Update-May 5th: Over the weekend the San Diego Community College District suffered a cyber attack that took down the Internet-including the KSDS streaming and app feed.
We do not have a timeline yet as to when it will be back up but we will let our listeners know as soon as the feed is restored. You can still listen on the dial at 88.3 FM
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@jazz883 studio session #3 featuring the great JOSHUA WHITE and his trio.
April 10, 2026 Friday 7-8pm
Luke little - bass
Tyler Kreutel - drums
Joshua White - piano
Tickets in my linktree in bio. @jazzproveit
Jazz 88 listeners: Our FM signal is presently down. Our engineers are aware and working to remedy the issue. In the meantime, thanks to 21st century technology, the flaming torch of the inaugural KSDS Jazz Olympiad SHALL NOT be extinguished. Stream today's programming LIVE via our webstream at jazz88.org AND the KSDS mobile app; we're playing our favorite music and musicians from JAPAN and MEXICO all day!
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It’s Tuesday, Feb. 17, and KSDS’s Jazz Olympiad continues with a showdown that feels like it should have Little League World Series or World Baseball Classic implications…But on our airwaves, it’s actually two prideful musical cultures squaring off: JAPAN & MEXICO.
Japan’s biggest stars are household names known by first names alone. Think piano goddesses like Toshiko and Hiromi. And the next generation might prove to be even more globally impactful: trumpeter Takuya Kuroda, pianist Chihiro Yamanaka, bassist Moto Fukushima, and trombonist Nanami Haruta are just a few names you NEED to know...to be in the know today.
They’ll contend against established titans from MEXICO like trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos and drummer Antonio Sanchez… and electrifying rising stars, like bassist Mauricio Morales and Sarah Vaughan vocal competition winner Lucia.
On Tuesday, February 10th, as the world’s athletes ski and sled across the Italian Dolomites, we're declaring our own winter games open.... BEHOLD: The inaugural KSDS Jazz Olympiad. Visit jazz88.org/blog for more details.
P.S. There will be swag involved...
P.P.S. We’re treating all day Monday (Feb. 9) as an opening ceremony. Your favorite daily hosts — Chad Fox, Gary Beck, Larry Murry, Ron Dhanifu, and Claudia Russell — will bring you their favorite international selections all day long, a fitting overture to the next three weeks of friendly and spirited musical competition to come.
Programming Alert: Be sure to tune in to a very special SING! SING! SING! with Will Friedwald this coming Saturday morning (Feb. 7) from 10 am to 1 pm PT. Friedwald will be honoring his friend of over 30 years, the late, truly great, and uniquely beloved woodwinder Ken Peplowski, who died earlier this week.
In loving memory of the man they called Ken Peps, it's "Ken Peplowski Meets the Master Singers" this Saturday morning on SING! SING! SING! with Will Friedwald. P.S. Will published a written tribute to Peplowski in this week's New York Sun: /article/remembering-ken-peplowski-a-jazz-artist-who-had-big-ears
Premiering Dec. 11, 1943 at Carnegie Hall while WWII still raged, "New World A-Comin" is Duke Ellington's musical expression of hope for a post-war future free from "war, greed, or categorization."
Today at noon on @Jazz883 , hear this rhapsodic mini piano concerto in its entirety...and stay for live recording of "The Perfume Suite," a four-part work that premiered at Carnegie Hall approx. one year later, in Dec. 1944.
It's BHM 2026, and we're celebrating the Symphonic Ellington, right here on KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM in San Diego, and all around the world at jazz88.org and the KSDS mobile app!
We here at KSDS are deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic passing of master woodwinder and frequent KSDS guest-host @peplowskiken . Our own @lorenschoenberg_jazz was a close personal friend and colleague of Ken's, and their team-ups during @jazz883 's annual 12 Days of Sinatra won't soon be forgotten. Ken's razor-sharp sense of humor was legendary, and his combination of virtuosity and depth of feeling on both clarinet and saxophone was second to none. One of the GIANTS of the NYC scene for over 40 years, a fixture at @birdlandjazz , and one of the truly great ambassadors of jazz clarinet all around the world. Quite simply one of the best to ever do it -- a beloved bandmate, colleague, and friend. Our thoughts go to his family and dearest friends.
Every Friday night, “Jazz Across America” takes you to the birthplace of jazz with trumpet great Kermit Ruffins, who showcases the sounds and flavors of The Big Easy. Dedicated to preserving and passing on the tradition of jazz, Kermit is often compared to his own hero, Louis Armstrong - and he’s thrilled to be playing the music of NOLA on “Jazz Across America” - exclusively heard on KSDS-FM.
Tune in tonight at 5pm PST at jazz88.org
With each order of our special trumpet skyline T-shirt, we donate 100% of the proceeds to nonprofit KSDS Radio to help keep “Jazz Across America” on the air.
5 vibrant cities, 5 brilliant hosts, I uniquely American art form. Produced by member-supported KSDS Radio in San Diego, “Jazz Across America” is a nightly deep dive into jazz heritage. Like no other show around, it combines the physical places and expert perspectives of its revolving hosts to showcase the far-reaching breadth of the jazz genre - from the legends who built the foundations to the young talents evolving each scene. We feel that a show of this magnitude - and the team that created it - deserve all the help they can get to keep it on the air. So with each purchase of our Jazz Across America T-shirt, we’re sending 100% of the proceeds directly to nonprofit KSDS and “Jazz Across America.”
Broadcasting tonight from the city so nice, they named it twice, legendary drummer Kenny Washington hosts the show with a well versed, well rounded, wholly entertaining style as he plays music from the clubs, great concert halls and ballrooms of New York - spinning classic and never-heard-before recordings. Find “Jazz Across America” at 5pm PST at jazz88.org
Programming Alert: TODAY (New Year's Eve), beginning at 2 p.m. PT and running through 7 p.m. on New Year's Day, KSDS brings you "Big Bands: Coast to Coast and Around the World." That's 29 consecutive hours of the greatest big bands the world has ever known, led by the masters...from Dizzy and the Duke to the Count and Jeru; Thad Jones and Mel Lewis to Terry Gibbs, Lionel Hampton, and Oliver Nelson. The calendar year may change, but the music never stops. Make it the soundtrack to your New Year's Eve merry making....then wake up and try pairing the pounding in your head with the pounding of Gene Krupa's bass drum. Add a Bloody Mary and a greasy breakfast, and make it part of your New Year's Day recovery.
Resolve to tune in to KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM or JAZZ88.org... New Year's eve beginning at 2 p.m., and set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul!
TODAY (Dec. 16) at NOON Pacific / 3pm Eastern
KSDS presents a special edition of Sinatra Standard Time with Chuck Granata
Don't miss....A FRANKLY SENTIMENTAL CHRISTMAS with Chuck Granata
It's the Final Episode of 2025's "12 DAYS OF SINATRA"
Tune in to Jazz 88.3 KSDS FM San Diego or STREAM LIVE at Jazz88.org or via the KSDS mobile app!
