It wasn’t the sonorous saxophone melding into a lively piano solo that opens Miguel Zenón’s Golden City that began my most recent trip to San Francisco. Instead, it was the mechanical female voice of ...

SAN FRANCISCO BLUES FESTIVAL: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Great Meadow, Fort Mason. Saturday: Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm; Billy Preston and Barbara Lewis; Jorma Kaukonen and ...

Longtime Bay Area bluesman J. C. Smith has been around the block, traveling not only across the U.S., but also to far-flung places like Argentina, Armenia, Canada, Chile, China, Latvia, ...

Five years after a pipe burst and flooded out San Francisco’s venerable Biscuits and Blues nightclub, its stage will come to life Thursday for the club’s grand reopening. The reopening of the famed ...