The SFJAZZ Collective has been named the Jazz Journalists Association 2009 Small Ensemble Group of the Year, recognizing the seven composers and players and the Bay Area organization that fields this team. Miguel Zenon, Renee Rosnes, Dave Douglas and more run through a set of Wayne Shorter's pieces at Chicago's Orchestra Hall.

When trumpeter Dominick Farinacci pitched a Lee Morgan tribute to the programmers of the 29th Detroit Jazz Festival, they loved the idea. Outdoors in the sun, three top young horn men nail Morgan's going-too-fast-and-making-the-corners style, sometimes in harmony.

From the 1950s through the '80s, film composer Mancini collected Oscars and Grammys up to five at a time. Saxophonist Ted Nash is the ideal musician to adapt Mancini themes for jazz quartet, as heard in a rare performance at the Detroit International Jazz Festival.

Sherrie Maricle and Cindy Blackman are band-leading drummers who barely ever take a break. In May, Maricle picked up the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award in Washington, D.C., and gigged in the Northeast. On break from playing for Lenny Kravitz, Blackman recently took her quintet on a tour of Spain.