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So today – Dec 7th – is the 75th birthday of Tom Waits. If you’ve tuned into the RoCM for any length of time – you can probably guess that I am a bit of a fan of his music. We end the first hour with a couple of tunes from his 1976 appearance on…

I hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving Weekend. Here’s the playlist for this week. Running very late with this due to family commitments, but it is a solid show. Don’t forget that you can listen to the RoCM online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.

Back with a new show this week as we acknowledge the birthdays of the late Roswell Rudd and Sheila Jordan, the latter of whom celebrated her 96th birthday this past Monday. We also say goodbye to Roy Haynes, who we lost on Nov 12th at the age of 99, by featuring his appearance on a…

So after a series of technical issues, re-airs, hardware failures, and election day disasters – okay, that last one is slightly unrelated – we are finally back with a brand new show. This week, it’s back to basics with a lot of favorites with tracks from the Revolutionary Ensemble and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and…

Given the results of Tuesday, I really don’t think I had it in me to get a new show out the door. But to top things off, I had a major hardware failure on my home server this week. Yeah, when it toxic rains, it toxic pours. So to top off this stellar week –…

So a programming note that I forgot to mention during the show – the RoCM will still be on the air on KCSB-FM for the 2024 Fall Programming schedule. Continuing with the birthday theme that we have hit for a few shows now – today is the birthday of the late great Bill Dixon, so…

Today would have been the 84th birthday of jazz bassist Norris Jones – better known in jazz circles as Sirone. Since we feature Sirone quite a bit on the program, we are going to devote the entire show to tracks that feature the bass work of this amazing artist. Don’t forget that you can listen…

According the KCSB staff, there was a power outage at Santa Barbara’s Broadcast Peak – where the KCSB-FM transmitter resides – and the power outage was long enough for the backup generator to run out of fuel. So if you’re in Santa Barbara, the online stream at kcsb.org or the show archive will be your…

Today, Sept 14th, is the birthday of two regulars who frequently appear in our RoCM playlists: Oliver Lake and Joseph Jarman. I’ve played quite of bit of Oliver Lake over the last few weeks, and while my playlists aren’t exactly short on music by Joseph Jarman, I thought it would be nice to feature his…