Ara City Radio

Oakland is a city of just over 4 hundred thousand people located in California’s bay area across the water from its bigger and far more famous sister city, San Francisco. Despite its relatively smaller size and relationship as the “other” city to San Francisco. Oakland has produced some brilliant music by the likes of Pharoah Sanders, The Pointer Sisters, Sheila E. MC Hammer, 2pac, Souls of Mischief, Del tha funky homosapien, Raphael Sadiq and Seasick Steve. When it comes to music there are a few genres that Oakland has been known particularly for over the years and they are Jazz, Blues, Soul and Hip Hop. In the early 1900s a wave of jazz musicians arrived with the migration of labourers that moved to the bay area from places like New Orleans to work on the railroads that were being built at the time. By the 1960s there was already a highly developed jazz scene in the city. Clubs like Creole Café, Musicians Union Club, Sweet's Ballroom and the Burma Lounge had live jazz music playing every night of the we