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In Reply to: RE: Kjaz with Bob Parlocha... posted by bjh on September 16, 2014 at 06:27:26
That's wonderful to hear and know. KJAZ was already an institution and very important to my jazz exposure/development
for MANY years, beginning in 1976 when the restaurant job I had required an hour of prep before we opened on slow Saturday's.
The DJ (can't remember which one) played one hour of solo Art Tatum from that huge Pablo box set every Saturday AM.
What a REVELATION!
For 10 years afterward KJAZ was my main radio fix; Parlocha's Dinner Jazz a staple on the menu.
So nice to hear the seasoned pro is still spreading the word (notes?) and hipping people to the music! He's dedicated his life to doing so.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
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I think that probably was Jon Rogers on Saturday mornings. He started each show with a different version of L'il Darlin' and from there played lots of Tatum, Sinatra and Ellington. It was a great way to start the weekend. I discovered KJAZ my second day in the Bay Area and didn't move my radio dial until it went off the air. Very lucky to have KCSM now.
No doubt that BP is a musical treasure.
"I had a show on KCSM for a while"
So you were a jazz dj ... do tell!
Never trust an Atom, they Make Up everything!
Not a DJ but with a friend wrote and produced a daily feature (Jazzlines) that celebrated that day's jazz birthday
(give or take a day). They were one minute segments broadcast several times a day and read by veteran KCSM
DJ Alicia Clancy. They featured music by the artist and the three "E"s - Education, Entertainment and Enlightenment.
Clifford Brown Jr. (a truly great guy) was program director at the time and gave us the gig despite a loud truck rumbling
by on the demo tape we did in my living room and our VERY shitty reading. He and Clancy were great at nurturing us
along into a very fun and satisfying project that lasted a bit over a year.
The most gratifying aspect was to meet a few local musicians we admired (Tee Carson, Calvin Keys, Larry Vucovich)
and do a BD salute to them. The great SF bass player Vernon Alley wrote us a very nice letter he was so touched with our tribute to him.
Apparently he was NOT offended by my referring to him as a "motherplucker"!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Cool work ... Thanks
Dodging bullets is the next best thing to not having to.
BP offers great stories and background knowledge between numbers.
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