“I specifically remember Linda walking into class every week with 10-page-long new compositions. I was very inspired — you were very capable,” says Fabian Almazan of meeting his future wife when they were students at Manhattan School of Music.

“He was such a beautiful guy,” George Garzone says of the late tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. He pays tribute to Brecker on his new recording, Themes For Good Friends.

“When I listen to things, I want to be moved, and I don’t need to be impressed,” says Nils Petter Molvær.

Two new box sets feature Oscar Peterson both live and in studio.

“I’m not going to create a powerful performance by overpowering the audience,” Okazaki explained. “I’m going to create a powerful performance by maintaining interest in what’s going to happen next.”

“It was just that suddenly … I could hear it,” Ravi Coltrane said of an epiphany he experienced during his late teens regarding his father’s music. “And it was almost like a calling, like something saying, ‘Hey, man, come on. It’s time to get serious.’ And the first time you really tune in and dial in and focus like that, it can be very life-changing.”

Record producer Bob Thiele’s classic photo that became the cover of John Coltrane’s landmark album A Love Supreme.

Zuraitis explores the full gamut of a love affair on The Devil I Knew.

SUNY Fredonia Jazz Flextet, a great example of working together.

Katie Thiroux