Chad Taylor’s first solo album shows you stuff you won’t hear on all the numerous, critically acclaimed projects he became involved with.

The freewheeling ‘Lebroba’ is a solid entry in Andrew Cyrille’s lengthy catalog, and could be considered a solid entry in the catalogs of Wadada Leo Smith and Bill Frisell, too.

This completes a year-long celebration of Satoko Fujii’s 60th birthday with the same inventiveness, grace and genius shown throughout the entire series.

For 30 years now, I’ve been asking myself: “How would the ‘speechless’ know to ‘unite in a silent accord'”?

Casey Golden still has a knack for subtly subverting jazz from within by bringing in indie-rock sensibilities.

A quarter century of musical association between Matthew Shipp and Mat Maneri continues with ‘Conference of the Mat/ts.’

“Goin’ Home,” a driving, anthemic track, was once deemed not good enough by Toto’s record company. What do they know?

Makaya McCraven’s ‘Universal Beings’ is a handmade mishmash of sounds that isn’t alien, but is never completely familiar, either.

By now, you’ve probably had just enough of the same old holly jolly stuff. Mark Saleski is here to help with some suggestions from off the beaten path.

It seems Ramsey Lewis can make anything listenable, even transcendent.