Jeff Kaliss

Jeff Kaliss has featured and reviewed classical, jazz, rock, and world musics and other entertainment for the San Francisco Chronicle and a host of other regional, national, international, and web-based publications. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, is a published poet, and is the author of I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone (Backbeat Books) and numerous textbook and encyclopedia entries, album liner notes, and festival program notes.

Articles By This Author

Jeff Kaliss - November 13, 2012

An up-and-coming Canadian pianist is profiled in the documentary I Am Not a Rockstar now screening on the film festival circuit.

Jeff Kaliss - November 5, 2012

Exotic elements hold great appeal when mixed and matched suavely by the Ultra World X-tet.

Jeff Kaliss - October 25, 2012

The first violinist and guiding spirit of Quartet San Francisco talks about defying classification, and his new work for QSF and the Marin Symphony.

Jeff Kaliss - October 25, 2012

With Locaphonic, Hannah Addario-Berry melds two of the Bay Area’s salient obsessions, food and music, in concerts that have all the right ingredients for success.

Jeff Kaliss - October 23, 2012

A park ranger and an expanding group of enthusiasts gather aboard a sailing ship at Hyde Street Pier to sing sea chanteys. Turns out, there’s a lot more there than you might expect.

Jeff Kaliss - October 10, 2012

Khatia Buniatishvili, sometimes compared with Martha Argerich, proudly represents her Georgian culture and has special feelings for Rachmaninov.

Jeff Kaliss - October 3, 2012

The Bad Plus come to San Francisco Performances for a re-imagning of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Jeff Kaliss - September 24, 2012

As pianist Lang Lang hits the revered age of 30, he’s started to teach others hard-won lessons gleaned from his childhood studies in China.

Jeff Kaliss - September 18, 2012

Unique sounds simmer and boil at Classical Revolution’s latest showcase performance in Berkeley.

Jeff Kaliss - September 12, 2012

Violinist Joshua Bell anticipates his performance at S.F. Symphony’s season opener.