‘Catching Ghosts’ with Majid Bekkas and Hamid Drake is a fine keepsake from Peter Brötzmann’s recent comeback, capturing an old soul taking chances with a fire still in his young heart.

On ‘Seriana Promethea,’ David Murray, Brad Jones and Hamid Drake swagger their way through seven Murray originals and one really cool cover with relaxed confidence.

Mat Walerian’s latest Okuden project is his most ambitious yet and when you understand the sweeping, cutting-edge careers of his sidemen, you see an artist whose ambitions matches theirs.

By applying today’s sound processing technology to hand-made music that was conceived instantly, Adam Rudolph magnifies the exotic musical concepts of himself and his longtime partners and collaborators Hamid Drake and Ralph M. Jones.

Here is the world premiere of “Trapeze / Maku (Live)” by Chicago-based free-form masters Mako Sica with Hamid Drake.

‘Decaying Orbit’ — the song and the album — fulfills the promise of its members’ respective legacies and furthers the legacy of its worldly leader, guitarist Dan Phillips.

With such an impressive assemblage of talent pushing out the frontiers of world music, this could have easily been a scholarly affair, but then that wouldn’t be an Adam Rudolph-led record. ‘Glare Of The Tiger’ is spontaneous, instinctual, colorful, danceable and…most importantly…a hell of an enjoyable listen.

Mat Walerian places much trust in his good instincts on ‘Jungle,’ even as he does show he knows much about the tenants music and even in the presence of more established masters.