Michael Mayo

The jazz vocal tradition is always evolving, but rarely does that notion feel truer than in the output of Michael Mayo, who stopped by our studio to talk about his dynamic second album, Fly.

This week is packed, with a Solar Myth residency from Nels Cline, a Princeton performance from Makaya McCraven and Shabaka, and the Afro-Cuban All Stars at the Miller Theater.

Christian Sands, Miki Yamanaka and Peter Bernstein are among the artists in this inaugural edition of Play It Forward, a monthly column and nightly on-air feature for new jazz releases, curated by Greg Bryant.

The four singers who make up säje collectively possess an extravagant degree of vocal and harmonic expertise. So what happens when you add Michael Mayo to the mix?