When Frank Kimbrough, the one-of-a-kind pianist and composer, died suddenly in 2020, it sent a terrible shock through the jazz community. Deep in mourning, an array of friends, collaborators, and former Kimbrough students at Juilliard came together to create the ultimate Frank Kimbrough songbook, Kimbrough, a loving tribute with a rotating lineup of mostly small ensembles. The music is mesmerizing: all Kimbrough tunes, from the stormy intensity of “Wings” and “Helix” to the folky-bluesy attitude of “Quickening” and “Lullabluebye” to the goose-bump melodicism of “For Duke” (heard in both instrumental and vocal versions). Kimbrough’s harmonies waft in air, sometimes out of tempo, couched in the dissonance he loved from heroes like Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols but buoyed by a poetic and lyrical intimacy that he displayed as a member of the Maria Schneider Orchestra for so many years. More than a cavalcade of jazz talent, although it is surely that, Kimbrough gathers a community of people whose lives Kimbrough touched. Ben Allison, Ted Nash, Ron Horton, and Michael Blake—his creative partners in the now defunct Jazz Composers Collective—are in the mix. So are saxophonists from across the generations, from Alexa Tarantino, Immanuel Wilkins, and Noah Preminger to Donny McCaslin, Rich Perry, and Joe Lovano. Jazz piano luminary Fred Hersch gets a solo spot, as do Scott Spivak and Jacob Sacks. Guitarists Ben Monder and Todd Neufeld add texture and mystery, and the Kimbrough piano protégés—Micah Thomas, Glenn Zaleski, Ben Rosenblum—do their teacher proud.