Enter for a chance to win a $50 gift card for an ice cream prize pack from Cold Stone Creamery located on 3rd Avenue in San Mateo.

If you were in Sonoma this past Sunday, (6/28/2026) you might have run into KCSM's very own Kathleen Lawton at a free Concert at Sonoma Plaza presented by Music in Place. It was a wonderful sunny day with Alabama Mike and the Mighty Revelators who tore it up! Bama even kindly gave KCSM a shout out! Another fabulous Bay Area talents!

If you attended the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, you may have spotted Greg Bridges, host of Jazz Oasis and Beyond the Oasis, serving as the festival's stage announcer. And if you stopped by the festival booths, you likely met Jim Sintetos, host of Jazz Without Borders and New Wave of Jazz (both on HD2) and Kathleen Lawton, host of Jazz Oasis and Crazy 'bout the Blues who were there representing KCSM. We hope you had the opportunity to say hello!

Congratulations and good luck to KCSM’s very own Chris Cortez, who was nominated for the 2026 Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in the category Bay Area Audiocaster of the Year! We'd also like to congratulate Dick Conte (retired Jazz In The Afternoon Host) and Leslie Stovall (posthumously) for their nomination in the category of Performer (Disc Jockeys, Talk Show Hosts, etc.)

Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns. Arthur Lee Maye did something that few had ever done. He concurrently had a career as a R&B singer, leading the LA-based group Arthur Lee Maye & The Crowns while also playing minor and major league baseball as an outfielder for the Milwaukee Braves. Both of his careers virtually began in 1954 and since Lee Maye was busy playing baseball from April until October, he could only make records during the off-season. (more)

BEATrio (Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez). Banjo, harp, and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never planned to create. Hear how the trio first came together.

On McCoy Tyner, The Large Ensemble Recordings, Part 3 we present the piano giant leading large ensembles in 1991 and 1993. In the company of Eddie Henderson, Billy Harper, Dianne Reeves and more.

“Jazz is a gift that America gave to the world. And now the world is giving us the next evolution of jazz,” the words of Christian Vela, incoming San Jose Jazz Festival and Artistic Director. Distinguished in the jazz world for a decade with SFJAZZ as senior production manager as well as his countless years in artist management and as a working musician, Christian Vela joins Jesse “Chuy” Varela to talk about the upcoming 2026 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest happening August 7-9 and his new role shaping the future of the San Jose Jazz organization.

This episode is an hourlong survey of Simpson Records, the eponymously-titled gospel label of Richard "Bishop" Simpson. Artists include the COGICS, Utterbach Concert Ensemble, Kendrix Singers of LA, Gospel Descendants, (pictured) Gospel Clefs, and others.

Brice is the creator of Alameda’s very own comic strip, “Two Birds From Alameda.” Since 2022, Seagull and Goose, and an ever-expanding flock of avians has poked gentle fun at the quirks and foibles of life in the Bay Area’s island city. Appearing in The Alameda Post and on Instagram, the Two Birds and their supporting cast keep Alamedans from taking themselves too seriously!

Part 1. Attorney Dan Stidham was the attorney for one of the West Memphis Three defendants accused of murdering three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Stidham breaks his silence in this interview and in his book, Harvest of Innocence. Attorney Stidham speaks about some of the challenges he faced during the murder case. Part 1 of a 2-part interview.

Partnerism. Dr. Riane Eisler, is a social system scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney, author of Nurturing our Humanity, how domination in partnership shapes our brains, lives, and future. Dr. Eisler states “The passion, and I do have a great passion for this work, is really rooted in my early childhood experiences as a child refugee from the Nazis, from the Holocaust, with my parents. I witnessed a crystal night, so -called, because of all the glass that was shattered into his homes, in synagogues, in businesses that were owned by Jews, violence, insensitivity, cruelty, destructiveness. But I alsowitnessed what I today call spiritual courage, which was the courage of my mother to stand up to the gang of Nazis who came. She recognized one of the men as a young Austrian Nazi who had once been an errand boy for the family business, and she just got furious. (more)