As Anthony Braxton continues to push forward one of America’s greatest art forms, he also takes opportunities to demonstrate just how jazz got to be so great.

Beverley Beirne’s new album is far different than the fun-filled ‘Jazz Just Wants to Have Fun,’ showing a completely different side and strength.

Here is the video premiere of swinging “Thinking of Benny,” a song tenor sax ace Joel Frahm wrote honoring one of his saxophone heroes, the living icon Benny Golson.

Ruben Blades, Nick Finzer and Joe Bailey 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.

A solo performance of rare wisdom like ‘Koi’ is what happens when the mighty composing pen of Tim Berne meets a mighty insightful guitar of Gregg Belisle-Chi.

With results like ‘A Little Driving Music,’ it’s almost tempting to suggest Brian Bromberg lockdown in his home studio for 2021 as well.

Here is the streaming premiere of “Philosophy Series” from bass giant Mario Pavone’s final act album, ‘Blue Vertical.’

Larry Coryell most likely didn’t know that he wouldn’t do another recording date when he made ‘Last Swing In Ireland’ but he left it all in the studio, anyway.

There’s a lot of appealing melodicism built into harmolodics, and the ‘Broken Shadows’ quartet of Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King succeed in driving that point home.