“We have figured out our show, and people seem to be really connecting with it,” Emmet Cohen says of his band’s current tour, a tribute to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. “The audiences are large and exuberant. It feels like we’re doing what we’re meant to be doing.”

On the festival’s final night came a duo composed of two one-offs — guitarist Julian Lage and bassist Christian McBride.

Simon Moullier’s new album, Ceiba, features a cosmopolitan kaleidoscope of sonic influences.

Viola artist Mat Manieri says DoYeon Kim’s approach to music is “at once delicate, and then punk rock — no fear.”

“The greatest honor for me as a trumpet player is to have learned enough to know how great Louis Armstrong actually was,” said foundation president Wynton Marsalis, who spoke and performed at the gala.

“The first time I was with him, I felt, ‘You must be on the right track to have people like this endorse you,’” Bobby Broom said of his mentor, the late Sonny Rollins.

“I really wanted to make a record that’s something you can, like, put in your car and drive and have a story,” says Dida Pelled.

Everything about pianist Ben Markley’s new large ensemble project feels classic.

DownBeat once described Vancouver’s Tony Wilson as “a talismanic West Coast figure.”

Ibrahim was an early jazz acolyte, studying the music via 78s he would buy from soldiers stationed in South Africa — who also gave him the nickname “Dollar.”