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Pianist-composer Bud Powell, born September 27, 1924 and died July 31, 1966, was a giant of 20th Century music. Today and next week on The Amazing Bud Powell @ 100! we pay tribute to him on his centennial. We’ll hear him in the company of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Ray Brown, Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Roy Haynes, Sonny Stitt, and more. And in several brilliant unaccompanied solos on some of his greatest compositions. Hope you can join us!

King Records, Part 1 - Queen Records. This week, we begin a 10-part series on the great King Record Label, out of Cincinnati. Syd Nathan, who began putting out records under the King logo in 1943, developed King as a hillbilly music label. After a rough start, he relaunched King in 1944 with investment from his various family members. As King began to make a dent in the hillbilly field, he recognized that it would be more cost effective to offer other musical genres to clients who were already buying the hillbilly music from him. Not wanting to confuse King's intention to be a hillbilly label, Nathan launched a rhythm & blues subsidiary that he named Queen Records. Nathan admitted that he did not have an ear for R&B, so he bought at least one third of the Queen releases from other producers, most notably, African American producer Mayo Williams. Queen only scored one national R&B hit during its 2 years of existence, Bull Moose Jackson's "I Know Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well" in 1946. By mid-1947, Syd Nathan felt that King had properly established itself as a hillbilly label and now he was comfortable going after other genres with King. There was no need for Queen Records any longer, so he closed the subsidiary and moved many of Queen's artists over to King. Now King would take on the R&B market and prove super successful at it. Matt The Cat digs up Queen's finest releases this week as we feature part 1 of King Records. So drop a nickel in for Bull Moose and let's go!

Please join KCSM JAZZ 91 hosts – Jayn Pettingill, Chris Cortez, and Jesse ‘Chuy’ Varela, for a celebration of the birthday of John Coltrane (b.Sept.23,1926), considered among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Highlights include a Bob Parlocha “Black Masters” segment on John Coltrane on A Morning up of Jazz and the life of John Coltrane as told by Nancy Wilson and “Jazz Profiles” on Jazz In The Afternoon.

George Benson (NEW!). Vocalist-guitarist-icon George Benson sits down with host Christian McBride for an exclusive conversation about his early years on the jazz scene, his favorite tracks, and his new “lost” album Dreams Do Come True.

SF Pub Crawl (Originally aired 10.19.2008). As a stringer for Down Beat magazine, host Richard Hadlock used to do a column about what was going on in San Francisco on the jazz scene. In this edition of the Annals of Jazz he goes back to the Fall of 1958 and reflects on how many venues and how many different styles of jazz were presented in the City by the Bay. It also was first year of the Monterey Jazz Festival and the spill over of artists who performed at the West Coast outdoor event certainly spiced up this San Francisco Pub Crawl.

British guitarist Sam Dunn spent his early years in the business traveling the world on a 200-passenger, luxury cruise ship where he played solo guitar sets and where I was lucky enough to corral him into playing with me when I was flown in for a concert. A friendship and musical partnership were born and since then Sam and I have toured widely around the world from Europe to Australia.

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Pianist-composer Bud Powell, born September 27, 1924 and died July 31, 1966, was a giant of 20th Century music. Today on Part 2 of The Amazing Bud Powell @ 100! we continue to pay tribute to him on his centennial. And we hear him playing some of his own best compositons, and in live settings, alongside Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan, and more. And with Johnny Griffin in an amazing duet. Hope you can join us!

King Records, Part 2 - 1947-48. This week, it's part 2 of a 10-part series on the great King Record Label, out of Cincinnati. Syd Nathan, who began putting out records under the King logo in 1943, developed King as a hillbilly music label. After a rough start, he relaunched King in 1944 with investment from his various family members. As King began to make a dent in the hillbilly field, he recognized that it would be more cost effective to offer other musical genres to clients who were already buying the hillbilly music from him. Not wanting to confuse King's intention to be a hillbilly label, Nathan launched a rhythm & blues subsidiary that he named Queen Records. By 1947, King had fully established itself as a hillbilly label, so Nathan felt it was time to take on the R&B market and so he folded the Queen label into King and moved many of the R&B artist over to the parent label. King kicked off 1948 with a #1 smash with Bull Moose Jackson's, "I Love You, Yes I Do." Jackson would score a 2nd #1 later in the year with "i Can't Go On With Out You." Wynonie Harris also put up big numbers in 1948 with the chart-topper, "Good Rockin' Tonight" and Ivory Joe Hunter scored several top 10 records for King that year. The King roster was full of veteran artists from jazzer Todd Rhodes to bluesman Lonnie Johnson, who's version of "Tomorrow Night" also topped the charts for King. So get your hands on some nickels as we salute King Records with part 2: 1947-48.