Wednesday MidDay Medley
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90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The MidCoast Sound and The Super Blue Blood Moon
+ Betse Ellis + Marion Merritt
1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980 [WMM’s theme song]
2. Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds – “Destination Revolution”
from: Destination Revolution – Single / Independent / January 20, 2017
[A new music video from the band featuring this song premiered January 20, 2017. Recorded by Chris Meck, down the rabbit hole at Whisker Gables, Kansas City, MO. Mastered by Chad Meise at Massive Sound Studios, Shawnee, KS. KC based trio with Chris Meck on lead guitar & vocals, Michelle Bacon on drums, and Calandra Ysquierdo on bass guitar & vocals. Chris Meck and The Guilty Birds released their debut full-length, It’s 4 A.M. Somewhere, on April 8, 2016]
[Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds play the MidCoast Takeover Fundraiser Part 2, at recordBar, 1520 Grand, Saturday, February 24, at 9:30 PM with Broken Arrows and Headlight Rivals to benefit MidCoast takeover organized by The Midwest Music Foundation.]
3. Sleeping At Last – “January 31, 2018: Super Blue Blood Moon”
from: January 31, 2018: Super Blue Blood Moon – Single / Asteroid B – 612 / Jan 28, 2018
[Musical project led by singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Ryan O’Neal. The project initially began in Wheaton, Illinois as a 3-piece band with Ryan O’Neal as the lead singer and guitarist, his brother Chad O’Neal as the drummer, and Dan Perdue as the bassist. The band independently recorded their debut album, Capture in 2000, which they used to attract the attention of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who helped them get signed to a major record label Interscope Records. The band released their first and only major label album, Ghosts in 2003, before going independent again and releasing Keep No Score in 2006, and Storyboards in 2009. In the years following the release of their first four albums, both Chad O’Neal and Perdue would both leave the band to pursue other interests. Ryan O’Neal chose to retain the use of the band’s name for his solo work from that point on, but opted to focus on single songs and short EPs than any further traditional albums.]
10:05:30 – Intro
Early this morning of January 31, we have experienced a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, a blue moon and a super moon. All incredible, and even more exciting because they all happened at the same time. We just heard a new composition from Chicago musican and composer, Sleeping At Last, the musical project of Chad O’Neal, and his brand new song called, “January 31, 2018: Super Blue Blood Moon” written for this moment in time.
Today on this Super Blue Blood Moon day we bring you “The MidCoast Sound,” new and area musical releases from: Howard Iceberg & The Titanics, Calvin Arsenia, RUBEO, Krystle Warren, Bobby Watson, Khrystal., KD Kuro, Betse & Clarke, Sara Morgan, Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type, Victor & Penny, Truckstop Honeymoon, Chase the Horseman, Fathers, and Sara Swenson. We started w/ Chris Meck and The Guilty Birds,
And joining me for the entire show is Betse Ellis and Marion Merritt.
Betse Ellis is originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Music and a Bachelors of Arts in English, from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She has been playing the Violin for over 40 years, with over 20 years playing fiddle and also working as a teacher of music. Betse was one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed and internationally known band, The Wilders. Betse has released two solo records, and now is recording and performing with her partner, multi-instrumentalist Clarke Wyatt, as Betse & Clarke. Their debut album, “River Still Rise” was in our Top Ten, of The 116 Best Recordings of 2016, and last year they released a new full length recording on cassette called Tunes We Like, part of WMM’s 117 Best Recordings of 2017.
