Yves Leveille’s ‘L’echelle du Temps’ feels personal, full of character, unfettered, and wonderful in the true sense of the word.

An instrumentalist of the highest order, Michael Bisio is underrated as a leader and composer. ‘MBefore’ is but the latest instance where he excels in those areas as well.

Michael Formanek Drome Trio’s ‘Were We Where We Were’ is a gratifying listen, whether the person beholding it realizes that these songs are musical palindromes or not.

Ivo Perelman and his all-star saxophone cohorts have rewritten the rules of the saxophone quartet with ‘(D)IVO.’

Andrew Boudreau puts the jazz world on notice his first time out with a thoughtful, fully realized quartet delight.

The return of his trio allows Mark Wade to completely rethink ideas from Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus, Fred Hersch, Frank Kimbrough and Mikael Godee.

Tomas Fujiwara’s twin trios double the chops and double the fun with the welcome Triple Double followup, ‘March.’

FISHBLOT’s ‘small talk’ culls together music from Danny Fisher-Lochhead / Ryan Blotnick sessions that is easily relatable but impossible to categorize.

With ‘Oddly Enough,’ Gordon Grdina’s own stringed-based expedition into the works of one of current jazz’s most esoteric composers sheds yet more light on the character, shape and genius contained in these scores.

“Begin Again” asks for things to change and, typical of Archie the Goldfish’s humor, adds that good music is always consolation if they don’t.