Wynton Marsalis will perform at this summer’s Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York.

​Kris Davis (left) will perform at Jazzfestival Saalfelden with her trio mates Johnathan Blake and Robert Hurst.

In addition to his one-man show, Collier will perform with Samara Joy and D-Nice at this year’s DC Jazz Festival.

“It’s not like Bach, where you had better play the notes correctly,” Fleck says. “In the case of Rhapsody, it had been done so many ways and with the blessing of [Gershwin].”

“I want to inform myself to better convey ideas about nature and sustainability through my music,” says Freitas.

“The amazing thing that I see of great musicians on stage is their ability to utilize their lexicon of languages,” says Kokayi.

“I try to strike just the right balance of paying tribute to the original and also injecting new life into the music,” says Myles Wright about his music inspired by classic video game tunes.

“Within our uniquely limited instrumentation, we can get people loud and excited,” Kahil El’Zabar says of his 50-year-old Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.

Cuscuna played a singular role in the world of jazz as a producer of new jazz, R&B and rock recordings; as co-founder of a leading reissue record label; as a historian, journalist and DJ; and as the man who singlehandedly kept the Blue Note label on life support.

​Irabagon has simultaneously released two albums on his own label, Irabbagast Records.