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11/20/2025

Check out what KSDS's Matt Silver had to say about guitarist Anthony Wilson's "House of the Singing Blossoms." That new release comes in at No. 9 in "Breaking Jazz's" Varsity Category. Want to know what the heck he means with this "Varsity category" business? Better read...

https://www.jazz88.org/articles/Breaking%5FJazz%3A%5FThe%5FTop%5FAlbums%5Fof%5F2025/2

Guitarist Anthony Wilson slides in at No. 9

11/19/2025

Hi folks, Matt Silver here. I'm counting down my favorite new releases of the year, one artist/album a day (or every couple of days) until the end of the year.

I'm starting by counting down my favorite ten of this past year from a category I call The Varsity. Read below to learn more, and check back regularly to see if your favorite musician's new release made the cut.

Breaking Jazz's Top Albums of 2025. Mehldau's in the mix, but is he a lock for the top spot?

11/18/2025

Matt Hall leads a stellar all-star band this Friday, November 21st at the Saville Theatre celebrating the music of Count Basie and the artists who created the Kansas City sound.
This promises to be a barn-burner of a show with tunes like "One O'Clock Jump," "Jumpin at the Woodside" and many others.

Tickets are going fast.
Reserve your spot here:

Jazz University Concert-Kansas CityNovember 21, 2025 7:00 PMdoors open at 6:30 PMat San Diego City College in Saville TheatreJazz University-Kansas City culminates with Matt Hall leading an all-star lineup celebrating the music of Count Basie and the artists who helped launch the Kansas City sound.....

11/13/2025

On Sat. night, Nov. 29, San Diego Symphony's Jazz at the Jacobs series returns with a repertory concert for the ages: Gilbert Castellanos and an absolutely STACKED sextet presenting John Coltrane's "Blue Train."

More info and some context surrounding that landmark 1957 Blue Note release below.

Brian Levy Mike Gurrola Ivan Malespin

By Matt Silver On Saturday night, Nov. 29 (two days after Thanksgiving), the 2025-26 season of the San Diego Symphony’s “Jazz @ The Jacobs” concert series opens with trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos at the head of a stacked sextet interpreting John Coltrane’s one and only recording for Blue No...

11/06/2025

JD Allen’s “Love Letters” is an excellent new release that started nationwide radio play on Monday and has already taken the #1 spot! All four of these albums and many of the top JazzWeek releases can be heard throughout the week on KSDS FM San Diego.

11/05/2025

If, perchance, you missed last Thursday night's (Oct. 30) inaugural edition of the KSDS Jazz Studio Sessions with the Jonathan Cohen Trio, check out the skillfully produced recording below -- courtesy of students in Music at SD City's Commercial Music program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU3Aa3MrPrM&list=PLhqXJfe6-GMxVKMxipeq0LRTrJdIXWU0o

KSDS-FM and the San Diego City College Commercial Music Program proudly present the debut episode of the KSDS Jazz Studio Sessions, featuring San Diego's own...

11/05/2025

This evening on Jazz Across America: K.C. - Sam Wiseman will be dedicating a whole show to one of the most influential and versatile drummers in modern jazz history - Jack DeJohnette who passed away on October 26th. Sam will be playing memorable and iconic tunes along with an interview he did with Jack back in 2020. JAA K.C. tonight 5pm-7pm.

11/04/2025

KSDS's Dave Drexler is a San Diego radio treasure and a true pro's pro. Please join us in congratulating Dave on another well-deserved award for Inside Art. More below.

”Inside Art” with Dave Drexler airs Sunday evenings from 6 to 6:30 p.m. PT on KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM San Diego and jazz88.org. By Matt Silver Dave Drexler's "Inside Art" has done it again, earning yet another win at last week's (Oct. 28) 52nd annual San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism A...

11/04/2025

All this week on “Coffee with the Chairman”, you’ll be getting your double shot ☕️☕️ of the new Frank Sinatra (At the Hollywood Bowl 1943-1948). These historically important recordings were mastered from original broadcast sources that contains previously unreleased live broadcast/concert recordings from Sinatra’s early career — three separate performances at the Hollywood Bowl (Aug 14 1943; Aug 4 1945; Aug 8 1948).

CWTC can be heard every weekday at 7:10am on Good Morning Jazz w/Chad Fox🌞🎷 Coffee with the Chairman is supported by Jackson Design and Remodeling.

11/03/2025

Also on last night's Dia De Los Mu***os edition of BREAKING JAZZ, KSDS's Matt Silver was joined by bassist, composer, and bandleader Nate BeuMaher and guitar shredder extraordinaire Tate McKay . Each Halloween and Dia de los Mu***os season, these San Diego-based musicians come together with Justin Joyce , Tamir Persekian and to reconstitute -- err, resurrect -- a band they call Jazz from the Crypt....Nate and Tate were gracious, humble, and self-assured enough to follow Robert Sput Searight. They were great to talk to, and it was even more fun listening to cuts from last year's "Ritual" with them, an album deservedly nominated for best jazz album at last year's San Diego Music Awards .

Catch the convo with Nate, Tate, and "Ritual's" recording engineer JeanCarlo Mendez at around the 30:00 mark of this week's Breaking Jazz, found here: https://jazz88.org/mp3/BJ110225.mp3