Jazz

A chance meeting with a Bay Area drummer spawned a new set of songs for Johnson, which she shares in a string of shows this month.

Julia Keefe is bringing her Mildred Bailey Project, devoted to one of the first ladies of jazz, to the Bay Area this week.

The bandleader’s brand of West African music, celebrated around the world, is going strong in a California tour led by his son.

Genres blend and blur at the annual experimental music festival in Berkeley.

With the discovery of master tapes for the original Peanuts TV specials, one of America’s most underrated jazz figures gets the spotlight.

Grant draws on years of musical mastery in his exploration of the ensemble that pioneered jazz-classical fusion.

Irene Young was instrumental in documenting an artistic moment, but her work shouldn’t be restricted to a single time or place.

Arranger and bandleader John Clayton has completed the score for The Africa Suite using unfinished recordings from Peterson’s “vault.”

The 89-year-old tenor player still sings and swings with the best of them.

Santa Cruz violinist Kaethe Hostetter tours the state this month with Qwanqwa, an all-star group featuring players from Addis Ababa.