Making an all-instrumental ostensibly jazz record like ‘Hurry Red Telephone’ has only served the underscore the easily identifiable but stubbornly unclassifiable sound of Marc Ribot.

Here is an advance single “Arkady” from Nick Maclean and Snaggle’s upcoming jazz fusion album ‘Foundation.’

The dogged determination of OM can be heard within the steely music they made on ‘Südpol.’

Here is the advance single “Illumination” from Cindy Blackman Santana’s upcoming album ‘Coherence.’

The plot for ‘Lines Of Now’ is the same as the Claudio Scolari Project’s previous nine albums, but the idea of making music in the moment never needs to change.

Phillip Golub’s microtonal-based ‘Partisan Ship’ is wildly ambitious, but the ambitions are realized.

Harriet Tubman’s ‘Electrical Field of Love’ is a welcome enough return on its own but their willingness to keep shaking things up by bringing on board Georgia Anne Muldrow signals that they haven’t lost any aversion to standing pat.

It’s time to re-embrace all the energy and funky fun of Mullet Jazz. You don’t need a mullet or a time machine to take this trip; Finely Tuned Elephant’s ‘No Goats’ is here to re-create that feeling in the present.

Once again, multi-faceted artist Alabaster DePlume defies neat categorization with this new instrumental single “Bringing Up the Nakba”.

‘ELEPHANT’ shows Adam O’Farrill’s daring to innovate new jazz with disparate non-jazz components comes from the acumen to conceive it and execute it with confidence.