Capturing light is not easy: ask any outdoor photographer - one must be ready for fragmentary shifts in illumination. In that spirit, Caught Light, Great Lake Swimmers' ninth album is perhaps their most nimble: be prepared, don't overthink, act fast. Completed in three days, Nashville-style, by producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas), Caught Light was captured in the shortest amount of time Dekker had ever spent making a record and is Great Lake Swimmers' most fully realized album in years.

Nashville native Lauren Watkins tackles the good, bad, and ugly in 'In A Perfect World' Lauren Watkins is a Nashville native who has toured with major artists including Zach Top, Morgan Wallen, and most recently, Lainey Wilson. In her latest album, "In A Perfect World," she tackles the good, the bad, and the ugly of real life. The album was produced by her husband, Will Bundy. She sat down with me to walk through this compelling work of storytelling.

On Disquiet, The Necks stretch their immersive, shape-shifting sound across three discs and more than three hours of labyrinthine, patient intensity. This is their twentieth studio recording and it marks the 39th year of the band’s existence. Meticulously recorded and sculpted, the four extended pieces on Disquiet see Tony Buck, Chris Abrahams, and Lloyd Swanton pushing at the outer edges of their collective intuition, building and unraveling hypnotic structures with microscopic focus. Present is the usual arsenal of piano, double bass, and drums, and all the in-between of sounds undefined and sources obscured. The music of The Necks has always carried a profound sense of shared responsibility –– between the players, of course, in their utter commitment to the improvisational –– but also between the work and its audience. With music so open, there are profound opportunities to choose: what to focus on, whether to focus at all, etc. Disquiet takes this further: there is no particular listening order prescribed. There is no “Disc 1, Disc 2, Disc 3.” The music itself seems to stretch time, and this presentation challenges ideas of sequencing. The Necks, one may argue, are a mode of discovery as much as they are a band.

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions is a compilation album by American saxophonist Ike Quebec. The album focuses on Quebec's 45 RPMs recorded between 1959 and 1962 and aimed at the juke box market. The songs were successful, marking the start of a comeback for the saxophonist who had fallen into obscurity since his early career in 1940s.

Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins, recorded in December 1957 in New York City. It was released in 1959 on producer Norman Granz's newly launched Verve label. Pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Tommy Bryant, and drummer Charlie Persip form the rhythm section.

Founded in January 1969, Humble Pie quickly became one of the most popular and toughest live bands of the 1970s. With Steve Marriott, the former Small Faces frontman,

Joachim Raff was a largely self-taught composer whose style stands somewhere between the German traditionalism of Schumann and the newer school of Wagner.

"Sir Bradley" likely refers to soul singer Charles Bradley (1948-2017), who was known for his late-career rise to fame, distinctive booming voice, and deeply personal, emotionally raw performances.

"Nick Joz" appears to refer to two different individuals: Nick Jozwiak, a jazz bassist from the Chicago area who studied at prestigious institutions and moved to New York to explore free jazz and experimental music, and Nick Joy, a consultant and writer in the aquaculture industry known for his outspoken columns.

abe was a Dutch girl-pop band in the 1970s and 1980s. The producer was Peter Koelewijn.

Nosso Canto, which means in Portuguese both "our song" and "our corner", was born from the artistic complicity woven over the years between the Italian saxophonist Giulia Tamanini and the Brazilian guitarist José Ferreira.

Three major works for piano and orchestra by English composers, all eschewing the traditional nineteenth-century model of a bravura virtuoso soloist pitted against an orchestra, in distinctive ways. Together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under George Vass, Clare Hammond presents an original programme that provides a unique perspective on how the piano concerto reflected musical currents in mid-twentieth-century Britain.

Nicole Zuraitis cut this album “Live at Vic’s” in Las Vegas, Nevada. With the accompaniment of her hot band, Zuraitis opens with the 1956 R&B hit record “I got my Mojo Working” originally recorded by Ann Cole.

This two-act, seven-scene opera is about the siege of a city by brutal foreign invaders.

Growing up in Venado Tuerto, a small town in central Argentina, drummer/composer Juan Chiavassa was introduced to music at an early age by his father, a fusion fanatic who switched him on to the sounds of The Yellowjackets, Mike Stern, Jack DeJohnette, Wayne Shorter and many others. After winning a scholarship to Berklee College Of Music, where he was taught by the legendary saxophonist George Garzone, Juan's talent shone through brightly enough to attract the attention of the cream of the New York scene, and his dreams came true when he was chosen for the drum chair in the Mike Stern band, alongside the very musicians whose recordings his father had played to him so many years before.