2012 release from the Jazz pianist joined by bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Joey Baron. "Wisteria" takes a fresh look at several pieces last heard on record in Kuhn's orchestral Promises Kept collection - "Promises Kept" itself, "Adagio", "Morning Dew" and "Pastorale". Kuhn's compositions, few in number but robust and adaptable, have often lent themselves to quite different interpretations. If anything, these small group versions emphasize the emotional core of the material.

This one was named #1 Jazz Recording of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times. It contains some of the most refined Barber compositions on record to date including the haunting "Clues", the sultry "I Could Eat Your Words" and the beautiful and poetic "If I Were Blue". A great band too including Dave Douglas on trumpet and Joey Baron on drums.

"Streams" is the second ECM album from Danish guitarist Jakob Bro as leader, featuring his pedigreed American trio members: bassist Thomas Morgan is known for his work with Paul Motian and John Abercrombie while drummer Joey Baron often backs Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Bro composed all the songs himself except for one track written by the three musicians.

The guitar has often seemed to take second place to other instruments in jazz, being perhaps more closely associated with other vernacular musics, the blues, pop, later rock. In her new album I Got Strings, award-winning guitarist and composer Eleonora Strino delves back into the great jazz standards, including “I Got Rhythm” and shows that even with just six strings, it’s possible to find rich new variants on the old songs.

Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger leads a trio comprising Swedish double bassist Anders Jormin and American drummer Joey Baron on the warm and involving album "Titok". The group's intensely melodic improvisation draws the listener gently into its sound world, featuring Snétberger's gracefully flowing guitar framed by an enveloping rhythmic undertow and the highly creative playing of his bandmates.

Recorded over a three-night engagement at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1976, jazz vocalist Carmen McRae presents this eclectic selection of jazz standards and a handful of pop songs including a surprising cover of Alice Cooper's ballad "Only Women Bleed".

"Scandal" marks the first time that trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano have recorded a full studio album of material together, revealing a passionately adventurous band for whom no territory is off-limits. As on their live debut recording, Sound Prints features pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Joey Baron. The super group heads off into swinging, heartfelt and sophisticated new territory inspired by saxophonist giant Wayne Shorter. Two of Shorter's pieces receive special treatment. A truly fantastic and original group playing new originals and music by Shorter.

In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. "Now This" is an album with the bassist's current trio, recorded in the summer of 2014 in Oslo and issued in time for Peacock's 80th birthday.

Nine original improvised works as well as a reworking of Ernie Burnett and George Norton's Melancholy Baby, "39 Steps" features guitarist John Abercrombie, pianist Marc Copland, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Joey Baron. This is Abercrombie's first recording since the 80's to feature a pianist, though Copland and Abercrombie have been playing together for nearly 40 years.

"Within A Song" is the musical celebration of jazz’s greatest players. The extraordinary John Abercrombie Quartet pays homage to early influences including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Jim Hall and Sonny Rollins. The album exuberates with the ensemble’s contemporary strengths and infectious guitar playing. John Abercrombie adds his own waltz-inspired composition, “Easy Reader” to this exquisite program.