A solo performance of rare wisdom like ‘Koi’ is what happens when the mighty composing pen of Tim Berne meets a mighty insightful guitar of Gregg Belisle-Chi.

Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore and Skerik of Garage A Trois are the old veterans of the whole jam-band, funk-jazz scene, but in all the right ways, ‘Calm Down Cologne’ sounds as if this is their debut album, because it’s got that new-band freshness to it.

Here is the streaming premiere of “Philosophy Series” from bass giant Mario Pavone’s final act album, ‘Blue Vertical.’

Larry Coryell most likely didn’t know that he wouldn’t do another recording date when he made ‘Last Swing In Ireland’ but he left it all in the studio, anyway.

Wadada Leo Smith’s ‘Sacred Ceremonies’ is a divine communion among legends, but it’s also yet another ambitious statement from an artist who produces lofty works with so many different accomplices on a regular basis.

There’s a lot of appealing melodicism built into harmolodics, and the ‘Broken Shadows’ quartet of Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King succeed in driving that point home.

Satoko Fujii’s Tokyo Trio as heard on ‘Moon On the Lake’ is not a conventional jazz trio but a Fujii ensemble in every sense, with the grace, sophistication, surprise and ingenuity found in her other groups.

Check out the crushed velvet-smooth slow jam “For My Love” advance single from Butcher Brown’s upcoming ‘Encore’ EP.

Never being in the same place at the same time, Three-Layer Cake’s Brandon Seabrook, Mike Pride, Mike Watt were somehow able to mold strongly peculiar music that fits together to form a weirdly cohesive whole ‘Stove Top.’

As we experience the hopeful signs of society coming out of a dark winter of plague, Chris Potter and his Circuits Trio are giving us music of rejuvenation with ‘Sunrise Reprise.’