Jazz as a method didn’t come into its own until round 1920. It is laborious to consider, however the outdated arguments about “traditional versus avant garde” were nonetheless being fought over then, even while the veterans of the free improvisation actions of the ’60s have been turning into as established and venerable as the musicians who’d made their name enjoying bop after the collapse of the big bands in the ’50s.

Generally just to densify the overall texture, a jazz equal to a rock band’s second guitarist, however on a new composition of his, the magnificent elegy “Too Soon,” he layered a number of sluggish and spare pure-toned melodies on prime of one another, in the end achieving something like a complete section portraying a dawn.

Highlights embody such diverse artists as the Encore Saxophone Quartet, violinist Roberto Cani, pianists Conor Hanick, Nadia Shpachenko, Andrei Baumann, and Petronel Malan, flutist …