Pianist John Beasley and trumpeter Marquis Hill onstage during the Unlimited Miles sextet’s set at the Newman Center.

Cécile McLorin Salvant busts out Jelly Roll Morton’s “The Murder Ballad” at Big Ears, here with pianist Sullivan Fortner.

​David Murray provided ample solos that took flight at controlled heights, then crept down to a deep reed-richness.

Hiromi delivered an exuberant performance of muscular piano playing.

Dan Tepfer raised the bar on real-time algorithmic composition during his Nov. 15 Carnegie Hall debut.

​MIke LeDonne performs at Dizzy’s Club in New York on Oct. 26.

Marc Ribot delivered a transfixing set at the historic club Quasimodo during this year’s JazzFest Berlin.

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier, trumpeter Wallace Roney Jr., pianist Craig Taiborn, guitarist Marc Ducrete and bassist Brad Jones joined conductor Ernst Theis and the 46-piece Ostinato Orchestra in a Denardo Coleman-produced re-envisioning of Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come at the Jazz a la Villette Festival.

​Blake betrayed little emotion even as his hands were a blur of paradiddles, cross-sticking and double-stroke rolls. But beneath the surface, emotion was lurking.

Trumpeters Ashlin Parker (left), Freddie Hendrix, Jon Faddis, Corey Wilkes and Maurice Brown perform with pianist Matthew Fries, bassist Carlo De Rosa and drummer Keith Hall during the Oct. 11 summit.