Jon Garelick

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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

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

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

Jackson’s presentation — warm, inviting, vastly knowledgeable, unpretentious — earned him a fiercely loyal audience, which probably accounts for his longevity on the Boston airwaves.

The 22-year-old singer has been on a trajectory since winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and the performance at Scullers showed why.

The events of his life became the images that haunted him, and they mirrored his own struggles as an artist, grappling with representation vs. abstraction as well as the social unrest of the times.

Vadim Neselovskyi plays a solo recital of his new work, “Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City,” Saturday at Berklee’s David Friend Recital Hall. Proceeds will go to Ukrainian humanitarian relief efforts.

For Provincetown, the upside-down world of Carnival Week was a return to normal.

After 14 months of isolation, I’m here with 80 or so other music fans at a John Scofield show. And it’s both familiar and strange.

Composer, bandleader, and entrepreneur prepares for a residency at New England Conservatory.

The list of the year’s best includes releases from locals Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science, Yoko Miwa, and Massachusetts native Jeremy Udden.

From the old guard to performers making their festival debuts, it was hard to go wrong at the venerable event on Saturday.

The core of her work is solo performance with live looping, layering cello parts and vocal lines.

Frontman Ian Hunter, approaching his 80th birthday, led the band through a 105-minute set, singing every song and even shouting out a few high-note climaxes.