Joey DeFrancesco so deeply imbibed the groove-jazz sounds of his Philadelphia organ forebears, it's easy to forget he wasn't raised entirely within the confines of some windowless North Philly bar.

An avant-gardist with impeccable credentials who has still managed to remain lesser-known than many of his peers, bassist Mario Pavone increased his output dramatically over the last decade.

Everyone knows there's simply too much information from far too many sources these days.

The Norwegian-French quartet Dans les Arbres chooses to lose themselves in harsh emptiness, calling across the expanses with striking outbursts or soul-trembling moans.

Twenty years later, the influence of the M-Base collective, then looked at as an insular, eccentric group, has seeped into the modern-jazz vanguard.

Artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder use multiple film projectors and their projections of light and color to create live performances out of the mechanics of movie-going.

Was Charlie Hunter one of the victims of the country's current financial miseries?

The adjectives that come to mind when describing James Blackshaw's music — hypnotic, evocative, cinematic — typically describe a denser sound than this 12-string guitarist conjures

He doesn't exactly let the ex-gov off the hook for his sexual indiscretions, but obviously sides with interviewees who greet it with head-slapping consternation.

Though The Rub and Spare Change is Michael Formanek's first leader date in more than a decade, there's hardly any threat of rust on his bass strings.