Broadway's outstanding vocalist CAPATHIA JENKINS and award-winning composer/performer LOUIS ROSEN launched their unique vocalist/composer collaboration in March 2005 at New York's Joe's Pub, with two sold out evenings of new songs blending jazz, blues and popular styles.

The evening offered the world-premiere of songs written specifically for Capathia, including:
TWELVE SONGS ON POEMS BY MAYA ANGELOU,
and songs from DREAM SUITE, set to the words of Langston Hughes.
South Side Stories
Something quite magical can happen when a composer has a specific voice to serve as his muse. Consider the case of Louis Rosen, and his songbird of choice, Capathia Jenkins... performing Rosen's nostalgic, romantic, emotionally charged song cycle, “South Side Stories"
 Chicago Sun-Times, December 20, 2005

Jenkins and Rosen returned to The Public Theater's Joe's Pub this past  fall with three critically acclaimed concerts that celebrated the launch of their debut CD SOUTH SIDE STORIES. Inspired by Rosen’s experiences growing up on the south side of Chicago, SOUTH SIDE STORIES is a moving collection of songs exploring the journey from innocence and coming-of-age to experience.

The available Jenkins/Rosen "Evening of Song" offers a program drawn from the above works specifically tailored to meet your entertainment needs.

"Jenkins will knock you flat….I've never been so seduced by music completely new to me yet as embraceable as any from the classic American songbook….Don't miss this show."
Bloomberg News, November 1, 2006

"Capathia Jenkins is gifted with one of those rare voices that makes pouring out one’s soul into music seem effortless. And when she is singing the music of Louis Rosen, she makes that soul into a thing of rare beauty and power….
The evening is a wonderfully emotional celebration of life that can appeal to every musical palate." 
Cabaret Scenes, October 29, 2006

"Capathia Jenkins' soaring voice - sweet, smart, sassy and full of soul - warmed the hearts of everyone in the audience for "South Side Stories”...
In "South Side Stories," Rosen's newest work... he has created a fine and a sometimes somber portrait of heartbreak and survival, joy and its absence, and love that endures even when the objects of that love are long vanished..."
Chicago Tribune, December 21, 2005