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 - March 7, 2012

San Francisco Choral Artists are joined by the klezmer-flavored Veretski Pass for a celebration of psalms and other music from Jewish composers and tradition.

Jeff Kaliss - February 24, 2012

Three centuries of mandolin music are embraced by performers Mike Marshall and Catarina Lichtenberg in their conversation with SFCV and their upcoming concerts around the Bay.

Jeff Kaliss - February 21, 2012

A world-renowned college of Indian music in the North Bay continues to share the treasures of North Indian classical music.

Jeff Kaliss - January 29, 2012

Fresh from a European tour, the Kronos Quartet hosts a pair of Bay Area presentations of the tantalizing music of Azerbaijan, along with fascinating new additions to their repertoire.

Jeff Kaliss - January 27, 2012

The revered arts and culture of several Asian countries are celebrated in a festival at Stanford, now in its eighth year.

Jeff Kaliss - January 10, 2012

Keeping busy as violinist, violist, conductor, and teacher, 63-year-old Pinchas Zukerman has plenty to say about what he’s learned ... and what’s to come.