With ‘Parallel Motion,’ the Yellowjackets continue to defy the tendency of even the best bands to run out of steam and go stale.

With ‘Aperture,’ Michael Orenstein enters the realm of jazz recording artists as a fully formed talent, one with a fresh, contemporary extension of the piano greats who’ve come before him.

‘Diamonds and Other Jewels’ presents Walt Weiskopf’s European quartet emerging from the pandemic with its coherence at an all-time high.

Bruce Hornsby won’t ever be mentioned with his jazz heroes. Still, he proved 15 years ago today that he could maintain some originality while honoring them.

Whether under a freeway or in the studio, Tony Malaby can make good art out of his surroundings and does so again with ‘The Cave of Winds.’

The advance single “Winner” is just another effortlessly pleasing soft-rock tune from the talented duo and ambassadors from 1979, Young Gun Silver Fox.

There is no trio like Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio, where the vast talents of Grdina, Matt Mitchell and Jim Black are pushed to their limits and the best of each comes forth as a result.

Keeping musicians on their toes always brings out the best jazz. That’s what Ben Goldberg sought out to accomplish with ‘Vol 2: Hard Science’ and he got just the results he was looking for.

‘Spontaneous folk music’ accurately speaks to the unpretentious nature of the music that Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker and Steve Hirsh made.

Now on its ninth album ‘Sleeping Cat,’ Natsuki Tamura’s Gato Libre has never really been about jazz; it’s folk music with an open mind.