The Necks’ ‘Bleed’ is briefer but there remains plenty of time to insert many small intriguing new twists into their incomparable brand of modern, minimalist music.

Throughout ‘Luminary,’ Tonino Miano often takes chances and stretches out while somehow making the music very melodic and pretty at the same time.

Thumbscrew’s elusive sound radically mixes studied with spontaneity and incorporating fresh novel ideas each time around, with ‘Wingbeats’ representing yet another step forward.

As Toto’s sophomore album ‘Hydra’ arrived 45 years ago this week, snooty critics were dutifully annoyed. But they were building toward something big.

Here is the video premiere of “Vesper Flights,” from the Joel Frahm Trio’s upcoming album ‘Lumination.’

Jupiter, the band, and ‘Jupiter,’ the album, feels like the start of a long run of some meaningfully explosive genre bending.

‘Dog Days of Summer’ might be called “jazz-rock,” but like anything else Satoko Fujii undertakes, she does jazz-rock on her own, uncompromising terms.

Jason Stein has made many very good records before, but in reaching deep inside himself, he came forth with a truly great one with ‘Anchors.’

‘Live in Someplace Nice’ is a welcome addition to the thin catalog of the short-lived endlessly inventive duo of Tim Berne and Bill Frisell.

With ‘Breaking Stretch,’ Patricia Brennan continues to build upon her uniquely inventive style of jazz simply by building up her ensemble.