Jazz with Bob Parlocha

Bob Parlocha began producing his nationally-distributed jazz radio program in the late 1990s, after serving as a jazz host in the '80s and '90s on San Francisco's KJAZ. Besides his on-air duties at KJAZ, Parlocha was music director, auditioning new releases and determining which albums and cuts fit the KJAZ mold. Parlocha has also produced a number of albums for artists. His first was for singer Laurie Antonioli's Soul Eyes on Catero Records. He engineered the late Martha Young's Live at Bajone's album on the Carnelian label and an album for pianist Steve Cohn. He first heard jazz on his mother’s Count Basie and Duke Ellington records. In high school, he played tenor and soprano saxophones and flute and sang in road bands.