RIP Wayner Shorter (1933 – 2023)

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…

Taking a break from the longer songs to have a pretty packed playlist this week. Jazz guitar virtuoso Mary Halvorson has a new album that was just released yesterday called About Ghosts. Her stuff is always worth checking out. Lot of great stuff in this week’s playlist – as I mentioned, I packed things very…

So the beginning of the Summer 2023 programming schedule means it is the 3rd anniversary of The Return of CoolMojo, as we started way back when in 2020. Was it a simpler time back then? No. But when we started, I don’t think I expected to still be on the air 3 years later. Kind…

A brand new show this week and we’re going back to basics with some foundational artists of the jazz on which we tend to focus. We have tracks from Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp and Jeff Parker in the first hour, followed by Jemeel Moondoc & Hilliard Greene, Joseph Jarman, Abbey Lincoln and Amina…