RACE SELLS RECORDS: An observational study of jazz album art in the mid-1950s Gianna Caudillo September 4, 2024 Music History, Black Culture, Jazz, Musicology, Print Edition The jazz section in a used record store. Haphazardly sorted bins. Thin cardboard smooth against your fingers as you shuffle the albums like playing cards. Smell of dust, faint crackling in the background. Brigh...
There Must Be Something About Stephen Sanchez: The Troubadour Performs His Biggest Show To Date Andrew Zendejas November 8, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland, Pop I still remember the first time I encountered Stephen Sanchez. I was scrolling through TikTok and a video with Sanchez in a hospital room waiting for his doctor came up on my feed captioned: “POV: You’ve be...
Shedding light on an underrated genre: Bossa Nova Daniella Ivanir October 30, 2019 Columns and Opinions 1 Comment This July saw the death of an absolute legend, João Gilberto — Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pioneer of an entire music genre. In honor of him, I hope to make the Berkeley student body more aw...