Cecil Taylor

Saturday: Two Gallants Make a Poignant Homecoming at the Independent

Two Gallants at the Independent Saturday night. ​ Two Gallants Sept. 24, 2011 The Independent Better than: Holing up in a cheap motel with a fifth of Old Crow and a shotgun. San Francisco hometown heroes Two Gallants wrapped up a massive summer tour that took the duo all the way to Madrid by ... More >>

Yoshi’s steps up its game with free-jazz fest

Cecil Taylor and Marilyn Crispell: the Key Players

Not Your Parents' Jazz

This year's San Francisco Jazz Festival rings in the new.

SFJAZZ Drops Names for Its 26th Annual S.F. Jazz Festival

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/20

Doctor Parker

Shape-Shifter

Ornette Coleman sculpts free jazz from the genre's elevated fringes

Andrew Hill

Change (Blue Note)

Radioactive Clout

Local genre-tweakers Mushroom meld with jazz giant Eddie Gale

Lisle Ellis -- Marco Eneidi -- Peter Valsamis

American Roadwork

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Reps Etc.

Reeling the Out Sound In

What the Bay Area's world-class improvisational music scene is doing to put more butts in the seats

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Catch the Fever's pan-genre rock sickness; Eddie Gale unveils why he's San Jose's "Ambassador of Jazz."

Dave Brubeck

For All Time

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Certified genius and radical percussive-pianist Cecil Taylor at the S.F. Jazz Fest

Ace of Bass

For over two decades, Lisle Ellis has been expanding the vocabulary of the jazz bassist by adding blues and classical features

Kind of Code Blue

Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.

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Jazz players Marilyn Crispell and Kali Z. Fasteau prove women artists shouldn't be ghettoized

Hitting the Biggi Time

One of Europe's finest jazz improv musicians, Biggi Vinkeloe, visits the Bay Area

Moore Jazz

The 12th Annual Eddie Moore Jazz Festival honors the late Bay Area drummer

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Legendary jazz figure Sam Rivers links the old guard and the new wave

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School Days teaches the value of a well-rounded jazz education

Sound Garden

Miya Masaoka, Bay Area composer and master of the koto

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Dominic Duval

Space Is the Place

Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp explores tradition and the territory beyond

Pop Philosophy

Cecil Taylor's recent show; record companies move to Sacramento

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Eddie Gale Quintet

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Equal Interest

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Beyond and Back

The Tin Hat Trio's unclassifiable music spans the globe, which is just the way they like it

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Reviews

Melding Pot

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Riff Raff

Reviews

Riff Raff

Night+Day

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Recordings

Out There

A guide to the explosive new avant-jazz scene

The Essence of Jazz

Henry Threadgill's anti-purity

Harmonic Convergences

The melodic dissections and rhythmic ricochets of Peter Apfelbaum

Jazzmatazz

Cecil Taylor and the 13th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival

Recordings

Jazz Assassins

John Zorn's Painkiller and the Denison/Kimball Trio rewrite the rules of jazz