Marion Merritt is our most frequent contributor to WMM, She grew up in Los Angeles, and St. Louis. She went to college in Columbia, Missouri. She studied art and musical engineering, and is a avid lover of classic films and punk rock music. She saw Talking Heads on their first U.S. tour when they played One Block West, in 1978. For 14 years she has been sharing her musical discoveries and information from her musically-encyclopedic brain on Wednesday MidDay Medley. Marion has joined us for every on-air fund drive to help raise funds for the MidCoast Radio Project. Marion is also the proprietor of Records With Merritt, at 1614 Westport Rd. in Kansas City, Missouri, featurinh new vinyl releases, weekly in-store performances from young and upcoming bands, and last fall was the location for a wedding. More information at: http://www.recordwithmerritt.com
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Along with all of the music, in the last 12 months, WMM has interviewed 200 guests: Kemet The Phantom, D Rashawn Gilmore, Steve Tullipana, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, Krystle Warren, Scott Hobart, Necia Gamby, Dedric Moore, Brenton Cook, Erica Joy, Wick Thomas, Kadesh Flow, Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Calvin Arsenia, Nico Gray, Ron Megee, Nan Turner, Matthew Roth, Johnny Hamil, Marco Pascolini, Ada Brumback, Shortsweather, Erin Keller, Summer Osborne, Jen Appell, Steve Gardels, Cynthia Hardeman, Fally Afani, Matt Kesler, Scott Mize, Jennie Ferguson, Doug Hitchcock, Cole Bales, Cody Calhoun, Scott Hrabko, Jonathan Brokaw, Ethan Savage, Jesslay Huh, Jamie Rich, David Weeda, Austin Williams, Philip Hooser, IVØRY BLACK, Anna Selle, Bill Dickey, Roxi Copland, Joy Baker, Kathryn Golden, Bill Sundahl, Derick Cunninhgham, Desmond Mason, Bill Svoboda, Claire Adams, Ross Brown, Jerad Tomasino, Laurel Parks, Ben Parks, Maria Cuevas, Garrett Nordstrom, Barry Lee, Noah Davis, Steven Eubank, Julie Shaw, Sarah Beth Mundy, Lovergurl (Stephanie Bankston, Brook Worlledge, Heather Andrews), Johnny Hamil, Chad Meise, Marco Pascolini, Mikal Shapiro, Chris Haghirian, Nathan Reusch, Ivory Black, Spencer Brown, Aaron Rhodes, The Sleazebeats (Charlie Colbourne, Bill Belzer), Jen Harris, Ryan Wilks, Jennifer Appell, Beth Marshall, Jon “Piggy” Cupit, Ron Megee, Calvin Arsenia, Janet Henry, Michael McQuary, Nico Gray, Red Kate (Shawn Saving, Shaun Hamontree), Raves Arey, Clint Hoffmeier, Matt Tady, Patrick Alonzo Conway, Alan Winkler, Brenton Cook, Run With It (Miguel Carabello, Ben Byard, Daniel Cole) Matthew Dunehoo, Lou Jane Temple, Dave Storms, Sondra Freeman, David George, Jade Osborne, Quinn Hernandez, Shaun Crowly, Marion Merritt, John Craige, Megan Slankard, The Jellyman’s Daughter (Graham Coe, Emily Kelly, and Paul Gilbody), Jennifer McCartney, Autumn McCartney, Amy Marcus, Susanna Lee, Michelle Bacon, Kyle Dahlquist, Vanessa Severo, Amy Farrand, Tim Finn, Fally Afani, Simone Briand, Maria Vasquez Boyd, Jenny Mendez, Chato Villalobos, Miguel Morales, Philip blue owl Hooser, Barry Lee, & Whitney Boyd, Simone Briand, Emma Carter, Mackenzie Goodwin, Vigthor Zophoniasson & Lauren Braton, Salar Rajabnick, Barbara Eubank, Samn Wright, Caitlin Jemma & Bart Budwig, Michael McQuary, David Wayne Reed, Barclay Martin, Rabbi Moti Rieber, Crystal Clayton, Howard Iceberg, Zachary Van Benthusen, Krysztof Nemeth, Britt Adair, Duncan Burnett, Promise Clutter, Chris Meck, Teri Quinn, Mirina Landry, Victor & Penny (Erin McGrane & Jeff Freling), Judy Mills, Stephonne Singleton, Jamie Searle, Patrick Alexander.
10:16
4. Howard Iceberg & The Titanics – “Walkin’ In Milwaukee”
from: Netherlands / Howard Iceberg & The Titanics / December 20, 2017
[On this track: Howard Iceberg on lead vocals, Rich Hill on piano & harmony vocals, Bryan Hicks on stand-up bass & harmony vocals, Gary Cradle on percussion, Dan Bliss on guitar, and Betse Ellis on violin. Howard Iceberg calls this album, “More songs from another time and place. This time around, a story album. Not mine, but that of spirits both close and far. Help from Durrell and Hemingway. The stories fleshed out by some of KC’s jazz cats, not to mention the usual suspects. I keep my eyes open and my mouth shut (heh heh). Imagining I am seeing the arc of love and the arc of life more clearly with the years. Waiting for a train.” Howard Iceberg on vocal, guitar, harmony vocals; Rich Hill on piano, organ, electric piano, trombone, accordion, harmony vocals; Bryan Hicks on standup bass, electric bass, harmony vocals; Gary Cardile on percussion; Doug Auwarter on drums; Dan Bliss on guitar; Camry Ivory on vocals, harmony vocals; Charles Perkins on sax, flute; Betse Ellis on violin, Marco (Macro) Pascolini on baritone guitar, pedal steel; Phil Wade on dobro; Jeff (Jeff Eff) Freling on guitar; Chad Rex on guitar. All words and music by Howard Iceberg © 2017 Howard Iceberg. All rights reserved. Produced by Howard Iceberg and Rich Hill. Recorded by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios and Rich Hill at The Hilltop. Mixed by Howard Iceberg and Pat Tomek.]
