KCSM staff, including Station Manager, Dr. Robert Franklin, were proud to attend this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival, the longest continuously running jazz festival in the world. Since 1958, MJF has given both legendary performers and emerging artists a platform to share their music with audiences who cherish jazz. (Click subject line for more)

Last month, KCSM On-Air Host Harry Duncan, (In The Soul Kitchen and Thursday's Jazz In The Afternoon) spun a special late night set on the last night of The Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. In the legendary Crystal Palace venue, Duncan served up a hour’s worth of freestyle roots and rhythm to a very enthusiastic, open and diverse group of dancers. (click the subject line to see a short video.)

The Urban Griot, Dr. Billy Taylor. Pianist, educator, and advocate Dr. Billy Taylor helped define jazz as “America’s classical music.” This episode celebrates his legacy with stories, testimonials, and performances — including his civil rights anthem “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free.”

Tonight, we will be bringing you part 2 of an encore broadcast of Jazz With Bob Parlocha from the archives of WFMT in Chicago. Bob Parlocha was a jazz radio institution who began spinning disks for KJAZ-FM over four decades ago here in the San Francisco Bay Area. After the demise of KJAZ, Bob began syndicating, ~ Jazz with Bob Parlocha~ through the new WFMT Jazz Network. This program filled the late-night airwaves in many cities across the USA bringing that KJAZ esthetic nationwide for about 20 years until Bob's death in 2015. On this the tenth anniversary of his passing, we salute Bob Parlocha by presenting an archived program from his acclaimed Jazz With Bob Parlocha on WFMT.

Making Records With Antonio Carlos Jobim And His Music, Part 3. In part 3, we’ll feature the 20th Century musical giant in the company of Joe Henderson, Pat Metheny, and the great Brazilian vocalist Elis Regina. Plus music from Joe Henderson’s "Double Rainbow” album, with Herbie Hancock, Eliane Elias and more.

Vocalist Stella Cole is a romantic and not afraid to show it. In our time when so much is slick or ironic, Stella chooses to be sincere and sing from the heart, digging deep into the emotional journey of a song, always with a bit of hope shining through, reflecting the classic musicals of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s that she loved as a child. Stella has toured with Post Modern Jukebox, with her own band, and now, three albums later, she’s off and running with loads of fans who include her twenty-something contemporaries, those who heard some of those songs originally, and everyone in between.

Marc Ribot’s Jazz Bins. Guitarist Marc Ribot asserts that the Soul Jazz movement of the late 1970s and the New York punk movement going on at the same time had similar depth and intensity, even if the two scenes had different circles and different core motivations. Expressing these commonalities are something he’s been chasing ever since, and we’re fortunate enough to hear the fruits of that effort on this program.

Words and music with Rev. Joe Williams (pictured), member of the Sons of the Birds and the Dixie Hummingbirds. Rev. Joe's biography, "Flying with the Birds," written by Dr. Lynn Peterson, is now available. He is also being inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in St. Louis in September.

Patti Cary is an Alameda native, filmmaker, and the creator of Alameda Haunts, the organization behind multiple Spooky Season events, all benefitting the Alameda Food Bank. This is the 20th anniversary year of Alameda Haunts, and from the Lil’ Goblin parade in Franklin Park to the Creepy Cocktail Contest at bars and pubs across Alameda, there’s truly something for everyone. Patti and host Scott Piehler explore what it is about Alameda that makes Halloween so special.

Henry Friedman is the founder of the Washington State Holocaust and Education Center in Seattle, Washington. The topic of this week’s conversation is “Man’s Inhumanity to Man”.