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Benjamin Lackner plays the piano with a plangent grace at the head of a new ensemble on his latest album Spindrift for ECM Records. Only the trumpeter Mathias Eick remains from his debut ECM offering Last Decade, while the pianist also reconnects with Matthieu Chazarenc on drums who was a member of his earlier trio. Eick with the tenor...

The saxophonist Booker T. Williams is something of an underground legend. Hailing from Seattle and embarking upon New York City at the height of the downtown scene in the mid-seventies before touring throughout Europe and Japan, he appears to have jammed at various times with everyone from Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner to Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman...

It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...