Author: Ken Vermes

“Tyner is one of the most brilliant pianists and commanding leaders in modern music. “ — DownBeat Tribute concerts are few and far between recently in San Francisco. They inherently must be very difficult to produce, expensive to execute, and probably an overwhelming number of great players  just aren’t interested. Who can blame them? The […]

There is no question that there are great women players in jazz. And a recent series of shows in the Bay Area not only emphasized this fact, but left many yearning for more. Despite some progress in the scope of prominent women players active in the music, there still remains the situation of deep gaps […]