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So this is it – the final edition of RoCM for the foreseeable future – and I only really say that because, when I…

So I didn’t announce this on the show today as I had not yet entirely made up my mind, but next week will be…

Another year, another Christmas edition of RoCM. I hope the holidays are treating you well. Personally, I try to use the holidays to take…

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…

Brand new show this week as we celebrate the birthdays of Steve Swell and Miroslav Vitouš as well as an early birthday notice for…

Running late this week with some family commitments. I hope you all are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend. Don’t forget that you can listen…

If you happen to be in the NYC area (and why wouldn’t you be if you’re listening to a jazz show in Santa Barbara,…

Unfortunately, this week got away from me and we are going with a re-air of the July 27, 2024 program. I will see everyone…

So John DeJohnette passed away last week at the age of 83, closing the book on a nearly 50 year career in jazz. This…

Welcome to the 6th annual Halloween edition of RoCM. This, for the record, is my favorite show to put together every year and this…

This week we hear from a lot of trios in the first hour – Ed Blackwell, Cameron Brown, and Dewey Redman are featured as…

A short, in terms of content not length, playlist this week – but still some good stuff and most of it from live performances….

So lots of stuff from the Midwest jazz scene this week – not exclusively but still quite a bit. We hear from Chicago Odense…

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…

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….

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….

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 week got away from me, unfortunately – so the RoCM is a re-air of the show that originally aired about a year ago….

This week we have a small playlist with some relatively long songs, hitting up Archie Shepp, Grachan Moncur III, Henry Grimes and Amina Claudine…

This week, we sadly say goodbye to two jazz artists who we recently lost: Jesse Sharps of the the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and…

Back after a couple of weeks of traveling with a brand new – starting off by acknowledging the 100th anniversary of the birth of…

As I am still traveling this week and did not have time to get another show together, we are going to re-air the show…

I am traveling this week to spend some time with family so this will be a quick and dirty post about the show until…

Happy end of July everyone… crazy how fast this year is blowing by… This week, we start by celebrating the birthday of Fay Victor…

So a brand new show this week featuring some new music as well as some artists I’ve never featured before. Lots of good stuff…

Unfortunately, this week got the better of me so we have our 3rd re-air of 2025 and it’s the show from about a year…

Happy 4th of July weekend everyone – and since the show is close enough to 4th of July, we’re bringing back the Alternative Fourth…

So this week is the 5th anniversary of The Return of CoolMojo, as the show debuted on June 27th of 2020. Kind of hard…

Sadly, this week we say goodbye to two significant members of the free jazz community. Louis Moholo-Moholo passed away on June 13th at the…

Taking a break from the longer songs to have a pretty packed playlist this week. Jazz guitar virtuoso Mary Halvorson has a new album…

Lots – well maybe not “lots” – of new music and re-releases this week. Anthony Braxton had a remastering of his 1969 album B-X0…

I’m still catching up on my professional and personal obligations after the flu KO’d me in early May for a little over a week…

It’s a pretty devastating week at KCSB as long time programmer Bernard Hicks passed away on May 16th. Bernard logged a 40-plus year tenure…

I came down with the flu this week – a pretty nasty version of it to – so unfortunately we have a re-air of…

So this week, a new show with music by Fred Anderson, Paul Jeffrey, Rudolph Johnson, and Roy Haynes. We have some new releases from…

After a re-air last week, we are back with a brand new program this week. Lots of great stuff from Charles Tyler, Monnette Sudler,…

This week got away from me due to some professional commitments so we have our first re-air of 2025 which is of the program…

Another Saturday, another edition of RoCM. Leading off is a track from the Music Revelation Ensemble as led by James Blood Ulmer. We revisit…

So today’s show is the first show of the KCSB Spring 2025 programming quarter. While I do wish everyone a happy spring, every day…

Happy April, everyone. Normally, I would pontificate about the year being a third over but lately time moving forward only seems to yield bad…

So a big shout out to fellow KCSB programmer Sarah with an H who hosts Jazz Jazz Revolution on airing Sundays at 6am. She…

So a completely unrelated jazz note – if you are not a fan of the TV show Severance on AppleTV, I highly suggest checking…

Apologies – while I did type this all up, I never hit the publish button on this last Saturday. Another week and another playlist….

Quite a week in the world of living in a 2025 reality. Not sure what else to say about it all. At least we…

Welcome to March – things seem to be going great, don’t they? Yikes… I finally watched the 2018 documentary on free jazz called Fire…

A big thank you to all of those you donated to KCSB during our annual fund drive. While the drive officially ended last night,…

It’s Fund Drive Week at KCSB-FM where we ask our listeners to financially support KCSB by making a modest donation to the station. You…

This week we feature a few artists that we’ve never heard from before and yet have some great offerings. We start off with an…

Happy February, everyone. I, for one, am happy to bid January a farewell, but if I am being complete honest, I don’t think February…

So welcome to to what is looking like the final season of America – which is kind of like Game of Thrones, in that…

I am on a family trip this weekend so the show is once again a bit tight this week. I am hoping that next…

I am still a bit underwater from some professional obligations but I was able to squeeze out a new show. Focusing on longer tracks…

