“I’ve always wanted to make something bigger than just my own music and that can relate to my father’s legacy,” Ibrahim Maalouf says of playing his father’s invention, the four-valve trumpet.

“I can talk from the perspective of other parents and what it would be like,” Monika Herzig notes of advocating for her transgender son through music. “So let me do that. That’s the voice I can share.”

Johnson provided the slithery, smoky sax lead on Henry Mancini’s theme for the 1963 Peter Sellers film The Pink Panther.

“Jeff knows just what to play, how to construct drum fills around the arrangement,” Willie Jones III says of Jeff Hamilton. “Very musical.”

In 1955, Urtreger released a landmark recording among European interpretations of the bebop literature, René Urtreger Plays Bud Powell.

Fun-loving progressive powers, mixed with kitschy and shiny space/myth age costumes, make the Cosmic Swing Orchestra both entertaining and envelope-pushing.

Laura Chavez’s My Voice is not a vocal album.

Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet will record live at New York’s Village Vanguard for ECM records on Aug. 26–27.

A drummer’s drummer, Rodney Holmes gigged with everyone from Joe Zawinul and Carlos Santana to Steve Kimock and the Brecker Brothers.

​Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant took her North Sea artist-in-residency as an opportunity to explore her fascination with early music.