There’s nothing loud or audacious on Jakob Bro’s ‘Uma Elmo’ because it doesn’t have to in order to leave an impact. Through subtlety comes sublimity.

It’s never too early to explore the music of the bold and talented Gary Bartz. ‘Gary Bartz JID 006’ may well be the perfect starting point.

Like other Scott DuBois works, ‘Summer Water’ is sagacious and spiritually deep, only this time, only DuBois’ guitar is needed for those qualities to shine through.

Like the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of burying treasure to be found later, ‘MMBC Terma’ by Michael Bisio, Michael Monhart and Ben Chadabe is a treasure of freeform jazz that’s emerged after almost fourteen years hidden away.

Here is a new video for “Fine Line,” an advance track from Wood Brothers front man Oliver Wood’s upcoming debut, ‘Always Smilin’.’

The 1957 Tail-Fin Fiasco sticks to their winning, quality rock-pop formula for music in making their new record ‘Don’t Go Anywhere’ anything but formulaic.

Wherever Thollem travels during an Astral Traveling Sessions jaunt like the ones he made with Alex Cline and Susan Alcorn, it’s a journey into the vast unknown areas of music that few dare to venture. But Thollem, he lives there.

Neither Evan Parker nor Matthew Shipp have anything left to prove, but that doesn’t diminish their drive to leave it all on the stage, as they did on ‘Leonine Aspects.’

This is obviously not music for all tastes but if you know about Fred Frith and Ikue Mori, then you know how good they are at making noise; for ‘A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall’ they make beautiful noise together.

Nothing is lost when Nik Bärtsch, bandleader, becomes Nik Bärtsch, solo pianist. It’s still captivating music, only played through the single vessel of piano.