Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp continue to relentlessly push the envelope after all these years.

Billy Sherwood, Fernando Perdomo and others are featured on Five for the Road, an occasional look at music that’s been in my car lately.

Byron Asher’s “Blues Obligato” is kind of like Dixieland informed by a hundred years of music development.

Jeff Goldblum has a style that’s light-fingered, dexterous and at times pithy. You get the sense he is not out to prove anything.

Tom Tallitsch’s ‘Ten’ sometimes posits itself closer to rock than jazz, but it retains all the improvisation and musicianship associated with the latter.

Jon Herington drops by to discuss his new duo project with Jim Beard, covering Steely Dan, and his all-time favorite albums.

Miles Okazaki constructs songs that go against convention, telling a different, engaging musical story with each piece.

ARQ’s ‘Short Stories’ is a thing of beauty, an album that celebrates life rather than dwelling on losses that sparked three of its tracks.

This is drumming extraordinaire Mike Pride taking DIY to the extreme, not only in recording these solo, but also in engineering, mixing & mastering these series of improvisations.

The original songs by Jim Beard and Jon Herington are powerful, and the covers on ‘Chunks and Chairnobs’ stand the test of time.