[Howard Iceberg plays an Album Release show at The Ship, March 29. Proceeds to benefit Care Beyond the Boulevard a non-profit providing medical & social services to homeless and vulnerable groups.]
5. Betse & Clarke – “Highway Man”
from: Tunes We Like / Betse & Clarke / September 13, 2017
[Highway Man is from Bill (Willie) Bilyeu, part of a large musical Ozark family, that includes Mark Bilyeu, a good friend to Betse & Clarke. Betse learned this tune specially for an Ozark Heroes weekend the duo did with The Creek Rocks (comprised of Mark and his wife, Cindy Woolf). On the track Betse plays standard fiddle and Clarke plays guitar. Released only in analog on cassette featuring Betse Ellis on standard & cross-tuned fiddles, Clarke Wyatt on banjos & guitar, and some selections played by the Brushy Creek String Band, with Brett Hodges on guitar and Alex Mallett on bass. Produced as the first in a series of instrumental recordings. Betse & Clarke will continue this model, with plans to record on analog reel-to-reel tape for the next release in the series. The music may see an online release and digital distribution, but the plan is that all physical copies will be in analog format. Recorded by Wyatt live with no overdubs at home in KCMO, the instrumental collection highlights traditional Ozark tunes, learned from early string band recordings of the 1920s and from later Ozark heroes such as Bob Holt and soon to be 101 year old Violet Hensley. Betse & Clarke are a traditional and future folk duo with Betse Ellis on fiddles, violins, viola & vocals and Clarke Wyatt on banjos, guitar, cello, multi-instruments. Betse & Clarke have played and toured around the world. Individually their musical roots go deep in the KC music scene. Clarke Wyatt is a founding member of Mr. Marco’s V7, and Betse Ellis is a founding member of The Wilders. In 2016 Betse & Clarke released ”River Still Rise.”]
[Betse & Clarke will be performing Love Songs in Downtown St. Joe, with Under The Big Oak Tree, on Saturday, February 3, at 2:00 pm, at the Paradox Coffee & Theatre, 107 S. 6th Street, Saint Joseph, Missouri as part of the Handpicked seasonal concert series.]
[Betse & Clarke and Under The Big Oak Tree play The Brick, Mon, Feb 5, at 6pm for Rural Grit Happy Hour.]
[Betse & Clarke will also be instructors at the 2018 Louis Jay Meyers Music Camp, February 16, 17, and 18 at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center as part of Folk Alliance International Conference. http://www.folk.org]
6. Victor & Penny – “Wake Up Early”
from: Wake Up Early – Single / EAT.HEAR.RECORDS / November 15, 2017
[Erin McGrane, Jeff Freling formed Victor & Penny in 2010. The vinyl-only label was started by Steve Tulipana and the team at recordBar. Written by Erin McGrane and Jeff Freling. Recorded mixed and mastered by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab. Erin McGrane on ukulele & vocals, Jeff Freling guitar & vocals, featuring James Issac on clarinet & soprano sax, Kyle Dahlquist on trombone, glokenspiel & vocals, Jeff harshbarger on upright bass, and Brian Steever on drums. Sleve design by Marco Pascolini. EAT.HEAR.RECORDS. 1520 Grand Ave. KCMO 64108 http://www.therecordbar.com]
[Victor & Penny and the Loose Change Orchestra play Swing Night at the Chesterfield, 1400 Main St, Kansas City, Missouri, Friday, February 2, at 8:30 Beginner Swing Dance lessons, 9:00 Victor & Penny]
[Victor & Penny and the Loose Change Orchestra will join famed composer and musician David Amram for David Amram: A Musical Life, interviewed by Chuck Haddix, Tuesday, February 13 at 7 PM, at The Olathe Public Library, 201 E Park St, Olathe, Kansas]
[Victor & Penny play an Official Showcase at Folk Alliance International Conference at Saturday, February 17, at 6:45 PM in The Garden Terrace at Weston Crown Center.]
