All entries in this reference are fully revised and updated with expanded discographies in which the CD reviews are preceded by quickly-accessible, biographical three-liners on the artists and bands.
JEFF KALISS writes reviews, commentary, textbooks, and books, articles, and festival and album liner notes based on the more than a thousand interviews he's conducted over three decades, about many musics --- classical, jazz, blues, world, country, and rock ---, as well as on the topics of film, theater, and broadcast media. His interviewees have included Marilyn Horne, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, John Lee Hooker, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Bob Weir, and Sly Stone, and he's the author of an authorized biography: I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone (Backbeat Books, 2009).
Jeff's work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the San Jose Mercury-News, the Christian Science Monitor, Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Songlines magazine, the San Francisco Examiner, and San Francisco Classical Voice (http://www.sfcv.org). He lives in San Francisco with his wife, children, and cat, and is contemplating book projects outside of entertainment.
