A counterpart to The Gilmore Artist Award for classical pianists, the Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award honors an exceptional jazz pianist. Its first recipient is Sullivan Fortner, who accepted at a ceremony in New York on Wednesday night.

In the past few years, Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri have contributed their musical lens to reimagining works from composer Béla Bartók's collection of folk music. This weekend, they will perform their adaptations in Philadelphia, in a concert presented by Fire Museum.

Moki Cherry's focus on "organic music" takes center stage in The Living Temple, a new exhibit at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. It features some of Cherry's most prominent paintings and tapestries, exploring their resonance with the work of trumpeter Don Cherry, her husband and collaborator.

A beguiling new art space on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway celebrates the sculptural forms of Alexander Calder — presenting them in a way that subtly evokes the experience of music.

Originally from Osaka, Japan, Akiko Tsuruga became a world-class jazz organist, touted by soul-jazz originals like Lou Donaldson. She died on Sept. 13, after a short terminal illness.

The interactive installation 'Water Orchestra' turns the Dilworth Park fountain into a responsive instrument that anyone can conduct. But on Sept. 11 the podium welcomes a pro: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with members of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Under the Surface represents a creative breakthrough for pianist and composer Sumi Tonooka. She made the suite for the Alchemy Sound Project, inspired by the underground network that nourishes trees, and serves as a sustaining model.

On a new album with the National Philharmonic, conductor Michael Repper and violinist Curtis Stewart breathe new life into music by the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was a sensation in his time. His 150th birth anniversary provides a welcome opportunity, as Repper tells WRTI.

Trumpeter Josh Lawrence has become a stalwart on the scene, through an affiliation with Orrin Evans and an appointment at Ensemble Arts Philly. On his crisp new album, he traces a line that connects Frédéric Chopin and Thelonious Monk.

David F. Gibson, whose precise and hard-driving beat powered legacy editions of the Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Cab Calloway orchestras, and other bands big and small, died on July 30. He was 72.