The 200th edition of the Cultural Crawl video series features Nick Kaeding from the Iowa City-Coralville Convention & Visitors Bureau, who is a board member of the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA).
Nick invites everyone to ICCA’s annual “Celebration of the Arts” on Nov. 15, and also runs down the list of some fun weekend activities for all ages.
Find details on these and hundreds of other events at www.culturalcorridor.org.
The Accountant and Girl on the Train with Hollis Monroe, Denny Lynch and Phil Brown.
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify.
Whether moving from Japan to the United States or navigating between the influences of jazz, soul, hip-hop, Afrobeat and electronica, trumpeter and composer Takuya Kuroda has never followed a straight path. On his fifth album, “Zigzagger,” Kuroda darts between those wide-ranging interests with a funky swagger and an intensely swinging vigor. Kuroda’s vision is realized with the help of his regular working band, most of them friends and collaborators for more than a decade since attending New York’s New School together. They include trombonist Corey King, bassist Rashaan Carter, drummer Adam Jackson, and the band’s newest member, keyboardist Takeshi Ohbayashi.
When Woody Herma
n launched his new band in 1947, its centerpiece was a saxophone section featuring three tenors and a baritone. The unusual configuration was designed to showcase a new cooler, swinging sax sound pioneered by tenor great Lester Young. Though Herman’s sax-centric Second Herd lasted only until 1950, it would help start a West Coast jazz revolution—one that tenor sax great Harry Allen and his All-Star New York Saxophone Band explore brilliantly on the new CD, “The Candy Men.” Harry’s colleagues—tenor saxophonists Grant Stewart and Eric Alexander and baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan—share his passion for the seductive sound of a sax section. Harry is quick to point out that he wasn’t trying to mimic any particular arranging style. He merely wanted to make the charts fun to play and hear.
Also this week, Norah Jones returns to the piano-driven sound she fashioned on earlier releases in her career on her sixth studio release, “Day Breaks”.
Vibraphonist Behn Gillece offers up another batch of original tunes on his second release as a leader, “Dare to Be”.
Fourplay guitarist Chuck Loeb unveils hi
s latest outing as a leader, “Unspoken,” featuring special guests Jeff Lorber, Eric Marienthal, Till Bronner and Everette Harp.
Victoria Price, daughter of film legend Victor Price, talks to Denny Lynch, host of KCCK’s movie review show “Talking Pictures,” about Vincent Price’s career, and how he found joy in performing, meeting fans, and showing her how to scramble eggs.
Price appears Wednesday, October 19 at the Collins Road Theatre for a screening of the films “Laura” and “The Fly” at 7pm. Her appearance is presented by the Artisan’s Sanctuary, www.artisansancturay.org.
Yeah, we’re off the air.
You know how we always say “you need to give during the Fund Drive, or this might go away?”
Looks like it finally happened!
Just joking.
It doesn’t actually have anything to do with the pledge drive, and we’re working on getting the transmitter repaired.
In the meantime, listen online. And think for a minute about what life without the normal easy access you have to a 24-7 jazz station is like.
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The Iowa City Community Theatre brings the “Dracula” to the stage Oct. 21-30. This adaptation is very true to the suspense and mystery of the original tale, perfect for those raised on “True Blood” and other modern takes on Bram Stoker’s story, looking to experience the original source material.
Information and tickets at www.iowacitycommunitytheatre.com.
If you’ve ever missed a favorite show on KCCK, or want to go back and listen to one again, you can now hear Iowa’s Jazz Station on YOUR schedule.Short List with Bob Naujoks
Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: International Jazz Stars (Humphrey Lyttelton) 
The Short List survey of international jazz stars from the past and present continues with the revered English jazzman, Humphrey “Humph” Lyttelton. He was a trumpeter that straddled traditional jazz and neo-swing. Lyttelton was a Louis Armstrong disciple, and loved to play with other American musicians who came to the shores of Britain. His jazz was trad and swing. He was not only a musician, but also a cartoonist, writer, radio broadcaster, talent scout and calligrapher. While he was little known in the United States, Lyttelton was truly an international star with a career than spanned six decades.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Tito Puente: ‘El Rey’
Tito Puente
The late Afro-Cuban jazz giant Tito Puente, “El Rey,” was the king of the timbales and the mambo, and a recipient of the Presidential Arts Medal. This tribute takes us inside the man, probing the source of that energy and uncovering the secrets to Puente’s prolific and creative life.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
“Thelonious Monk in The Early 1950s”
Each year, around Monk’s birth date anniversary of October 10th, Craig pays tribute to the genius of modern jazz piano, THELONIOUS SPHERE MONK. In this year’s show, we’ll hear from Monk’s recorded works in the early part of the 1950s…Monk with Bird and Dizzy, Monk’s final 2 recording sessions for Blue Note Records, Monk’s trio and quintet recordings for Prestige Records, his work with Miles Davis, and several other miscellaneous sessions. This is very important material!
