‘In My Dreams’ is a perfect reminder of why Bill Frisell one of the most important figures of American music, always connecting the majesty of the past with vision for taking it into the future.

Horace Silver’s ‘Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse” is a very satisfying snapshot of an important artist in the middle of a lengthy period backed by major jazz big guns in their own right.

‘Consentrik Quartet’ proves that even within a conventional jazz quartet format, Nels Cline retains that hunger to thrive on the edge.

Starting with his 2014 big label debut ‘Rising Son,’ Takuya Kuroda preserved the integrity of jazz as he stretches far beyond its tradition to make it embraceable for newer generations.

Recorded in 1966 at their peaks, ‘Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ finds jazz giants McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson freed from studio constrictions.

This creative burst mostly came with help from jazz luminaries, but ‘The Omnichord Real Book’ still sounds like the singular Meshell Ndegeocello.

With the lively ‘Lifted,’ Trombone Shorty lifts up people with feel-good music rooted in the 20th century but is the perfect tonic for the 21st century.

Guitarist extraordinaire Julian Lage’s ‘Squint’ is the record of an established veteran composing, playing and leading on a high plane.

“Saint Rose” is the advance single from Julian Lage’s upcoming new release for Blue Note Records, ‘Squint.’

Whatever expectations you can make about a new Nels Cline Singers release, ‘Share the Wealth’ exceeds them all.