On this week’s episode of the Big Mo Pod Show John and Noah discuss some dulcet blues tones from this Friday’s blues show! As always the selection of tracks features a garden variety of blues genres across different eras, tune in to hear them all! Songs featured in the episode: Shaun Murphy – “High Price …
KCCK General Manager Dennis Green has been presenting to 6th and 7th graders about KCCK and the career of radio, as a part of Career Pathways with the Workplace Learning Connection. As a group activity, students recorded the audio to a TV commercial. Page down to hear and see …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Benny Moten, Art Hodes, Hampton Hawes, George Cables and Ellis Marsalis, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Willie Cook, trombonist Helen Jones Woods, singers Jo Stafford, Ernestine Anderson and Mose Allison, bassists Sam Jones and Neil Swainsson and more. We’ll …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Lou Donaldson’s 98th Birthday Although the great alto man Lou Donaldson has retired from performing, he is still with us and deserves a salute! In this birthday program, we’ll spin great material from a variety of jazz labels that Lou recorded for, such as Argo, Cadet, Timeless, …
Cedar Rapids’ own blues brother are back at it again with another episode, discussing a variety of blues tones from this Friday’s Big Mo Blues Show. Notable topics this week include the long standing Big Mo tradition of playing monkey songs as well as artists who’re driven to play the blues regardless of their circumstances. …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place November 14, 2024. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
The KCCK Featured Album for November is “A Little Taste” from Rebecca Kilgore. The celebrated vocalist honors her good friend and colleague Dave Frishberg, who passed away in 2021, focusing on a program of his songs along with his collaborations with Johnny Hodges, Johnny Mandel and Alan Broadbent. Sadly, Ms. Kilgore was diagnosed with dementia …
In this second culture crawl installment of the Kirkwood fall production of “Into the Woods,” we chat with student actors Jacob Cacioppo (playing The Baker), Laci McHenry (playing The Baker’s Wife), and director Emma Kostiv. This funny, emotionally charged, mysterious, dark, and exciting show runs for two weekends with six showings, including two matinees. Nov …
