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It was a special Valentine's Day here at KCSM with Tiffany Austin turning the day into a celebration of everything you love about Jazz. Listeners turned their donations into "Jazz Love Notes" - dedicating their gift in honor of someone special and shared short notes about what jazz or their favorite artists meant to them. It was a fun, funny and inspiring day!

Part 1 of Duke Ellington: Reminiscing In Tempo: Suites & Other Extended Works. This week we present classic 1930s and 40s extended compositions from the pen of America's greatest composer. Including "Creole" Rhapsody", "Reminiscing In Tempo", "Black Brown & Beige" and more.

On this episode, the New Nostalgia invite you to join them for music for your head and your heart. The Chicago based nonet blend jazz, pop and rock together to create a sound that is familiar and tight while also offering band members a bit of room to explore.Their self-titled 2019 debut was hailed by Downbeat as power-polychord instrumental rock at its finest and we’re hard pressed to disagree. From February 1st, 2025 Daniel Peck is your host for a sold-out performance from New Nostalgia…Live at the Bop Stop.

Two rising stars: vocalist Tyreek McDole and trumpeter Milena Casado. Both grew up far from major jazz hubs, one in St. Cloud, Florida, the other in a small village in Spain. Neither comes from a musical family. Yet sometimes a calling in life overrides everything else. We meet them at a pivotal moment in their nascent careers, as each releases a debut recording as a featured artist.

Part 2 of Duke Ellington: Reminiscing In Tempo: Suites & Other Extended Works. This week we present classic 1950s and 60s extended compositions from the pen of America's greatest composer. Including "A Tone Parallel To Harlem", plus excerpts from Such Sweet Thunder, The Queen's Suite, Suite Thursday, Afro-Bossa, and Far East Suite.

Selections from the Roberta Martin Singers (pictured), Original Five Blind Boys, Mollie Mae Gates, Myrna Summers & Interdenominational Choir, Gospel Four of Memphis, Golden Eagle Gospel Singers, Candi Station, and others.

Music from Sis. Rosetta Tharpe, The Harmonizing Four (pictured), Thomas Whitfield Company, Treadwell Community Singers, Patterson Singers, two "send me my flowers" living legend sets for Rev. Ernest Franklin, and others."

Dave Smith is the Head Distiller at St. George Spirits. Host Scott Piehler talks with Dave about the history of America’s first craft distillery, his passion for whiskey that led GQ Magazine to dub him one of the “mad scientists of American whiskey,” and what it means to tell a story in a glass.

Chief Phillip Martin. An encore interview segment and spotlight on the late, Phillip Martin, Tribal Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a federally recognized tribe in east Central Mississippi.Their reservation included lands in Neshoba, Leake, Newton, Scott, Jones, Attala, Kemper, and Winston counties in Mississippi.Chief Martin had a 40-year record of service to the Tribal government, including 32 years as the Representative of the Tribe’s principal elected official.