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Coming this February: KSDS Celebrates Black History Month 2025
We at KSDS Jazz 88.3 are always, just by the very nature of our jobs, celebrating Black history — at least implicitly. But as one of the few remaining radio stations devoted entirely to presenting jazz and blues, we have a special responsibility, especially during Black History Month, to illuminate the central role Black artists have played in the creation, development, and continued evolution of the music we champion here every day.
Breaking Jazz is Easy. Breaking New Orleans? Not so Much.
This past Sunday evening (Jan. 5), I hosted the first "Breaking Jazz" of the new year, which gave me the opportunity to present KSDS listeners with the music and musicians resonating most acutely with me right now, in this first week of 2025.
Hours before most of us woke up to a new year last Wednesday morning, a man whom authorities say was “hellbent on destruction” turned an everyday pickup truck into an instrument of warfare, plowing it through a dense crowd of New Year’s party goers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Claiming allegiance to the Islamic fundamentalist terror group ISIS and flying its flag from the back of that pickup truck, this man had seemingly come to believe that he could find spiritual repair for whatever had profoundly broken in his life by killing a bunch of people he didn’t know in a place that’s internationally famous for celebrating everything — and, maybe more meaningfully, nothing at all — to excess.
BREAKING JAZZ: The Top 10 Albums of 2024
*Pictured above: Trumpeter Riley Mulherkar. Photo by Zenith Richards.
As we approach Thanksgiving, I feel compelled to share my abundant gratitude for all the great new music that’s come out this past year, and especially this past six months since I began hosting Breaking Jazz (Sundays, 6:30 to 8 p.m. PT). In keeping with year-end traditions, this gratitude will take the form of a “best of” list. But this particular list is exciting because it will be starting a new tradition. Behold! The inaugural Breaking Jazz Best Albums of the Year!
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Will FriedwaldToday's Birthdays
Born on this day, January 17th…
- Cedar Walton (Piano) was born in Dallas, TX, 1934–2013.
- Billy Harper (Tenor Saxophone) was born in Houston, TX in 1943.
- Vido Musso (Tenor Saxophone) was born in Carini, Sicily, 1913–1982.
- "Big" Sid Catlett (Drums and Percussion) was born in Evansville, ID, 1910–1951.
- Ted Dunbar (Guitar) was born in Port Arthur, TX, 1937–1998.
- Harry Reser (Banjo) was born in Piqua, OH, 1896–1965.
- Cheryl Bentyne (Vocals-Lead) was born in Mount Vernon, WA in 1954.
- Cyrus Chestnut (Piano) was born in Baltimore, MD in 1963.
- Eartha Kitt (Vocals-Lead) was born in Columbia, SC, 1927–2008.
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On This Day
January 17th in Jazz History…
- Will Bradley records "Celery Stalks at Midnight" in 1940.
- Basie's "new" band records for Clef records in 1952. The same year he records his first Verve session -- "The Count".
- Altoist Johnny Hodges records "Sweeping the Blues Away" for Verve records in 1952.
- Artie Shaw recorded "Lover Come Back to Me" and "Rosalie" on Bluebird records in 1939.
- Miles Davis records “Morpheus”, “Down”, “Blue Room”, “Whispering” and “I Know” in New York City in 1951.
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