When it comes to love, appreciation and fancy dinners, you can always count me in. But there is a shadow side to Valentine’s Day.

“Here With Me (A Candle For the Dark)” wasn’t an every-day ballad, and for that Chicago is to be commended.

The two long pieces of ‘inSOMNIA’ could be regarded as jazz symphonies, but Tim Berne applies his small-ensemble principles to them and we discover just how utterly scalable his ideas truly are.

This is one of those massive losses in both the jazz and piano worlds. It’s simply impossible to even summarize Chick Corea’s impact.

Scott Schorr joins Preston Frazier to discuss the second album from MFTJ, the Lazy Bones Recordings founder’s exciting new collaboration with Mike Keneally.

Ivo Perelman and Nate Wooley convened for a sessions that produced ten, distinct improvisations called ‘Polarity.’ With only one person with whom to interact, each regard this tete-a-tete as a whole different ball game, and they go for it.

“The Gift of Love,” from the 2019 Yes EP ‘From a Page,’ is a fine song from a band that, despite its perpetual changes, continued to progress.

Tony Malaby’s ‘Turnpike Diaries Volume 1’ features these seasoned masters stretching out under an expressway over two long jams as few can do in such a coordinated way, each able to sense what the song is headed and react with infallible instincts.

Flawless by any standards, ‘Picture This’ simply foreshadowed the mega-success that Huey Lewis and the News would experience.

Pat Metheny’s “Road to the Sun Pt. 2” stands as a testament to the beauty of classical guitars put in the service of a sumptuous arrangement.