Mike Stern's voice carries a mix of warmth and humility as he reflects on his latest album, Echoes and Other Songs. A celebrated figure in the world of jazz fusion, Stern joined the Backstage Bay Area ...
After a remarkable 20-year run as music director of the Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern will conduct his farewell concert with the orchestra June 21 to 23 at Helzberg Hall. The program is made up ...
Michael Stern at the Classical KC studios in 2024. After 19 seasons, Michael Stern is stepping down as music director of the Kansas City Symphony, with Matthias Pintscher taking over at the start of ...
Over the course of his decorated career, jazz guitar legend Mike Stern has worked with some of the genre’s biggest names, playing alongside the likes of drummer Billy Cobham, bassist Jaco Pastorius ...
Mike Stern is a miraculous guitarist. That’s not just high praise about his prowess on the instrument — although he’s certainly worthy of plenty of that — but rather an assessment of what’s he’s had ...
Italian investor and entrepreneur Gianluca Vacchi filed a lawsuit against his partner, developer Michael Stern, over his investment in a North Beach development that has not come to fruition. Vacchi ...
Michael Stern was fed up. For weeks, an anonymous website had been portraying the real estate developer as a fraud who has a history of deceiving investors and business partners. Does he? Stern says ...
With a running time of seventy-seven minutes plus, guitarist Mike Stern's Echoes and Other Songs is effectively a double album. And like most such expansive works—including classics like Bob Dylan's ...