7. Fathers – “Solamente”
from: “Solamente” – Single / Fathers / 2017
[One of 3 songs recorded from new 8-piece band, formed in 2017, Kenneth Storz on lead vocals, guitar, & keys; Brooke Honeycutt on vocals, bells, percussion; David Littlewood on voice, keyboards, bells; Snake Bourret on percussion, bells, keys; Matt Guilliums on bass & percussion; Bryce VZ on vibraphone, voice, & percussion; Josh Seerden on guitar, keys, bass, percussion; Celeste Tilley on trombone, vocals, & percussion.]
[Fathers plays Sound Machine KC, Friday, February 16, at 7:00 pm, at recordBar, 1520 Grand, with Pink Royal, y god y, and The Fey (from Lincoln, Nebraska).]
We heard from Betse & Clarke in that last segment. Betse has been part of the KC Music Community for nearly 30 years now, and through most of those years she has made appearances on 90.1 FM as a musician. She has been a frequent guest on Wednesday MidDay Medley, River Trade Radio, and Signal to Noise with Barry Lee. She has emceed special KKFI fundraisers, and was the music director of Wednesday MidDay Medley’s LIVE stage version of A Story In A Song at the recordBar, and for the last 7 years she has been joining us during our on-air fund-drive shows to encourage our listeners to donate
Today’s show is our 719th consecutive weekly show. Last Fall we celebrated our 700th show, representing 1406 hours of radio, 10,000 hours of preparation, nearly 2000 guests, and over 15,000 songs, from thousands of musical artists.
To say we’ve been inspired by the KC music scene, is an understatement. In just this last year, we’ve played from over 200 local releases of 2017. The KC music community is fueled by a collaborative and generous heart that is beating in so many of the artists I’ve met while doing this show. I am inspired by the women who created radio on 90.1 FM long before me: my friend April Fletcher who know plays bass professionally in Los Angeles, and my friend Anne Winter, who left us in 2009, and reminded us how we’re all connected. I’m inspired by the diverse , intelligent, motivated, listeners, looking for place on the dial, where they can connect to the amazing stories and music and voice of our community.
Today we celebrate the pure idea of community radio, free form radio, radio that tells the story of the people who live here, the artists, the writers, the teachers, the performers, the lovers. Today we celebrate 719 weeks of Wednesday MidDay Medley, the show that has brought us together, at this time, on this frequency, in these community airwaves.
10:35 – Underwriting
8. Calvin Arsenia – “Back To You”
from: Caviar EP/ Calvin Arsenia / December 5, 2017
[Produced for attendees at Calvin’s “Secret Show,” Tuesday, December 5, at Wickstock West, 1324 West 12th Street, in The West Bottoms, and for supporters of his Outlyre Tour. Words and Music by Calvin Arsenia. Produced by Jametatone, Simon Huntley and Calvin Arsenia. Recorded at The Infoaming Vertex. Since Calvin Arsenia came home to KC after living in Edinburgh, Scotland, he has released his EP, Moments, in 2014, and his EP Prose in 2015, and his Folk Alliance exclusive EP Catastrophe in 2016. On Februay 14, 2017 Calvin released his critically acclaimed full length debut, Catastrophe. Calvin Arsenia premiered these songs in a live show at recordBar in November 2016 in a stage show that involved a company of 50 people, dancers, stilt walkers, special lighting, back up singers, guest artists. Calvin released Live at Greenwood Social Hall from his June 11, 2017 live performance at Greenwood Social Hall, 1760 Bellevue. In the late Summer and Fall Calvin went on a three month US/European Outlyre Tour where he has played San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Edinburgh, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Lyon and Paris. in over 40 shows, with musician and friend Simon Huntley who plays with Quixotic. Since 2014 we have been celebrating the music of Calvin Arsenia. He has played Folk Alliance International, Kansas City Fringe Fest, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts, The Middle of the Map Fest., The Folly Theatre. Standing at 6 foot 6 inches, Arsenia’s powerful vocals span a 3.5 octave range, while playing piano, banjo, guitar and harp. Calvin teaches music. Calvin is a graduate of Artist INC.]
[Calvin Arsenia will be playing back up for Sara Swenson, in her early show at recordBar, 1520 Grand, Saturday, February 3, at 5:00 pm, with Jake Wells opening.]
