Davis’ bluesy alto sax rasp is straight out of Charlie Parker’s playbook, but makes it his own in a new live recording from the Smalls Jazz Club.

Individually, they’ve been at the core of the post-bop jazz scene for decades. So it’s no surprise that as a band, they’re colossal. Hear drummer Billy Hart and the rest of this colossal jazz collective play their original pieces in this Jazz24 session.

Saxophonist and composer Ravi Coltrane — son of John and Alice — says his mother’s love of symphonic music provided a childhood soundtrack for him and his siblings.

From the stage, Figarova is surveying an iconic jazz scene — people on the lawn, Narragansett Bay in the background, boats floating in the harbor. Hear the pianist and her European sextet in a concert from the Newport Jazz Festival.