As Anthony Braxton continues to push forward one of America’s greatest art forms, he also takes opportunities to demonstrate just how jazz got to be so great.

‘Be Ready When I Call You’ is the unvarnished blues that comes off earnestly, because Guy Davis is a seasoned storyteller and a messenger of hard truths, balanced by a humble wit.

Curved Air co-founder Darryl Way’s ‘Destinations 2’ features more solo instrumentals inspired by imagined journeys to exotic places.

Beverley Beirne’s new album is far different than the fun-filled ‘Jazz Just Wants to Have Fun,’ showing a completely different side and strength.

‘Detours and Dead Ends Vol. 1’ finds Caddy taking a break from producing his own stellar songs to reprise some of his favorite tunes from the ’70s and ’80s.

How do you define Clannad’s career, an era and for all intents and purposes the genesis of a new genre, in just a couple of compact discs?

Here is the video premiere of swinging “Thinking of Benny,” a song tenor sax ace Joel Frahm wrote honoring one of his saxophone heroes, the living icon Benny Golson.

Emerging from the same gene pool as bands like the Byrds, Shoes and Teenage Fan Club, the Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness are masters of jangle pop.

As is always the case on a Claudio Scolari Project album, the looseness in their approach on ‘Cosmology’ guarantees a freshness and fluidity in the music that refuses to be stifled by rigid structures.

New Memphis Colorways’ ‘It Is What It Isn’t’ is a dazzling blend of – well, psychedelic groove music comes as close as anything else to defining it.