9. Sara Swenson – “In A Field”
from: Sara Swenson / Sara Swenson / September 12, 2008
[Critically acclaimed singer songwriter Sara Swenson has released some of our most played and favorite recordings of the last 10 years. Her self titled debut ended up at the top of our list of The 100 Best Recordings of 2009. In 2010 Sara Swenson released her second full length recording, “All Things Big and Small” again working with Don Chaffer in Nashville who added new layers to Sara’s great songs and voice. In November of 2011, Sara released her 5 song EP called “Never Left My Mind,” featuring her band at the time, The Pearl Snaps. In that time frame, she also had picked up two Kansas City Singer-Songwriter of the Year awards, performed with Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair, and placed a song on the season finale of ABC’s “Private Practice.” Then after the school year ended in 2012, Sara Swenson left her job as a High School English and Journalism Teacher in Platte County High School, and left the Kansas City music scene, and she flew off to the United Kingdom, where she got married. In the Spring of 2014, Sara returned to Kansas City and performed for the Folk Alliance International Conference. On July 18, 2014 Sara released Runway Lights her 4th studio album that captures snapshots of her 18-month experience of living abroad, moving from dating to marriage and sorting through the accompanying transitions. Produced by Don Chaffer in Nashville.]
[Sara Swenson plays early show at recordBar, 1520 Grand, Sat, Feb 3, 5:00 pm, w/ Jake Wells opening.]
10. Truckstop Honeymoon – “Go Go Go”
from: Big Things and Little Things / S. West & M. West / January 6, 2017
[Katie West & Mike West are based in Lawrence, KS, and were relocated here after Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of their home. Hollering with all their hearts over a five string banjo and a doghouse bass, Truckstop Honeymoon live the life they sing about. Touring across three continents with four kids and a truck load of songs, Katie and Mike West tell stories about the strangeness of everyday life. Their music combines elements of bluegrass, music hall jazz and straight up rock’n’roll. Vaudevillian wit and showmanship spike their energetic live shows, while the fearless honesty of their songs touches the hearts of listners around the world. In eleven years Truckstop Honeymoon have released eight CDs and a full length documentary film on Baton Rouge label, Squirrel Records. They perform at International folk festivals, rock clubs, neighborhood bars, house concerts and hay barns from Nebraska to Tasmania. Truckstop Honeymoon’s story begins in New Orleans, where Katie played wash-tub bass and blues piano in the streets of the French Quarter. There she met Mike, who slung a banjo and sold his CDs to tourists as a curative for hangovers and small mindedness. After a court house wedding, they hit the road together. They spent their wedding night in a truckstop somewhere between Lafayette and the Atchafalaya Swamp, where Truckstop Honeymoon was born. More info at: http://www.truckstophoneymoon.com.]
[Truckstop Honeymoon play The Brick, 1727 McGee St., Kansas City, Saturday, February 3.]
We heard Calvin Arsenia, Sara Swenson, Mike and Katie West part of the Kansas City musical community of professional musicians who make their living making music, based in in Kansas City like our friend Betse Ellis, and also Kasey Rausch, who was one of the first musicians to play live on WMM almost 14 years ago. Kasey also co-hosts River Trade Radio with Mikal Shapiro, on Sunday Mornings at 9:00 Am on 90.1 FM KKFI. Kasey is one of many KC Professional Musicians, who take time away from their work and art to donate time to community radio as they host and produce some of KKFI’s finest radio programs, Including Jeff Hashbarger, Jason Vivone, Sam Wisman, Roger Wilder, Bob and Diana Suckiel, Gerald Dunn, Dwight Frizzell, Jessie Gilpin, Ernest James, and Mikal Shapiro.
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10:56
11. KD Kuro – “JULES (feat. Domineko & Chase the Horseman (radio edit)”
from: Good-Luck / Kwame Boateng / August 1, 2017
[This track was produced by Chase the Horseman. KD Kuro is the musical project of Kwame Boateng, a Kansas City based rapper. He was born in Arlington, Virginia, and graduated from Olathe South High School in 2008. After attending Coffeyville Community College Kwame as KD Kuro started his rap career in 2012 and has been cultivating and refining his sound over the course of the last 5 years. Kwame grew up with musical influences like N.E.R.D and Missy Elliot that helped to mold the music he creates. His debut album was co-produced by Chase the Horseman and Nathan “Geesace” Gisecke. KD Kuro’s debut album is available at: http://www.kwamekuro.bandcamp.com] [KD Kuro Kwame Boateng & Chase The Horseman joined us live on WMM on Aug 2.]
[KD Kuro plays Three Headed Thursdays, at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, Kansas, Thursday, February 1, at 10:00 PM with Khrystal., MetaWatt & TRS-One.]
