Kendrick Scott, whose band, Kendrick Scott Oracle, just dropped A Wall Becomes a Bridge in April, knows a few things about walls — particularly the figurative kind.

Denver-based singer and composer Erica Papillion-Posey tags social-media posts with “Think higher, resonate higher, vibrate higher, create higher.”

Although the SFJazz Collective’s members have changed since it was founded in 2004, the group has consistently included some of the world’s most accomplished musicians, starting with heavyweights like Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton and Bobby Hutcherson.

The James Carter Organ Trio will be at Dazzle March 31 and April 1.

Renowned jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley has recorded albums with her own big band and arranged and written music for Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, so it’s not surprising when she performs with her trio, which includes bassist Steve Swallow and saxophonist Andy Sheppard, she approaches the music like a big band.

In high school, bassist Jean-Luc Davis listened to ‘90s alt-rock bands like Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden at the same time he was getting into jazz. So, when he was tapped to do a two-month residency at Noctune in mid-2017, he decided to meld the two genres, putting jazz spins on some of his favorite ‘90s songs.

About two years ago, guitarist David Torn, saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Ches Smith were playing a gig at the Vortex Jazz Club in London.

A dozen years before Wei Wu shared a Grammy win Sunday night as part of the cast of Mason Bates’s opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, the Beijing-born opera singer’s first experience in America was as an understudy with Central City Opera.

Nels Cline rediscoverd his love of music collaborating with Julian Lage.

Jello Biafra will headline the annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash.