While jazz has been a common thread, the work of Danish guitarist Mark Solborg’s has veered well outside any clear parameters.

Improvising cellist Tomeka Reid’s most recent recording is The Mouser (Relative Pitch), a collaboration with drummer Filippo Monico.

Bassist Chuck Israels leads his Nextet ensemble during a March 6 show at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Saxophonist Matt Nelson (left), drummer Max Jaffe, bassist Nick Dunston and vocalist/composer Amirtha Kidambi are releasing From Untruth (Northern Spy) under the name Elder Ones.

Pianist Amy K. Bormet founded the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011. The festival returns March 10-31.

Aaron Goldberg’s academic work might have influenced his music in more ways than he’s aware of, at least in a conceptual sense.

Bassit Carlos Henriquez has recorded The South Bronx Story, both live and in the studio, and RodBros Music is set to issue the material later this year.

Caspar Brötzmann performs at Berlin’s SO36 during a tour for Black Axis. The guitarist’s work with his trio, Massaker, is being reissued by Southern Lord Recordings, which also will release a record by a new Brötzmann project, Bass Totem, in 2020.

At age 14, drummer Allison Miller performed at Blues Alley in Washington D.C. with guitarist Charlie Byrd.

Vocalist Madison McFerrin has scheduled several European performance dates for the spring.