Jeff Kaliss

Jeff Kaliss has featured and reviewed classical, jazz, rock, and world musics and other entertainment for the San Francisco Chronicle and a host of other regional, national, international, and web-based publications. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, is a published poet, and is the author of I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone (Backbeat Books) and numerous textbook and encyclopedia entries, album liner notes, and festival program notes.

Articles By This Author

Jeff Kaliss - October 7, 2011

Legendary pianist McCoy Tyner expounds on his six decades of music-making, and swinging alongside other jazz greats.

Jeff Kaliss - October 4, 2011

Bluegrass, banjos, and country-and-western play to happy multitudes in Golden Gate Park.

Jeff Kaliss - September 28, 2011

The founder (and funder) of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival talks about the banjo, his financial career, and musicians he loves to pluck strings alongside.

Jeff Kaliss - September 20, 2011

The jazz festival, loaded with talent and star power, makes the day of SFCV’s intrepid reporter.

Jeff Kaliss - September 14, 2011

The indefatigable jazz cat, with deep roots in the Beat Era, gears up for performances in San Jose.

Jeff Kaliss - September 13, 2011

A unique teaching institution turns out to be presenting one of the Bay Area's most diverse music series dedicated to exploring music from around the globe.

Jeff Kaliss - September 6, 2011

A unique collaboration between a Cape Verdean singer and a jazz arranger makes room for a string quartet in a story of cultural exchange.

Jeff Kaliss - August 29, 2011

Steve Reich’s tribute to those who died at Ground Zero involves prerecorded speech and evokes emotions of sadness and transcendence.

Jeff Kaliss - August 19, 2011

The Bay Area’s fall bounty of music includes delicious selections from jazz, pop, and other musics from around the globe. Here are a few worth your notice.

Jeff Kaliss - August 17, 2011

The jazz legend reflects on his musical origins and work with Miles Davis and others, and gives his views on reconnecting people with their cultural roots.