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A short, in terms of content not length, playlist this week – but still some good stuff and most of it from live performances. Matana Roberts with a cover a song by Frankie Sparo, Leroy Jenkins with a tribute to Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, and Eddie Palmieri. More music from the Midwest with a song…

So lots of stuff from the Midwest jazz scene this week – not exclusively but still quite a bit. We hear from Chicago Odense Ensemble, Black Artists Group, Hal Russell & NRG Ensemble, Phil Ranelin, Fred Anderson, and the World Saxophone Quartet – all with their origins in the Midwest. We also have three October…

So apparently the show last week was preempted and I didn’t see the email until this week. I’ll have to find a time to squeeze in that Marc Ribot track as that whole album is great. I should also mention that the Fall 2025 KCSB Programming schedule is out and we are still on Saturdays…

We were preempted this week for Cal Poly Mustangs vs. UCSB Gauchos soccer game. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the notification until far too late. Anyway… Go Gauchos! Back with a new show this with music by Shamek Farrah, William Parker, and Anthony Braxton. We also have an outstanding track by Charles Tolliver‘s group Music, Inc,…

On a personal note, I ran the 2025 Cow Harbor 10k today in Northport on Long Island. It’s my third year running this race. I don’t pretend to be a “runner”, and my times are nothing about which to brag, but I do love the idea that I have spent the last three years trying…

So yet another odd week in the world of “being alive” as every day seems like a new adventure in surreality. I am hoping the schedule will settle down that last week will be my last and final re-air of 2025, but as recent events indicate, the universe works is mysterious ways so I’m not…

This week we have a small playlist with some relatively long songs, hitting up Archie Shepp, Grachan Moncur III, Henry Grimes and Amina Claudine Myers to ring in the unofficial end of summer. And in honor of the unofficial end of summer, I’ve added a post-Tom Lehrer surprise. Here is the playlist in full. Don’t…

This week, we sadly say goodbye to two jazz artists who we recently lost: Jesse Sharps of the the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and legendary jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan. We also have music by Walt Dickerson & Sun Ra, a great track from the Studio Rivbea series by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, and we end the…