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 - November 30, 2011

Founded in 1946 with the motto “Everything in Music,” the Bronstein store in South San Francisco continues to provide instruments, accessories, lessons, and repairs with skill and charm hard to find in modern times.

Jeff Kaliss - November 3, 2011

Perrier will join host vocalist Pamela Rose in serving up a musical offering to what she calls the “Wild Women of Song,” among them Alberta Hunter and Peggy Lee. It’ll be a warm and delicious run-up to Thanksgiving.

Jeff Kaliss - October 17, 2011

The fearless violinist broadens her reach, commissioning new works and keeping up a lively Web presence.

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.