California-based James Booth and the Return are back with another eclectic full-length album that mixes prog, jam, and psychedelic rock.

Oz Noy and Andrew Synowiec spent just one day recording ‘Recreational Substance.’ The result is a powerful melding of guitar-inspired fusion.

Louis Armstrong’s ‘Louis In London: Live at the BBC’ is a can’t-miss LP from someone who probably did more than anyone else to popularize both the trumpet and jazz music.

‘What Happened There?’ has much unpredictable, provocative and instinctual playing from the first encounter between Keiji Haino and Natsuki Tamura, two of Japan’s foremost musical firebrands.

There’s too much artful turmoil here to contain on one disc, and that’s why Tim Berne’s ‘Yikes Too’ is a double-disc delight.

Microtonal jazz has been explored for a while, but with ‘Hemlocks, Peacocks,’ Will Mason finds innovative ways to scale its limitless potential.

Fred Phillips’ look back at the Best of 2024 in metal and hard rock includes albums from Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Kittie, Sebastian Bach and others.

Roscoe Mitchell leads a new trio/quartet using his decades-old ideas with a new freshness and proving with ‘One Head Four People’ that his approach still stands in the vanguard of jazz.

Cheer-Accident’s ‘Vacate’ is an “easy listening” record from an art rock band that deserves close listening.

Fifty years on, Patrice Rushen’s ‘Prelusion’ continues to be more than some artifact of its time, it’s the auspicious introduction of a precocious, enormous talent