Her mother remembers love, her father says there was none, and ‘The Brothel: A Musical Memoir’ lets both accounts stand before handing the story to the next generation.

The German drummer, a member of Web Web and Subtone, discusses ‘Drum Seeds,’ an album of drums, vintage synthesizers, and spring reverb made alone after his label asked him for drums and nothing else.

The two founders of the Ann Arbor band talk through the making of ‘3,’ from a weekend of continuous takes with players scattered across Michigan, New York, and New Orleans, to the months Gowland then spends alone deciding which minutes survive.

Richter wants “a little garden where things can grow” without being overdetermined, and ‘Mymerian’ — organ, accordion, contrabass, and cello, recorded live in one cold room — is that garden at its most exposed.

Producer, art director, and label owner, Don Schlitten photographed jazz from a 1957 Monk set at the Five Spot through the Newport festivals of the sixties, and ‘Love and Understanding’ brings out the photographs that stayed inside jazz circles for decades.

David Katz on Dub Revolution: how King Tubby, Lee Perry, and Scientist built dub, and why its origins run earlier than the usual story allows.

Fling ii’s Brad Gowland and Richard Murphy on ‘3’ — forty-minute jams in a Michigan church cut to six-minute tracks, with pedal steel over motorik.

Producer Martin Bisi on the same Brooklyn building since 1979, the rezoning of Gowanus, why genres work like social movements, and Dancing on the Power Lines.

The saxophonist on McCoy Tyner, his friendship with Pharoah Sanders, and why he doesn’t observe the jazz lineage — he is it. Plus the album’s title story.

Sound artist Josh Mason on his Greyfade FOLIO release ‘Kicking A Dark Horse,’ a modular album and book built to be entered at any point.