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Since 2000, Dianne Reeves has won four Grammy's for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and that's record-setting in itself. So it is with the deepest respect and highest anticipation that Dee Dee Bridgewater introduces Dianne Reeves, at the 2006 Monterey Jazz Festival on JazzSet.

Jazz is alive and thriving! Each month, the Jazz Night staff curates a playlist of new music that caught our attention. For June, work by Brandee Younger, Kamasi Washington, Hiatus Kaiyote and more.

Pianist and composer Geri Allen knew she wanted to be a jazz musician after spending most of her childhood listening to her father's jazz albums. Allen tells NPR's Liane Hansen about The Life of a Song, her latest CD.

Sasha Dobson carries on in the jazz tradition of past greats like Ella Fitzgerald, with a sultry voice and extensive performance experience, but she remains unconventional . Now 26, Dobson has been performing professionally since she was 16, in the process crafting a unique fusion of worldly jazz.

Hear five jazz songs that express Western themes of space, freedom, pioneers and movement.

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season: ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA RICHARD GOODE, piano  Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 7:30 PM Boulogne: Overture to L'Amant Anonyme   Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425 "Linz"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast. TAKÁCS QUARTET GARRICK OHLSSON, piano  Saturday, October 23, 2021, 8 PM   All Brahms:  Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26  Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  LAWRENCE BROWNLEE, tenor  MICHAEL SPYRES, tenor  MYRA HUANG, piano  Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 7:30 PM  All Rossini:  Il barbiere di Siviglia: "All' idea di quel metallo" Act I  Riccardo e Zoraide: "S' Ella mi èognor fedele" Act I; "Donala a questocore" Act I; "Teco or sara" Act II  Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra: "Deh! Scusa i trasporti" Act II  Otello: "Ah! vieni, nel tuo sangue vendichero le offese" Act II  Le Siege de Corinthe: "Grand Dieu, faut-il qu'un people" Act III; "Cher Cleomene" Act III Armida: "Inquale aspetto imbelle" Act III  And additional bel canto repertoire to be announced  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  SETH PARKER WOODS, cello  ANDREW ROSENBLUM, piano  Saturday, October 30, 2021, 8 PM  Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58   George Walker: Cello Sonata   Price: Andante, from Piano Sonata in E Minor Schumann: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73   Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Calvary Ostinato, from Lamentations  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  AIZURI QUARTET Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 7:30 PM  Strozzi: L'usignuolo  Strozzi: L'amante modesto  Eleanor Alberga: String Quartet No. 1  Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  JERUSALEM QUARTET Saturday, November 6, 2021, 8 PM   Works by Brahms, Dvořák and others to be announced Concert also available via livestream and available for 48 hours from time of broadcast.  RICHARD GOODE, piano  Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 7:30 PM  Schubert: Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780   Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, D. 784   Schumann: Papillons, Op. 2   Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  BERTA ROJAS, guitar Saturday, November 20, 2021, 8 PM  Works of Presti, Anido, Sérgio Assad, and others Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  JEREMY DENK, piano  Saturday, December 4, 2021, 8 PM  Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I  ANA VIDOVIC, guitar  Sunday, December 5, 2021, 3 PM   Program to be announced  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  RANDALL GOOSBY, violin  ZHU WANG, piano   Thu, December 9, 2021, 7:30 PM Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454  Price: Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor  Price: Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor  Price: Adoration   Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major  THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo" Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  About 92nd Street Y:  The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org. 

From virtuoso players and visionary composers to charismatic bandleaders and golden-eared producers, explore the musical voices who left us this year.

Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, 83, was a mentor to Miles Davis and performed with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. He recently donated his archive of memorabilia to William Paterson University in New Jersey. NPR's Jacki Lyden interviews Terry just before he takes the stage at New York's Jazz Gallery.

Fresh Air's jazz critic takes a fresh look at the reissue of the album Head On (Blue Note/EMI), a 1971 session led and recorded by Bobby Hutcherson.

No jazz musician has ever been heard more on public radio than the late Marian McPartland, the host of NPR's Piano Jazz for more than 40 years.But for all…