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Jeff Kaliss
Jeff Kaliss


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Jeff Kaliss has written about music, theater, film, and other forms of entertainment, and the social and historical contexts in which they function, for over a quarter-century. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late sixties, Kaliss began writing for the San Francisco State College paper while pursuing a graduate degree in social science there, covering the Black Power movement and other campus issues and grooving to Sly and the Family Stone’s first sorties over Bay Area radio. While working as a civil rights investigator for the Federal government, Kaliss began freelancing for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday magazine, the San Francisco Examiner, the Oakland Tribune, the San Jose Mercury-News, and the Marin Independent-Journal, profiling and reviewing rock, jazz, and classical, country, and world musics, as well as theater, film, and comedy. Leaving his government job in 1988 to freelance full-time, Kaliss also penned album liner notes and features and artist bios for the Monterey Jazz Festival. His periodical writing expanded out to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Creative Loafing in Atlanta, the Christian Science Monitor, and Songlines magazine in London, as well as onto the Internet. He was heard regularly on KCSM radio’s Critics’ Corner, which he co-founded with the station’s Alisa Clancy, and he discussed world music on KQED-TV. Kaliss contributed to the encylopedic Rough Guide to Jazz and Rough Guide to World Music (The Rough Guides) and to the Music in the 20th Century series (Sharpe Reference). He also authored the Introduction to Dizzy: John Birks Gillespie in His 75th Year for jazz photographer Lee Tanner (Pomegranate Books) and the volume Music From Around the World for Grolier’s The Story of Music series.    His hundreds of interviews, in-person or by phone, have included Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Don Byron, George Clinton, Sally Field, Marilyn Horne, Shirley MacLaine, Hugh Masekela,Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, Ravi Shankar, Jerry Wexler, and Jonathan Winters, to alphabetically name just a few. With the births of daughter Natalie and son Nicholas, Kaliss has been putting in time as a caring father and husband, blessed by the sound of his nine-and-six-year olds singing along to "Dance to the Music.” At his kids’ elementary school, Kaliss deploys his modest skills on guitar and piano to help keep the music coming to the next generation.

Sly Stone: A Biography (Hal Leonard Corporation)

     
 

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