Welcome to The Return of CoolMojo: Online Edition
Hosted by Bryan D. Brown
So many, many moons ago, before I became a boring Long Island suburbanite, I lived in Santa Barbara, and I was also the Chief Engineer and a programmer at KCSB-FM. In June of 2020, when the COVID quarantine was in full effect, KCSB reached out to alumni programmers and a number of us virtually returned to produce programming from afar and to once again be a part of the KCSB and Santa Barbara community. Hence, The Return of CoolMojo was born. Life, man – it’s strange.
The show largely focuses on free, avante-guard, experimental, and “loft” jazz starting in the late 1960s to the present. You’ll hear the standard bearers of the free jazz movement – late John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, etc – but you’ll also hear modern artists like Moor Mother, Nicole Mitchell, Peter Brötzmann, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker and others – and all artists between.
Currently, the show airs on Saturdays at 4pm on KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara. If you’re not a Santa Barbara local, you can listen online at kcsb.org and there’s an archive available for two weeks after the show airs.