Never being in the same place at the same time, Three-Layer Cake’s Brandon Seabrook, Mike Pride, Mike Watt were somehow able to mold strongly peculiar music that fits together to form a weirdly cohesive whole ‘Stove Top.’

As we experience the hopeful signs of society coming out of a dark winter of plague, Chris Potter and his Circuits Trio are giving us music of rejuvenation with ‘Sunrise Reprise.’

There’s never been a 21st century ESP-Disc that’s sounded so much like a mid-’60s ESP-Disk record than ‘Winter Garden’ by the Flow Trio with Joe McPhee.

Noah Haidu’s attention to all of the facets that made Keith Jarrett such a major jazz figure pays off with an album worthy of its incomparable subject.

James Brandon Lewis’ ‘Jesup Wagon’ feels just like the musical embodiment of George Washington Carver.

‘Numbers Maker’ sticks with the Desertion Trio original vision, but that vision is getting rougher and rowdier. Fortunately, Nick Millevoi & Co. know how to do rough ‘n’ rowdy.

Check out this satisfying fusion-jazz number “Truck Fump,” an advance single from Butcher Brown’s upcoming ‘Encore’ EP.

Big Monitors’ lively cover of “O’Neal’s Porch” is all about the exhilaration of freedom coupled with the majesty of tradition. That’s probably the best way to honor William Parker.

The WRD is Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, Adam Deitch, and though there aren’t any words sung on ‘The Hit,’ there are bountiful hand-made grooves.

The reflective “Smoke From the Chimney” is an advance single from the late Tony Joe White’s upcoming Dan Auerbach-produced album.