Satoko Fujii’s Tokyo Trio as heard on ‘Moon On the Lake’ is not a conventional jazz trio but a Fujii ensemble in every sense, with the grace, sophistication, surprise and ingenuity found in her other groups.

Check out the crushed velvet-smooth slow jam “For My Love” advance single from Butcher Brown’s upcoming ‘Encore’ EP.

Reborn as a quartet, Sam Weinberg’s BLOAR is still making stimulating experimental jazz-rock that’s wild, acerbic and sometimes mathematical.

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.’

Described as one of the most original voices of his generation, Daniel Bennett is only predictable in that his music will always be worth listening to.

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.

Renaissance celebrates their 50th anniversary during a concert filled with resurrected beauty, symphonic-prog intellect, and a few ghosts.

Better known as Paul Starling, Brian Bringelson steps out with an album in the spirit of acts like the Beach Boys, Bread, the Smithereens and Matthew Sweet.

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.