Jazz

The bassist, composer, and educator talks about his projects, his work with kids, and using music to reflect a “positive and truthful” history.

Meet the local exponents of the Brazilian genre that captivated Heitor Villa-Lobos, among others.

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.