Voice of Roma’s Herdeljezi Festival returns to Berkeley berkeleyside.org/2024/05/01/voi…

Maui disaster inspires new Bay Area musical work debuting this weekend mercurynews.com/2024/04/30/mau…

Thank You to Andrew Gilbert of the SF Chronicle for this wonderful preview of #SFIAF2024 !

Just four more days until the San Francisco International Arts Festival returns to the Mission District and we can't wait!

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Thank You @MissionLocal for all of your amazing support of #SFIAF2024 !

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Writing my summer guide this week, don't get left out just because you haven't updated your calendars!

George Adams
(April 29, 1940 – November 14, 1992)

The great documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo covered many harrowing stories, and her masterpiece, 'The Devil Never Sleeps' turned a telenovela eye on her own family's mysteries...I tried to sum up her legacy in the San Francisco Chronicle
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Many thanks to Andrew Gilbert for writing about the upcoming South African Celebration at SFJAZZ that we're thrilled to be part of. It is #WestCoast launch of McCoy Mrubata's first release on AfricArise / on Ropeadope mercurynews.com/2024/04/23/sfj…

Wondering if the The New York Times will correct the assertion that 25 states 'now have laws or regulations barring transgender athletes from competing in girls & women’s sports' since trans men are free to compete. Also, 'transgender female athletes' is incoherent.
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Three Bay Area gigs by Bremerton, WA-based alto saxophonist/flutist/composer Mark Lewis (4/24 Black Cat, 4/26 Sound Room #Oakland , 4/28 Chez Hanny #SanFrancisco ), w/ Adam Shulman, p; Peter Barshay, b; Jon Arkin, d. #jazz sfcv.org/articles/featu…

Revelatory interview with singer/composer Claudia Villela (by Scott Adams) in which she discusses her musical influences while growing up in Rio (family inspiration & 'the powerful effect of ambiance'). #musicabrasileira
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Michael Cuscuna is one of the people responsible for all of the classic jazz recordings we grew up listen to. Rest In Peace, Mike.

Lovely sendoff for Joshua Kosman by Andrew Gilbert, but it confirms the sad, if expected, news that San Francisco Chronicle will not hire a successor on the classical beat—especially as the Salonen/SF Symphony fracas is still ongoing. missionlocal.org/2024/04/a-cult…

Joshua Kosman, one of the last full-time classical music critics at an American daily newspaper, steps down at the end of the month. We will not see his like again. missionlocal.org/2024/04/a-cult… via Mission Local

One thing I appreciate about the steady flow of ads for edibles is that they often pop up right after I read something inexplicably thick, as if offering an explanation for the derailed train of thought on display.

Congratulations to our very own Tim Jackson, along with SFJAZZ founder Randall Kline, on receiving the Ed Bradley Award for Leadership in Jazz from Jazz at Lincoln Center.

A 4.8 earthquake had just jostled Bill Frisell’s home in Brooklyn, but the temblor wasn’t strong enough to rattle the guitarist’s preternatural calm. He sounded utterly preoccupied by the task at hand, preparing for a four-night F&S residency April 18-21. mercurynews.com/2024/04/18/bil…

Bay Area jazz guitar great Calvin Keys dies at 82 datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/calvin-k…
A beautiful player, and a beautiful cat...

'For sax star, collaboration with David Bowie still paying dividends' via East Bay Times by Andrew Gilbert

'Designated by Bowie to step in as the spokesman for the album, McCaslin was thrust into the spotlight...'

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Donny McCaslin at Yoshi's Tue, Apr 16

A Cultural Mission gets dirty with Elijah Wald and Jelly Roll Morton missionlocal.org/2024/04/jelly-… Andrew Gilbert Bird and Beckett