Columbia Icefield’s ‘A Silence Opens’ teaches twice over that the soul of an artist never dies, it’s simply transferred to the art they make.

‘ELEPHANT’ shows Adam O’Farrill’s daring to innovate new jazz with disparate non-jazz components comes from the acumen to conceive it and execute it with confidence.

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

A solo cello record might not sound like an exciting proposition for some, but with ‘REX,’ Christopher Hoffman puts the instrument at the forefront of modern music.

The all-percussion ensemble might have been around a while, but there’s probably no one better today than Tomas Fujiwara for taking this idea further, with ‘Dream Up.’

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.

There’s too much artful turmoil here to contain on one disc, and that’s why Tim Berne’s ‘Yikes Too’ is a double-disc delight.

Here is the world streaming premiere of “Avrils,” from alto saxophonist Michael Attias’ upcoming new album ‘Quartet Music Vol. II: Kardamon Fall.’

Here is the streaming premiere of “Doomknocker,” the second single from Alfredo Colón’s debut album ‘Blood Burden.’

Here is a hard rockin’ new single from Adam Hopkins’ ‘Crickets’ band, “Grounded,” a standalone single and extra track from the fifth anniversary vinyl reissue of ‘Crickets.’