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.
Library Of Congress Opens 'Jazz Singers' ExhibitionMay 17, 2016The new exhibition features the likes of Billie Holiday and other jazz greats, from the 1920s to today. Photos, papers, video and scores are on display and will travel to Los Angeles later this year.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: 50 Years Of MondaysMay 6, 2016In 1965, the trumpeter, composer and arranger Thad Jones and the drummer Mel Lewis found themselves with a book of big-band music originally intended for the Count Basie Orchestra — and nobody to perform it. So they made their own.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezSound Advice: The Evolution of HipnessApril 28, 2016 | Gary G. VercelliWe travel to the Crocker Art Museum for this week’s Sound Advice with CapRadio's jazz music director Gary Vercelli.
Jack DeJohnette: A Drummer Who Stays 'In Movement' By Keeping Good CompanyApril 25, 2016DeJohnette has been playing jazz long enough to have jammed with two generations of Coltranes. He speaks with Robert Siegel about staying fresh after 50 years behind the kit.
Sound Advice: Jazz Of The Bay Area Figurative EraApril 21, 2016Every era has a soundtrack, and for the Bay Area Figurative artists, it was jazz. Join us April 21 at the Crocker Art Museum for a discussion of mid-20th century jazz with Beth Ruyak and Gary Vercelli.
Sacramento Classic Jazz Messengers On InsightApril 19, 2016In the 1960s, drummer and bandleader Art Blakey revolutionized the music scene with his Jazz Messengers, a rotating cast of allstars with a group-sound that defined an era.
A Remembrance For Chicago's Jazz Record MartApril 18, 2016Chicago's Jazz Record Mart attracts visitors from all over the world. At least, it used to: Last month, owner Bob Koester sold the store, saying he was just too old to run it any more.
Grammy Winner, Sax Legend Gato Barbieri Dies At 83April 4, 2016Known for his ever-present black fedora, Barbieri could never be pinned down. "My music is the same. I play Gato," Barbieri once told The Tavis Smiley Show.
ClassicalOpera And Jazz Mingle In 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird'April 4, 2016The show explores the life of the jazz saxophonist, with Lawrence Brownlee in the title role. It opens this weekend at the Apollo Theater in New York — a stage where Parker played.
Don Cheadle On Miles Davis And Race In HollywoodMarch 28, 2016Cheadle wrote, directed and stars in the new film Miles Ahead, which sees a late-career Miles Davis struggles to reconnect with his muse. Read his extended conversation with Michel Martin.