New Orleans Calling with George Ingmire
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Four Guitars
Walter “Wolfman” Washington
From Lonnie Johnson to Earl King, Snooks Eaglin to Deacon John, guitar players have been a part of the New Orleans sound since at least the 1920s. And the guitar sound here isn’t just blues — you’re likely to find elements of jazz, funk, soul, and even gospel as well.
In this program we hear four different New Orleans guitarists explain how they started playing, and where the guitar took them. Featuring John Mooney, Spencer Bohren, and Ernie Vincent — and Walter “Wolfman” Washington, who gives us an exclusive live performance recorded at the historic Basin Street Station.
Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Oliver Jones live at the Montreal Jazz Festival
Oliver Jones
Over the past 81 years, Oliver Jones, celebrated Canadian pianist and protege of Oscar Peterson, has spread the gospel of Canadian jazz and he marked his retirement this year with a special trio performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Jazz Night in America was there to bid him farewell. We feature his final trio performance in Montreal, an interview with Cecile Peterson, the daughter of Oscar Peterson, and learn about some of Montreal’s rich jazz history.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows Jazz Night in America)
Iowa City Jazz Festival 2016: Larry Fuller Trio
Larry Fuller at the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival
Artist Profile by Laura Eckles, KCCK Programming Intern
Larry Fuller, based in New York City, is a hard swinging mainstream jazz pianist. Floyd “Candy” Johnson helped Fuller to start a professional musical career at the age of thirteen in Toledo, Ohio. Fuller obtained the position of musical director and pianist for Grammy-nominated vocalist Ernestine Anderson by his early twenties. He spent some time playing with the Jeff Hamilton Trio before joining what would be the final lineup of the Ray Brown Trio, prior to Brown’s death. Larry Fuller has played with many talented musicians including Harry “Sweets” Edison, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, and many others.
The Larry Fuller Trio’s latest album was released in 2014, “Larry Fuller.” Fuller embodies swing and drive in all of his playing. Fuller brings an eclectic mix of repertoire into this album from opulent ballads, “Reflections in D/ Prelude to a Kiss,” by Duke Ellington to “Celia,” by Bud Powell. “He brings vitality! He swings hard and I like that,” Ray Brown.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Saturday, Noon – 4:00 PM and Monday, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
“The Recordings of Herbie Hancock — 1969 to 1971” 
Craig continues his survey of the jazz keyboard master, HERBERT JEFFREY HANCOCK, focusing in on the years 1969 into 1971. We’ll hear Herbie’s work on records by Miles Davis, Josef Zawinul, George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, and others, and of course from several of Herbie’s own recordings of the day. Not to be missed!!
Tropical Heat (hosted by Kpoti Senam Accoh)
Sunday, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Featured Album: “In Concert” by Gustavo Assis-Brasil 
http://gustavoassisbrasil.com/
Gustavo Assis-Brasil is a Brazilian American jazz guitarist. Based in Boston, he is considered a pioneer in the study and development of the hybrid picking technique for guitar. In 1999 he received a full scholarship to get his Master’s degree at Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory. His main teachers were Mick Goodrick, Wayne Krantz, Ed Tomassi, Dave Fiuczynski, Rick Peckham, and Larry Baione. He has also studied with Charlie Banacos, and Prasanna. In 2005, Assis-Brasil released the book Hybrid Picking for Guitar.
He is the director of the jazz and Contemporary Music Ensembles of The Cambridge School of Weston, and he teaches at Berklee College of Music during the guitar sessions. Assis-Brasil taught clinics at the Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, California; University of Southern California; Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts; UFRGS, Brazil; Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; and University of Passo Fundo, Brazil.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
The Monday – Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be found at:
