Sunday's soulful celebration of Eddie Marshall, the master San Francisco drummer, composer and teacher who died in September at 73. The heart of the Bay Area jazz scene for 40 years, Marshall was a versatile and much-loved artist who played with scores...

In 1980, he became part of the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. He also worked with the Mingus Big Band and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Gary has shared the stage and studio with luminaries like Freddie Hubbard and Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz,...

"The Mosaic Project" is Carrington's fifth album. A child prodigy, she has toured with some of the greatest names in jazz over the past two decades, including luminaries such as Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Jarreau, Joe Sample and Stan Getz. In...

He played with Fats Waller. Her father, also a musician, jammed with James Brown. Carrington received a full scholarship to Berklee when she was only 11 years old. A native of Medford, she went on to take the stage with a long line of jazz legends,...

Harper, 50, first dropped by the fledging jazz hangout and former yarn factory in late 2010. By March 2011, his group was the house band. “I could see what they were trying to do,” said Harper, who has recorded with a bevy of jazz heavyweights,...

Kelly says that the first saxophonist she heard was Stan Getz: "I just fell in love with his sound, his tone. To me, he sounds like the human voice coming through the saxophone." Courtesy of the artist Grace Kelly says that the first saxophonist she...