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Tagged with: Jazz

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

New Music: DJ Amir unearths jazz-fusion communiqué ‘The Jupiter Effect’

Long before the Berlin-based DJ and producer Amir Abdullah became an esteemed music archivist, flying around the globe on the lecture circuit, discussing with...

Support musicians directly this Friday!

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again on May 1, looking out for independent artists right now. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

New Music: The bleary-eyed kaleidoscope of Once & Future Band’s ‘Deleted Scenes’

From their 2012 start, eclectic Oakland's Once & Future Band always reached for a simple goal—never mind the Kodachrome, dream-catcher, psych-rock veneer. "Progressive rock has a reputation for...

Arts Forecast: We can do this!

We may be going through tough times, but we're still producing the art, music, culture, deep inquiry, and joy that continue to sustain us....

New Music: On Thundercat’s ‘It is What It Is,’ a fusion of love, life, loss

"Funk is anything it needs to be in order to save my life," soothsaid George Clinton, the Godfather of the Funk, into my ear over the phone sometime in...

New Music: Yazmin Lacey’s ‘Morning Matters’ keeps a high vibration

It is unfortunate that everything we read, do, and check, as in Right Now, gets processed through a ʻcrisisʻ prism. As much as I...

New Music: Isaac Aesili’s ‘Hidden Truths’ brings elegant electronic grooves

Released just a couple of weeks after the spring equinox, Issac Aesiliʻs sophomore release unfurls before a turbulent planet with the elegant poise of jejune lilies...

Silenced in place? SF’s resilient music scene faces its latest obstacle

As Broken Horse, an enduring San Francisco band that calls its oeuvre Western Doom Noir, erupted into tuning instruments at its Rite Spot comeback show...

Arts Forecast: Apocalypse… but make it fashion!

The name of this column, "Arts Forecast," has suddenly taken on an ominous tone in this moment of cancellations and uncertainty. While we are...