‘Mise En Abîme’ would be a stunning achievement for just about anybody else; for Steve Lehman, it’s just his still-evolving musical personality racing out beyond jazz’s frontiers and daring anyone to try and catch up.

Scott Feiner successfully introduces the pandeiro into electric jazz fusion to produce a breezy concoction that goes down as easy as rum punch, and is just as intoxicating.

It’s fair to state that if you appreciate all that’s distinctive about ECM Records, you’re gonna really like Jacob Young’s Forever Young. And what’s not to like about that, anyway?

Though Charlie Haden is battling polio, he meets an old friend at their peak capacity.

Ahmad Jamal once said Hiromi “has discovered her own genre.” He was on to something.

I wonder what Ornette thinks of this stuff?

There’s almost nothing they can’t do, as this project so amply shows.

Rare recordings confirm Giuffre’s foresight as free jazz began racing to the edge.

Some think Metheny is joking around, that he couldn’t possibly like “all of this noise.”

Eleven-year Steely Dan sax veteran Weiskopf amply demonstrates why Becker and Fagen love this guy.