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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…

Back after a couple of weeks of traveling with a brand new – starting off by acknowledging the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mal Waldron. We have two tracks that feature powerhouse duos – the first being the team of Milford Graves and Bill Laswell followed by a recording of a live performance featuring…

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 from last week. I promise that we will be back with a brand new show next week. Don’t forget that you can listen to the RoCM online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online…

I am traveling this week to spend some time with family so this will be a quick and dirty post about the show until I have some time to flush things out. Apologies – but please check back in a day or two and I’ll have more info here on some of the music –…

Happy end of July everyone… crazy how fast this year is blowing by… This week, we start by celebrating the birthday of Fay Victor with a track from her 2019 release. We also delve in to some Horace Tapscott, Arthur Rhames & Charles Telerant, Phalanx, Dudu Pukwana, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and Joe McPhee. And as…

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 this week, with music by Rob Mazurek, The Nu Band, and Jimmy Lyons featured in the third volume of a new series called Rivbea Live! Series that features performances from one…

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 ago that features all sax and percussion duets. I’m actually a bit fond of this show so it’s not a bad re-air to do. Here’s the playlist. Don’t forget that you…

Happy 4th of July weekend everyone – and since the show is close enough to 4th of July, we’re bringing back the Alternative Fourth of July Playlist. Hopefully, you’re getting a long weekend and a brief respite from the horrors of reality. Here is the playlist. Don’t forget that you can listen to the RoCM…

So this week is the 5th anniversary of The Return of CoolMojo, as the show debuted on June 27th of 2020. Kind of hard to believe we are the air for 5 years this week, but time is a relentless demon and the alternatives aren’t much better so alas here we are. To “celebrate”, we’re…