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Meghan Stabile, performing onstage during Winter Jazzfest 2020 (Jonathan Chimene/WBGO photo)

Meghan Stabile, who creatively bridged the gap between young jazz musicians and hip hop artists by bringing them together to perform in nontraditional venues, with the goal of creating younger audiences with a new interest in jazz, died on Sunday, June 12 in Valrico, Fla. She was 39.

Bikbaye Inejnema, her counselor, told NPR that the cause was suicide. Inejnema spoke on behalf of Maureen Stabile, Meghan’s maternal grandmother. “She knows she didn’t meet any of Meghan’s community. But she does want Meghan’s memory to be h onored in the way that reflects who she really was, not what she went through.”

Stabile, the founder, CEO of Revive Music and young concert impresario, stepped away from the hectic music scene in recent

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