Rob Mazurek pours his heart out with a very sympathetic squad from Brazil for this paean to his mother.

Aram Bajakian and Julia Úlehla have combined the richness of the old music of Moravia with the freshness and boldness of the new like no one else has done before with the ethnic music of Central and Estern Europe..

A thinking man’s garage band, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey unveils ‘Worker,’ suggesting that at twenty years old, this endeavor is nowhere near the end.

Ron Miles and Company once again make music ideal for those who savor it with angularity and superb group dynamics.

A record that’s equally capable of enchanting you and pummeling you with many shades of aura in between, ‘Palo Colorado Dream’ catapults Anthony Pirog into the corps of elite experimental guitarists.

If you like ‘Kind of Blue,’ then you…uhh…will like ‘Blue’.

Marcin Wasilewski Trio’s ‘Spark of Life’ does absolutely nothing to dispel the ECM stereotype. But so what? Other record companies would kill to be stereotyped like that.

Bryan Murray creates a scary hip-hop/out-jazz Frankenstein that points ahead to an interesting new direction for this intensely creative saxophonist.

Fawcett’a songs possess the depth, maturity and easily engaging quality lacking from other singer-songwriters these days.

The Daniel Blacksberg Trio takes a conventional format and creates something refreshingly unconventional from it.