“Rotations” is the trance-like advance single from Gerycz / Powers / Rolin’s strangely alluring pysch-folk LP, ‘Lamplighter.’

Matthew Shipp and William Parker’s ‘Re-Union’ is a set of improv pieces that reveals the true extent of unity of purpose and direction that comes from more than three decades of playing together in nearly every imaginable setting.

Hearing bass legend Dave Holland playing loose and sometimes hard with other top line players in a democratic trio setting for ‘Another Land’ is just as good as you would think it would be. Maybe even a little bit better.

Jean Luc Ponty’s long-awaited comeback album ‘Life Enigma’ was issued two decades ago, reestablishing him as the world’s finest electric violinist.

Lyle Mays’ “Eberhard” serves as a bittersweet coda from a largely unsung brilliant musician who left us – as we learn here – still at the height of his powers.

Pastoral psychedelic drones are the order of the day with Ross Hammond and Kevin Corcoran’s ‘Music For Lighthouses 2,’ minimalist renderings using Delta bluesmen tools of trade as a foundation.

Here is the video premiere of “(mucho mejor que esta) Pocilga” by Argentinian alto sax ace Rodrigo Domínguez and his Borocotopo trio.

The Fourth Qorld Quartet’s ‘1975’ documents that brief time talented brothers and a colleague came together and really went for it blending free jazz, rock and modern classical.

Even the most forward-thinking musicians dig simply constructed chorales. Ben Goldberg is another one who does, but for ‘Everything Happens To Be.,’ he also digs deeper.

Ceramic Dog’s long-term mission of ridiculously good musicians not taking themselves too seriously remains on point. ‘Hope’ is a deliriously fun listen.