“It’s a blessing to be within this legacy of the music,” Joe Lovano says.

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.

Makiko Hirabayashi (left), Marilyn Mazur and Klavs Hovman are set to perform as The Makiko Hirabayashi Trio at jazzahead!’s European Jazz Meeting on April 26 in Bremen, Germany.

Ingrid Jensen stands for a solo during a Feb. 15 performance of the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, during the second Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival.

Bassist Steve Swallow (left), drummer Bobby Previte and keyboardist Jamie Saft have released You Don’t Know The Life (RareNoise), a follow-up to their 2017 album Loneliness Road, which featured Iggy Pop.

A series of short films paired with portions of saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff’s Path Of Totality (Whirlwind) are set to be released through June.

Ben Sidran’s latest release is a compilation of live recordings made between 1975 and 2015.

Mike DiRubbo’s latest release is a live album recorded at Smalls in New York.

On his new album, In The Moment, organist Pat Bianchi collaborates with numerous jazz heavyweights, including guitarist Pat Martino and vibraphonist Joe Locke.