Dave Gisler’s highly improvisational trio is a natural in a live setting. Add the like-minded trumpeter Jaimie Branch to the mix, and those qualities are taken up a couple of notches.

Tomi Malm has created something, original and beautiful on ‘Coming Home,’ a worthy successor to ‘Walkin’ On Air.’

Richard Turgeon is crossing musical borders with sexy soul like “Wanna Make Love,” after initially establishing himself as a roots-rocking popster.

Production issues aside, “Only Time Can Heal the Wounded” is another solid contribution from Robert Lamm, the heart of Chicago.

Laila Biali joins Ross Boissoneau to discuss career-impacting albums by Joni Mitchell, Bjork and Norma Winstone.

If there was going to be anyone who could figure out how to make a tenor saxophone work with an oud and Persian percussion, that would be Ivo Perelman, with Gordon Grdina and Hamin Honari likewise finding the right roles for their respective instruments alongside a sax for the trio improv date ‘The Purity of Desire.’

Alex Wintz joined Preston Frazier to discuss his new trio album, what Idris Muhammad’s death meant to him and how the pandemic has impacted his plans.

ZZ Top’s take on ‘I Thank You’ is driven by signature scruffy riffing, and a rhythm as hard and impenetrable as the West Texas ground.

Fujii and Tamura come up with an endless well of ideas to apply to the piano/trumpet format for “Pentas,’ their seventh duo album together.

“It Was All We Knew” should have been saved for a Steve Howe solo album – or given a little more time to develop into a truly memorable Yes song.