Jazz

Bartz is one in a small class of elite players tapped for the nation’s highest jazz honor this year.

This year’s concert has all stars at every stand and includes guest vocalist Clairdee and saxophonist Ken Peplowski.

A jazz festival should honor the tradition and its contemporary practitioners by headlining them.

The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra backs the Master Chorale and guest vocalists in music by Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams.

The star trumpeter and composer will take over Randall Kline’s job in the fall.

The diverse summer lineup of music, theater, dance, and performance art will be based in the Mission District this year.

The eminent guitarist pulls together his compadres for a retrospective at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage.

Rent Romus and Heikki Koskinen’s Itkuja Suite has its premiere in Berkeley this week.

In concert with Brooklyn Rider, Herrera brought to mind nueva canción matriarch Mercedes Sosa.

The master saxophonist owned the Davies stage in a wide-ranging program and still had time to appear at the SFJAZZ gala after.