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On November 10th, the SF International Boogie Woogie Festival was held at SF Jazz, with artists from the USA, Germany, Spain. The sold out concert was a spectacular evening hosted by KCSM's Kathleen Lawton.
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There’s no place like home. KCSM Station Manager Robert Franklin traveled to Jackson, Mississippi, home of Bobby Rush, the legendary and acclaimed 2024 Grammy Award Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album. We had a great time talking about his love of the South, his life, legacy and current plans for the coming year. Rush headlined the 47th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival held in Greenville, Mississippi in September.
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San Francisco's GG Park featured, "A Love Supreme: A Tribute to John Coltrane" on September 21st Tem saxophonists (representing the entire family, from sopranino to bass) and a drummer performed a suite of Coltrane music arranged by the late Andrew White, a life-long Coltrane devotee. The event is a yearly labor of love brought together by Craig Bright's organization tranetraxx.org. Craig is an avid and passionate supporter of Jazz in all of its forms, and of KCSM as well. The saxophonists (left to right) included Lyle Link, Dave Salvator, Steve Nelson,Bob Kenmotsu, Charles McNeal, Jared Cruz, Jayn Pettingill, Dan Gonda, Doug Rowan, Michael Young. Drummer Deszon Claiborn kept it all inspired and Charles McNeal not only played but conducted. James Graves MC'd. Stay tuned for next year!
HIGHLIGHTS: KCSM HD1 (Jazz 91)
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Jazz Night in America pays tribute to the great "Sweet Papa Lou," Lou Donaldson. The legendary alto saxophonist passed away on November 9, 2024, at the age of 98. To honor his incredible legacy, we revisit our 2019 episode featuring an intimate interview between Lou and host Christian McBride, along with music from his quartet recorded in 2009.
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On Part 3 of Paul Desmond Like A Dry Martini: Paul Desmond @ 100, we continue the celebration of his centennial. And we’ll feature him with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Don Sebesky, Gabor Szabo, Chet Baker and on his solo recordings with the Canadian guitarist Ed Bickert. Hope you can join us!
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Two-time Grammy-nominee, bassist and educator, Rufus Reid has enjoyed a long career working with a wide variety of musicians including Dexter Gordon, Eddie Harris, Nancy Wilson, J.J. Johnson, Freddie Hubbard and other giants of jazz. A new, exciting pursuit for Reid is composing, and although he’s been doing it for over 25 years, he’s been playing much longer, so he considers composing a new part of his life, and something that has made him look at music differently and play differently. Instead of thinking of the note he’s about to play, he thinks about the bigger picture and the shape of the piece.Now, with his CD,Celebration, Rufus Reid has fulfilled a dream to record his compositions with strings.
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Bo Diddley, Part 1 - 1955. This week takes a look at the breakthrough year of one of rock n' roll's true architects and innovators, Bo Diddley. His first recording session was held at Chess Records in Chicago on March 2nd and 3rd, 1955, where he laid down 4 original tunes. One of those songs, "I'm A Man," would inspire blues great Muddy Waters' "Manish Boy," while the other, "Bo Diddley," would be the igniting spark for rock n' roll. Diddley was a complicated and compelling artist, whose talents go way beyond his signature "hambone" rhythm, his vibrato guitar and his crazy lyrics. Bo's spirit is the spirit of rebellion, the true ingredient for rock music. It all began in 1955 and this week we will explore those roots in part 1 of a 2-part special on the great Bo Diddley.
HIGHLIGHTS: KCSM HD2
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Tune in to the next Jazz Lounge show, when we'll explore the joyful music of Horace Silver, one of our most prolific and iconic jazz composers and musicians. His rollicking, rhythmic tunes and soulful blues were always upbeat, and with humor, because he wanted to bring joy and happiness to his listeners.
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Over the past thirty-five years, Jim Snidero has come to be known as one of the finest jazz musicians of his generation. As an alto saxophonist, composer, arranger, author and educator, Snidero has been called both a “master musician” and “alto saxophone virtuoso” by Downbeat Magazine.This week’s episode, hosted by former Bop Stop Director Gabe Pollack, is a fine example of why. Playing an extensive catalog of original compositions, Jim is joined by Phil Degreg on Piano, Dave Morgan on Bass and Reggie Jackson on Drums. From November 6th, 2021 it’s Jim Snidero – Live at the Bop Stop.
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William Luck is the guest host this week, with topical selections on the state of the nation. Tracks from the Salem Travelers, Capitalaires, Curtis Carrington Family, Alberta Kay Sanders, Barbara Dane feat. the Chambers Brothers, and others."
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Two Priests. A conversation with Father Chester Smith SVD, half of the first set of African-American twins to become Catholic priests. Father Smith grew up in Chicago’s inner city and rose to become an international leader in African-American ministry and youth outreach.Inspired by his mother and a parish priest at Our Lady of the Gardens Church on Chicago’s far south side, his interest in a life of service began early. “Father Chester often spoke of the encouragement he received from Father [Edward] Delaney to become a priest ‘because your people need you,’” said his identical twin brother Father Charles Smith SVD. “Father Delaney’s comments were the foundation of his ministry, encouraging Black men and women to be leaders in their communities, parishes, and churches.” Born five minutes after his brother in 1959, Chester was the second of Charles A. and Mae Ruth (nee Forte) Smith’s four children. As teenagers, the brothers attended Divine Word Seminary High School in East Troy, Wis., and then Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa, where Chester earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology.In 1982, the Smith twins professed religious vows in the Society of the Divine Word at Bay St. Louis, Miss., site of the first Catholic seminary for African-American students. And in 1988, they made history when they were ordained by Most Rev. J. Terry Steib SVD and became the first pair of African-American twins to become priests in the United States.Father Chester Smith once said that he finally and fully committed to the idea of becoming a priest when he was a seminarian, working in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
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