11:00 – Station ID
12. Khrystal. – “dont be mad (free)”
from: The Glow Up / Khrystal. / September 1, 2017
[Produced & Written by Khrystal Coppage and Duncan Burnett. Follow up to Khrystal’s Debut EP From EP – Quarter Century Living. Executive Produced By Duncan Burnett. Written By Khrystal Coppage & Duncan Burnett. Kansas City based Khrystal Coppage served as Editor-in-Chief of Khorage Magazine. She served as Production Manager at UMKC University News from 2015 to 2016. She graduated from UMKC in 2016 where she studied Family Studies. She graduated from Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2013. She is a graduate of Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, in KCK. http://mixtapemonkey.com/2073/khrystal-q-u-a-r-t-e-r-c-e-n-t-u-r-y-l-i-v-i-n-g%5D
[Khrystal. plays Three Headed Thursdays, Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, Kansas, Thursday, February 1, at 10:00 PM with KD Kuro, MetaWatt & TRS-One.]
13. R U B E O – “XANAXIS”
from: XANAXIS – Single / R U B E O / October 17, 2017
[RUBEO is Joe Rubeo a Kansas City based Electronic Music Producer. Music and Lyrics by: RUBEO. Engineered and Produced by: Evan Bissel. RUBEO released the single “Another Life” on September 9, 2017. Joe Rubeo grew up in the Kansas City area. He went to Blue Valley Northeast High School, and studied Music and Theology at Manhattan Christian College. He also studied at Solar Energy International and works in the renewable energy field as a technician.]
[R U B E O plays The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, Friday, February 2, at 7:00 PM, with Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type, and Brother Moses.]
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11:14
14. Krystle Warren – “Move”
from: Three The Hard Way / Parlour Door Music / August 18, 2017
[Produced by Krystle Warren and Ben Kane (D’Angelo, Emily King, PJ Morton). Recorded, engineered, and mixed by Ben Kane. Written & performed by Krystle Warren. Mixed at The Garden, Brooklyn. Mastered & cut by Alex DeTurk at Masterdisk. Last year in Krystle Warren premiered this song and her other new songs from this album at the Middle of the Map Fest in a packed room at Californos in Westport and later at The Polsky Theatre for the Performing Arts Series of Johnsons County Community College. For this record Krystle decided to play every instrument and vocals & back up vocals, “playing bass, drums, lap steel, piano, guitar, and vocals directly to analog tape. She and Ben Kane recorded in Villetaneuse, France, a small town on the outskirts of Paris in a vintage 70s era studio that offered just the right, rich sound to suggest the musical foundation for the record, and to do justice to the duo’s carefully balanced arrangements.” On the radio show last year Krystle shared inspirations for this record, early gospel recordings, that crossed over into Jazz from Pharoah Sanders, Edwin Hawkins, and The Swan Silvertones. Originally from KC, Krystle learned to play the guitar by listening to Rubber Soul & Revolver from The Beatles. Krystle graduated from Paseo Arts Academy in 2001 and began her musical career in collaborating with area jazz and pop musicians. After living in San Francisco and NYC, Krystle was signed to a French label, Because Music, and moved to Paris to release “Circles” in 2009. Krystle played French and British television programs, including Later with Jools Holland, garnering critical acclaim and traveling all over the world with Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle created, Parlour Door Music, to release “Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace” a recording from a 13-day session in Brooklyn, where she recorded 24 songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections.] [Krystle Warren was on WMM on September 20. We played her music on 12 different shows last year.]
