Humanoid unveils a new sound, Eckroth says, with musicians who share her penchant for pushing boundaries.

“I’ve known these songs all my life, but I saw that there wasn’t enough attention on the older music,” Mahal says.

Brötzmann worked with nearly every major name in free-jazz within Europe.

“The history of the music is very important to us,” says Escoffery, noting that it is equally important to push the music forward.

Winners, judges and members of the supporting octet at this year’s Bridges Composition Competition.

“We actually had days where we did three songs in one day. It was just pow, pow, pow,” Jones said of the five-day recording session.

​“When things go right, it’s like dipping your hands into a nice sink of water,” Towner says of “Empty Stage,” from his new album, At First Light.

The London Brew Team, from left, Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Herbert, Nikolaj Torp Larsen, Nubya Garcia, Dave Okumu, Raven Bush, Dan See, Martin Terefe, Tom Skinner, Benji B, Nick Ramm, Dilip Harris, Luke Pickering and Theon Cross.

Isaiah Collier leads his band, The Chosen Few, through a program of reimagined standards to accompany the South Chicago Dance Theatre during the world premiere of Memoirs of Jazz in the Alley.

“The big thing was having multiple sections, ideas that develop slowly over time and don’t stray too far from an initial core idea,” Smith says of Return To Casual.