Dutch experimentalists The New Earth Group are streaming the title track from their forthcoming new album Hurts Really Happy. It is a blend of prog rock guitar having a chat with a bit of jazz and some electronic dance to spice things up. Would have a perfect fit for a early Seventies sci-fi B-movie.

Claudio Filippini is back with his latest studio-recorded album, as a celebration of the 10-year artistic partnership with his trio including Luca Bulgarelli on double bass and Marcello Di Leonardo on drums. Squaring The Circle unfolds out of a revisitation of a number of standards that were chosen and performed from a different point of view.

Restessness is a 2015 6-song EP by British act Thisismenotthinkingofyou. This was released on the Adorno label.

Since the mid-'90s, pianist/composer Myra Melford's quintets such as the Extended Ensemble, the Same River, Twice, the Tent, and Be Bread have been among her most adventurous and inimitable groupings – and so one greets the arrival of her latest five-piece, Snowy Egret, with high anticipation. Released by Enja/Yellowbird in March 2015, Snowy Egret's eponymous debut album features Melford compositions inspired by Uruguayan author, historian, and journalist Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy; the quintet performed the music in November 2013 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of Melford's multimedia Language of Dreams project, which also included dance, video, and spoken word.

The Neurobiology Of Moral Decision Making is a 2015 collaborative album between Mark Fell and Gábor Lázár. This was released by The Death Of Rave.

Danish Guitar Performance is a 2015 album by Danish classical guitarist Søren Bødker Madsen. This was released by Guitarsolo.dk.

PLANE CRASH 2 is the second document from the legendary, notoriously uncompromising improvisational power trio of Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, and Weasel Walter… Trio music doesn't get much more real than this. Kaiser has been active in the improvised music community since the 1970s, bringing his dazzling technique and creative chops to bear in a myriad of diverse contexts, including Academy Award winning soundtrack work for longtime collaborator, director Werner Herzog.

Torres is not a man but a woman named Mackenzie Scott and Sprinter is her second album, released in 2015. This was released by Partisan.

Pe Aripi de Vânt is the 2015 album by Romanian singer Delia Machate, who goes simply by the name of Delia. This was released by Cat Music/Gazeta.

True Romance is the 2015 album by Estelle Swaray, known simply as Estelle. This is her fourth album in the eleven year career of this now 40 year old vocalist from London. This was released by Established 1980 via BMG.

Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941) is an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label. Cowell was born in Toledo, Ohio. He began playing the piano at around the age of four, and became interested in jazz after seeing Art Tatum at the age of six. Tatum was a family friend. After high school, Cowell studied at Oberlin College and the University of Michigan. During his time at college he played with jazz innovator Rahsaan Roland Kirk, which proved to be formative for the pianist. He moved to New York in the mid-1960s.

The Legacy Of Soul is a 2015 compilation of some of the best soul music ever made, all originally licensed to what is now Sony Music. This was originally a 3CD box set but the track order is slightly different, made for the digital realm. This was released by Legacy.

Juneteenth is a traditional festival of freedom for African Americans. The name comes from a date, June 19, 1865, the day blacks in Texas learned that slavery was abolished. Inspired by the upcoming 150th anniversary of the festival, American jazz pianist Stanley Cowell first created the suite for piano recorded here, and then went on to create a work on the same theme for orchestra, choir and electronics. Cowell, currently a professor at Rutgers, has worked with many jazz greats including Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz.

Akarui Nouson Keikaku is a 2015 EP put together by the Akarui Nouson Project featuring music from three different artists. This was released by 明るい農村計画.

Saxophonist Don Braden is all about positivity and sharing the joys of jazz. His ebullient music speaks to his intelligence yet he never falls prey to the jazz-as-intellectual-exercise trap that seems to snare younger musicians and a good amount of his peers. Over the course of his previous albums, Braden's managed to create accessible music built atop the pillars of wit, honesty, swing, and heart. He does it once more on this satisfying date.