Preston Frazier’s Best of 2023 Jazz list includes Jose James, Jamie Leonhart, Ron Blake, Lucas Pino, Nick Finzer and others.

Ivo Perelman and cohorts prove that sax, trumpet, vibes and stringed instruments can coalesce around spontaneous ideas, if you get the right guys together.

A conceptual album that draws on many influences, ‘Reaching In’ demonstrates James McGowan’s skill at looking beyond genre definitions.

How a ’50s-era recording of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie helped pave the way for updated songs like the Beatles’ “Now and Then.”

Ron Blake joined Preston Frazier to discuss his new LP ‘Mistaken Identity,’ working on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and his lengthy period between studio projects.

Drummer extraordinaire Jeff Cosgrove joins Noah Preminger and Kim Cass for an inspired sax/bass/drums performance, ‘Confusing Motion for Progress.’

The seriously advanced improvising of ‘Fire Within’ is borne out of the fun that Rich Halley clearly had joining forces again with the like-minded Matthew Shipp Trio.

‘Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings’ with the Wynton Kelly Trio only bolsters the case that Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist of all time.

Jamie Leonhart joined Preston Frazier for a song-by-song deep dive into her new EPs, ‘The Illusion of Blue (Side A)’ and ‘The Illusion of Blue (Side B).’

Satoko Fujii, Taiko Saito and Yuko Oshima are three wellsprings of creativity who as Trio San joined forces to find new ways to make uncommonly compelling music.