“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.”

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

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.

Count Basie’s is the most-represented orchestra on the new Mosaic V-Disc set.

Clockwise from top left, Mary Halvorson, Patricia Brennan, Adam O’Farrill, Keith Jarrett’s At the Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings, Sheila Jordan and Jaki Byard.

The band from Patricia Brennan’s Album of the Year: from left, John Hollenbeck, Michael Nicolas, Modney, Pala Garcia, Kyle Armbrust, Brennan, Miles Okazaki, Sylvie Courvoisier, Kim Cass and Eli Greenhoe. Not pictured is Arktureye.

Sheila Jordan was one of the first vocalists to fully internalize the language of bebop and transform Charlie Parker’s pioneering musical ideas into a vocal art form all her own.

Jaki Byard teaching at the Mark Levine Workshop in 1991. “He could crack jokes, but when he sat down, it was serious fun,” says pianist Fred Hersch, a former student.

The critics choice for Historical Album of the Year is At The Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings.