A superb group featuring pianist Dwike Mitchell and bassist/French horn player Willie Ruff, the Mitchell-Ruff Duo has been recorded erratically and rarely reissued on CDs. This 1959 Town Hall concert is a recreation of an earlier performance in Moscow that could not be recorded due to problems with the Soviet regime…

Snazzy Cabaret (or "Snaz Cab") are a group of musicians bonded together in improvisation and groove harmony. Playing the songs of the individuals within the band; the Snaz Cab manifesto is to maintain fluidity in performance, recording by keen listening, with a strong musical communication between one another.

Issued on Cadet in 1970, The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby is really a left-field offering for the jazz harpist. But being a jazz harpist was – and remains – an outside thing in the tradition. Her previous offerings on Prestige were pure, hard bop jazz with serious session players soloing all over them…

On Hub Cap, his third effort as a leader, Freddie Hubbard sticks to the tried-and-true hard bop formula, which is something of a mixed blessing. There's no question that much of this music is enjoyable, but it's not quite up to the standards of its two predecessors…

Delivered swiftly after Evolve – it follows that 2017 set by a mere 17 months, practically a blip in the context of modern pop – Origins adheres to its predecessor's kaleidoscopic digital aesthetic. Nominally a rock band – and they're more than comfortable pulsing to a big, banging beat – Imagine Dragons are deliberately amorphous, a blob rolling along sucking up anything in its path…