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Another round of Newport previews, drummer Michael Carvin and much ado about jazz standards.

Grammy winner Jacob Collier has been called a musical phenomenon; his work is full of joy and spontaneity. He makes a case for why we should emphasize play, passion, and curiosity over practice.

Every time Andrew Hill takes a seat behind a piano, the jazz world takes note. "Time Lines" speaks to his brilliance at teetering between the worlds of the blues and the abstract. And it's one of the funkiest compositions in Hill's massive repertoire.

Sara Gazarek's latest CD combines a singer-songwriter's mentality with jazz improvisation. It features arrangements of contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney and Gillian Welch among originals. Hear an interview and performance.

Drummer Louis Hayes leads the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band in a musical tribute to one of the most popular groups of the 1960s. Hayes is just the man to revive the hard-bop tunes, as he spent his 20s with the legendary alto sax player. Hear the concert recorded by JazzSet.

Did you know that Sonny Rollins played on a Rolling Stones song? Hear that and other jazz cameos from famous pop-rock tracks.

Halvorson balances golden-era hard-bop order and free improvising entropy. At the NPR Music offices, her band strikes comforting tones, but also morphs, rephrases and implodes those ideas.

Colombian emigre Edmar Castaneda came to the U.S. as a teenager and fell in love with the music of Charlie Parker and Chick Corea. So he decided to use a traditional instrument of Colombia's cowboys to play his own form of pan-Latin jazz.

National Ice Cream Day was July 20, so we asked you to vote for your favorite ice cream flavor and tell us how listening to WRTI has so much in common with indulging in everyone's best-loved frozen treat.

The Grammy-nominated saxophonist brought the house down with his reflective, danceable ballads.