Brazilian drummer, singer, composer and improviser Mariá Portugal is the curator for Music Unlimited 40.

The Bay Area Giants of Jazz photo, which DownBeat published in ​its January 2000 issue, features vocalist Margie Baker wearing a yellow beret in the third row, right, from the bottom row.

“This was my chance to take everything that I had absorbed in Chicago and try to bring some more complexity,” Emma Dayhuff says of her new album, Mountains.

For trumpeter Marcus Belgrave (1936–2015), shown here with his wife, Joan, teaching meant more than developing instrumental technique. It meant helping musicians understand the history they were inheriting and the immense responsibility that came with it.

“Singing on the bass comes from my Italian heritage,” Senator said. “I want my bass to resonate, but I want to hear the lightness, too.”

Huntertones, from left, Josh Hill, Chris Ott, Jon Lampley, Adam DeAscentis, Dan White and John Hubbell.

Scott Robinson, shown here in “The Lab,” will play a recording of the first movement from his long-term project Reach For Tomorrow on Thursday, Oct. 1, at Hunter College in Manhattan.

Alto saxophonist and composer ​Immanuel Wilkins has been named a 2026 MacArthur fellow.

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

A solo concert by saxophonist Joshua Redman will close the first night of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival on Sept. 26.