Jon Garelick

Byron, 64, is the featured guest artist on a concert program called “Crossing the Boundaries,” presented by his alma mater on Dec. 8.

Is it going to fall over? Is it going to grow arms and legs and walk like a Transformer?

As an author, the Buffalo Tom frontman manages to be a sure-footed guide through Russell’s extremely complicated personal and professional life.

“I like to think of myself as like a collector of sounds,” says the Cambridge native, who’ll be performing a Stevie Wonder tribute at the Regent Theatre in Arlington on Friday.

On Friday, Davis releases “Live at the Village Vanguard,” one of only a handful of women instrumentalists to lead recording sessions at that storied New York club.

Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, Luciana Souza, and a Bill Frisell/Ambrose Akinmusire double bill highlight a season that also includes the free, walkable “Jazz Along the Charles” showcase.

Three and a half years after it was forced to close at the outset of the pandemic, a pillar of the local jazz scene is making its re-entry Friday ahead of what promises to be a robust season.

The 39-year-old flutist-saxophonist-composer has created a formidable body of work that has as much affinity with modern classical composers as with jazz luminaries.

The saxophonist and composer has a new recording and upcoming concert.

Life lessons on violin by an eternal beginner.