Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield's Take that Back opens with the smooth dark chocolate crooning of Hutton's bass clarinet. The tune is “Dirty Secret," a Hutton-penned, mid-tempo gem. And initially what comes to mind is (Bennie Maupin and Eric Dolphy aside) how rarely we hear the bass clarinet on a jazz album. Then Orfield's tenor sax ...

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Small Wonders

By Zacc Harris

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Ominous Skies; Sundials; Glass Houses; Civil Dawn; A Beautiful Life; The Void; Mixed Signals; Apple Jacks; Maya Song.

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Elegy for an Undiscovered Species

By Johannes Wallmann

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Elegy for an Undiscovered Species; Two Ears Old; In Three; Expeditor; Longing; The Greater Fool; Two Ears Old (reprise).

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Waterwheel

By Daniel Thatcher

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Odds And Ends; Three Sages; Albedo; Viscous; Let's Grow Old Together; Big Ben; Im Alpental; Lady Of The lake; Naturally; The Feast is Forward.

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Imminent Standards Trio Vol. 1

By JC Sanford

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Cherokee; Beatrice; Time After Time; Juju; Where or When; Nutty; It’s You or No One; Whisper Not; Dear John; Single Petal of a Rose.

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Where You're Planted

By Jake Baldwin

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2021

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Onward

By Peter DiCarlo

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Onward; Feast in the Fuar; Stepping Off; The Imposter; Arrival; Hint of Mint; There Will Never Be Another You; Feel Like Makin’ Love.