Today on Play Something Sweet, we review the year 1958 and the Heyday of Jazz. Music by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, and Dinah Washington.

Join us today in the studio as we hear some live music from Southern California band, Ted Z & The Wranglers, and discuss their upcoming shows. Music by Ted Z & The Wranglers.

Join us on Play Something Sweet as we discuss the blues as history and a way of remembering and surviving. Music by Lead Belly, Robert Johnson, Son House, and Skip James.

Episode 2 of this season is focused on how music changed when it was recorded — what was kept, what was lost, and how the music industry separated sound into genres and fixed songs in time. Music by Blind Lemon Jefferson, the Mississippi Sheiks, and Memphis Minnie.

Play Something Sweet returns to its roots with a NEW SEASON of one-hour music history shows! Today, we look at American music Before the Record. Music by the McIntosh County Shouters, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Bill Broonzy, and Richie Havens.

Join me as we welcome singer-songwriter, Savannah Outen, for a conversation and live in-studio performance. Music by Savannah Outen.

Today I welcome country singer-songwriter and Southern California native, Bristol Coon, for an interview and live performance. Music by Bristol Coon.

Join me today as I interview musician Leo Romero from the band Travesura. Live music by Leo Romero.

Today on Play Something Sweet - I welcome the band, Velicious, for a conversation about the storied Sunset Strip in the 1980s and their upcoming show at the Whiskey a Go Go. Music by Velicious, Quiet Riot, and Guns N' Roses.

Join me today as I welcome the talented folk singer-songwriter, Victoria Bailey, to the show for an interview and live in-studio performance. Music by Victoria Bailey.