EditorialTrombonist Aaron Kisslinger and the Stoop Kidz Brass Band performs on a stoop where they have been regularly popping up since late 2020, in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, July 2, 2021. (Elizabeth D. Herman/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left; Jimmy Heath, Curtis Fuller, and Frank Wess, at the Lincoln Center in New York on Jan. 11, 2011. Curtis Fuller, a trombonist and composer whose expansive sound and powerful sense of swing made him a driving force in postwar jazz, died on May 8, 2021, at a nursing home in Detroit. He was 88. His daughter Mary Fuller confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. (Chad Batka/The New York Times)