KCSM

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KCSM is is the only station in the San Francisco Bay Area with a 24-hour jazz format and one of the few remaining all jazz stations in the world. Hosts include veteran jazz musicians, educators, seasoned jazz broadcasters and often a combination of the three. Funded by community support, they craft extraordinary jazz programming, delivering the music and its related history to inspire and enlighten jazz listeners and artists worldwide.

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39 Pieces

Patrick Wolff has been a professional jazz musician for 20 years, and he takes great pleasure in exploring the endless avenues and narrow alleys through the world of jazz. There's a wealth of classic sounds out there, and new music being made every day, but it can be daunting to stay in the loop! So each segment, he'll focus in on the work of one single artist who deserves your attention. It might be a fresh face turning ears in a distant land, it might be a forgotten master buried in the stacks of LP's, or it might end up being the cat playing at that place around the corner from your house. He'll play all of it- the abstract, the swinging, the outrageous and the courageous. Tune in, take a deep breath and get ready for some of the most stimulating and creative sounds in jazz.

  • From: KCSM
  • Updated: Apr 04, 2017
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10 Pieces

I'm Talking Jazz is a series where KCSM hosts sit down with a guest every week to talk about all things Jazz. Veteran jazz legends and up and coming movers and shakers are featured each week to give us a glimpse into their world of music and performance.

  • From: KCSM
  • Updated: Jan 10, 2017
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10 Pieces

In The Soul Kitchen from producer and host Harry Duncan is the SF Bay Area’s weekly source for the exclusive Roots and Rhythm music mix. Duncan serves up an award-winning blend of all styles of deep soul and funk, blues, jazz, gospel plus ska, roots reggae, African, Latin and World music.

  • From: KCSM
  • Updated: Oct 20, 2022
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37 Pieces

The sound of surprise describes both Jazz itself and the enduring premise of "The Annals of Jazz". Since 1959, host Richard Hadlock has been improvising on historical themes and bringing forth worthy performers--from Armstrong to Zorn.

  • From: KCSM
  • Updated: Jun 02, 2015

Latest Pieces

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Ernie Henry One of the few bebop alto saxophonists who didn't sound like Charlie Parker, Henry was a favorite of Thelonious Monk and Kenny Dorham...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Erik Jekabson Erik Jekabson is one of the reasons the Bay Area is a great place to see jazz. He leads groups covering everything from bebop to N...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:05:46
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Eric Revis Eric Revis established himself as a powerful and engaging sideman with Betty Carter and Branford Marsalis, with whom he has played for...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:44
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Carla Bley NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley is an enormously prolific and influential composer, as well as a creative bandleader and pianist. She was a ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Bobby Bradford One of the great brass players of the free jazz world, Bobby Bradford was an early compatriot of Ornette Coleman, with whom he reco...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Andrew Cyrille From his early work with Cecil Taylor in the 1960s through his current appearances lighting up the performances and recordings of ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Alan Silva The consummate free jazz bass player, Alan Silva was a part of the dawn of the "new thing" in the early 60's, and has been an intergral...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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As much a great thought experiment as a successful band, the Anachronic Jazz Band is a formation of French jazz musicians that play classic bebop r...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Saxophonist, Nancy Wright is one of the most highly respected and in-demand sax players on today’s blues, Americana and R&B scene. Major music writ...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:06
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Prolific composer and bandleader, Donald Byrd is celebrated as one of the pioneers of the funk and soul genres while remaining a true bebop jazz ar...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:57