“That silky tone, the tonal clarity. It’s like hearing a relative’s voice; you know it immediately,” Wilson said of Kenny Burrell.

“We started seeing something that’s not completely right, he had a cold, he was crying more,” Sivan said of his baby son’s cancer.

Cha Wa’s album Rise Up makes a joyful noise of redemption and freedom that propels the band on to the world stage.

Craig Taborn (left), Nels Cline and Marcus Gilmore turn a producer’s pet project into a jam for the ages.

Lee Ritenour, right, with journalist Ashley Kahn, center, and pianist Greg Burk, who translated for the Italian audience.

“Miles could hear so well that he could hear the future,” Bartz said..

Avishai Cohen, right, with writer Ashley Kahn at the North Sea Jazz Fest.

Christian McBride, the DownBeat Readers Poll choice for Artist of the Year, and R&B star Jeffrey Osborne at The Record Parlour, a used vinyl shop and show venue in Los Angeles.

​Jack DeJohnette: a tireless explorer who robustly embodied the jazz aesthetic as a kaleidoscopic drummer, pianist, tireless collaborator and marvelously creative and productive bandleader.

“Instead of trying to invent a single tone, we need to give it those shades of colors that change to fit the emotional interpretation of what the music is,” Branford Marsalis said, reflecting on the collective mindset of his longstanding quartet with Joey Calderazzo, Justin Faulkner and Eric Revis.