Andrew Gilbert
Andrew’s Contributions
July/August 2010 • Overdue Ovation
Philip Catherine: Overdue Ovation
Andrew Gilbert profiles legendary European jazz guitarist who has often been overlooked in the U.S.
05/12/10 • News
A Great Night in San Francisco
Andrew Gilbert on SFJAZZ Gala recently held in San Francisco
December 2009 • Before & After
Before & After with Jackie Ryan
Since the release of her first CD in 2000, Bay Area singer Jackie Ryan has won an avid following with a series of increasingly confident albums showcasing her big, lustrous voice, deft sense of swing and polyglot repertoire. The daughter of a Mexican mother...
May 2009 • Overdue Ovation
Ernestine Anderson: A Strong Second Act
The story of rock ’n’ roll is usually told as a triumphant march, a populist victory for exuberant kids over the forces of repression and cultural conformity. But the rock revolution, particularly the second wave spearheaded by the British Invasion, also...
06/20/08 • Concerts
23rd Annual TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival
A weekend at the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival can feel like a whirlwind jet-setting adventure, a dizzying sprint through some of the music’s most exciting redoubts. If it’s noon at the Roundhouse this must be Amsterdam. Or Lisbon...
May 2008 • Features
The Israeli Jazz Wave: Promised Land to Promised Land
Israel is always in the headlines, and the news is invariably bad. The plight of the Palestinians, apocalyptic threats from Iran’s president, suicide bombings and rumors of war generate a constant current of anxiety that radiates around the globe. But when...
December 2007 • At Home
Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson loves the simple life. Golfing. Fishing. Chopping wood. Hanging with his family. Playing ballads at sensuously slow tempos. He’s always been among the most physical of vibraphonists, often delivering notes with a flourish of body English...
November 2007 • Artist Profiles
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Finding Africa
When vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater first landed in Mali, she was greeted as a long-lost relative. Literally. Upon leaving the airport in the capital of Bamako, she was accosted by an older man, and when she couldn’t understand what he was saying he just grew...
October 2007 • Artist Profiles
Fred Katz: Freak Folk
Given the title, one could be forgiven for dismissing Folk Songs for Far Out Folk as an Eisenhower-era goof. But Fred Katz, the first jazz cellist to explore the instrument’s potential for bowed improvisation, was utterly serious about the 1958 project...
September 2007 • Features
Clint Eastwood: Mise En Swing
If jazz had a few more champions like Clint Eastwood, the music’s status in America’s cultural firmament would be much less tenuous. Then again, as an iconic actor and Oscar-winning director and producer, Eastwood is sui generis. And so is his broad commitment...
June 2007 • Artist Profiles
Andy Narell: Man of Steel
Andy Narell is a master of collaboration who has turned virtuosity on the steel drums into an international musical passport. But when it came to creating his most ambitious recording yet, Narell decided to go it alone. Tatoom, his new album on Heads Up...
June 2007 • Features
Joshua Redman: Playing Through the Changes
From his first confident step onto the national stage with his triumph at the 1991 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, he soloed with preternatural maturity, improvising with a beguiling blend of recklessness and poise. Off the bandstand...
January/February 2007 • Artist Profiles
The Heath Brothers: Brotherly Jazz
Brotherly Jazz, the engaging and insightful 70-minute documentary DVD exploring the lives and careers of remarkable siblings Tootie, Jimmy and Percy Heath, almost collapsed before it ever got off the ground. Danny Scher, who made a mint as vice president...
December 2006 • News
Larry Harlow: Salsa's Second Coming
Keyboardist and composer Larry Harlow was present at the birth of Fania Records, so it seems apt that the label’s revival has breathed new life into his career. At its peak in the mid-1970s, Fania was a global force that turned salsa into an international...
December 2006 • Features
Harold Mabern and Eric Alexander: Getting Schooled
Seventy-year-old pianist Harold Mabern’s talents have long been sought by many popular bandleaders, but he’s remained committed to protégé Eric Alexander. Andrew Gilbert investigates one of the most fruitful partnerships in mainstream jazz.
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ReportAbout Andrew Gilbert
As a teenage Deadhead in the mid-’80s, Andrew Gilbert experienced a series of jazz epiphanies at Santa Cruz’s Kuumbwa Jazz Center, starting with Sun Ra’s Arkestra parading through the audience chanting “We travel the spaceways/from planet to planet.” “I was already deep into Miles Davis, but I suddenly realized that jazz was as big as the universe,” Gilbert says. He covers jazz and world music for the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe and San Diego Union-Tribune. A JT contributor since 2004, Gilbert has written profiles of Miguel Zenón, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mimi Fox and Eric Alexander.