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

Soft Machine’s peak roster playing at peak performance is reason enough to plunk down for ‘Høvikodden 1971’ if this boundary-pushing style of jazz-rock is your thing.

Here we are well into the 21st century and Sun Ra’s music from these mid-70s performances is in some ways, still ahead of the present time.

“Short Visit” was David Sanborn’s early hat tip to his sometimes-employer Gil Evans, but it wouldn’t be his last.

Now out in complete, remastered and legal form, ‘Poppin’ in Paris: Live at L’Olympia 1972′ should serve to get Cannonball Adderley’s final era the attention it deserves.

Jan Garbarek would continue to produce great records for ECM in the years and even decades that followed, but there won’t ever be another ‘Triptykon.’

‘Blue Room: The 1979 Vara Studio Sessions in Holland’ captures the trumpet icon Chet Baker playing in peak form in this long-lost treasure now finally released by Zev Feldman’s Jazz Detective label.

Hal Galper’s ‘Ivory Forest Redux’ easily justifies the decision to polish up these recordings and take them back out of obscurity. Artists well-known and should be better-known all shine on it.

With the long-deferred release of ‘The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s,’ there is now a significant new addition to the Charles Mingus catalog to discover and marvel at.

The Fourth Qorld Quartet’s ‘1975’ documents that brief time talented brothers and a colleague came together and really went for it blending free jazz, rock and modern classical.