Let’s start by getting rid of “Yellow Submarine.” Buy the soundtrack if you feel that strongly about it.

Continuing in the long line of jazz musicians who have molded and revitalized modern jazz from behind a drum kit, ‘The Passion of Color’ is Rob Garcia at his best.

In praise of a song about bowling – yes, about bowling – from Donald Fagen’s ‘Sunken Condos.’

This heretofore traditional Americana trio offramps into a diaphanous, mystery-filled place.

Juber, with Wings from 1978-81, always had a keen sense of what this opportunity meant.

This doesn’t often sound like big band music, as Fujii draws from every impulse at her disposal.

Each song on ‘Offramp’ is so different from the next, and yet it all hangs together.

This feels like a solo album dressed up in Echo and the Bunnymen’s clothes.

With the Beatles’ “Ask Me Why,” John Lennon and Paul McCartney embark on their unprecedented run as songwriters.

A force in its day, the music of this seminal funk-jazz-rock combo remains very much potent today.