As King Loosestrife, Brett Nagafuchi offers a mishmash of alluring ideas that are often cohered by a theme of creatively atypical approaches.

With Naya Baaz’s ‘Charm,’ Rez Abbasi and Josh Feinberg channel their adventurous spirits into spiritually satisfying music.

Ross Hammond calls ‘Batch 8’ “stripped-down groove music,” with songs that are simple riffs that serve as the stage for tasteful guitar performances.

With ‘Collodion,’ Anthony Wilson managed to turn what would be a stressful situation for lesser musicians into a cozy listening experience.

If you just want to hear Chick Corea and his mates shred like rock stars, 1987’s ‘Light Years’ by his Elektric Band is a good place for that.

This creative burst mostly came with help from jazz luminaries, but ‘The Omnichord Real Book’ still sounds like the singular Meshell Ndegeocello.

Ebarhard Weber’s 1974 debut ‘The Colours of Chloe’ deftly assimilates classical, jazz, folk and even world fusion into an impressionistic whole.

Jan Garbarek would continue to produce great records for ECM in the years and even decades that followed, but there won’t ever be another ‘Triptykon.’

Michael Formanek, Anthony Pirog and Mike Pride produce the kind of inspired music that comes from jamming – even if the record wasn’t made that way.

With ‘Connection,’ Marc Ribot and his rabble-rouser super trio Ceramic Dog are back leading the hell raising contingent of loud, improvised music.