jazz

San Francisco’s only free and democratic Conservatory of Music

Laura Klivans — Thu, 30 May 2013 22:22:00 +0000

To me, Sunday mornings are sacred, but not for any religious reason. It’s when I head out for a weekly bike ride through Golden Gate Park west to Ocean Beach. But one weekend, I decide to go on a Saturday instead. I take my usual route – cruising through the aromatic eucalyptus trees along the Panhandle, hugging the curves of John F Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park. But when I arrive at the white Conservatory of Flowers, something’s different. On my left, a soothing, and out-of-place sound emerges from out of nowhere. It’s jazz.

Arts/Culture/Weekend: Jazz, windmills, and ghosts

Steven Short — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:59:46 +0000

Arts/Culture/Weekend is a roundup of our favorite events coming up around the Bay Area.

Cheap Suit Serenaders this Saturday

JoAnn Mar — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:03:47 +0000

The Cheap Suit Serenaders - on Folk Music & Beyond this Saturday at 3 pm, recorded live in Berkeley in January - entertain us with a collection of up-tempo Hawaiian stomps, ragtime, & Italian polkas as they recreate the music of the golden age of jazz.
With Robert Armstrong, Allan Dodge, Rick Elmore, Tony Marcus, and Terry Zwigoff performing on ukeleles, Hawaiian steel guitars, fiddles, cellos, banjos, mandolins, accordions, and musical saws, the band brings alive some really great music.

A mind for Jazz

Ben Trefny — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:42:28 +0000

The birth of the cool: the SFJAZZ Center

Ben Trefny — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:37:05 +0000

The liner notes to Miles Davis’ classic album “Birth of the Cool” begin like this:
“In jazz, as in other musics, some things are of their time, some ahead of it, while others simply know no time at all.”