Like other smart jazz organizations, the Monterey Jazz Festival is doing its part to develop the next wave of great players like trombonist Calvin Barthel.
Episode 10: Calvin Barthel and Jazz’s Next Generation. Meet trombonist Barthel, member of the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and winner of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship for study at the prestigious Berklee College in Boston.
The Oakland City Council stepped up, big-time, in a budget that closes a $58 million deficit yet with no cuts to arts funding and libraries. SFCV interviews several major players to find out how that was achieved.
Nothing could be more San Francisco than the Fillmore Jazz Festival, a mix of jazz and everything even mildly related to it, and California cuisine and wine. Here's a report on some of the goings on
As Paul Goodwin arrives from England to take the podium for his first season as artistic director of the venerable Carmel Festival, he talks to SFCV about his artistic path and beliefs.
Details of the Oakland budget, including the means for closing a $58 million shortfall, are still emerging, but the City Council has preserved the entire arts funding program.
The first time I conducted the LSO [London Symphony Orchestra], it was for a rehearsal, and I had about two minutes to decide whether or not I wanted to step in.
When the curtain came down for the final time Sunday, cutting an eight-minute standing ovation short
