Tom Schnabel

Tom Schnabel
Tom Schnabel features the latest and best in jazz and international music, with an emphasis on new Brazilian, European, African, and Tropical Latin music. The program also features periodic guests in the studio, as well as live performances.
Photo credit: Marc Goldstein
RECENT SHOWS
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Tom Schnabel hosts the latest and best in jazz and international music, with an emphasis on new Brazilian, European, African, and Tropical Latin music. Listen On-Demand to the latest show.
Randall Grass
Veteran producer Randall Grass Randall Grass is Tom's guest to discuss his new book, Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists. A longtime General Manager of Shanachie Records, Grass developed the indie label into a world music powerhouse with US debuts of Fela, Lucky Dube, and many other big stars....
Chai Vasarhelyi
Chai Vasarhelyi is the director of the award-winning documentary film Youssou N’Dour: I Bring WhatI Love, a film about the famous Senegalese superstar and his trials, tribulations, and triumphs in the making of his Grammy-winning cd Egypt.Luciana Souza
Jazzy Brazilian singer Luciana Souza shares her new work with Morning Becomes Eclectic listeners at 11:15am. Tom Schnabel sits in for Jason Bentley.
The Duhks
The superb Manitoba-based country-music band The Duhks perform live on Sunday at 1pm.
Michael Cuscuna and Erin Davis
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ masterpiece, Kind of Blue, Tom Schnabel speaks with veteran jazz producer Michael Cuscuna and Erin Davis, son of the great trumpeter, who together explore the genius of this classic recording.
Peter Moruzzi
Tom Schnabel hosts Peter Moruzzi, author of Havana Before Castro/When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground. The book focuses on the glamorous tropical paradise of Cuba until Fidel marched into Havana in January 1959.Little Dragon
Little Dragon is made up of Yukimi Nagano, late vocalist of Koop, and three super Swedish musicians. Little Dragon’s one solo album has been...
Ludovico Einaudi
Composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi joins Tom Schnabel for a live set and interview. Einaudi is very popular in England, France, Germany, and his native Italy for his sweeping live concerts.
Austin Peralta
Seventeen-year old jazz pianist Austin Peralta guests, performing live-on-tape at 2 pm.Herman Leonard
Herman Leonard returns to KCRW to showcase his remarkable book, Jazz, Giants, Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard. He not only shares anecdotes of his experience with Miles Davis, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Dexter Gordon, but personal reminiscences of a truly remarkable life.
Donald Cohen
Author Donald Cohen showcases his new book about tango in all its forms and colors with host Tom Schnabel. Tango Voices covers the origins and history of tango, its continual international popularity, and...Sa Dingding
The rising Chinese superstar musician Sa Dingding is Tom's guest from 2-2:30 pm. Sa Dingding embraces a variety of styles, and her CD, Alive, was lavishly produced. She has her eye on the West, and is bound to be a young artist that we will hear more from.
Program Details
Host
Cesaria Evora, Buena Vista Social Club, Ravi Shankar, Caetano Veloso, Bebel Gilberto…regular fixtures on the KCRW playlists, but world music didn’t used to have a home on radio in the U.S. That is, until Tom Schnabel started Morning Becomes Eclectic as KCRW’s first music director in the 80’s, and made it his mission to expand LA’s horizons. He continues to do so as the program advisor for the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Hall.
Schedule
Live
Tapes & Transcripts
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