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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.

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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 … more >>

Christmas Becomes Eclectic

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Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne of Sideways fame - and now director of the new film The Descendants joins Tom Schnabel to talk about the use of music in the film. Along with music … more >>

Lisa Napoli

Lisa Napoli left her job as reporter and back-up host at Marketplace in 2008 to help found a youth-oriented radio station in the Kingdom of Bhutan. She wrote a book about … more >>

A Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron

KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel remembers the artist Gil Scott-Heron with a 30-minute show including classic and rare tracks and interview segments from 1980 and 1983, not heard … more >>

Aaron Byrd guest hosts

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Henry Rollins: Blue Note

KCRW DJ Henry Rollins will drop by the show to present his new Blue Note collection, Rollins Choice’, a 2-CD import from the Netherlands! Tune in to hear the interview and … more >>

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Tom interviews Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Academy Award-winning Japanese composer about his love for John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, his fame, and his latest two-CD set, “Playing … more >>

Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is a giant in modern music, a jazz titan who’s nevertheless managed to achieve popular success as well. Lionized by musicians from both pop and jazz, he … more >>

Caravan Palace

Caravan Palace is a new French band, one that creates a scintillating melange of gypsy jazz a la Django Reinhardt and electronica. They stopped by our studios a few weeks … more >>

Nadine Cohodas

Nadine Cohodas, author of new and definitive biography of Nina Simone—Princess Noire / The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone was Tom’s guest Sunday April 18. In this new … more >>

Pomegranates

Tom’s guests on Sunday 4/4 @ 1 p.m were Arah Saedinia and Mahssa Taghinia, producers of Pomegranates. more >>

Gilberto Gil

Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil is Tom’s guest on Sunday March 14th @ 1 p.m. Gil formed the Tropicalia movement back in the late 60s along with Caetano Veloso and … more >>

Dengue Fever presents Electric Cambodia

Tom Schnabel welcomes Ethan Holzman and Nimol Chhom of LA’s top Cambodian pop band Dengue Fever as they present Electric Cambodia: 14 Gems from Cambodia’s Past. The … more >>

James Gavin

Tom’s guest is James Gavin, author of Stormy Weather, the critically acclaimed biography of Lena Horne, this Sunday at 1:00. more >>

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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.

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