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Watch Dick Conte and Dick Fregulia's PerformanceAired: 11/18/2025. This live in-studio performance of two of the Bay Area's finest pianists Dick Conte and Dick Fregulia who joined forces trading piano duties backed by bassist Steve Webber and drummer Jimmy Hobson. KCSM's own Jayn Pettingill is your host.

Christian McBride is a celebrated American jazz bassist, composer, and educator known for his genre-spanning work and extensive collaborations with jazz legends like Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea.

Since 2022, Scott Piehler has been the host, writer and producer of The Alameda PostCast, the weekly news digest podcast of The Alameda Post, Alameda’s only local news source. Previously, Scott was a radio personality in the Northeast, serving as an announcer, sports reporter, and talk show host. He is the recipient of a Golden Mic Award from the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, as well as an award-winning theatre director.

I have been programming jazz music on the radio since 1975 in both the Monterey Bay and the San Francisco Bay Areas. I am currently with KCSM – ‘The Bay Area’s Jazz Station’ where I am one of several ‘Jazz Oasis’ programmers.

Alanna Jane Goldsmith is a radio host, producer, and storyteller dedicated to exploring ideas that shape the future. She is the host and producer of Radio 2050, a program on Radio Paradise that blends music and conversation to inspire action and new perspectives on global challenges.

Wilbert Sostre Maldonado, he is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association, an author, radio producer and columnist specialized in Jazz, who, for the past 20 years has written reviews of recordings and events for publications such as Jazz Times, Jazz Inside Magazine, Latin Jazz Network, All About Jazz, Dialogue, and for his Puerto Rico Jazz blog, prjazz.blogspot.com, among others. He has also been invited to Radio Universidad, Radio Oro, Radio Paz 810, Yunque Radio, Vid 90.3, Radio Leo, WPAB 550 and ABC Puerto Rico television channel to share his knowledge about Jazz. Author of the book Boricua Jazz The History of Puerto Rican Jazz. He currently produces the Puerto Rico Jazz radio show which airs right here on KCSM.

Dr. Franklin is a broadcast educator, award-winning producer, and ground-breaking journalist. As the former General Manager for WCSU-FM at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, Dr. Franklin’s production portfolio contains examples of compelling programming, informative, in-depth interviews, and world-class documentaries designed to enlighten, educate, and inform the community.

As a drummer, I was sharing the bandstand with vibraphonist Dave Pike at Hungry Joe's on the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. It was there I met Dennis Smith who was a DJ at L.A.'s flagship Jazz station, KBCA-FM. During one of Dennis Smith’s visits to the club we had a conversation about him doing the mid-day shift on Wednesdays with Gerald Wilson during which Gerald was conducting interviews with many Jazz greats. When Dennis invited me to come to the station, of course I took him up on the invite. I went there every Wednesday to listen to every word and watch Dennis and Gerald working together playing the music and conducting the interviews. I knew then that I would love to get onto radio.