The GRAMMY-winning Harlem Quartet joins jazz musicians Steve Wilson, Renee Rosnes, and David Wong to fuse classical and jazz forms in an evening featuring three world premieres. The program includes a ...

Jazz is just a word. So many different styles and colors of music fall under the term that a swift, orderly retraction of the word may be in order. The state of jazz music today is led by a new ...

The most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz for more than half a century, virtuoso pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés celebrates 60 years of musical alchemy with the SFJAZZ ...

In his more than thirty year career—almost exclusively with ECM—guitarist John Abercrombie has more often than not confined his formation to smaller groups ranging from solo through quartet. He has ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

This quartet mines some open spaces with commitment but the results aren't really all that involving. This is due in no small part to the fact that their focus seems to ebb and flow. This results in ...