Patrick Jarenwattananon

Cal Tjader saluted, Pepper Adams reinterpreted and a band parades through the Lower East Side.

The hymn "Be Still My Soul" was one of the songs that Dave Douglas' mom asked him to play at her funeral. Now, he's recorded the tune. But well before he even heard the melody, it had already seen many different lives.

Before she died last year, the trumpeter's mother gave him a list of hymns to play at her memorial service, down to the specific verses. With a new band, aided by folksinger Aoife O'Donovan, Douglas presents a very personal project.

Adele's pianist, women in the avant-garde, Indiana jazz history and the 50 greatest saxophonists.

There comes a time in a jazz fan's life when he or she realizes that the rabbit hole goes far, far deeper than previously imagined. The new Spotify app from Blue Note Records begins to make sense of the data jumble in which fans happily abandon themselves.

An Ornette Coleman documentary restored, plus the freewheeling Tim Berne and Herbie's Mwandishi.

Wilson is always a colorful drummer — a timekeeper who exploits all the timbres a snare drum can give him. He's also a colorful personality, a bandleader who wears his goofy joy on his sleeve.

Wilson's Arts and Crafts band has adapted to its leader's "slightly warped wavelength."

A Nat Adderley melody, its economical brilliance and what it means to have the blues.

Drummer Jimmy Cobb questioned, a poetic Jazz Passenger and goodbye to bassist Charles Flores.