“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.”

“We’re trying … to be true to his intention, but give it space to breathe in today’s world,” Lara Downes says about her and Edmar Colon’s reimagining of Gershwin’s classic piece.

“I’m a father, mentor, teacher, bandleader and activist,” says Keyon Harrold. “All of these things are happening at once. We all need some kind of barometer to help us stay grounded.”

“I love the idea of articulating our dreams and wishes and in a way ‘shouting’ them in our mind — the same way the great Dizzy Gillespie talks about hearing the melodies loudly,” says guitarist Rotem Sivan.

“I do march to the beat of my own drum,” says Ross Pederson, and that drum has led him to release Identity on his own label.

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.