October, 2025

KSDS/Jazz 88.3's 2025 Fall Membership Drive has concluded! We welcomed many new and renewing members and the music will continue to thrive because of it. If you would like to donate towards the campaign you can do so by clicking here. Here is the Top Ten Artist Poll we conducted for the drive.

Here's the Top Ten:

1. Art Pepper
2. Wes Montgomery
3. Oscar Peterson
4. Freddie Hubbard
5. Sarah Vaughan
6. Ray Charles
7. Kenny Washington
8. Gilbert Castellanos
9. Lester Young
10. Art Tatum

For KSDS’s Matt Silver, Ron Shelton’s “Bull Durham” is a perfect game.

By Matt Silver

“Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls — it’s more democratic.”