Sonny Rollins Chuck Stewart/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Jaco Pastorius performs in 1982, around the time when Paul Blakemore engineered his concert at Avery Fisher Hall for NPR's Jazz Alive!. Tom Copi/Courtesy of Resonance Records hide caption

Terence Blanchard is the guest on this week's Piano Jazz. Henry Adebonojo/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

The late Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, in a portrait taken at her home in California in 2004. J.Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption

Dee Dee Bridgewater. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs live at Apogee Studio for KCRW. Brian Feinzimer/KCRW hide caption

Buster Williams performs at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Lawrence Sumulong /Courtesy of Jazz At Lincoln Center hide caption

The Heliocentrics' new album, A World Of Masks, is out digitally May 26 and physically on June 9. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

T.S. Monk performs at the 2013 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz hide caption

Sarathy Korwar performs for NPR's "Night Owl" series. NPR hide caption

Nathaniel Cross on trombone, Binker Golding on tenor saxophone, Moses Boyd on drums and Theon Cross on tuba perform at SXSW in March 2017. Nicole Fara Silver/Courtesy of Jazz Standard hide caption

Carmen Cavallaro performs in 1971. Dick Darrell/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption

Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés performs at the Havana Jazz Festival in December 2016. Valdés is one of the artistic directors of this year's International Jazz Day festivities. Erika Goldring/Getty Images hide caption

Regina Carter. Rahav Segev /Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Dee Dee Bridgewater performs at Jazz At Lincoln Center. Frank Stewart/Jazz At Lincoln Center hide caption

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah's new album, Diaspora, comes out June 23. Kiel Scott/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda is out May 5. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Jonas Gwangwa with Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi. Halim's Photographic Service, Cape Town BAHA/Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online hide caption

Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald during a 1958 visit to London. John Downing/Getty Images hide caption

Ella Fitzgerald singing at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1963. Ronald Dumont/Getty Images hide caption