In late July we noted ways the Minnesota Legacy Fund is bringing jazz to Minnesotans by supporting programs at TPT and KBEM. We’ve since learned that singer Christine Rosholt is performing around the state as part of “Minnesota’s Greatest Generation in the Libraries,” a new partnership between the Minnesota Regional Public Library System and the Minnesota Historical Society, made possible by Legacy money.

On Saturday, Aug. 28, Rosholt and her band (usually Tanner Taylor on piano, Graydon Peterson on bass, and Jay Epstein on drums) will be at the Thief River Falls Library at 2 p.m., then at the Warren Community/Senior Center at 7 p.m. On Sunday, Aug. 29, they’ll be at Riverside Park in Red Lake Falls at 2 p.m. (rain site: Red Lake Falls City Hall). Later in the year you can see her in Barrett, St. Paul, and New Ulm. Check her calendar for dates and times.

If you hear of other jazz events with Legacy Fund connections, please let me know.

Jazz picks for this weekend and into the week:

Friday-Saturday: Burnsville Art and All that Jazz Festival. Guitar great, Grammy winner (for the “Hill Street Blues” theme), formerly with Steely Dan, the Jazz Crusaders, and Fourplay, Larry Carlton opens this year’s Art and Jazz Fest with a ticketed concert tonight. Saturday at Nicollet Commons is free all day, rain or shine with a covered stage. 12 p.m.: Jack Brass Band. 2 p.m.: Steve Clarke and the Working Stiffs. 4 p.m.: The Penguins. 6 p.m.: Lao Tizer with Karen Briggs and Chieli Minucci. 8 p.m.: Jesse Cook. 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, Larry Carlton Trio, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. ($32). Tickets at Ticketmaster online or call 1-800-982-2787. Noon-10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, Nicollet Commons, 126th St. and Nicollet Ave. Free. Visit the Festival’s website FMI.

Friday: David Sanborn. The six-time Grammy winner has often been tarred with the smooth jazz brush. In fact, Sanborn is a widely respected saxophonist who ranges freely among jazz, funk, soul, blues, and rock, refusing to define himself. I saw him several years ago on a dare and he knocked me out. He’s on tour for his 24th CD, “Only Everything,” produced by Phil Ramone. Here’s a video from last year’s North Sea Jazz Festival. Patty Peterson opens. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20 (doors at 7), Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater, Apple Valley ($34). Tickets at Ticketmaster online and Ticketmaster outlets.

Sunday: Connie Evingson: Summer Samba. A new CD from Connie Evingson is a good thing. Hear a preview of her forthcoming “Summer Samba,” a collection of Brazilian samba and bossa nova songs. She came to this project when she discovered that many English-language versions of popular Brazilian songs (“Girl from Ipanema,” “Samba de Orfeu”) had something in common: lyricist Norman Gimbel, now in his 80s. In Evingson’s words: “I thought, ‘Who is this guy? Nobody knows his name. I looked at his canon and it was mind-boggling.” A born researcher (she often says she originally wanted to be a librarian), she’s been digging into the bossa nova era and “learning the back story on how Gimbel came to be one of the go-to guys for Brazilian and French pop songwriters looking for English language versions of their songs — or, perhaps more accurately, producers looking for English-language hits of foreign pop songs.” With Joan Griffith on guitar, Dave Karr on saxophone, Mary Louise Knutson on piano, Gordon Johnson on bass, and Dave Schmalenberger on drums. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22, Jungle Theater, 2951 Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis ($25). Tickets online or call 612-822-7063.

Pamela Espeland keeps a Twin Cities live jazz calendar, blogs about jazz at Bebopified and tweets about jazz on Twitter.