Beautiful, balladesque quartet album — moody, blue and restrained.

With Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, live in 2001 — this trio at its peak — kicking off with a Cole Porter and closing with a heart-rending solo piano reading of It’s All In The Game.

A quartet session, with Jan Garbarek.

Marimba, bowed vibraphone and waterphone, hang, bells, gongs, cymbals, magic drum, log drum, sheep bells, Indian cowbells, udu drum, various drums and metal-utensils… with Jan Garbarek.

With Ustad Fateh Ali Khan singing; Ustad Shaukat Hussain, tabla; Ustad Nazim Ali Khan, sarangi; Deepika Thathaal, voice; Manu Katche, drums.

With Miroslav Vitous and Pete Erskine.

Mark Turner, tenor and soprano saxophones; Larry Grenadier, double-bass; Jeff Ballard, drums.

Dusting off Armenian, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, Persian, Caucasian roots — and ‘a stillness that has not been darkened at all, and has the degree of density that leaves the Gurdjieffian silence immaculate.’

Based on recordings by John Abercrombie, Miroslav Vitous, Louis Sclavis, Bennie Maupin, Paul Motian, Arvo Part and co.

Engrossing, luminous, abstract pianism from Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell cohort.

Violin or hardanger fiddle, piano or harmonium duets: moody, contemplative, melodic crossings of Norwegian folk and classical in the manner of its nineteenth century muse. Recommended.

Polish piano trio lining up Ornette, Hermeto Pascoal, Hans Eisler, Paul Bley and Fran Landesman alongside five of its leader’s compositions.

Poetic ballads for piano, cello, saxophone and accordion, taking inspiration from the Russian film-maker (and nodding to Bach, Pergolesi and Shostakovich).

His lovely, lyrical jazz trumpet-playing blended with the Corsican polyphony of A Filetta, and the bandoneon of Daniele Di Bonaventura, in the tradition of Miles’ take on Rodrigues’ Concierto de Aranjuez.

Farsi love songs, including a tribute to Norma Winstone, from the German-Iranian singer Cymin Samawatie.

Ravishing, melodic and lyrical, but also poised and alert piano-playing.

Piano duets with David Rothenberg, playing clarinet and bass clarinet.

Gorgeous, direct duets, love songs, close in spirit to The Melody At Night With You.

With Chris Potter and Jason Moran.

Music written for Angelopoulos’ film, featuring the viola of Kim Kashkashian, alongside oboe, accordion, voice, trumpet, french horn and cello.