JAYME STONE

“The Other Side of the Air”

Kindred spirits: Shahin and Sepehr, Toumani Diabate, Bela Fleck

Show: Tuesday at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. Show starts at 6 p.m. 202-467-4600. www.kennedy-center.org. Free.

Banjoist Jayme Stone’s new album, “The Other Side of the Air,” is framed by two uncharacteristic tracks: “Radio Wassoulou,” which shows a West African influence, and “Tennessee Waltz,” a country standard. Those selections revisit the themes of the Toronto musician’s 2008 release, “Africa to Appalachia,” but Stone covers a lot more territory here.

Most of the material is jazzy, recorded with a sextet that highlights trumpeter Kevin Turcotte and soprano saxophonist Rob Mosher as much as Stone. The album also includes “This Country Is My Home,” a 21-minute concerto written by Andrew Downing, who plays cello and bass with the banjoist’s ensemble. Stone is the concerto’s soloist, accompanied by a chamber symphony through three movements that recall Charles Ives and Aaron Copland’s orchestral Americana, but with spikier passages that suggest Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

Jayme Stone

Details: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13

Millennium Stage - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Stone’s own compositions are inspired by journeys real and imagined, so he calls the album a travelogue. The music owes little to Dixieland, the old-timey style known for its reliance on banjo. It’s eclectic and contemporary, if not aggressively modernist. The second track, “The Cinnamon Route,” conjures motion most strongly, but all of the selections have a spacious sound. Stone’s airs evoke the sensation of simply being in the world, alive and aware.