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The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts will present a dazzling line-up of musicians for its 18th annual Oregon Coast Jazz Party coming this Friday and Saturday to the Newport

    Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify  Chris Cortez is a busy man. The number of jobs he performs suggests the presence of more people. Guitarist, composer, vocalist, bandleader, arranger, producer, engineer, label head, entrepreneur, and community leader, to name a few. In 2015 he paused his Houston-based Blue Bamboo record label to return … Continue reading

Plus, a new podcast about Tacoma’s logging legacy and more logs in local art. 

Mark your calendars… Thursday, July 7 David Nail has long considered Arizona to be a “magical place,” as his grandparents lived here. “It was one...

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.

Take Five spotlights a new album by Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart, along with recent or forthcoming releases by pianist Gerald Clayton, saxophonists Mark Turner and Roxy Coss, and a band named GEORGE.

The Roxy Coss Quintet has announced their new album Disparate Parts, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed breakout record from 2019.

Trombonist crafts a multi-cultural chordless jazz album as accessible as it is experimental

Mentors & Protégés Share KUVO JAZZ has celebrated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April for years, with a different musical “them—e” each year. The 2021 theme is “Mentors and Protégés.” Such a pair were the pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, who together in the 1940’s staked out the playing field for their instrument in what was known as modern jazz. —Jazz View, New York Times Indeed, the art form of jazz (nay, the entire practice of music) depends on the anci...

Mentors and Protégés Share KUVO JAZZ has celebrated Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April for years, with a different musical “them—e” each year. The 2021 theme is “Mentors and Protégés.”  In life, trumpeter Woody Shaw and saxophonist Dexter Gordon – two instrumental giants of the jazz idiom – were often connected. They both lived in Europe, (Gordon for 14 years in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and Shaw briefly in 1964), they were friends and frequent collaborators, and...