Sacramento high school students selected to represent young women in jazz at Monterey Jazz FestivalPianist Salomé Ospina and clarinetist Paloma Cobbs-Silva both attend Rio Americano High School and met at the Teagarden Jazz Camp in Pollock Pines. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
As Jazz Fest Looks At 50, What Keeps It Alive?August 21, 2017Having cycled through a full generation of performers (not to mention audience), how does the grandpa of festival culture compete in the Coachella-sized market it helped create?
ClassicalSolar Soundtrack: The CapRadio Music Eclipse PlaylistsAugust 18, 2017The experts at Capital Public Radio Music picked jazz, classical and pop songs that will help set the mood for Monday's eclipse.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band On World CafeAugust 18, 2017The ambassadors of the French Quarter paid a visit to our studios in Philadelphia for a live session.
Shocking Omissions: Mary Lou Williams' Choral MasterpieceAugust 7, 2017The jazz composer and pianist wrote the devotional work after her conversion to Catholicism. For her long, endlessly inventive and astonishing career, she belongs at the center of our canon.
Canadian Jazz Star Bria Skonberg Keeps Strong Ties To SacramentoAugust 4, 2017 | Paul ConleyJazz trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg was born in Canada and now lives in New York, but she's been playing and teaching in Sacramento since 2001. She’ll be doing both here this week, while also celebrating the release of her new CD, With A Twist.
Lafayette Gilchrist Plays The 'Blues For Freddie Gray'July 26, 2017 The jazz pianist's latest album with his go-go backing band features a powerful song he wrote in tribute to the young Baltimore man who died in 2015 of injuries sustained in police custody.
Fascinating Algorithm: Dan Tepfer's Player Piano Is His Composing PartnerJuly 24, 2017Tepfer sees jazz as the pursuit of freedom within a framework — a premise that underlies his work with improvisational algorithms and a Yamaha Disklavier. He unpacks the project in this video.
CapRadio's Really Large Guide To Live Jazz Events (updated Sept. 4)July 21, 2017There's a lot going on in the way of live jazz events all the time in the Sacramento and surrounding regions, as our guide amply demonstrates. Check it out and enjoy some live jazz for yourself! (Updated Sept. 4)
'Here Come The Girls'... AgainJuly 21, 2017Drummer Stanton Moore — a founding member of the funk band Galactic — has a new release with "Here Come the Girls" on a tribute album to the late songwriting producer Allen Toussaint.
Jon Batiste Fashions A Soulful New 'Battle Hymn' For The AtlanticJuly 19, 2017The Late Show bandleader explains how he made a quintessential American anthem forged in national divisions new and how it speaks to the strength and diversity of our own society.