The “Global Jazz: Ongoing Conversations” summer intensive is taking tactile education and musical performance online. The weeklong program for high school students, which begins Monday, will be taught online by graduates of UCLA’s Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance as well as campus faculty. Read more...

Photo: Graduate students Emma Dayhuff, Malachi Whitson, Lenard Simpson and Roni Eytan, among others from UCLA’s Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance, are teaching a weeklong virtual jazz intensive for high school students. (Photo Illustration by Ashley Kenney/Assistant Photo editor and Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)

Krista Marina is blending Middle Eastern and R&B musical elements in her upcoming summer releases. As a musician, songwriter and producer, Krista Apardian, a fourth-year communication student, more commonly goes by her stage name, Krista Marina. Read more...

Photo: Student musician Krista Marina is planning to independently produce and release several of her own songs this summer. The upcoming tracks pull from various genres and are influenced by her Middle Eastern heritage. (Courtney Quirmbach/Daily Bruin)