KCSM Jazz 91

On right NOW! Jesse "Chuy" Varela with incoming San Jose Jazz Artistic Director Christian Vela! (Saving gas, stealing the show, saving the planet!)

(HD1) Wednesday (7/8) at 2pm Jesse "Chuy" Varela welcomes Christian Vela to the KCSM Studio. “Jazz is a gift that America gave to the world. And now the world is giving us the next evolution of jazz,” the words of Christian Vela, incoming San Jose Jazz Festival and Artistic Director. Distinguished in the jazz world for a decade with SFJAZZ as senior production manager as well as his countless years in artist management and as a working musician, Christian Vela joins Jesse “Chuy” Varela to talk about the upcoming 2026 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest happening August 7-9 and his new role shaping the future of the San Jose Jazz organization.

HD2, Weekdays at 6pm tune into The New Wave of Jazz for fresh sounds from Blue Lab Beats, Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Jahari Stampley, Adrian Younge, Jasmine Myra, James Brandon Lewis and Black Nile. Plus much much more.