music

“The Harlem Suite” is the latest album (released March 31 on the Ropeadope label) from Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Berklee professor, saxophonist and composer.

On Saturday, June 3, more than 55 local musicians will flood the streets of the Ashmont Adams area of Dorchester, strumming guitars and belting out vocals from porches around the neighborhood. Dorchfest, in its second year, is a celebration of musical talent in Dorchester.

“Nehanda” is a performance by artist nora chipaumire that defies description. The piece probes the Zimbabwean fight for independence and its colonial history, through the legend of Nehanda, a spirit that embodies only women and is venerated by the Shona people in Zimbabwe and central Mozambique.

Kamasi Washington, Grammy and Emmy nominated saxophonist, instrumentalist and composer, will bring his talents to City Winery in Boston this month. His stop is part of a national tour at City Winery venues throughout the country; and it culminates in an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival on August 4.

The times we live in are challenging to our minds, bodies and spirits. For our spirits to survive, we as a people have to do what we have always done. We must focus on our art and culture for the strength to keep going in the face of this kind of unspeakable brutality.

Interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z has been awarded the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts by MIT. The award includes a $100,000 investment in Z’s creative practice and an artist residency at MIT later this spring.

The Handel and Haydn Society has launched the H+H Stone Fellowship, a fellowship for emerging musicians working with period instruments in baroque and classical genres.

The Chineke! Orchestra, the first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra in Europe, is coming to Boston on Wednesday, March 22 to perform at Jordan Hall as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.

The Celebrity Series of Boston’s Jazz Festival is back! From Wednesday, March 8 through Saturday, March 11, this year’s festival presents an eclectic mix of internationally celebrated musicians.

Aretha Franklin’s legacy will be honored in the only appropriate way this month, with a full-fledged tribute concert and dance party. “R.E.S.P.E.C.T — A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin,” at the Emerson Colonial Theatre March 17 and 18, brings powerful vocals and essential history to the stage.

Castle of Our Skins, a Boston-based Black arts institution, is celebrating its 10th year of shining a light on Black composers. The group recently released a debut album of classical music written by five Black composers from Africa and the African diaspora.

Berklee College of Music is celebrating the cultural past and present of New Orleans with an eclectic evening of song, dance and instrumentation on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center.