristling live recording features the DRBB playing vibrant takes based on the original Nelson Riddle and Billy May arrangements, sparking inspired vocal performances from Stigers.
Also this week, pianist, singer and songwriter Ben Sidran is joined by Will Lee, Will Bernard, John Ellis and others on “Picture Him Happy”.
Trombonis
t Michael Dease unveils his latest project, “All These Hands,” featuring Renee Rosnes, Lewis Nash and Etienne Charles.
London-born pianist and composer Dan Costa debuts with “Suite Tres Rios,” which DownBeat describes as fusing “classical structure, American jazz and Brazilan melody in an entrancing homage to Brazil.”
Kathryn Van Meter from Seattle directs the rock musical “Next to Normal” at City Circle Acting Company, Feb. 10-12.
Kathryn is just a little familiar with this play. The playwright, Brian Yorkey, is a good friend of Kathryn’s and she was involved in some early readings of the script, and actually choreographed the first full production, which caught the eye of the producer who brought it to Broadway. So she brings a very interesting background to her first shot at directing the show.
Tickets and info at www.coralvillearts.org.
Chris Okiishi, from the City Circle board joins in as well. In addition to assisting with this show, he is directing the Coe College production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which opens Feb. 3. Info on that show at http://www.coe.edu/academics/theatrearts/theatre_productions.
Tim Hankewich and Orchestra Iowa lead off 2017 with a concert called “American Mystics.” It will feature concertmaster Dawn Gingerich in her first guest artist role with the Orchestra, performing Samuel Barber’s famous violin concerto. The other pieces will be familiar to you as well, as they have been either featured in movies or inspired film composers like John Williams.
January 28 at the Paramount Theatre and January 29 at Iowa City West. Tickets and info at www.orchestraiowa.org.
