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Sixty years ago Kirk gave articulate commentary on jazz, including the heretical opinion that Ronnie Scott was better than Tubby Hayes

Sixty years ago Norman Granz regretted that his popular album Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Ellington Songbook didn't come out better

As the Mega Millions Jackpot grows, so does the number of people willing to take a chance at their luck.

About a dozen members of the Copperas Cove Repeater Association amateur radio club were busy last weekend transforming the pavilion at Ogletree Gap into a temporary Emergency Operations Center during

COPPERAS COVE — Members of the Copperas Cove Repeater Association amateur radio club gathered on a warm Saturday afternoon at the Ogletree Gap pavilion to join a national training exercise

In time for Valentine’s Day, WBGO hosts and staff recommend their favorite love songs in (or adjacent to) the jazz genre.

Tonights Jazz Feature is a special one as composer arranger Gil Evans did not record many albums under his name. He became prominent as an important collaborator with Miles Davis and they produced three important and iconic albums, "Miles Ahead", "Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain". Davis was the principal soloist and the arrangements for the accompanying orchestra was conducted and arranged by Gil Evans. A magical combination!. Evans, through these famous reco...

Since 1985, KUVO has provided a rare blend of music & news. We broadcast the best in Jazz, Latin Jazz & Blues in addition to 17 locally produced, culturally diverse programs.

Janitor Gloria Espinoza still vividly remembers the moment she was laid off last year. A supervisor gathered her and her colleagues at a parking lot of the office where she worked in San Francisco and then broke the news. "I thought, God, why us?," Espinoza said. "It was like receiving a bucket of cold water." Months later, Espinoza is still unemployed and part of a worrying economic statistic: While the labor market is showing signs of recovery, millions who lost jobs at the beginning of the p...

Millions who lost jobs at the beginning of the pandemic are still out of the labor force, making up levels of the unemployed not seen since the Great Recession.