Reborn as a quartet, Sam Weinberg’s BLOAR is still making stimulating experimental jazz-rock that’s wild, acerbic and sometimes mathematical.

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.’

David Sancious of E Street Band fame joins Ross Boissoneau to discuss career-changing work by Weather Report, Jimi Hendrix and Gustav Holst.

‘Numbers Maker’ sticks with the Desertion Trio original vision, but that vision is getting rougher and rowdier. Fortunately, Nick Millevoi & Co. know how to do rough ‘n’ rowdy.

Check out this satisfying fusion-jazz number “Truck Fump,” an advance single from Butcher Brown’s upcoming ‘Encore’ EP.

We’ve long known that guitar ace Wayne Krantz is really good, and now with ‘Music Room 1985’ we know that he was really good at the get-go.

Experiments with combining these two worlds on the fly can be a risky proposition but BLOOP (Lina Allemano and Mike Smith) have it all figured out and the ‘Proof’ is in the pudding.

Contemporary jazz often gets slammed for being too smooth or emphasizing melody in lieu of improvisation. Reza Khan’s ‘Imaginary Road’ puts the lie to that.

The combination of progressive rock, jazz and classical elements found on Corrado Rustici’s ‘Interfulgent’ is original, engaging and wondrous.