What is striking about the Antonio Farao and Stephane Belmondo Quartet’s ‘Do It!’ is how it unites traditional jazz influences with improvised, free playing.

We check out New Orleans-based supergroup Nolatet’s “Somethin’ to Relax With,” their swingin’ advance single from the upcoming album ‘Somethin’ to Relax With.’

If you like your post-rock with healthy doses of passion and freedom, The Early’s ‘I Want To Be Ready’ is here to serve you.

“American Crow” is a new recording from pre-eminent jazz orchestra leader Maria Schneider, which she describes as “an extension” of her magnificent double album ‘Data Lords.’

The re-release of Joe Chambers’ ‘Double Exposure’ should provoke a long overdue re-examination of a career that touched on several turning points in jazz using multiple talents.

We long knew that Cecil Taylor was an intensely creative artist, and it’s remarkable to behold this intensity that never waned even at the end of a sixty-plus year career.

Here is the second advance single from Mama Guns’ 2026 album ‘DIG!’, the title track with special guest Brian Jackson.

Here is the video premiere of “Firefly Pharology” by Montreal-based quartet Bellbird from their upcoming album ‘The Call.’

Here is “Oo Long!”, the second advance single from cellist Tomeka Reid’s album ‘Dance! Skip! Hop!’.

Zev Feldman’s Time Traveler Recordings is set to give Woody Shaw’s lost 1976 classic ‘Love Dance’ the high-quality vinyl release treatment.