With ‘Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Catherine Russell dtreats history as a living language rather than a museum artifact.

When Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’ ‘As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls’ arrived 45 years ago this month, it sounded like nothing else in my record collection.

Recorded in a single day, Alex Wintz’s ‘Collage’ lives up to its title, capturing a band that sounds both spontaneous and deeply road-tested.

The Daniel Bennett Group’s 11th album features ever-inventive interpretations of songs by Joni Mitchell, Horace Silver, Wes Montgomery, Lennon and McCartney, among others.

‘Always Ever’ is an unaltered transfer of ideas from the fertile mind of Alister Spence straight to tape.

Having established himself as a top-flight sessionist, bandleader and composer, Billy Mohler reveals that all of those talents translates well onto the road with ‘Live In Europe.’

Guido Spannocchi’s ‘Kammermusik’ avoids cliches by presenting a new blended sound. Yet there’s a sense of solace in our currently unpredictable world.

Edward Simon’s ‘Venezuela: Latin American Songbook Vol. 2’ features intimate, unhurried and deeply grounded music that breathes with the cadence of memory.

With ‘The Woods,’ the sagacious guitarist from Maine Ryan Blotnick has consolidated all his strengths into his most consistent effort yet.

Mark Wade’s ‘New Stages’ is simply unclassifiable. Record stores might not like that, but listeners do because there is something for every musical palette.