There’s no place like home. KCSM Station Manager Robert Franklin traveled to Jackson, Mississippi, home of Bobby Rush, the legendary and acclaimed 2024 Grammy Award Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album. We had a great time talking about his love of the South, his life, legacy and current plans for the coming year. Rush headlined the 47th Annual Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival held in Greenville, Mississippi in September.

San Francisco's GG Park featured, "A Love Supreme: A Tribute to John Coltrane" on September 21st Tem saxophonists (representing the entire family, from sopranino to bass) and a drummer performed a suite of Coltrane music arranged by the late Andrew White, a life-long Coltrane devotee. The event is a yearly labor of love brought together by Craig Bright's organization tranetraxx.org. Craig is an avid and passionate supporter of Jazz in all of its forms, and of KCSM as well. The saxophonists (left to right) included Lyle Link, Dave Salvator, Steve Nelson,Bob Kenmotsu, Charles McNeal, Jared Cruz, Jayn Pettingill, Dan Gonda, Doug Rowan, Michael Young. Drummer Deszon Claiborn kept it all inspired and Charles McNeal not only played but conducted. James Graves MC'd. Stay tuned for next year!

On Saturday night, June 15, The Dick Conte Quartet (Dick on piano; Steve Webber, bass; Steve Heckman, saxophones; Jimmy Hobson, drums) performed at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley during their annual concert to benefit the Dick Conte Piano Scholarship Fund which helps young jazz pianists.

Chicago based drummer and Director of percussion at Elmhurst University, Bob Rummage is an old-style swinger. Bob has brought his groove to tours and recordings with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat Adderley, Benny Golson and many other jazz giants.Bob Rummage and guitarist Andy Brown joined me onstage at the Dixon Historic Theatre in Dixon Illinois in March 2022 as part of my Jazz Inspired onstage series to talk, play music and swing like mad!

Guests: PHER - Musician, Songwriter, and Educator. Oakland based Jazz & Soul vocalist PHER tells his story and musical upbringing, as well as giving us insight into his creative process.Also, Kevin Wisney - Director of Museum Collections at Filoli House and Garden tells the history of Filoli and explains their goals and missions as a historic house. Make sure to check out Nightfall at Filoli! More information here: https://filoli.org/

Today on The Jazz Legacy we present Freedom Sound: The Jazz Crusaders 1960s Pacific Jazz Recordings, with Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, Wilton Felder, and Stix Hooper. West Coast hard bop at its finest. Or the "Gulf Coast Sound", the way the band liked to refer to themselves, emphasizing their Houston, Texas roots in jazz, blues and rhythm and blues. Hope you can join us.

This week, it's part 5 of a 10-part series on the great King Record Label, 1951, out of Cincinnati. Syd Nathan, who began putting out records under the King logo in 1943, developed King as a hillbilly music label. After seeing the sales potential in the Rhythm & Blues market, Nathan launched the Queen Records subsidiary in 1945, but folded it into King in 1947 and transferred his R&B acts over. King established itself in the R&B field with Bull Moose Jackson, Ivory Joe Hunter, Wynonie Harris and Lonnie Johnson all scoring enormous hit records. This week in part 5, we take a look at King's spectacular releases during 1951. Wynonie Harris scores his last 2 career charting records, while fellow blues shouter Tiny Bradshaw continued his hit streak. Earl Bostic scores a #1 record with "Flamingo," a tune made popular ten years earlier by Duke Ellington. Bull Moose Jackson becomes Moose Jackson and Sonny Thompson starts scoring hits for King. In 1951, King Records continued selling millions of records.

Stephen Philip Harvey’s works sit squarely at the intersection of popular culture and jazz – and nothing better illustrates this than his recent release smash. For this project – celebrating the release of his album - Harvey uses contemporary big band writing styles and genre-blending idioms to bring comic book inspired pieces to life. These compositions combine elements of big band jazz, fusion, funk, rock, and cinematic score to bring classic characters and scenes off the page.But wait! There’s more. Sean Jones joins the group as a special guest on trumpet. With a six-year stint as lead trumpet in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and time with the San Francisco Jazz Collective to his credit – Sean Jones graces the stage with his presence and his talent.From July 7th, 2022 it’s the Stephen Phillip Harvey Jazz Orchestra, featuring Sean Jones – Live at the Bop Stop.

This episode includes a long set-in memory of Reverend Quincy Fielding Jr., plus music from the Barrett Sisters, Simmons-Akers Trio, First Church of Deliverance Choir, Harmonizing Four, a track from the forthcoming four-CD survey of the gospel music of Louisville, and more.

Home Schooling Children

Leon Von Brown is the nephew of the late and acclaimed jazz trumpeter, Clifford Brown. Leon shares memories of his uncle and efforts create a lasting legacy about him. Von Brown also talks about his amazing career. Brown has theater and dance credits to include singing/acting/dancing /choreography. I have worked on set with Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne and Malcolm Jamaal-Warner and co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson. Developed performances for the Atlanta Ballet, Agnes Scott College and Clark-Atlanta University. He recorded and toured with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir with shows at Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall and performed in the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on NBC-TV.