KCOU JAZZ
February 9th, 2025
This show explores the intersection of two storied musical traditions: jazz and classical. Composers Chopin, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky are reimagined through the lens and artist vision of Duke Ellington, Bud Powell, and Chet Baker. The show reflects on jazz’s long struggle for critical recognition, touching on its historical tension with classical music and the technical brilliance often overlooked by critics. This episode offers a fresh look at classical repertoire through improvisation, swing, and creative reinterpretation.
Songs Included
In under three minutes, Bud on Bach blends baroque clarity with bebop precision to reimagine Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s 1766 composition Solfeggietto. In a sharp, concise display of his technical command of both classical and jazz piano, Bud examines the interspaces between the two genres. Perhaps most impressive is his management of feel and time after stripping his trio away.
In this interpretation of Mozart’s 1788 Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, Grant Green channels classical form through electric guitar tone and jaunty groove. By swinging Mozart’s original melody, Green opens the pocket for vibraphone and congas. The tight-knit septet offers a more intimate take on a typically grand orchestra pieece.
Recasting Mozart’s urgency in a jazz-funk idiom, Green trades orchestral grandeur for expressive guitar lines and rhythmic subtlety. The track explores the meeting point between precision and feel—perhaps most impressive is Green’s ability to honor the original melodic contours while reshaping them into his own tonal language.
Known for their virtuosic vocal arrangements, the Swingle Singers interpret Mozart’s Prelude and Fugue: Sonata in C Major K.394 No. 37 (1782) as a playful, mid-60s swing a cappella piece. Mirroring Mozart’s arpeggiated staccato style, the Swingers trade the formality of classical instrumentation with tight vocal harmonies and jazz-inflected rhythm, blurring the line between Baroque precision and vocal jazz flair.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.
As a tornado forms in Mid-Missouri during the KCOU Jazz radio hour, DJ Scribbles Jr. takes shelter in the studio and spins wind-related jazz music on 88.1 FM. Through many interruptions by the National Weather Service, DJ Scribbles Jr. complements the turbulent weather with swirling, uneasy melodies like Babylonia Wind and Song of the Wind. Moments of calm in the storm called for cautious and somewhat ethereal songs like Slow Hot Wind and East Wind. All songs played included ‘Wind’ in their titles.