Sanborn’s highly stylized playing and searing signature sound — frequently ornamented with thrill-inducing split-tones and bluesy bent notes — influenced generations of jazz and blues saxophonists.

​Brian Blade will serve as Artist-in-Residence at this year’s Detroit Jazz Festival, to be held over Labor Day Weekend.

​Laufey is among the ticket headliners scheduled to perform at this year’s Rochester International Jazz Festival.

Wynton Marsalis will perform at this summer’s Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York.

​Kris Davis (left) will perform at Jazzfestival Saalfelden with her trio mates Johnathan Blake and Robert Hurst.

In addition to his one-man show, Collier will perform with Samara Joy and D-Nice at this year’s DC Jazz Festival.

“I want to inform myself to better convey ideas about nature and sustainability through my music,” says Freitas.

“The amazing thing that I see of great musicians on stage is their ability to utilize their lexicon of languages,” says Kokayi.

“I try to strike just the right balance of paying tribute to the original and also injecting new life into the music,” says Myles Wright about his music inspired by classic video game tunes.

Cuscuna played a singular role in the world of jazz as a producer of new jazz, R&B and rock recordings; as co-founder of a leading reissue record label; as a historian, journalist and DJ; and as the man who singlehandedly kept the Blue Note label on life support.