Jazz

Guitarist-composer Flórez is uniquely skilled at interlocking written music with group improvisation in song-length tracks that leave us bopping our heads and scratching them at the same time.

Gene Wilson (aka Gene Forrest) and Eunice Levy, a married couple, scored several hits in the 1950s but dented the pop charts only once, with “Poco Loco.” But the songs collected here are almost uniformly excellent.

The 23-song program mines some of Zappa’s most noteworthy material. He reaches all the way back to 'Freak Out,' the Mothers’ sterling 1966 debut...

This new edition of Badfinger's 'Head First' employs the recently discovered master tapes, which have been newly mixed and mastered by Bob Jackson, the band’s only surviving member.

As one would expect from a brass band, they can blow the roof off a building, but they can also give subtle and nuanced performances that pull out surprising emotional content from any tune they perform.

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill, Long After the Fire. This CD is a joint project by Vicki Peterson, who is best known as the Bangles’ lead guitarist, and her husband, John Cowsill, who struck gold as a singer and drummer in the siblings band the Cowsills. Here, they serve up …

When is an improvisation more than an improvisation? When a spontaneous collaboration gels into something that's more the sum of its parts.

Fleetwood Mac's colorful history embraces lots of little-known stories and recordings, 15 lineups, and more than two dozen studio and live albums.

Nighthawk (Parker Hawkins) is clearly brimming over with musical ideas, most of them excellent. And somehow, his seemingly disparate material all fits comfortably on one CD.

Vivian Maier's photographs prompted Walkate to compose this atmospheric, richly textured music. If it helps to further popularize Maier’s fascinating work, so much the better.