Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie performs at the Boston Globe Jazz and Blues Festival on Jan. 15, 1966. Bob Daugherty/AP hide caption

Jenny Scheinman
Jenny Scheinman made her name in the New York City jazz scene, but she grew up on a bluff in Northern California's Humboldt County, where she now lives again. Joshua Black Wilkins/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Todd Sickafoose performs at the 92Y Tribeca. John Rogers for NPR/johnrogersnyc.com hide caption
Tiny Resistors: Live From 92Y Tribeca
Rodney Crowell, Jenny Scheinman In Concert
Violinist Jenny Scheinman performs at the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival. Erik Jacobs for NPR hide caption
Jenny Scheinman & Bill Frisell, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012
Jenny Scheinman's (left) quartet represents players raised on and used to playing all kinds of music. Michael Gross hide caption
Jenny Scheinman, far right, with her Mischief & Mayhem quartet. Left to right: drummer Jim Black, bassist Todd Sickafoose, guitarist Nels Cline. Michael Gross hide caption
Jenny Scheinman's Mischief And Mayhem: Live At The Village Vanguard
Jenny Scheinman. John Rogers/johnrogersnyc.com hide caption