With their fourth album ‘Brain Drain’, Gorilla Mask is often in your face. That said, their tactics with rhythm and harmony remain an integral part of their attack, too.

Avant garde jazz could use more joy and wit, which is Reut Regev R*Time’s secret weapon for making you want to listen.

Pat Metheny’s “You Are” is the scintillating second advance single from his upcoming album ‘From The Place.’

Dave Stryker and his crack, soul-jazz combo offer their fourth ‘Eight Track’-branded album, where the only difference is the festive season theme.

Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp continue to relentlessly push the envelope after all these years.

The marriage made in heaven between Swiss minimalist specialists Sonar and master texturalist David Torn continues with ‘Tranceportation (Volume 1).’

Byron Asher’s “Blues Obligato” is kind of like Dixieland informed by a hundred years of music development.

Tom Tallitsch’s ‘Ten’ sometimes posits itself closer to rock than jazz, but it retains all the improvisation and musicianship associated with the latter.

Neal Francis is making the most of his second chance to make a first impression, creating quality soul music earnestly by hand.

This is drumming extraordinaire Mike Pride taking DIY to the extreme, not only in recording these solo, but also in engineering, mixing & mastering these series of improvisations.