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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…

So a completely unrelated jazz note – if you are not a fan of the TV show Severance on AppleTV, I highly suggest checking it out. That season 2 finale last night was one of the best episodes of television ever – and that includes a lot of ground. Just a tremendous show. Anyway… a…

Apologies – while I did type this all up, I never hit the publish button on this last Saturday. Another week and another playlist. This week, another shorter playlist with some longer tracks as we hit up Jerome Cooper, Billy Bang, Rashied Ali, and Albert Ayler. The Albert Ayler track is from a favorite of…

Quite a week in the world of living in a 2025 reality. Not sure what else to say about it all. At least we still have music. A quick ‘n dirty show this week as we say goodbye to Roy Ayers, who passed away last week at the age of 84. We also hit up…

Welcome to March – things seem to be going great, don’t they? Yikes… I finally watched the 2018 documentary on free jazz called Fire Music (2018). I think it’s… good. It definitely hits some of the high points and I will say, as a starting point or primer, it’s worth the viewing. I do think…

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 not too late to donate by visiting KCSB’s online merchandise store or you can simply donate via Network For Good. A simple show this week as we listen to song…

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 album by Marc Edwards and then a track by a frequent collaborator of Marc Edwards, bassist Hilliard Greene. We also hear a track by the influential pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali. After…

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 is looking all that promising. But you certainly don’t tune in for my negativity, so perhaps I should just keep it to myself? Where were we? Ah yeah… So this week…