Powerhouse saxophonist Ron Blake follows up 2023’s critically acclaimed ‘Mistaken Identity’ with a profoundly personal and evocative release.

Here is the video premiere of David Bode’s big band adaptation of Kenny Garrett’s “Happy People.”

Gregg Belisle-Chi again undertakes the not small task of deconstructing Tim Berne songs and reconstructing them in his own image, but it’s a labor of love for him.

Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley, Matt Moran, Mark Helias & Tom Rainey let their extraordinary instincts take completely over for ‘A Modicum of Blues.’

Julius Hemphill’s songs might be nominally jazz but to hear them in a chamber music setting as rendered by the Hemphill Stringtet is a revelation.

Herb Alpert and Dino Saluzzi are performing music, and performing it well, at the ripe age of – wait for it – 90. That’s right, the big 9-0.

Still going strong as ever on ‘Muscle Memory,’ Dave Sewelson left it all on the field in leading a dream team with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Steve Swell and Steve Hirsh.

Trumpeter/composer Adam O’Farrill looked to the art visionaries of some ninety years ago in making a set of songs that’s visionary for today.

For the solo piano ‘New Vienna’, Keith Jarrett strove for the purest form of musical expression and once again for one of the final times, he got there.

‘Morning Bells Whistle Bright’ is the product of an alluring new union between great veteran American Michael and prodigious, up-and-coming Korean pianist Eunhye Jeong.