KCSM Jazz 91

07/31/2025

SUNDAYS 10AM! on HD2

07/29/2025

TUESDAY 10PM! "Jazz Legacy" with Richard Seidel
On Part 2 of Out Of The Cool: The Gil Evans Solo Recordings, 1957-1964 we’ll be surveying his recordings in that period. With the likes of Wayne Shorter, Kenny Burrell, Phil Woods, Elvin Jones, and more.

07/28/2025

MONDAY 10PM! "Jazz Night in America" The Golden Age: A Newport Jazz Festival Special Part 1(ENCORE). Hear an unforgettable lineup of music from the Newport Jazz Festival, hand-picked by Christian McBride.

07/27/2025

On Monday July 28 at 3:00pm (PST) tune in to Jazz In The Afternoon with Jesse "Chuy" Varela as he welcomes, Dena DeRose, the distinguished pianist, vocalist, educator, and song stylist. Dena performs Monday night (July 28) at the Campbell Recital Hall as part of the Stanford Jazz Festival and Sunday (August 3) at Keys Jazz Bistro in San Francisco. Tune in 91.1 FM or KCSM.org

07/27/2025

SUNDAY 10PM! "Juke in the Back" Lloyd Price: The Specialty Sides. Lloyd Price would become one of the great hit-makers of early Rock n’ Roll, but this is the story of the “soul that came BEFORE Rock n’ Roll.”

07/27/2025

A CLASS ACT! Sonny Buxton retired from KCSM JAZZ 91 yesterday with a superb program profiling his 60+ year career (28 of it spent at JAZZ 91). We wish you all the best Sonny!

07/27/2025

If you missed Sonny Buxton's sign off on Saturday, you can still listen to it on Spinitron for two weeks! Here: https://www.kcsm.org/playlist
Go to July 26, and to play.

07/26/2025

Start your Sunday morning with Jazz Puertorriqueno and your host Wilbert Sostre!
SUNDAYS 10AM on KCSM's HD2

07/26/2025

COMING UP 10AM! We celebrate Sonny Buxton today on 10AM-2PM. We Love Sonny Madly-- Join him on his final show here at KCSM.

07/25/2025

Dame Cleo Laine
She recorded albums with Ray Charles, Mel Torme, Annie Ross and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. And, with Frank Sinatra, she did a five-night residency alongside him in 1992 at the Royal Albert Hall.

She was the first British singer to win a Grammy in a jazz category and performed with all the greats.

07/25/2025

FRIDAY NIGHTS 8PM!

07/25/2025

Chuck Mangione He chose the trumpet after seeing Kirk Douglas's Young Man with a Horn. He went on to fame with his "Feel So Good" double-platinum hit.

With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player and composer cut an unforgettable figure in American culture.