Grammy-winning saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis will lead the way at the 15th annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival.

Marsalis and his quartet of talented young lions — pianist Joey Calderazzo, drummer Justin Faulkner and bassist Eric Revis. — will perform selections from their new album “Belonging,” their rousing reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett’s monumental 1974 LP of the same title.

Jarrett, an Allentown, Pa. native, is an accomplished pianist who performed with Miles Davis and Pittsburgh jazz legend Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

The festival, on Liberty Avenue Saturday and Sunday, begins with a sold-out tribute to George Benson at the August Wilson Center on Friday. It comes for free on Liberty Avenue, Downtown, Saturday and Sunday with lineup of traditional

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