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.

“It’s a Sad Thing” is a crunchy new blues original by Boo Boo Davis and the ElectroBluesSociety.

We’ve long known that guitar ace Wayne Krantz is really good, and now with ‘Music Room 1985’ we know that he was really good at the get-go.

Here is the video premiere of “Blues Masqué” by the talented Canadian pianist François Bourassa.

Experiments with combining these two worlds on the fly can be a risky proposition but BLOOP (Lina Allemano and Mike Smith) have it all figured out and the ‘Proof’ is in the pudding.

Kenneth Kirschner and Joseph Branciforte feed human musical ideas into computer algorithms using an elaborate set of rules and a dash of randomness to generate fully notated compositions.

Here is the video premiere of “Tight Rope, Short Walk” from Curtis Andrews’ brand new album ‘Speaking Hands.’

“Jimmy’s Groove” is a highly motivating pure groove from the Delvon Lammar Organ Trio, released as a standalone single by Colemine Records.