Seamus Blake has taken a deep dive into the music of Eddie Harris. “The more that I listened to him, the more I appreciated and recognized the diversity of his kind of talent.”

“When we get together to play, to improvise, we’re just trying to make something fresh and all those influences and experiences that everybody has just comes out in a natural way,” says Jeff Parker of his ETA IVtet, from left, Josh Johnson, Jay Bellrose, Ana Butterss and Parker.

The Music Of Randy Weston captures three 1980s performances.

“I tried to make a CD that I would like to listen to myself, so that there would be no walls between me and the listener,” Clara Haberkamp says of Love Maps.

“I’ve always wanted to make something bigger than just my own music and that can relate to my father’s legacy,” Ibrahim Maalouf says of playing his father’s invention, the four-valve trumpet.

“I can talk from the perspective of other parents and what it would be like,” Monika Herzig notes of advocating for her transgender son through music. “So let me do that. That’s the voice I can share.”

“Jeff knows just what to play, how to construct drum fills around the arrangement,” Willie Jones III says of Jeff Hamilton. “Very musical.”

Laura Chavez’s My Voice is not a vocal album.

Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet will record live at New York’s Village Vanguard for ECM records on Aug. 26–27.

Count Basie’s is the most-represented orchestra on the new Mosaic V-Disc set.