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So welcome to September, as time just keeps on chugging away. Not feeling on that profound this week. There’s been some unfortunate local news – this happened down the street from my home as well as my kid’s school – so I’m a tad distracted this week. But I still got a show out. Anyway,…

In spite of the fact that I am traveling this week, I had every intention of trying to get a show out. It appears that my reach did exceed my grasp so unfortunately we have a re-air of the show from last week. Here is the playlist. Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s…

Lot’s of live recordings this week as we also celebrate the birthdays of both Hamid Drake and Roscoe Mitchell – both of whom were born on August 3rd and are still producing music. A little funny piece of trivia regarding Hamid Drake and the RoCM – while I haven’t done an official count, he’s likely…

So what a week, huh? This week, a quick tribute to Bernice Johnson Reagon – founding member of the Freedom Singers as well as Sweet Honey in the Rock – who passed away on July 16th. We also hear from the Die Like A Dog Quartet, Henry Threadgill, and very cool track by Cooper-Moore and…

A minor computer crash earlier this week meant that I had to get the show out in fairy short order this week. The good news is that I was able to scramble together a pretty decent musical selection – but the bad news is that these are all tracks from albums that I have previously…

So as the title suggests, we have a theme for this week – recordings that feature a duo, specifically saxophone and percussion. I had wanted to do this for a while, as I keep stumbling across recordings that feature this specific lineup, so here we are with a whole dedicated two hours. Here’s the playlist….

Happy 4th of July week, everyone. Lots of good music this week. We have new music from William Parker, Hamid Drake and Cooper-Moore, as well as newer music from Joy Guidry. And we round out with some classic tracks from Anthony Braxton and The Ensemble Al-Salaam. The Flor de Toloache track is a little outside…

So today marks the 4th anniversary (or as close as we can get to it) of The Return of CoolMojo on the air at KCSB-FM, as the show first started during the summer KCSB-FM programming schedule in 2020. Crazy that this little hobby to occupy my time during the pandemic is now entering its fourth…