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Festival organizers also know that they present a music whose creators get better and wiser with age. Surely enough, this year's lineup recognizes the continuing creativity of bandleaders like Jack DeJohnette, Dianne Reeves and Pat Metheny.

Since he came over from Cuba, the percussionist has found a place in scores of bands. Here, he's the star. He leads a quartet which goes beyond what you'd think of Afro-Cuban music or jazz.

Eight more hours of video await, including Tedeschi Trucks Band, Kurt Elling and Jenny Scheinman.

Zenon teamed up with pianist Laurent Coq to write music based on the high-modernist Julio Cortázar novel Hopscotch — or Rayuela, in the original Spanish. They let their imaginations run wild.

What if there were lost big-band masterpieces by the great composer/arranger Gil Evans which never made it to record? One man has found a whole stash of charts, and has brought their hues to light.

Yuval, Anat and Avishai Cohen are top-tier jazz musicians. They're also siblings, and they occasionally record and perform together as a band. It's a family reunion you won't secretly dread.

Boston's Berklee College of Music, just up the road from Newport, has produced top jazz musicians for decades. It sends top students from its international initiative to Newport for a concert.

The two long-time bandmates have both developed reputations for flexibility — for being able to collaborate with anyone. Their violin-and-guitar duo performance finds them alone together on stage.

Some years ago, the alto saxophonist made an album which integrated his love of South Asian music, funk, hip-hop and electronic music. He's finally getting to tour that music, and it's electric.

NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Guy Raz spin an eclectic mix of new classical releases.