The Fish Fry

8pm to Midnight, Fridays and Saturdays

A public radio party in your living room, as Chuck Haddock serves up the best in blues, r&b, soul, jumpin' jazz and zydeco.

In 1984, Chuck Haddix aka Chuck Haddock joined the staff of KCUR as a jazz producer. The next year, he began producing the Fish Fry. He is also the director of the Marr Sound Archives, a collection of 340,000 historic sound recordings housed in the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri--Kansas City.  Haddix also teaches Kansas City jazz history at the Kansas City Art Institute.  

Over the years, Haddix has contributed to a wide variety of theatrical, recording, video and film projects including “Cronkite Remembers” a biography of Walter Cronkite, Robert Altman's “Kansas City” and Merchant-Ivory's “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.”  His articles have appeared in Down Beat and Living Blues Magazine.  In 2005, he coauthored with Frank Driggs, a history of Kansas City jazz, Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop–A History for Oxford University Press.

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Music Shows
9:11 am
Sat May 11, 2013

The Fish Fry, Saturday May 11

Music
3:43 pm
Thu December 27, 2012

Marva Whitney, 'Soul Sister No. 1,' Dies At Age 68

Funeral services for Marva Whitney are pending, according to a Facebook page dedicated to the followers of the Kansas City woman known as Soul Sister No. 1.

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Fish Fry
12:50 pm
Tue December 18, 2012

An Interview With Chubby Carrier

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Chubby Carrier with Chuck Haddix
The Fish Fry
10:33 am
Wed August 8, 2012

Yank Rachell, Knocky Parker

 James "Yank" Rachell (March 16, 1910 – April 9, 1997) was an American country blues musician, dubbed an "elder statesman of the blues." - Wikipedia

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Fish Fry
10:25 am
Tue July 31, 2012

Fats Domino, Cookie and the Boogie Ramblers, Big Walter Price

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Fats Domino
Fish Fry Friday
1:17 pm
Mon July 16, 2012

A Conversation With Danny Cox

Danny Cox was born in CincinnatiOhio and moved to Kansas CityKansas in 1963.

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Fish Fry
8:00 pm
Fri March 30, 2012

Snooks Eaglin, Robert Parker, Lee Dorsey

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Snooks Eaglin at Rock'n'Roll Bowl
Fish Fry
2:06 pm
Sat February 18, 2012

Mardi Gras At The Fish Fry

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The Mardi Gras celebration begins this weekend in New Orleans and on tonight's Fish Fry!

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NYE Jams
12:40 pm
Fri December 30, 2011

KCUR Jazz & Blues For New Year's

This Saturday night, invite KCUR's Fish Fry and 12th Street Jump to bring the jazz & blues to your New Year's Eve party!

From 8pm to midnight, join Chuck Haddock on the Fish Fry ringing out the old and ringing in the new as he and his wife Terri Mac play an eclectic mix of the finest in blues, soul, rhythm 'n' blues, rock & roll,  jumpin' jive & zydeco.

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Remembering Myra Taylor
9:19 am
Mon December 12, 2011

Kansas City Jazz Singer And Wild Woman Myra Taylor Dies At 94

Singer Myra Taylor was one of the last living links to Kansas City's jazz heyday of the 1930s. Taylor died Friday, December 9, 2011 at the age of 94.

According to The Kansas City Star:

Taylor had been under hospice care at the Swope Ridge Geriatric Center, 5900 Swope Parkway, for more than three months, said her manager, Dawayne Gilley. Her final performance was July 24 at Jardine’s, 4536 Main St., where she performed with the Wild Women of Kansas City, a jazz vocal quartet.

    

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Fish Fry Saturday
11:31 pm
Sat December 10, 2011

Saturday, December 10, 2011

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Taj Mahal plays the Blue Note in May 2006.

Taj Mahal, Otis Redding, The Mar-Keys

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Kansas City's Early Radio Days
4:12 pm
Tue December 6, 2011

Charlie Pryor And The Brush Creek Follies

Credit Photo from the Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection, used by permission of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries, Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections.

To Rebecca Pryor, her grandfather Charlie was a kind of Pied Piper. Everywhere he went, he made music that thrilled listeners.

Charlie Pryor was a percussionist, specializing in drum set, xylophone and a homemade musical washboard supped up with cowbells and horns. When she was little, Charlie took Rebecca with him to play at churches, and he played at her school's assemblies. 

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Jazz/Blues
9:12 am
Mon March 9, 2009

KC Jazzman Alaadeen

One of Kansas City's legendary jazzmen, Alaadeen, stopped by The Fish Fry to talk about his career and the 25th anniversary re-release of The City Light Orchestra's album "Raised Spirits."

Kansas City , Mo. – One of Kansas City's legendary jazzmen, Alaadeen, stopped by The Fish Fry to talk about his career and the 25th anniversary re-release of The City Light Orchestra's album "Raised Spirits."

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Jazz/Blues
10:35 am
Sat March 7, 2009

Good-Time Blues from Frank Ace

The Fish Fry's Chuck Haddix talks with blues man Frank Ace, a frequent musical guest at BB's and other area clubs.

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Jazz/Blues
8:44 am
Mon March 2, 2009

Cedric Burnside And Lightnin' Malcolm: Two-Man Wrecking Crew

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Chuck Haddix, Lightnin' Malcolm and Cedric Burnside

Cedric Burnside, grandson of the legendary R.L. Burnside, son of drummer great Calvin Jackson, is widely regarded as one of the best drummers in the world. Bluesman Lightnin' Malcolm is one of the leading younger generation artists on the scene today.

Kansas City, Mo – North Mississippi Hill Country blues artists Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm joined us on The Fish Fry for a chat about their new CD "2 Man Wrecking Crew" and the influence of Cedric's grandfather, the great R.L. Burnside.

 

 

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