The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place February 13, 2025. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Big Mo Pod Show 049 – “Real Nasty Funk”
Its time to get down with some funk provided by your hosts from the Singing Cowboys Studio! This week’s episode covers some particularly funky tracks from Friday’s show, as well as some more traditional blues tunes on the side. Listen in to hear them all! Songs featured in the episode:
- Hustlers Brass Band – “Second Line”
- Sean Costello – “Close To You”
- The Kinsey Report – “Midnight Drive”
- Johnny Winter – “TV Mama”
- Lettuce – “Good Morning Mr Shmink”
Listen to ‘da Friday Blues with Big Mo each week at 6pm, and catch the podcast for a behind the scenes look at the show!
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Talking Pictures 1-29-25
Presence (2024), Avicii – I’m Tim (2024 Netflix) and Watson (CBS TV series) with Hollis Monroe, Phil Brown and Monica Schmidt.
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Clean Up Your Act 1-29-25
A study is looking into whether carbon emissions could be stored underground in Iowa.
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Culture Crawl 1023 “I Say O-DAY-see-us, You say O-DEE-see-us”
Riverside Theatre opens January 30 with “The Cure At Troy” by Seamus Heaney, directed by Adam Knight. In the studio before opening night we have Aaron Stonerook (Odysseus), Adam Knight (director), and Tim Budd (Philoctetes) to tell us a little bit about bringing this old tale into a fresh light.
Shows run January 30 through February 9. Tickets and more info can be found at riversidetheatre.org.
Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at kcck.org/culture or search “Culture Crawl” in your favorite podcast player. Listen Live at 10:30am most weekdays on Iowa’s Jazz station. 88.3 FM or kcck.org/listen.
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New Music Monday for January 27, 2025
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify
Michel Petrucciani was one of the most brilliant pianists to emerge from Europe’s jazz scene in the late ‘70s. Despite his short stature due to glass bone disease, he rose to international acclaim, performing with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Stephane Grappelli and many other greats. “Jazz Club Montmarte-CPH 1988” is a previously unreleased live set recorded during a memorable performance at Copenhagen’s Jazzhus Montmarte, capturing Petrucciani in the company of two jazz icons, Gary Peacock on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. While the trio only came together for a brief European tour in the summer of 1988, the chemistry they shared on stage was undeniable.
Over her 20-year career, Judy Wexler has earned the reputation as one of the most compelling vocalists on the West Coast. Known for her warm voice and affective interpretations of lyrics, her repertoire has been replete with songs that are off-the-beaten path. All About Jazz describes her as “an actress, mood painter, song archaeologist, and vocalist par excellence.” Now on “No Wonder,” her seventh and newest recording, Ms. Wexler lends her sumptuous voice and highly personal takes to some of the finest songs from the Great American Songbook.
Also this week, David Caffey, Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Northern Colorado, presents the third release from his jazz orchestra, “At the Edge of Spring”; “Small Things” displays the growth of the young St. Paul-raised guitarist and composer Jackson Potter since his arrival in New York City in 2021; and drummer Steve Johns, who has been one of the most dynamic and versatile drummers on the New York scene since the early 1980s, unveils his third album as a leader, “Mythology.”
This Week In Jazz January 26 thru February 1
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays songwriter Jerome Kern, trumpeters Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge, saxmen Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott and Bob Mintzer, drummer Jimmie Smith, vibist Bobby Hutcherson, pianist Buddy Montgomery, guitarist Fareed Haque and more.
We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Hampton Hawes’ “Four!” (1958), Nat Adderley’s “Work Song” (1960), Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay” (1970), Carmen McRae’s “Carmen Sings Monk” (1988), “Joe Pass Quartet Live at Yoshi’s, Vol. 1 & 2” (1992), The Lonnie Plaxico Group “Live at Jazz Standard” (2003) and many others Mondays thru Fridays at noon on Jazz Masters on Jazz 88.3 KCCK.
This Week’s Shows January 27 thru February 2
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore)
Mondays at 6:00pm
Jazz in 1975
Craig travels back 50 years to look in on the exciting variety of jazz recorded in 1975. We’ll hear from Chick Corea, Joe Farrell, Dexter Gordon, Lenny White, Keith Jarrett, and many others.
Wednesday Night Special
Wednesdays at 6:00pm
Da’Bluesapalooza 2024, Part One
A truckload of Iowa’s legendary blues artists gathered last February at the Olympic Southside Theatre for KCCK’s annual daBluesapalooza. The celebrity benefit to support da’Blues on KCCK, featured Craig Erickson, Homebrewed, Dennis “Daddy-O” McMurrin, Charlie Morgan, and Ship of Fools, was again the jam of the year.
Jazz Night In America
Thursdays at 11:00pm
Mary Stallings Not Stopping
Christian McBride celebrates Mary Stallings, a stalwart of vocal jazz, who has shared the stage with many legends – Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, to name a few. Still swinging at 84 years old, she shows no signs of stopping. She joins the Emmet Cohen Trio for a special night of singing from Dizzy’s Club in New York City.
Jazz Corner of the World
Saturdays from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm
Jutta Hipp Centennial Celebration
Craig plays samplings from German pianist Jutta Hipp and her 1950s American Blue Note releases, as well as great material from all of her known earlier European recordings. Born in Leipzig in 1925, Hipp was brought to the U.S. by Alfred Lyon. We’ll hear fabulous music, amazing stories, and her mysterious history.
KCCK’s Midnight CD
KCCK features a new album every night, played from start-to-finish.
Kiko by Jim Mullen on Monday; Hidden Gems by Brent Laidler on Tuesday; Breakthrough by Erik Jekabson on Wednesday; Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.G. Korngold & Max Steiner by Peter Erskine & the JAM Music Lab Allstars on Thursday; Here We Are by Sierra Green & the Giants on Friday; Saratoga by Eddie 9Volt on Saturday; Almost in Your Arms by Claire Martin on Sunday.