A deluge of posthumous Chick Corea releases focuses both on his Elektric Band forays as well as his classical leanings.

“I think a lot of people think this still sounds like me, but they’ll also know it’s 
something different,” says Yuhan Su about her latest recording. “I am proud of that.”

“I put my head down and make the art that I want to make and then see what happens,” says guitarist, singer and songwriter Jonah Tolchin.

Berklee Jazz Camper Tamina Cirilli

Looking toward the city side of learning, campers at the Summer Jazz Workshop of Fordham College at Lincoln Center performed in New York’s Times Square.

Symphonic Swing, one of the groups at the Charleston Jazz Academy, performs.

Jarred Sims directs the West Virginia University Mountaineer Honor Jazz Band during rehearsal.

Jazz Girls Day, a program spearheaded by Colleen Clark, assistant professor of jazz studies at the University of South Carolina (far right), has held five events over the past two years and is expanding the program to several other states.

“I think most jazz musicians exist in a space where the unknown is actually pretty thrilling,” said Sara Gazarek about putting together the new jazz vocal program at Eastman School of Music.

“I listened to players like Ben Webster and Wayne Shorter, two opposites, who spoke to me profoundly about saying a whole lot with less,” Osby says.