Pianist-composer Amaro Freitas creates music with a vivid sense of place. His native Brazil pulses through his most recent album, Y'Y, which mixes jazz with Afro-Brazilian and indigenous music, and the sounds of the Amazon. Freitas discusses this and more with Josh Jackson, in a deeply searching conversation recorded backstage at New York's Winter Jazzfest earlier this year.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis are swinging into Philly — at the close of a week that brings Dan Weiss, Brew Trio and others to Solar Myth.