‘Anemone’ by the Andrew Barker + Jon Irabagon Duo is sax-and-drums improvisation at its most impulsive and connective.

A meeting of artists who do not impose any rules on themselves is bound to produce music that dares to be dazzling in ways not previously heard, and that’s just what ‘Dust of Light/Ears Drawing Sounds’ by Ivo Perelman and Pascal Marzan delivers.

If you’re going to go extreme, do it with conviction. Jon Irabagon, Mike Pride, Mick Barr and Ava Mendoza are committed as ever for ‘I Don’t Hear Nothin’ But The Blues Volume 3: Anatomical Snuffbox.’

Veteran drummer and novice record label entrepreneur Whit Dickey finds ways to keep things fresh, this time with a new trio for ‘Expanding Light.’

For this festival set performed in Italy ‘Live In Florence,’ Otomo Yoshihide, his guitar and his turntables match wits with Chris Pitsiokos with his alto saxophone and his electronics.

Across five tracks of varying length is a showcase not just for the finesse of Sabir Mateen, Patrick Holmes and Federico Ughi but also the ingenuity and diverse talents of Mateen himself.

Whit Dickey has been an understated but sturdy and vital figure on New York City’s Downtown scene for the last 30 years.

With ‘Ineffable Joy,’ Ivo Perelman makes a significant addition to free jazz’s most fabled record company catalog.

Sam Weinberg joins with refugees from Little Women to form the new trio Bloor, and it’s wild, acerbic and even a bit mathematical.

Jazz is the music of pure emotion, and it’s the vehicle by which Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke amd Fred Lonberg-Holm sorted out their feelings about a tragedy.