January, 2025

What happens when one award winner interviews another? Find out when Dave Drexler, host of the award-winning "Inside Art" interviews celebrated trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, this Sunday night at 6 p.m. PT.

By Matt Silver

This Sunday evening (Jan. 12), at 6 p.m. PT, host Dave Drexler welcomes back two of his favorite — and most accomplished — guests to the award-winning interview program "Inside Art," pianist Bill Mays and the prolific trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard.

By Matt Silver

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.