Here’s what we’ll be packing way in the back of our luggage – way, way in the back – before our fateful seafaring journey.

Carl Weingarten and Delay Tactics offer more tempered prog that’s still filled, thankfully, with a very earthy groove.

Animal Logic’s “Can You Tell Me” is an effective tease of things to come, and a welcome return from Deborah Holland, Stanley Clarke and Stewart Copeland.

With ‘Midnight Crisp,’ trumpet ace Takuya Kuroda once again creates music that makes new converts to jazz from the young and gives long-time jazzheads a fresh new perspective on an old genre.

Here is the video premiere of the chilled ethno-jazz jam “Not Yet” from Dan Kurfirst’s Arkinetics.

Mabuta’s fun ‘Finish the Sun’ works in the background at friendly get togethers, but also boasts the kind of musical detail that invites closer scrutiny.

With ‘Fractal Sextet,’ guitarist/composer Stephan Thelen doesn’t necessarily introduce new ideas, but he takes good ideas he already developed and puts them into a new framework. That makes the music that resulted from this sound just as fresh.

With ‘Parallel Motion,’ the Yellowjackets continue to defy the tendency of even the best bands to run out of steam and go stale.

Cymbalic Encounters’ latest prog-rock/jazz collaboration with Brand X players Percy Jones and John Goodsall finds a delightful and always gamboled groove.

Those favoring something jazzy and a little out of the ordinary will find Tritone Asylum’s ‘The Hideaway Sessions’ a rewarding listen.