Fania All Stars’ ‘Latin-Soul-Rock, long out of print, returns on 180-gram vinyl to celebrate the original release’s 50th anniversary.

Jeff Berlin, Ben Sidran, Jeff Denson and others are part of the latest edition of Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

New Memphis Colorways’ ‘It Is What It Isn’t’ is a dazzling blend of – well, psychedelic groove music comes as close as anything else to defining it.

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

What’s cool today might become passé, but ’50 Years of Funk and Soul’ reminds us that Tower of Power never will be anything less than hip.

A melodic hybrid of Swedish folk/jazz-rock, Henrik Cederblom’s ‘Zobop’ serves as a much-needed musical life jacket.

Despite its title, this album finds Ed Roth completely at home while performing piano-focused updates of songs by Deep Purple, Lou Reed and Pink Floyd.

Miles Davis sideman Lenny White joined us to discuss recording the groundbreaking, genre-shattering ‘Bitches Brew,’ released 50 years ago this week.

If this Bill Bruford compilation took an Ancestry DNA test, the results would point to an old Soft Machine song: It feels, it reels and it squeals.

Udo Pannekeet’s wondrous ‘Electric Regions’ is rock; it’s jazz – and then it’s everything in between.