Max Roach Mboom News Today

In the first hour, music from drummer Roy Brooks (born today in 1938, died in 2005) and his activist band The Artistic Truth, and recordings of Brooks supporting Horace Silver, Max Roachs MBoom, Chet Baker, and Yusef Lateef. In the second hour, music from BBEs J Jazz collection.  The British label has done us a great service by compiling three triple-vinyl sets of amazing and very hard to find modern jazz recorded in Japan from the late 60s through the early 80s.

Jazz Corner of the World with Host Craig Kessler  Mondays at 6:00 PM Strata East Records, Show 3  Craig hauls into our KCCK studios another batch of overlooked recordings (mostly vinyl!!) from the Strata East label. We’ll hear a delicious array of wonderful music from a broad spectrum of Black artists from the 1970s, in a … Continue reading