Roscoe Mitchell performs at Vibrato Grill & Jazz in Los Angeles last week. The composer and saxophonist was there to receive the Founders Award during ASCAP’s Jazz Awards ceremony.

AMP Trio is one of the featured performers of the Jazz in Progress: The Next Faces of Jazz series.

Keefe Jackson (left) and Dave Rempis perform at the Sons d’hiver festival in Paris on Jan. 29.

Pianist and bandleader Alfredo Rodríguez remembers living in Cuba, wishing he “could talk and play with American musicians.”

Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater was among the performers on Blue Note at Sea.

Amir ElSaffar’s most recent recording is Not Two, with his 17-piece Rivers of Sound Orchestra.

BOP Trio, which comprises bassist Linda May Han Oh (from left), drummer Johnathan Blake and saxophonist Chris Potter, recently played Giant Step Arts’ opening event, a two-night run at Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery.

Joe McPhee is set to perform with Graham Lambkin on June 16 as part of Lampo’s latest season of programming in Chicago.

A Jan. 29 memorial service in New York for Muhal Richard Abrams opened with the performance of his recently composed chamber work, “Trio Things,” by pianist Joe Kubera, violinist Tom Chiu and cellist Meaghan Burke.

Jason Stein, bass clarinet (clockwise from top of photo); Matt Ulery, bass; Rob Clearfield, piano; Quin Kirchner, drums; Nick Mazzarella, alto sax; Nick Broste, trombone; Russ Johnson, trumpet; Dustin Laurenzi, tenor sax; and Nate Lepine, tenor sax.