“What I got from Percy was the dignity of playing the bass,” Buster Williams said of Percy Heath.

“I’m not getting any younger, and in my later years I want to make sure my own visions can be realized,” says pianist George Colligan.

Tyreek McDole follows up his Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition win with a collection of jazz classics.

Butcher Brown, clockwise from top left: Marcus Tenney, DJ Harrison, Morgan Burrs, Corey Fonville and Andrew Randazzo. (Keyboardist Harrison couldn’t make the gig, so special guest Jacob Mann sat in with the band at the Reno Jazz Festival.)

​“I love the place that fate or whatever has positioned me in Gil Evans’ life and legacy,” said Ryan Truesdell.

​The Westerlies, from left: Addison Maye-Saxon, Riley Mulherkar, Andy Clausen and Chloe Rowlands.

“Playing duo is one of the most difficult things to do, after playing solo,” said drummer Lesley Mok, shown here with her duo cohort, pianist Phillip Golub.

“All those female voices are choirs of women coming to heal the world from the imbalance of the masculine and feminine,” Meza says of her new album, Portal.

Nicholas Payton looked very zen in this photo used for a feature in the January 2024 edition of DownBeat. His departure from Berklee College of Music was anything but.

Brian Charette’s Borderless is his latest album — just Charette, solo, and his Hammond B-3.