Author: Ken Vermes

On a cold blustery winter night at SFJAZZ (February 19), guitarist John Scofield threw up a solid, “perfect game” piece of American-inspired music that was the antidote to the winds of winter and the blast of politics rattling our peace of mind. It is not our imagination that our culture, and music in particular, is […]

SFJAZZ, now in its fifth season in its “new” building,  continued its spectacular series of fall concerts with a hastily created memorial concert for the late Bobby Hutcherson, as well as a stunning tribute to Miles Davis by the SFJAZZ Collective and a thrilling series of shows by the Joe Lovano/Chucho Valdes Quintet. Tribute to […]