Friday, Feb. 21: Driven by the effortlessly tuneful, graceful playing and composing of reed-player Jay Beckenstein and a light-touch, globally spiced approach to groove, Spyro Gyra unfortunately became a pivot point in the argument about jazz fusion: Were they true heirs of jazz gravity and genius like the first wave of great fusion bands (from Weather Report to early Pat Metheny Group), or were they the godfathers of lite jazz and ’70s TV themes, just a few stone-throws away from you-know-who, with the Kenny and the G?

Sunday, Feb. 23: Byron confers seriousness and the harmonic depth of jazz upon the genres that he studies and masters. The genres, in turn, render Byron’s catalogue one of the most listenable, joyous and unpredictable in all of serious and cerebral jazz.

Friday-Sunday, Feb. 21-23: Saturday features a final headliner concert with Everett Drake, a Nashville singer/songwriter and long-time vocalist for BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel television show. Joining Drake on Saturday is the Livingstone College Gospel Choir from Salisbury, North Carolina.

Saturday, Feb. 29: Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist King is known for The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body: a groundbreaking multimedia performance that used her guitar as projection screen to explore the genesis of the instrument and her relationship to it, as well as her own origin story.