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 - December 6, 2012

After more than six decades of generously sharing his unique performing and compositional talent, and a bright and ingenuous spirit, Dave Brubeck passed away on Dec. 5, a day shy of his 92nd birthday.

Jeff Kaliss - December 4, 2012

Composers/conductors/teachers Dylan Mattingly and Matthew Cmiel riff on working with friends, despite being on opposite coasts.

Jeff Kaliss - November 15, 2012

Crossover feels like a national birthright to Douglas Lora, half of the Brasil Guitar Duo (the other half is João Luiz), which showcases both classical and popular music from their native Brazil and elsewhere.

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.