15. Bobby Watson – “The Guitarist ‘For Grant Green'”
from: Made in America / Smoke Sessions Records / April 21, 2017
[Grant Green was born in St. Louis, Missouri, June 6, 1935. He died January 31, 1979. Grant Green was an American jazz guitarist and composer. He first performed in a professional setting at the age of 13 as a member of a gospel music ensemble. His influences were Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and Jimmy Raney, he first played boogie-woogie before moving on to jazz. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the United label. The drummer in the band was Elvin Jones, later the powerhouse behind sax player John Coltrane. Green recorded with Elvin again in the early 1960s. Lou Donaldson discovered him playing in a bar in St. Louis. After touring together with Donaldson, Green arrived in New York around 1959–60. Recording prolifically and mainly for Blue Note Records as both leader and sideman, Green performed in the hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and Latin-tinged idioms throughout his career. Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn write, “A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar … Green’s playing is immediately recognizable – perhaps more than any other guitarist.” Critic Dave Hunter described his sound as “lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy”. He often performed in an organ trio, a small group with an organ and drummer. Apart from guitarist Charlie Christian, Green’s primary influences were saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker, and his approach was therefore almost exclusively linear rather than chordal. He thus rarely played rhythm guitar except as a sideman on albums led by other musicians. The simplicity and immediacy of Green’s playing, which tended to avoid chromaticism, derived from his early work playing rhythm and blues and, although at his best he achieved a synthesis of this style with bop, he was essentially a blues guitarist and returned almost exclusively to this style in his later career. From Smoke Sessions Records on Made in America: Jazz great Bobby Watson celebrates some of the vital but less well-known contributions of African-Americans on Made in America, his first recording on Smoke Sessions Records. Saxophonist and composer Watson does his part to call attention to black pioneers in a variety of fields, from politics to pop culture, science to sports. These compositions are inspired by a few names that should be familiar to jazz fans, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Grant Green, but also by more obscure historic figures such as Wendell Pruitt, Butterfly McQueen, Major Taylor, Madam C.J. Walker, Isaac Murphy, Bass Reeves, and Dr. Mark Dean. Watson explains, “This project has been a history lesson for me and I hope it will be a history lesson for the listeners.” From wikipedia.org: “Bobby Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas, August 23, 1953. he is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson now has 27 recordings as a leader. He appears on nearly 100 other recordings as either co-leader or in a supporting role. Watson has recorded more than 100 original compositions. Watson grew up in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and Kansas City, Kansas. He attended the University of Miami with fellow students Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and Bruce Hornsby. After graduating in 1975, he moved to NYC and joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He performed with the Messengers from 1977 to 1981. After the Jazz Messengers, Watson work with many notable musicians, including: drummers Max Roach and Louis Hayes, fellow saxophonists George Coleman and Branford Marsalis, multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. In addition, Watson has served in a supporting role for a number of vocalists including: Joe Williams, Dianne Reeves, Lou Rawls, Betty Carter, and Carmen Lundy, and has performed as a sideman with Carlos Santana, George Coleman, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Bob Belden and John Hicks. Later, in association with bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Victor Lewis, Watson started the first edition of Horizon, an acoustic quintet modeled after the Jazz Messengers but with its own slightly more modern twist. In addition to his work as leader of Horizon, Watson also led a group known as the High court of Swing (a tribute to the music of Johnny Hodges), The Tailor-Made Big Band (16 pieces in all) and is a founding member of the 29th Street Saxophone Quartet, an all-horn, four-piece group with alto saxophonist Ed Jackson, tenor saxophonist Rich Rothenberg, and baritone saxophonist Jim Hartog. Watson also composed an original song for the soundtrack of Robert De Niro’s A Bronx Tale (1993). A resident of New York for most of his professional life, Watson served as a member of the adjunct faculty and taught private saxophone at William Patterson University from 1985 to 1986 and the Manhattan School of Music from 1996 to 1999. He is currently involved with the Thelonious Monk Institute’s yearly “Jazz in America” high school outreach program. In 2000, he was approached to return to his native midwestern surroundings on the Kansas-Missouri border. Watson was selected as the first William D. and Mary Grant/Missouri, Distinguished Professorship in Jazz Studies. The past seven years he has served as the director of jazz studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music although he still manages to balance live engagements around the world with his teaching responsibilities. Watson’s ensembles at UMKC have garnered several awards and national recognition.]
[Bobby Watson plays Kansas City Jazz: From Basie to Bebop featuring BOBBY Watson, Fri, Feb 9, at 8 PM, at The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, Missouri hosted by American Jazz Museum and The Kansas City Symphony.]
11:25 – Underwriting
Kansas City Community Radio 90.1 FM offers loads of information about what is going on in the community. Not only does this show interview nearly 200 guest each year, not only do we play nearly 1000 different songs with nearly half of those being locally produced, but we also shine a light on area not-for-profit theatre companies, art museums & galleries, area festivals, service organizations, area record labels and record stores, the area music scene, arts scene, theatre scene, literary arts scene, political action scene.
