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 - May 6, 2019

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

Jeff Kaliss - April 30, 2019

The Bay Area chorus New Voices is for vocalists who identify as transgender, intersex, and gender-queer.

Jeff Kaliss - April 29, 2019

New compositions sound fresh on Baroque-style instruments at the Center for New Music.

Jeff Kaliss - April 15, 2019

S.F. Conservatory of Music instructors strut their fretted stuff in a concert ranging from the Baroque to jazz and back.

Jeff Kaliss - April 9, 2019

The lauded choral conductor/composer talks about his concert-length musical response to a notorious anti-gay hate crime.

Jeff Kaliss - March 29, 2019

The singer/trombonist talks about the duo’s new recording of originals and an upcoming tour stop in Oakland.

Jeff Kaliss - March 26, 2019

The orchestra showcases great music banned by oppressive regimes.

Jeff Kaliss - March 8, 2019

Symphony Silicon Valley participates in a program to introduce underserved students to the wonders of music and arts.

Jeff Kaliss - February 21, 2019

The composer and avant-garde guitarist talks about his philosophy of composition, tapping into traditional sources, and the pleasures of working with the local chorus.

Jeff Kaliss - February 9, 2019

A local tour by the St. Lawrence String Quartet kicks off the new collaborative effort to expand access to great chamber music.