Andrew Gilbert
Andrew’s Contributions
01/24/13 Concerts
SFJAZZ Center Is Open for Business
Tyner, Lovano, Corea, Spalding and many more inaugurate new jazz venue in San Francisco
10/01/12 Features
Jenny Scheinman: Motherhood & Invention
The violinist/composer on the harmony between family and creativity
01/11/12 Features
Tillery: A Vocal Dream Team
Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens bring diverse influences to this uniquely simpatico supergroup
10/07/11 Overdue Ovation
Wayne Wallace Does It All Across Cultures
The veteran Bay Area trombonist still has “a big list of things to do”
January/February 2011 Overdue Ovation
Barry Harris: Teacher Man
There’s nothing like a first love, a consuming passion that burns so brightly it casts a glow over the rest of your life. For Barry Harris, lightning struck the first time he sat in with Charlie Parker. More than six decades later, the pianist seems to recall...
December 2010 Features
Antonio Sanchez: The Conquering Hero
Since moving to the States from Mexico City in 1993, Antonio Sanchez has emerged as one of jazz’s foremost rhythmists: a “dream drummer” to Pat Metheny, Gary Burton and others, and a superb bandleader
11/22/10 Overdue Ovation
Mary Stallings: The Best-kept Secret in Vocal Jazz
Andrew Gilbert profiles the soulful jazz singer from the Bay area
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...
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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.