“People don’t truly understand or know about the contributions of Black artists, Black composers, Black inventors,” said saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, who aims to change that with his new recording, Painter Of The Invisible.

The fourth annual M³ Festival at Roulette Intermedium will feature Becca Stevens, Kenny Barron, Immanuel Wilkins, Devon Gates and other pioneering musicians.

“[That’s] the thing of the beboppers,” Bradford said. “These guys were important for not only playing that wonderful music, but they knew a sort of social stance, you see?”

Pat Metheny will perform with his Side-Eye III ensemble at ​Big Ears 2026 in Knoxville, Tennessee, next March.

Trio aRT with its avalanche of instrumentation: from left, Pheeroan akLaff, Scott Robinson and Julian Thayer.

Don and Maureen Sickler serve as the keepers of engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s flame at Van Gelder Studio, perhaps the most famous recording studio in jazz history.

“It’s energetic,” says Brittany Davis of feeling the spirits of the ancestors. “It’s interpretive. It’s a dance of sound and vibration. It’s a memory, it’s a wash. It’s washing over you.”

Mark Masters, right, with Billy Harper.

​The Free Slave, Cosmos Nucleus and Sunset To Dawn: three classic Muse albums being reissued this fall by Timer Traveler Recordings.

Tarbaby will be among the performers at the inaugural Sound And Gravity Festival Sept. 10–14 in Chicago.