Welcome to 2025 everyone – and Happy New Year. This week, unfortunately, got away from me a bit as I had some professional obligations…

The final playlist for 2024 as we close out the year with some of my personal favorite tunes. I don’t have a lot to…

So happy holidays everyone. While I am struggling with sentimentality these days, especially after recent events, I did not let that get in the…

Two birthdays today that we cover on the program – John Lurie and Jerome Cooper. John Lurie – famously of the Lounge Lizards but…

So today – Dec 7th – is the 75th birthday of Tom Waits. If you’ve tuned into the RoCM for any length of time…

I hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving Weekend. Here’s the playlist for this week. Running very late with this due to family…

Back with a new show this week as we acknowledge the birthdays of the late Roswell Rudd and Sheila Jordan, the latter of whom…

So after a series of technical issues, re-airs, hardware failures, and election day disasters – okay, that last one is slightly unrelated – we…

Given the results of Tuesday, I really don’t think I had it in me to get a new show out the door. But to…

So we had some technical issues last Saturday that prevented the show from airing… so we’ll do an “after Halloween but close enough” show…

Unfortunately, we had an illness work its way through our household in addition to some professional obligations that made getting a show out this…

The first program of the Fall 2024 KCSB programming schedule. We are taking a break from the birthday tributes to go back to normal…

So a programming note that I forgot to mention during the show – the RoCM will still be on the air on KCSB-FM for…

Today would have been the 84th birthday of jazz bassist Norris Jones – better known in jazz circles as Sirone. Since we feature Sirone…

According the KCSB staff, there was a power outage at Santa Barbara’s Broadcast Peak – where the KCSB-FM transmitter resides – and the power…

Today, Sept 14th, is the birthday of two regulars who frequently appear in our RoCM playlists: Oliver Lake and Joseph Jarman. I’ve played quite…

So welcome to September, as time just keeps on chugging away. Not feeling on that profound this week. There’s been some unfortunate local news…

So Tuesday, August 27th would have been the 87th birthday of Alice Coltrane – so this week I put together a tribute of sorts…

For the first time in RoCM history – which is only four years so lets not get too crazy – I have to do…

In spite of the fact that I am traveling this week, I had every intention of trying to get a show out. It appears…

This week, we spend a fair amount of time in St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago with musicians and groups born out of, or associated…

Lot’s of live recordings this week as we also celebrate the birthdays of both Hamid Drake and Roscoe Mitchell – both of whom were…

So what a week, huh? This week, a quick tribute to Bernice Johnson Reagon – founding member of the Freedom Singers as well as…

A minor computer crash earlier this week meant that I had to get the show out in fairy short order this week. The good…

So as the title suggests, we have a theme for this week – recordings that feature a duo, specifically saxophone and percussion. I had…

Happy 4th of July week, everyone. Lots of good music this week. We have new music from William Parker, Hamid Drake and Cooper-Moore, as…

So today marks the 4th anniversary (or as close as we can get to it) of The Return of CoolMojo on the air at…

So the bad news is that the flu has managed to take out two out of three of my household members this past week….

Happy Father’s Day weekend, everyone. Hard to believe that the year is almost half over as well. Another set of great jazz tunes this…

Another week and another edition of the program. No real themes this week, just a selection of great jazz tunes for your listening pleasure….

Back with a brand new show this week and we start off by celebrating the 100th birthday of legendary Sun Ra Arkestra band leader…

Unfortunately, I have to re-air last week’s show as a just plain ran out of time this week after returning from a trip to…

I know I concluded last week’s show by all but promising a re-air for this week as I am travelling to see family, but…

This week, we celebrate the birthdays of Gary Peacock (b. May 12, 1935) and Carla Bley (b. May 11, 1936). The Carla Bley track…

A slightly different playlist for this week, as we delve into some a slightly different style of jazz than normal. The Marshall Trammell /…

Another week, and another show – this week, we feature some Freddie Waits (he was born on April 27, 1943) and follow that with…

Kind of quick and dirty show this week. Lots of great music, as always – new(ish) music from Mary Halvorson, my continued obsession with…

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….

Good news if you’re fan of The Return of CoolMojo – The Return of CoolMojo is sticking where it is for the Spring 2024…

I was planning to do another themed show this week, but considering some of the technical issues we have experienced the last few weeks,…

I liked the first hour theme that we did last week of live performances from Antibes so I am borrowing on that theme and…

So here’s hoping we get back on track after the last few weeks of… inconsistent… show airings. I wish I could blame it entirely…

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…

So last week was, in fact, a reair due to the uploading snafu that happened while I was travelling – so the new show…

I do want to thank everyone who donated to KCSB during the Fund Drive. I did have some people reach out to me to…

So it’s fund drive time here at KCSB-FM, where we ask our listeners to support KCSB-FM in the form of a financial contribution to…

Not a lot of news this week, but next week is a big week with the KCSB Annual Fund Drive starting on Wednesday, February…

Welcome to February, everyone. Not a lot to say this week, just some straight-up great jazz tunes for your Saturday afternoon. Here is the…