Andrew Gilbert

While it seems like ancient history, it is within living memory that releasing an album was an entirely reasonable economic decision for independent musicians....

For the casual music fan, the transition at SFJAZZ from the organization’s founder, Randall Kline, to trumpeter Terence Blanchard has been a seamless affair.  Week...

When Tiffany Austin arrived in the Bay Area in 2009, she’d decided to put music on the back burner. After about five years supporting...

Drawing on centuries-old rhythms and ragas from South Indian classical music and grooves honed in Oakland’s furnace of simmering funk, the Alaya Project is...

The Bay Area has long embraced the music of West and Central Africa. Brought here by masters including Nigerian bassist Babá Ken Okulolo, Ghanaian...

Tony Lindsay is inextricably linked to Santana, and not just because he spent about a quarter century as the band's lead vocalist. He was...

"An Oakland guitarist and composer with a rigorously conceived and wide-open aesthetic, Evangelista is a creative force at the sonic frontiers where the Bay Area’s new music scene bleeds into jazz. Deeply informed by traditional music of the Philippines, he designed Apura by drawing on folkloric melodies, though the musical conversation unfurled with the roiling ebb and surge of a jazz colloquy," writes Andrew Gilbert in this week's music section.

Andrew Gilbert profiles Drummer Larry Vann and his deeply rooted ties to the Bay Area and his storied history playing with some of the most noteworthy artists in Funk, Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Soul.