Fabian Almazan’s nature-inspired ‘This Land Abounds With Life’ is an album with something for everyone.

Jazz is an inclusive music. So why did an established British journal publish a piece containing a gay slur?

Strong musical personalities impose themselves on these Dave Douglas originals, and it makes for a riveting trio that sounds like no other.

The three musicians in Shifa have played together in various combinations before but never recorded, so this is a first – and it is glorious.

Two hours, spent with Pat Metheny during a solo show in New Hampshire, and I was exhausted.

Fleur Stevenson makes very clear nods to the song’s original composers, but ‘Follow Me’ is also imbued with a remarkable originality.

What’s striking about the Tori Freestone Trio’s ‘El Mar de Nubes’ is how strongly themed each track is, yet it’s all played with incredible imagination.

On ‘Ride Angles,’ the band is an extension of Sam Ospovat’s mind, a very fertile mind at that.

Recorded 50 years ago this month, Joe Henderson’s ‘Power to the People’ features perhaps his most varied track listing and his best-ever backing band.

Miles Davis was a master at recognizing other people’s good ideas and making them great; jazz pianist Denny Zeitlin does the same here.