In just this past year, we’ve featured segments shining a light on: Spinning Tree Theatre, Middle of The Map Fest, Shuttlecock Music Showcase, First Friday Film Fest, American Jazz Museum, KC Fringe Theatre Fest, Late Night Theatre, Crossroads Music Fest, Midwest Music Foundation and the MidCoast Takeover, Kansas City Public Library, Record Store Day, Folk Alliance International Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , Lawrence Field Day Fest, 31st & Brklyn, Kansas City Pride Fest, Girls Rock! and the Annual Girls Rock! Camp, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Apocalypse Meow, The Buffalo Room, Standing Rock, Union Station, Outer Reaches Festival, Plaza Art Fair, No Wave Fest, Haymaker Records, Johnson County Performing Arts Series, The Pop Poetry Series at Prospero’s Books, Datura Records, Center of The City Fest, Too Much Rock, Crossroads Summer Block Party, Shelf Life, Kansans Against Campus Carry, Kansas Interfaith Action, Like Me Lighthouse, The Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The Band That Fell To Earth A Tribute To David Bowie, The Kauffman Center for The Performing Arts, Artist Inc., and more…
11:35
16. Akkilles – “Leave Your Love”
from: Something You’d Say / The Record Machine / July 2, 2013
[Debut full-length release from Akkilles, the experimental project of Kansas City based singer/songwriter David Bennett. Bennett started the project in the summer of 2011.]
[Akkilles plays The Brick, 1727 McGee, KCMO, Friday, Feb 9 at 9 PM, w/ Wild Eye, and Instant Karma.]
17. Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type – “Teenage Bodies”
from: Teenage Bodies – Single / Independent / September 13, 2017
[Indie synthpop from Kansas City based, 5-piece band that includes: Rachel Mallin on lead vocals & guitar, Justin Walker on bass, Austin Edmisten on drums & back-up vocals, Jesse Bartmess on synthesizers & keyboards. “Teenage Bodies,” the latest single from Rachel Mallin & the Wild Type, shows a band solidifying its identity. Mallin wrote, recorded and produced her first album, The Persistence of Vision, in 2014 — a solo effort that spoke to her synthpop sensibilities and landed her on Kansas City radio. That same year, she left the University of Missouri to pursue a music career, and enlisted bassist Justin Walker and drummer Austin Edmisten to form The Wild Type. By mid-2016, the act — with keyboardist Jesse Bartmess and former guitarist Matt Kosinski — released its debut EP, Degenerate Matters, recorded, produced, and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording Studios. Musical Arrangements written and performed by Rachel Mallin, Justin Walker, Austin Edmisten, Jesse Bartmess, and Matt Kosinski. Lyrics written by Rachel Mallin. That same year, The Wild Type earned support slots for acts from Cold War Kids to Metric and The Struts, and widespread recognition in its hometown at festivals such as Middle of the Map and Boulevardia.]
[Rachel Mallin & The Wild Type play The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, Friday, February 2, at 7:00 PM, with Brother Moses, and RUBEO.]
18. Chase The Horseman – “RIPchord”
from: RIPchord – Single / Chase the Horseman / October 24, 2017
[Recorded at Element Recording with Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Coiling, Tutelage nu Joel Nanos , and Fritz Hutchison on C&C Drums, Kustom K Cymbals, Heidi Lynne Gluck on Fender Jazz Bass, Grounding, and Chase Horseman on Prophet 600, Wurlitzer 206, Drumbrute, Arp Explorer, Hagstrom 12-String, Framus 12 String, vox. Chase the Horseman is a band, film composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and producer. He has composed music for over 36 films and as musician has collaborated with Clairaudients, Teri Quinn, Heidi Lynne Gluck, and many more.]
[Chase The Horseman plays Ollie’s Local, Saturday, February 3, at 5:00 pm.]
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11:56
19. Sara Morgan – “Never Been to Nashville”
from: Average Jane / River Delta Records / January 26, 2018
[KC based Singer/Songwriter, originally from McGehee, Arkansas. Sara Morgan plays saxophone, guitar, banjo, ukulele, and piano. Sara has opened for BJ Thomas, John Michael Montgomery, John Corbett, Sean Rowe, Chuck Mead, Ben Taylor, and was the preshow before Loretta Lynn at The Uptown, November 2014. Ms. Lynn hosted Sara on her tour bus after Sara’s set and prior to Ms. Lynn’s performance.]
[Sara Morgan plays In-Store at Mills Record Company, 4045 Broadway, KCMO, Thurs, Feb 1 at 7:30]
20. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]
[WMM Closing Theme]
Next week on February 7, the band Instant Karma will play live in our 90.1 FM Studios, plus we’ll be playing music from artists playing the 2018 Folk Alliance International Conference, plus Julia Othmer joins us, and we’ll talk with cast members of Hedwig And The Angry Inch.
Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org
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Show #719
Wednesday MidDay Medley 