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Ursa Major at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 15, 2026

Christian McBride's Ursa Major Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 13, 2026   Christian McBride  stood toward the rear of the Miner Auditorium stage Sunday night, directing traffic from behind Nicole Glover and Ely Perlman. Even when he switched from upright to electric bass and began one of his fleet, muscular solos, he ...

The Blues Project - LIVE & Well in the Redwoods

by Thomas Cole
September 5, 2026

The Blues ProjectThe Paper Mill Creek SaloonForest Knolls, CAAugust 14, 2026 Some sixty years after The Blues Project first emerged from the ferment of Greenwich Village, Roy Blumenfeld led a fresh incarnation of the band into the tiny Paper Mill Creek Saloon in Forest Knolls, California. Nestled in the scenic redwoods ...

Orquesta Akokán at The Freight

by Roy Strassman
August 28, 2026

Orquesta Akokán The Freight & Salvage Live performance Berkeley, CAAugust 7, 2026 Orquesta Akokán had just flown in from its European tour and was playing the first of its Bay Area weekend performances at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage, currently called “The Freight." They hit the ground running with “Con Altura," ...

Take 6 at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
August 19, 2026

Take 6 Miner Auditorium SFJAZZ Summer Sessions 2026, four-night residency, Aug. 13--16, 2026 San Francisco, CA August 16, 2026Four decades in, Take 6  still builds its sound on close listening, disciplined arranging, shared history, and a belief that melody outranks everything else. Across an afternoon masterclass, a conversation with founder Claude ...

Spreading Love for 40 Years: Claude McKnight of Take 6

by Steven Roby
August 11, 2026

Host Steve Roby sits down with Claude McKnight, founding member of the legendary a cappella group Take 6. With 10 Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards, and a spot in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Take 6 has spent more than four decades redefining what the human voice can do. McKnight previews the group's forthcoming record, ...

Yilian Canizares Trio Plays SFJAZZ

by Ronald Davis
August 7, 2026

Stanford Jazz Festival 2026

by Ronald Davis
August 6, 2026

Denny Zeitlin: Odyssey

by Dan McClenaghan
August 2, 2026

Pianist Denny Zeitlin takes a trip into his archival book on the first half of Odyssey. He has always mixed eloquence and beauty with adventurousness. That is up front here. A close comparison to his style of playing can be found in the artistry of Bill Evans. And it should be noted that Evans adopted one ...

Suzanne Ciani: The Buchla's Orchestral Homecoming

by Lawrence Peryer
July 25, 2026

This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on five-time Grammy-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani.Suzanne has spent decades innovating electronic music on the Buchla synthesizer, an instrument as intimate to her as any acoustic musician's.Suzanne has multiple projects out this year: CIANI/ORKEST, a live album with the fifty-piece Metropole Orkest, conducted by Simon Dobson; ...