AACM Great Black Music Ensemble   –   Live @ The Currency Exchange Cafe Volume 1  –  (AACM) The Association  for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, founded […]

You’ve been on the air for what, 40 years? Since you were an UCI student, yes? Forty-two years. Since I was a UCI undergraduate (1977), then […]

(Above: KUCI’s Jazz Director Hobart Taylor and JALC’s Wynton Marsalis)   Represent. That’s what I did for KUCI and our listeners at the Jazz Congress January […]

In anticipation of their show at The Echo on February 1st, LA-based post-disco band De Lux is visiting KUCI for an interview and in-studio set with […]

by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell us about the origins of your show. I was reading the “On The Radio” column in the Orange County Register one day […]

Aaron Shragge & Ben Monder  – This world of Dew   – (Human Resource Records) This suite composed by Shragge who plays the dragon mouth trumpet, flugelhorn, […]

John Petrucelli   – Presence   – (Self Released) Ambitious and astounding is this  2 CD suite by composer/saxophonist Petrucelli.  Working in a variety of formats and voicings […]

by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett I recently listened to your show, Sound Evolution, which airs on KUCI Saturdays at 6-8 a.m. and became mesmerized. How did you come […]

Makaya McRaven   –  Universal Beings    –  (International Anthem) There is jazzy music and there is something else. I choose to call it “jazz itself”. Jazz […]

Xavier Davis – Rise Up Detroit – (Detroit Music Factory) Dave McMurray – Music Is Life – (Blue Note) Few cities have been as denigrated as […]