John Schott

Recordings

Recordings

Night+Day

2008 Music Awards Nominees

Thinking Big

Tenor saxophonist Mitch Marcus starts with the concept of the big band, then goes further

Spiced Out

Boxing up the art of Shabbat

Myles Boisen

Past-Present-Future

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Guitar Dreams

Adrian Freed's decades-long desire to marry music and technology is finally going public. Will anyone listen?

Three Women Scorned

Irish playwright isn't in love with love

Hear This

Despite a Grammy, T.J. Kirk quit in '97. Now the jazz-fusion quartet returns.

SF Weekly Music Awards 2002

A galaxy-spanning journey through space and sound!

Give the Drummer Some

Scott Amendola is a rare bird -- a jazz drummer who writes his own material and leads his own band

SF Music Awards 2001

An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!

Improv Works

Rovaté 2001

Hear This

Ben Goldberg Duo

Finger-picking Good

Duck Baker explores uncharted territory with his acoustic guitar

Hear This

Rovaté III with Gerry Hemingway

Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

Into the Maelstrom

The Rova Saxophone Quartet once again honors the freewheeling spirit of Bay Area jazz improvisers

Beyond and Back

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

Hear This

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

Out There

A guide to the explosive new avant-jazz scene

The Book of Lists

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