KCCK Specials

41:42 | Jul 31st, 2020

Dennis Green talks to Latin Jazz guru Jim Dreier on the occasion of Jim’s induction into the Jazz Educators of Iowa Hall of Fame. Jim talks about how he didn’t even play in high school band, but still...Show More

31:52 | Jul 17th, 2020

It’s another in Dennis Green’s occasional series of special music interviews. July 17 is the birthday of pianist Vince Guaraldi, and we celebrate with a conversation with his biographer Derrick Bang. ...Show More

18:55 | Jun 26th, 2020

Iowa City native Bridget Kearney has toured the world and performed on The Tonight Show, Stephen Colbert, and countless others as a part of Lake Street Dive. In fact, just before the pandemic shut eve...Show More

13:37 | Jun 19th, 2020

Dennis Green talks with Iowa City native and New York trumpeter Gabe Medd about his personal experience with COVID-19, and how he is making music during the pandemic, including a virtual performance w...Show More

29:32 | May 20th, 2020

Trumpeter Alicia Rau grew up in rural southwest Iowa, studied abroad in Senegal, and now makes her home in New York. She plays her trumpet each night at 7pm to join the daily tribute to New York’s ess...Show More

24:19 | May 14th, 2020

In the Seventies and Eighties, many Iowa natives found themselves on the coasts, meeting, performing, and forming lifelong friendships with some of the musicians who would go on to become the most imp...Show More

14:17 | May 13th, 2020

Grant Lapointe is not just a talented jazz pianist, who KCCK listeners have heard at Jazz Under the Stars, Taste of Jazz, and many other events. The rising junior at Cedar Rapids Washington also recen...Show More

0:00 | May 8th, 2020

Author Derrick Bang has chronicled the life of pianist Vince Guaraldi and has also written dozens of articles on the Charles Schulz and the Peanuts comic strips. But he recently turned his attention t...Show More