What's your jazz? Music lovers all across the Greater Boston area will get help answering that question during the third annual celebration of Jazz Week, which will feature more than 200 events of all styles in over 75 locations from April 25 to May 3.

Among the highlights:

• Jazz Week @ the Boston Public Library, a series of free afternoon and evening programs at the Main Library in Copley Square, including the Boston premiere of the historic film of masters who shaped the course of jazz, "The Music Inn"
• A series of free jazz shows on Fan Pier as part of the Volvo Ocean Race festivities
• A free concert at the State House, celebrating 40 Years of Jazz at New England Conservatory as part of the Governor's Lunchtime Cultural Series
• A special "Jazz Meets Salsa" night with a Latin jazz concert, dance lessons, and dance party at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (formerly the Center for Latino Arts)
• Jazz Week @ Barnes & Noble, showcasing Boston-based artists with a selection of CDs available this week only and a free live performance at the Prudential Center store
• Live jazz at Fenway Park, including a jazz rendition of the National Anthem.

There will be more free and low-cost events than ever before during Jazz Week '09, and they'll take place in venues all over the Greater Boston area - from clubs, museums, and churches to libraries, universities, hotels, and community centers. JazzBoston, which coordinates and promotes the week-long celebration, is working with venues and presenters to make live jazz especially accessible and affordable by offering discounts and free tickets for selected shows.

For updates on Jazz Week '09 events and information on venues offering free tickets and special Jazz Week discounts, visit the JazzBoston website at www.jazzboston.org.

The New England Conservatory of Music, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of its Jazz Studies Program during the 2009 - 2010 academic year, is this year's Primary Sponsor of Jazz Week. Scullers Jazz Club and the Joslin Diabetes Center are Lead Sponsors. Other sponsors include the Boston Pops Orchestra, Live Nation, The Beehive, and John Hancock. The Phoenix Media/Communications Group is the official print media sponsor of Jazz Week '09, and WGBH 89.7 FM is the official radio sponsor.

Boston area chefs will celebrate Jazz Week as JazzBoston teams up with the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and its member restaurants to promote great listening and dining experiences at affordable prices. Food and music lovers will find special prices for jazz-inspired two-course lunches and dinners at many of the same restaurants that participated in last month's Restaurant Week Boston. Check www.jazzboston.org for daily updates on restaurants participating in Jazz Week.

Scullers has five pairs of free tickets to offer to JazzBoston members for singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway's Friday, Apr. 10, 10 p.m. show, while the Regattabar has three pairs of free tickets each for shows by pianist Pierre Hurel and his new trio on Wednesday, Apr. 15, at 7:30 p.m., and Fly, with Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, and Jeff Ballard, on Friday, Apr. 17, at 10 p.m. Write to newsletter@jazzboston.org now to win these tickets, and please stipulate which show you're interested in.

JazzBoston members receive discounts at the Regattabar, Scullers, The Beehive, Ryles, The Redline Restaurant, the Jazz Club at the Multicultural Arts Center, the Vernissage Restaurant's "Jazz Thursdays at Vernissage," Restaurant Laura's "Thursday Night Jazz To Dine By," and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Thursday evening jazz series, "Jazz at the Gardner." For discounts at all these venues, just show your JazzBoston card at the door, or when calling for reservations, give your name and member number.

Colleges and universities are offering myriad freebies in April. The Tufts Jazz Orchestra presents "Habanera in Spain," interpreting Chano Pozo, Mario Bauza, and others, on Thursday, Apr. 16, at 8 p.m., at the university's Goddard Chapel, while Tufts' Small Jazz Bands, directed by Paul Ahlstrand and Scott Aruda, perform their spring concert at Tufts' Granoff Music Center on Monday, Apr. 20 at 8 p.m.

New England Conservatory hosts the East Coast premiere of the Nils Lindberg Jazz Requiem on Apr. 20, at 8 p.m. at Jordan Hall.

NEC has a number of other free jazz events, including the Keller Jazz Series of student performances in the Keller Room at 290 Huntington Ave. at 7 p.m. on Apr. 6, 7, 8, 14, and 23; and the NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra, conducted by Frank Carlberg, on Tuesday, Apr. 21, at 8 p.m. at Jordan Hall. Click here for the full NEC schedule.

Berklee College of Music's Cafe 939 hosts "KidsJam: Jazz Songs," on Monday, Apr. 6, at 11 a.m., part of an entertainment series for children ages 3 to 5. Reservations are required. Click here for details.

Pianist and singer Carolyn Wilkins is featured on Tuesday, Apr. 21, a 1 p.m. at Cafe 939's new lunchtime concert series showcasing Berklee faculty members.

For something completely different, check out the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Trio on Friday, Apr. 24, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Miller Street Studios in Somerville, part of the Miller Street Studios open studio event. For details, click here.

Please tell us what you think of this e-newsletter and what kinds of information you'd like to see included in future issues. Email us at newsletter@jazzboston.org. If you'd like to know more about JazzBoston and consider becoming a member, go to www.jazzboston.org. And pass this e-newsletter along to all the jazz fans and music lovers you know!