Our Story
While watching a movie about Jews and baseball at Caspe Terrace in Waukee (a facility owned and operated by the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines), local jazz fan Abe Goldstien decided this was the perfect setting for jazz performances — an intimate theatre with a Steinway piano and perfect acoustics. Since 2008, Abe and his wife Jackie, have sought out jazz musicians from around the world to make the trip to central Iowa. The only requirements the couple asks of performers are to arrive a day prior to the performance, play “East of the Sun, West of the Moon". Each performance is followed by a meet-the-artist dessert reception.
The Artists
2008
Trio-X (Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen
2009
Anat Fort Trio
2010
Any Statman
Benjamin Herman
2011
Dave Liebman/Vic Juris
ICP Orchestra
Lee Shaw
2012
Sonny Simmons
Eric Vloeimans Quartet
2013
Dave Douglas
Dave Burrell
Ernie Krivda
2014
Amina Figarova
Eric Vloeimans’s Oliver’s Cinema
2015
Roberto Magris (solo)
Ben Goldberg
Lee Konitz
2016
Stephen Riley/Peter Zak
Steve Kuhn
2017
Jay Clayton
Amina Figarova/Bart Plateau
2018
Sheila Jordan
Robert Magris Trio
2019
Andrea Domenici/Fabrizio Sciacca
2021
Chris Byars/Pasquale Grasso/Ari Roland
2022
Andrea Domenici/Francesco Cafiso
Kirk Knuffke/Jesse Stacken
Eric Vloeimans/Will Holshouser
2023
Ken Peplowski/Glenn Zaleski
Sparks
Yaala Ballin
Original Mind
2024
Judy Niemack/John DiMartino
Michael Jefry Stevens/Christian Howes
Steve Davis/Andrea Domenici
Trio-X (Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen
2009
Anat Fort Trio
2010
Any Statman
Benjamin Herman
2011
Dave Liebman/Vic Juris
ICP Orchestra
Lee Shaw
2012
Sonny Simmons
Eric Vloeimans Quartet
2013
Dave Douglas
Dave Burrell
Ernie Krivda
2014
Amina Figarova
Eric Vloeimans’s Oliver’s Cinema
2015
Roberto Magris (solo)
Ben Goldberg
Lee Konitz
2016
Stephen Riley/Peter Zak
Steve Kuhn
2017
Jay Clayton
Amina Figarova/Bart Plateau
2018
Sheila Jordan
Robert Magris Trio
2019
Andrea Domenici/Fabrizio Sciacca
2021
Chris Byars/Pasquale Grasso/Ari Roland
2022
Andrea Domenici/Francesco Cafiso
Kirk Knuffke/Jesse Stacken
Eric Vloeimans/Will Holshouser
2023
Ken Peplowski/Glenn Zaleski
Sparks
Yaala Ballin
Original Mind
2024
Judy Niemack/John DiMartino
Michael Jefry Stevens/Christian Howes
Steve Davis/Andrea Domenici