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 - July 6, 2019

It’s pure standards and blues when Tana’s quartet heats up the 7 Mile House.

Jeff Kaliss - July 6, 2019

The one-time Bay Area prodigy returns to the festival for a second year as performer/ coach (and new dad).

Jeff Kaliss - June 25, 2019

The First Nations singer/composer plays a Pride weekend gig at Yerba Buena Gardens.

Jeff Kaliss - June 24, 2019

From new classical to jazz to world, the unusual solstice festival boasted a wide cross-section of musical talent.

Jeff Kaliss - June 4, 2019

Brian Baumbusch’s multimedia work is inspired by gamelan orchestras and horror films.

Jeff Kaliss - May 21, 2019

The singer deployed her vocal gifts in a set drawn from her latest album.

Jeff Kaliss - May 20, 2019

A sense of coming together and the power of the collective underline the quartet’s fifth annual festival.

Jeff Kaliss - May 14, 2019

A collaboration with Marcus Roberts’s jazz trio opens new musical avenues for the NCCO.

Jeff Kaliss - May 6, 2019

The latest iteration of the multicultural collaboration explores the idea of the heroic gesture.

Jeff Kaliss - May 6, 2019

The 14-member ensemble has the audience at SFJAZZ dancing and clapping along.