The prestigious, long-lived jazz label Blue Note Records presents two young, rising talents and a woodwind-blowing vet on its 80th anniversary tour. Nashville’s Kandace Springs leans to gospel-flecked, R&B, and soul-soaked jazz, her vocal quality is silky and pitch-perfect and lightly smoldering. Her latest Blue Note record, Indigo, was produced by Karriem Riggins (Common, Erykah Badu, Esperanza Spalding, Earl Sweatshirt). NYC-based jazz pianist and composer James Francies, who’s been tapped by artists ranging from Pat Metheny to the Roots, released his first album, Flight, on Blue Note last year; the New York Times has called him “a pianist with liquid dynamism in his touch.” Finally, Detroit’s James Carter is a saxophone virtuoso (tenor, soprano, bass) who works in soul-jazz domains with his trio, which features Hammond B3 player Gerard Gibbs and drummer Alex White; they’re on the road behind James Carter Organ Trio: Live from Newport Jazz. by Leilani Polk