SHAPES OF JAZZ

The third video in our Highlights of Big Ears 2025 series features some of the jazz artists who took the stage—from sweeping icons like Charles Lloyd, Ambrose Akinmusire, and esperanza spalding to boundary-pushing artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello, ganavya, Alabaster DePlume, Immanuel Wilkins, Mary Halvorson, Josh Johnson, and Luke Stewart. Across intimate sets and electrifying ensembles, Big Ears artists reimagine the possibilities of improvisation and interplay—revealing a living music.

When you flow with the music, you too stretch, shift, and spill over the edges. At Big Ears, jazz is a shape in motion.