Jazz great Bria Skonberg embraces the music she loves on her newest albumA regular performer in Sacramento, trumpet player Bria Skonberg celebrates New Orleans with her new album, “What It Means.” Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezSound Advice: Jazz Classics By Female VocalistsSeptember 21, 2017 | Gary G. VercelliCapital Public Radio jazz host Gary Vercelli features four female vocalists covering classic tunes in this week's Sound Advice.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezRemembering Musician John SkinnerSeptember 15, 2017 | Beth RuyakInsight Host Beth Ruyak shares her remembrance of local musician John Skinner.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezLara Downes Hits The Road For "Sounds Like America" TourSeptember 12, 2017 | Cody DrabbleLara Downes continues her exploration of the American songbook with "Sounds Like America."
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.
