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Mavis Staples

Born: July 10, 1939

With her bold new album,”You Are Not Alone,” this legendary vocalist adds a remarkable new chapter to an historic career. Mavis Staples is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a National Heritage Fellowship Award recipient. VH1 named her one of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. This project which is being released more than sixty years after she began singing with her ground-breaking family group, the Staple Singers is the follow-up to “We’ll Never Turn Back,” her acclaimed 2007 collection of songs associated with the civil rights movement, and to 2009’s Grammy-nominated live album “Hope at the Hideout.” It stakes out surprising new territory for Staples by matching her with producer Jeff Tweedy, a fellow Chicagoan who also happens to lead Wilco, perhaps the most respected band working in America today. Tweedy first saw Staples and her band in 2008 at Chicago’s the Hideout when they recorded the live album Hope At The Hideout

Douyé, Ali Ryerson, Carolyn Lee Jones, Kris Davis, Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Bria Skonberg, Tom Ricci, Roni Ben-Hur & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 20, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Douyé, Ali Ryerson, Carolyn Lee Jones, Kris Davis, Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Bria Skonberg, Tom Ricci and Roni Ben-Hur, plus birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Amber Weekes, Hey Rim Jeon, Mira Choquette, Lezlie Harrison, Lolivone de la Rosa, Nancy Erickson Lamont and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among ...

Mavis Staples at The Carver

by Katchie Cartwright
November 30, 2025

Mavis StaplesThe Carver Community Cultural CenterJo Long Theatre San Antonio, Texas November 21, 2025 As liner notes to her 2025 album, Sad and Beautiful World (Epitaph Records) rightly maintain, “Few people wield the combination of moral authority and musical artistry that Mavis possesses." The sounds that come out of her ...

Stanley Clarke Band at The Carver

by Katchie Cartwright
October 18, 2025

Stanley Clarke The Carver Community Cultural Center / Jo Long Theatre The New Season 2025/26 San Antonio, TX October 11, 2025 A capacity crowd at The Carver's Jo Long Theatre celebrated the opening of San Antonio's 2025 season on October 11 with a high-spirited set from Stanley Clarke ...

San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2025

by Walter Atkins
August 22, 2025

San Jose Jazz Fest 2025

by Ronald Davis
August 19, 2025

A collection of photos from the 35th San Jose Summer Fest 2025 in San Jose from August 8, 2025 to August 10, 2025 featuring José James, Ghost-Note, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Carl Allen, Reginald Veal, Ralph Moore, Anthony Arya, Butcher Brown, Mary Stallings, Billy Iuso, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tyreek McDole, ByWater Call, Lalah Hathaway, Theo ...

Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn, Allan Harris & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 21, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn and Allan Harris, with birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Carolyn Leonhart, Suzanne Pittson, Marina Albero, Iris Ornig and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2025

by Mark Sullivan
July 16, 2025

Various Venues Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 28-July 2, 2025 The headliners of the 45th edition of the festival included names like Gospel legend Mavis Staples, Canadian rockers Blue Rodeo, Canadian Inuk musician Elisapie, New Orleans musician Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Nigerian singer/songwriter Ayra Starr, Canadian ...

Joe Henry's Code of the Road

by Leo Sidran
July 12, 2025

For Joe Henry, truth in songwriting doesn't come from confession or fact. It comes from presence, from listening, from surrender, from giving shape to the ineffable. As he puts it: “Total presence--that is the code of my road." Henry's road has taken him across both the literal and metaphorical map of American music. Born ...

February Looks Good at SFJAZZ

by Ronald Davis
March 4, 2025