Music

Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com Bonnie Raitt during her strong and personable performance Tuesday night at UC Davis' Mondavi Center. The concert also featured Mavis Staples. Revisiting musicians who have performed for decades can produce...

Wynton Marsalis, pictured left, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will headline the 2013 Brubeck Festival in March in Stockton, the festival announced today. The University of the Pacific and the Brubeck Institute released the initial lineup ...

By Greg Lucas Special to The Bee Revisiting musicians who have been performing for multiple decades can produce mixed results. Chops might be a bit choppy. The set list appears drawn exclusively from the years when red, white and blue striped Lev...

Middle Class Rut guitarist Zack Lopez and drummer Sean Stockham work on their upcoming album at a Sacramento studio.Middle Class Rut is a guitar, a drum kit and endless possibilities. The duo of guitarist-singer Zack Lopez and drummer-singer...

Melody Gardot sings of love and loss on"The Absence."The Absence Three 1/2 Stars Melody Gardot Verve The young jazz-pop singer Melody Gardot has effortlessly achieved a sound and presence that countless other singers would love t...

Ride along on Catherine Russell's voice What: Catherine Russell is one of America's most treasured singers. Her jazz and blues renditions reach into the heart of the Great American Songbook. Russell and her quartet are headed from New Yo...

Merger talks continue between the Sacramento Opera and the Sacramento Philharmonic, with a decision likely as early as November. The two arts nonprofits, both of whom have seen their share of financial difficulties recently, have been meeting bimon...

Don Roth is executive director of the Mondavi Center, right, which has drawn more than 1 million patrons in its first 10 years.When the Mondavi Center for the Arts at UC Davis opened its doors in 2002, with a performance by the San Francisco Symp...

I love music. I’m pretty sure most people do too. What I cannot understand is why an adult would make fun of the music someone else likes. Sure as kids we made fun of those who liked “lame” bands, but … Continue reading →

Ventriloquist Terry Fator, right, with Duggie Scott Walker.Music filled Peter Michael Escovedo's childhood home. "It was really very normal of us as we grew up to see many musicians in our house," Escovedo said. "I could walk through the livi...