Charles Mingus

Recordings

Interview with Van Morrison

Listen to the Lion Films The Astral Travels of Van Morrison A brilliant and mercurial singer revisits perhaps his finest hour, 40 years later By Scott Foundas "I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, duri ... More >>

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Listen to the Lion Films The Astral Travels of Van Morrison A brilliant and mercurial singer revisits perhaps his finest hour, 40 years later By Scott Foundas "I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, duri ... More >>

Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra

Harriet Tubman (Noir)

Repertory Film Listing

Harriet Tubman (Noir)

Repertory Film Listing

Harriet Tubman (Noir)

Repertory Film Listing

Harriet Tubman (Noir)

Repertory Film Listing

Harriet Tubman (Noir)

Herbie Hancock

River: The Joni Letters (Verve)

The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Avant-garde opera right in the heart of Oakland

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Django Reinhardt Project takes on the Gypsy jazz master; the 60-piece Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra makes its SF debut

Elvis Costello

North

Booty-Trapped

The legendary Jungle Brothers have returned. Why doesn't the hip hop world give a damn?

The Industrial Jazz Group

City of Angles

Survival of the Phat-est

Pianist Jacob Aginsky fosters the new jazz evolution by embracing electronica and other musics

Ace of Bass

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

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The Dave Holland Big Band resurrects booming, brassy old-school jazz

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Legendary Jazz drummer Max Roach demonstrates his solo percussive talents

Pop Philosophy

What's up, doc?

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Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra

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Mingus Big Band

Finger-picking Good

Duck Baker explores uncharted territory with his acoustic guitar

All That Jazz

Passions of Three Men: The Jazz of Mingus, Shelby, and Savage

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Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra

Riff Raff

A controversial mural at the Boom Boom Room, Sister Double Happiness reunion, the closing of Cue's Records

Letters

A controversial mural at the Boom Boom Room, Sister Double Happiness reunion, the closing of Cue's Records

Blowing Their Horn

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Riff Raff

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

1998: The Year in Lists

The organizers of the North Beach Jazz Festival take pride in revitalizing their musical neighborhood and in not being like that other local jazz fest

Flauting Tradition

Bud ShankThe Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Sessions (1956-61)(Mosaic)

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Bud ShankThe Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Sessions (1956-61)(Mosaic)

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Lose and Draw

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Recordings

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Slap Shots

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Night+Day

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Night+Day

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

It Happened in Monterey

New label reissues long-lost jazz-fest classics

Shape-Shifter

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

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ B and Not B

​Bay Area natives B and Not B have been playing together for a little over a year, pairing witty lyrics with 60's-inspired pop hooks to keep your head bopping from beginning to end. Wrapping up a five city tour of the Northwest, the band recently recorded a full-length, self-titled LP slated for a ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10: Gastronomic Adventures, Free Comics, Electro-disco Noiseniks

Clipd Beaks​Were those glorious super-warm days of last weekend simply a tease? Are we doomed to a more traditional mid-season S.F. weekend of half-sunny, half-windy days? Well I hate to say it fellow park-dwellers, but if you don't like the weather in our oft-overcast city, perhaps you are in the ... More >>

Show preview: Kronos Quartet

Clipd Beaks​Were those glorious super-warm days of last weekend simply a tease? Are we doomed to a more traditional mid-season S.F. weekend of half-sunny, half-windy days? Well I hate to say it fellow park-dwellers, but if you don't like the weather in our oft-overcast city, perhaps you are in the ... More >>

The 10 Worst Answers to 'What Kind of Music Do You Listen To?"

BrokeNCYDE: All your fears about the younger generation, realized.​It's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible question. And a necessary one. Why necessary? Hell, we need some way to talk about the stuff. And it's terrible, obviously, because there's no successful way to answer it ... More >>

Mingus Amungus keeps the jazz great's wild tendencies alive

BrokeNCYDE: All your fears about the younger generation, realized.​It's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible question. And a necessary one. Why necessary? Hell, we need some way to talk about the stuff. And it's terrible, obviously, because there's no successful way to answer it ... More >>

Forrest Day's Surprise Ending at All Shook Down, Morcheeba Reunited, Scorpions' Last Sting

Neon Indian onstage at Sunday's All Shook Down Music Festival​Most of the live performances at the first-ever All Shook Down Music Festival went off with nary a mishap. But hip-hop/funk/soul outfit Forrest Day was another story. At the band's second set of the day, exhausted frontman Forrest Day p ... More >>

Sub Swara's Bass Explorations Do Not Heed Your Genre Pretensions

Sub Swara​You should know about Sub Swara, an electronic duo from New York that performs Friday at Public Works. Named after a club night that Dhruva and Dave Sharma started in the Big Apple -- which went on to feature sets by Mary Anne Hobbs and Bassnectar, among others -- the outfit now speciali ... More >>