Jazz

The Oakland performer and composer has adapted the story of the golem into an engaging eight-part suite.

Vibraphone players are coming to the fore as bandleaders and composers, a trend that’s now set to take over San Francisco.

One of the most famous jazz albums of all time, played by the OG in front of a happy crowd.

A festival long known for its Pan-American musical flavor outdoes itself this year.

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.