RIP Mars Williams (1955 – 2023)

So welcome to the first RoCM of the Fall 2023 quarter at KCSB – and we begin with a ton of birthdays this week. We have: Petra Haden – b. October 11, 1971)Pharaoh Sanders – b. October 13, 1940Lester Bowie – b. October 11, 1941 Abdullah Ibrahim – b. October 9, 1934 Thelonious Monk – b. October…

So welcome to the first RoCM of the KCSB-FM Spring 2024 programming quarter. Hard to believe it’s almost 4 years since we first launched. Crazy. This week was a bit tight as I had some professional commitments that kept me pretty occupied, so it’s largely just a straight up “great jazz” program. Lots of William…

Kind of quick and dirty show this week. Lots of great music, as always – new(ish) music from Mary Halvorson, my continued obsession with Archie Shepp, and a track by Dave Burrell, who has shown up quite a bit lately on other albums so he gets a track this week. Here’s the playlist. Don’t forget…

So there was a technical glitch this week and last week’s show aired instead. Not sure what happened. Kind of a bummer since it really took effort to get it out but these things happen. So to cap off several weeks of personal and work commitments that have made life a bit hectic, my hope…

So this week in addition to acknowledging birthdays of Chuck Berry, Bobby Few, Fela Kuti, and Dizzy Gillespie, we say goodbye to legendary jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley who sadly passed away at 83 years old. Here is the playlist. Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s website and there is an…

So here we are – the start of another quarter at our new time slot, which was our old time slot, 4pm on Saturdays. Kind of happy to be back in this slot, to be honest. Hopefully, this new time slot works for you all as well. Couple of sad notes to start off with…