A technical tour-de-force of a duo recital focusing on Ades’ own music and influences.
A cabaret evening of Kate Smith songs created by mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe.
It was unadulterated Bill Frisell, as the guitarist played solo with only his effects pedals as occasional accompaniment.
Clarinetists Romie de Guise-Langlois and David Shifrin, occasionally joined by violin and piano, dazzled.
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff offers a palate cleanser of Webern to breakup his performace of the complete Brahms violin sonatas.
The violinist tackled a mammoth program at SFJAZZ Center’s main hall.
The English tenor lent his voice to dark material at a performance of “The Music and Poetry of the Great War.”
A young pianist dares to depart from the score and makes his points strongly, a la Glenn Gould.
Touring behind the release of 1865, their last album together, Anonymous 4 focused on a classic repertoire of American song.
The mezzo soprano's recital in San Francisco with pianist Julius Drake offered rich payoffs in the middle of the program, oddities at the beginning and end.
