Jazz

The world is full of possibility for a musician who can play jazz, write symphonies, and give bang-up Harvard lectures.

When necessity drove these award-winning classical musicians to experiment with jazz, their music-making got even better.

The SF Conservatory joins forces with SF JAZZ for a new Roots, Jazz, and American Music degree program.

The composer and trumpeter reflects on his “jazz-in-opera,” as he prepares its S.F. premiere.

The annual event, which celebrates the diversity of the Bay Area musical community, examines Asian-American jazz for this year’s “Field Report.”

Acoustician Sam Berkow talks about what it takes to tune up the venue’s sound system.

The celebrated singer talks about singing with a full orchestra for the first time in her career.

Branford Marsalis as you’ve never heard him before, on solo saxophone, in a ranging program of styles, in the cavernous, holy confines of Grace Cathedral.

Traditional jazz still flourishes in New Orleans and elsewhere, kept alive by groups such as the Rebirth Brass Band.

At the SFFCM Music Day featuring several acts in the three performance areas bubbles with enthusiasm and portends good things to come.