RoCM Technical Issues: 8 Oct 2022

Lots – well maybe not “lots” – of new music and re-releases this week. Anthony Braxton had a remastering of his 1969 album B-X0 N0-47A (and he also celebrated his 80th birthday on June 4th). We have new music from Joy Guidry, the James Brandon Lewis Quartet, and SUMAC and Moor Mother. And then we…

Lot’s of live recordings this week as we also celebrate the birthdays of both Hamid Drake and Roscoe Mitchell – both of whom were born on August 3rd and are still producing music. A little funny piece of trivia regarding Hamid Drake and the RoCM – while I haven’t done an official count, he’s likely…

Brand new show this week as we celebrate the birthdays of Steve Swell and Miroslav Vitouš as well as an early birthday notice for the Tom Waits. In the second hour. we have music from Johnny Dyani, Okay Temiz, and Mongezi Feza followed by a Thelonius Monk track as performed by Frank Lowe. We then…

Happy April, everyone. Normally, I would pontificate about the year being a third over but lately time moving forward only seems to yield bad things. Real quick, RoCM is on the air for the Spring 2025 programming quarter, at the end of which will be the 5th anniversary of the program. And to think I…

So a big shout out to fellow KCSB programmer Sarah with an H who hosts Jazz Jazz Revolution on airing Sundays at 6am. She was kind enough to mention RoCM as part of her programmer spotlight on KCSB-FM Instagram page. The late great Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre had a birthday this past week, so we listen…

I hope everyone is having an outstanding Thanksgiving weekend. Here i the playlist for this week. Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.