ree-form jazz doesn’t need to go on for mind-numbingly lengths if the musicians know what they’re doing. The Sputnik Trio have this all figured out.

It’s everything one would expect from a song of the mid-Jurassic period of Steely Dan.

The rougher edges of the guttural ‘Arise’ revisits the period when jazz and rock collisions created explosive music and rekindles the old magic with new vigor.

This song shows where John Lennon would go as a Beatle, and as a solo artist.

Steely Dan opening act Bobby Broom releases a terrific set of jazz standards.

He uses these metaphors as a foundation for deeply revealing character studies.

A song as topical as it is musically complex.

This Miles-meets-Mosada alchemy offers Interesting new twists.

She says it elicits “very happy and, dare I say it, X-rated memories.”

The Beatles’ early retirement makes compiling a concert playlist difficult – but not impossible.