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Mike Switzer interviews Jesse Shafer, a jazz musician living and creating in Charleston, SC. He’s also a senior at the College of Charleston, and his band, the Rooibos Quartet has a new album released by a New York City jazz label.

Since the unexpected closing of schools just over a year ago, students, parents, teachers, administrators, and public officials have grappled with how to keep the state’s 767,000 school children from falling too far behind.

"B" is for Bamberg (Bamberg County; 2010 population 3,607)

This week on ColaJazz Presents, we speak with pianist Shannon Pinkney. Born in Orangeburg, SC, he's also known as "True Blue" and "Blue Deon" Pinkney in jazz circles. His music exudes a sense of joy and calmness, and he always plays it with a smile. One of the signature elements of Pinkney's style is quoting a different tune in the middle of a song.

Mike Switzer interviews Roy Janse, a certified financial planner and managing partner at Goldfinch Wealth Management in Greenville, SC.

A listener finds a skull with long canine teeth...

A listener sights a raptor in a tree...

In his book, The Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator (2021, Rocky Pond Press), Kevin Cherry focuses on the short but extraordinary life of Reconstruction era Senator Lawrence Cain of Edgefield, South Carolina. Cherry, Cain's great great-grandson, also tells the contemporaty story of a family with Southern roots, long identified as having some American indian ancestry, re-discovering their true heritage.

A listener reports seeing two green lizards who seem to be "dancing"...

The common name of this creature comes from it's resemblance to a hair from a horse's tail or mane.