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First Corridor Jazz Project CD has its cover

Cheyanne McGrail, a junior at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, has been selected winner of the Corridor Jazz Project CD cover design contest.
 
McGrail’s design will adorn the cover of the first Corridor Jazz Project CD, a compilation of recordings from the top jazz bands at Jefferson, Kennedy, Linn Mar, Marion, Prairie, Washington, City and West high schools. She will also receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM.

The Corridor Jazz Project CDs, along with tickets for the April 17 CD release concert at Hancher Auditorium, will go on sale March 15.

McGrail’s intricate drawing of a saxophone with abstract forms and colors exploding from it was chosen from nearly 100 entries from art students in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Marion high schools.

Her original art piece, along with six runner-up designs will be displayed at M.C. Ginsberg Jewelers, 110 E. Washington St., Iowa City, from March 1 through April 17. The entries will be on display at Hancher Auditorium during the concert.

The Corridor Jazz Project is a jazz education and mentoring program for jazz band students at the eight public high schools in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. 

The program, developed as a part of the education outreach of Jazz 88.3 KCCK, matches each school’s top jazz band with a professional jazz player, who performed as a guest soloist with the band. The subsequent recordings have been collected and are being produced on a compilation CD, the first of its kind in the Corridor. Schools selling the CDs will keep the proceeds and the discs will aslso be available at local retail outlets.