Brian Blade

Play It Forward is our monthly online column and a nightly feature on-air for new jazz albums. This month, we feature Samara Joy, Jane Monheit, Tom Harrell, and the supergroup Three Visitors.

We asked our jazz hosts to give us their five favorite tracks of 2023, for WRTI's Hot Fives. Here are picks for Greg Bryant, host of Evening Jazz.

Recorded in 2018 but only now seeing daylight, it's the prolific drummer's first release in years at the head of his expressive and enduring Fellowship Band.

Brian Blade's band makes jazz-inflected, gospel-rooted music suffused with a glowing consonance.