Andrew Gilbert

The Bay Area is bursting with contemporary jazz composers and combos. A new series provides a welcome platform.

Bay Area musicians building their own record labels create a bulwark against the tidal wave of digital distribution.

One of the region’s most vigorous creative forces continues to evolve and thrive through personnel changes.

The influential critic’s new tome offers a glimpse of the forces shaping the new jazz scene, from a New York perspective.

A world-class Brazilian choro fest is just one of our top picks this month.

The world’s longest running jazz festival features women led-ensembles, and succeeds.

Two quartets at SFJAZZ showcase Berkeley High’s jazz legacy.

The exuberant ensemble revels in risk with their freewheeling 17-way musical conversation.

The forward-thinking fest puts another crack in jazz’s glass ceiling.

The Lesher Center premieres a new song cycle from the Australian jazz pianist and vocalist.