

Stanley Clarke performs at the Jazz Festival Basel, on November 1, 2017 in Switzerland. Goffredo Loertscher/WBGO hide caption
Cassandra Wilson at Newport Jazz Festival Jonathan Chimene hide caption
Damien Sneed conducts his Chorale Le Chateau during a performance of Wynton Marsalis' Abyssinian Mass at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2019. Ayano Hisa/Jazz at Lincoln Center hide caption
Leonard Bernstein at rehearsal for West Side Story. Carol Lawrence (who played Maria) is at his left, and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is playing the piano, 1957. Library of Congress, Music Division hide caption
Strata-East Records founders, from left: Trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell, photographed in 1970. David Redfern/Redferns/Getty hide caption
Mel Brown, 2019 Montavilla Jazz Festival Kathryn Elsesser/Kathryn Elsesser Photography hide caption
Trumpeter Charlie Porter and bassist John Lakey perform in May 2021. Aaron Hayman/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Gabrielle Cavassa & Pedriito Martinez at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival Mitra I. Arthur/NPR hide caption
Shemekia Copeland performs at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ. Mitra I. Arthur/NPR hide caption
Saxophonist Camille Thurman and bassist Endea Owens play at a Community Cookout in Jamaica, Queens on Sunday May 9, 2021 Anthony Artis /Artist hide caption
Saxophonists Mike and Julian Lee Christopher Drukker/Artist hide caption