George Varga

SAN DIEGO — Seven-time Grammy Award-winner Jacob Collier is well known for performing one-man concerts at which he invites his audiences to serve as spontaneous multipart choirs.

Our list of top things to do this weekend includes a Día de los Muertos celebration, PoeFest, Once Upon a Hallowe'en and more

This week’s top San Diego concert picks include Gary Clark Jr’s phone-free gig at Humphreys, John Scofield at the Belly Up and the Julian Lage Quartet and Mark Dresser’s Gradience Quartet at UCSD.

He was the lead singer and lyricist in The Penetrators, which in its heyday in the late 1970s and early '80s sold out San Diego's Golden Hall, and shared concert stages with the Ramones and B-52's.

The series, which opens with a Nov. 3 concert by saxophone great Joshua Redman, has presented an array of legends and rising young stars.

Chick Corea, Charles Lloyd, Carla Bley, Lee Konitz, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau, Chano Dominguez and San Diego's James Moody, Holly Hofmann, Mark

He was the lead singer and lyricist in The Penetrators, which in its heyday in the late 1970s and early '80s sold out San Diego's Golden Hall, and shared concert stages with the Ramones and B-52's.

SAN DIEGO — The enormous Persian carpet that has been on the stage for numerous Athenaeum Jazz at The Scripps Research Auditorium concerts since 2013 doesn't fly, at least not in any conventional sense.

No other punk-rock act made as big or as enduring an impact in such a short time as the Sex Pistols, the combustible English band that was launched in late 1975 and imploded just 26 months later in San Francisco.

Our picks include Big Voices with Guitars at Wyndham Bayside, Lyle Lovett & His Small Large Band at The Sound and Ozomatli at Belly Up