Where Ivo Perelman is involved, there is always a surprise contained in every moment. Add two like-minded musicians like Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris playing dissimilar instruments on ‘Shamanism,’ and the level of surprise and thrill are tripled.

Guitarist Paul Nelson joined Ross Boissoneau to discuss career-shaping albums by Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Led Zeppelin and Billy Cobham.

This year has been lousy for a lot of reasons, but as this Best of 2020 list shows, hard rock and heavy metal were not among them.

A lethal combination of instincts and chops were required to pull off the improv performance ‘Things To Do In Paris’ so well; Catherine Sikora and Ethan Winogrand have plenty of both.

The beauty of ‘Wheatfield Empire’ is how Robert Lawson delves into the Guess Who with such a human touch. But how does he know all this amazing stuff?

Walter Becker has a message for us from beyond the grave on how we should approach 2021. Check out the new (to us) song “Golden City” from the folks at Walter Becker Media.

Like their previous five long players, Throttle Elevator Music redefines rock-jazz by blending a different kind of rock with a different kind of jazz. It’s organically pure spiritual joy.

Pick a genre, any genre. Then listen to TEAR and somewhere along the way you’ll likely find echoes of it in their music.

There were two discoveries with ‘Science Friction +size’: When a quartet discovered new possibilities with a trumpeter, and when Tim Berne scraped a shiny disc off the floor.

It’s amazing how the tight musical partnership of Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii is able to embrace just one more musician and build a set of performances that fully represents the talents of all three. With drummer Ramon Lopez, ‘Mantle’ musical democracy at its finest.