Back in the old days I used to travel to NYC a lot. I always manage to arrange for a business trip during the JVC Jazz Festival. George Wein, the man behind JVC Jazz, is back with the CareFusion Jazz Festival June 17-26, 2010.

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Attention prospective Stanford Jazz Workshop participants: Stanford Jazz Workshop’s Early Registration Discount for our summer jazz programs, Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency, ends this Monday March 15. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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 »