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Get High With Mutaytor Today, Even if Burning Man Is Months Away

​Listen to this while high: Mutaytor's Unconditional Love (The Westerfield Sessions). ​Behind the buzz: Though born in Nevada's Black Rock desert at Burning Man and world-HQ'd in an obscure Los Angeles warehouse, Mutaytor is San Franciscan almost by default. L.A.'s Burning Man scene is sexy ... More >>

Mingus Amungus keeps the jazz great's wild tendencies alive

​Listen to this while high: Mutaytor's Unconditional Love (The Westerfield Sessions). ​Behind the buzz: Though born in Nevada's Black Rock desert at Burning Man and world-HQ'd in an obscure Los Angeles warehouse, Mutaytor is San Franciscan almost by default. L.A.'s Burning Man scene is sexy ... More >>

Bebop Forever

​Listen to this while high: Mutaytor's Unconditional Love (The Westerfield Sessions). ​Behind the buzz: Though born in Nevada's Black Rock desert at Burning Man and world-HQ'd in an obscure Los Angeles warehouse, Mutaytor is San Franciscan almost by default. L.A.'s Burning Man scene is sexy ... More >>

Soulfully Cerebral

​Listen to this while high: Mutaytor's Unconditional Love (The Westerfield Sessions). ​Behind the buzz: Though born in Nevada's Black Rock desert at Burning Man and world-HQ'd in an obscure Los Angeles warehouse, Mutaytor is San Franciscan almost by default. L.A.'s Burning Man scene is sexy ... More >>

HUM525: Hitting the Books

Your required reading for the fall semester.

One More Michael Jackson Tribute this Friday

If "don't stop 'til you get enough" is your personal philosophy regarding Michael Jackson tributes, here's one which should be totally off the wall: This Friday, July 17, the Shattuck Down Low  hosts what they're calling the "official" MJ Bay Area tribute party. DJ Icewater spins Gloved One ... More >>

SFJAZZ Announces Fall Season

Hypnotic & Harmelodic: Ornette Coleman SFJAZZ has announced its 27th season, which kicks off October 10 with a Thelonious Monk birthday party and ends November 21 with a "Double-Barreled Blues Bash" featuring Keb' Mo and Solomon Burke. Highlights include October 22's show, "Afro-Cuban Keystone ... More >>

Muni's 'New' Notion of Selling Cable Car Sponsorships Was a Great Idea -- In 1982

Sadly, it's too late to wheedle a cable car sponsorship out of Thelonious MonkWhen Municipal Transportation Agency director Malcolm Heinicke earlier this week proposed selling off "sponsorships" to the city's treasured cable cars as a means of making the city's ends meet, you could almost hear the r ... More >>

Live Nation Asks For Your Help in Renovating Masonic Center

FeistTaking a page from onetime bitter rivals (and now just rivals) Another Planet Entertainment's handbook, Live Nation (the live concert spin-off from radio/billboard barony Clear Channel, now its own entity) have announced plans to remodel, makeover, and otherwise update SF's venerable Masonic Ce ... More >>

Great Scott

FeistTaking a page from onetime bitter rivals (and now just rivals) Another Planet Entertainment's handbook, Live Nation (the live concert spin-off from radio/billboard barony Clear Channel, now its own entity) have announced plans to remodel, makeover, and otherwise update SF's venerable Masonic Ce ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Colossal Yes

Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

Ravi Coltrane's ascent into history

Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

Afro-Cuban-American

Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

CD Review: John Coltrane -- Interplay

Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

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Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

Shape-Shifter

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

It Happened in Monterey

New label reissues long-lost jazz-fest classics

Mission Indian That's Not Pakwan For Once

New label reissues long-lost jazz-fest classics

Paying Homage to a Master

Moran and Monk: jazz's

Post-everything

Moran and Monk: jazz's

The Miles Davis Quintet|Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane

The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions|The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings

Cut and Paste

Beauty Shop is clipped straight from its predecessors

Best Radio Show

Desert Island Jazz

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

Al Green

I Can't Stop

Best Irony in Urban Redevelopment

Fillmore Street's "Walk of Fame"

Kind of Code Blue

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

Tenor Madness

At 72, Sonny Rollins remains one of jazz's biggest enigmas -- and a hugely rewarding live performer

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Saxophonist Joe Lovano's tribute to 52nd Street swing and bop.

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Legendary Jazz drummer Max Roach demonstrates his solo percussive talents

Sound Garden

Miya Masaoka, Bay Area composer and master of the koto

Piano Man

Danilo Pérez

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Instant Composers Pool Orchestra

New Trad Jazz

Joshua Redman

Tin Hat Trio

Helium
(Angel)

Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd

Monk's Dream

Review

Joey DeFrancesco's Goodfellas

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Jackie McLean and Steve Lacy

The House of Tudor

Jackie McLean and Steve Lacy

Take This Tradition and Shove It

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

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Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Reviews

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

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Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

King Sonny

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

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Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

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Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

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Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

Recordings

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity

Recordings

Jazz great Sonny Rollins talks about old songs, speaking in tongues, and 40 years of spiritual intensity