Support for KCSM on-line broadcast comes from SFJAZZ.
Now presenting the 11th Annual SFJAZZ Spring Season in San Francisco through June 12th, featuring 40 jazz and world music artists such as Keith Jarrett, Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Elling, Caetano Veloso, Joshua Redman, Pharaoh Sanders, Booker T, Zakir Hussain and many more.
Information and tickets available at SFJAZZ.org
My name is Robert Holt, and I work here at KCSM helping to promote local artists in our “Jazz Datebook”. This post is directed primarily at artists and venues, telling you a little bit about our datebook, how you can promote your events and hopefully answering some of the questions you might have. Read the rest of this entry »
When I joined KCSM over 2 years ago, the datebook service offered was limited and had a high chance of duplicate events being entered. This caused difficulties in the approval process and wasn’t the service that we here at KCSM wanted to offer to our artists, promoters and venues.
On the older system, an event would be submitted online and the submitter would not any confirmation that their event had been approved or even received! Suggestions to revamp the Jazz Datebook were put into the pipeline to resolve these issues and add extra functionality to our submitters and more importantly give all visitors to the jazz datebook a much more rich experience.
Read the rest of this entry »This is a response to my previous post regarding providing music downloads as a pledge gift .
I really appreciate the feedback on how everyone feels about downloads versus CDs. We’re trying to clear the rights for a compilation of announcers’ faves for this next pledge drive, but are having trouble getting releases on a lot of the music.
It feels like we’re in some kind of limbo. We have all this really great music with no way to legally share it outside of our normal broadcast. Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday, December 1st, kick off the holiday season by attending a KCSM Jazz 91 Holiday Rent Party at Yoshi’s in Oakland. Read the rest of this entry »
This week, we here at the Stanford Jazz office were looking at the results of the annual DownBeat Readers Poll, which we enjoy reading as much as you do.
It’s fun to see the names of artists who have performed at the Festival and taught at the Workshop (Josh Redman, #5, Eric Alexander, #8, tenor sax; Wycliffe Gordon, #2, trombone; Terence Blanchard, #4, Nicholas Payton, #7 & Terell Stafford, #11, trumpet; Kenny Barron, #8 piano, amongst many others). Read the rest of this entry »
Thank you to all the Bay Area jazz fans who’ve come out for the first two weeks of the San Francisco Jazz Festival! We’ve shared some beautiful musical moments, none more exciting as the shows over the past week. Ravi Shankar’s performance at Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday, 10/29, was sublime and emotional. At the end of a gloriously extended set, he movingly thanked the audience for the warm reception that San Francisco has provided since he first visited the city in 1932! Nicholas Payton and Don Byron combined for an only-in-San Francisco tour de force at Grace Cathedral, while John Handy received the SFJAZZ Beacon Award for lifetime achievement in a loving celebration featuring his many friends and colleagues at the Herbst Theatre on Sunday, 11/1. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re beginning to look ahead to our next fund drive, and are finding ourselves at a loss. Simply put, jazz CD’s are getting harder and harder to find, and once found, harder to obtain.
We make it a point to check with our distributors before a drive to ensure that we’ll be able to get our hands on enough copies to fulfill our pledges. And increasingly, we’ve been getting to the end of a drive only to hear, “Sorry, but we ran out – we’ll get a reissue in a month or two.” Read the rest of this entry »
Hello Bay Area jazz lovers! David Hargis from SFJAZZ here writing to you about the amazing concerts coming up in the next few weeks.
As you may know, the 27th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival is already in full swing. We just completed our first week, capped off by two exquisite, sold out shows over the weekend by jazz-pop chanteuse Melody Gardot and legendary Brazilian songstress Gal Costa. Read the rest of this entry »
Hi everyone in the KCSM Jazz 91 online community! Laura G Thorne from Stanford Jazz Workshop writing to let you know that we now have six video clips featuring Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty Andrew Speight, Ndugu Chancler, Yosvany Terry and Victor Lin on our website’s media page.
Filmed at our Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency summer education programs in 2007 and 2008, these brief segments cover subjects such as Afro-Cuban Rhythm, Woodwind Theory and Musicianship.