As the weather temperatures keep dropping we have to rely on music to get the heat we need. Enjoy a playlist that should bring you a welcome degree of warmth and introspection.

To wrap up this week's dispatch of new and upcoming releases, enjoy a groovy and cinematic playlist!

This time we great vocalists, and poignant chamber-like projects, and renditions of tunes by Curtis Mayfield, Astor Piazzolla by way of Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder (mashed-up with Pete Rugolo).

Enjoy a playlist featuring musicians that make their vocal cords, or their instruments, or their ensembles, sing (or scream).

Here is a playlist that comes out when one puts a vast range of musical styles in a blender a blender, from Malian music to folk, from krautrock and post-punk, to the manic energy of James Chance or early Talking Heads

Here is a segment of Mondo Jazz located somewhere between French and Frank... French as in the jazz scene Airelle Besson, Oan Kim and Yonathan Avishai hail from, and Frank as in Frank Zappa.

A recording at Slugs featuring McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Henry Grimes and Jack DeJohnette is an unearthed live gem for the ages that tops a playlist featuring inspiring recent and upcoming releases.

A playlist characterized by remarkable guitar-centric duos, leading into the existential dephts of Das Kapital and a live tour-de-force by Devin Daniels.

A preview of the musicians that FourOneOne will present during with "Transatlantik" a two-day of performances and conversation with diasporic artists engaged with the artistic and political concepts of negritude and créolité.

Another delicious slew of new albums, this week with a definite Scandinavian bent.

Enjoy our third and final segment of this week's tribute to Jimi Hendrix, and yet more jazz renditions of Jimi Hendrix classics.

As we are exploring how Jimi Hendrix has inspired the jazz world, this segment focuses on the connections between Hendrix and Miles Davis and musicians close to him.

November is Jimi Hendrix's birth month and so we decided to focus this week's edition on jazz renditions of the Jimi Hendrix songbook.

The prolific Argentinean pianist Leo Genovese, and various tributes (to Shetland, but also to masters like McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington and Bud Powell) are at the heart of this playlist.

Mondo Jazz is back on its path of discovery of the finest new jazz releases which are found off the beaten path... and there's plenty to enjoy in this playlist!

Enjoy a playlist featuring blending jazz and the musical traditions of Mali, Suriname, Cuba and Argentina.

Enjoy the third installment of our "fall edition" of favorite tunes from the past few months.

We took a look back to the last few months of music, during which we have beeting setting aside some of our favorite songs with the idea of then compiling them for one of our periodic “best of the year” set-lists. Here's part two of our fall favorites playlist.

From time to time, we take stock of the most exciting releases that have landed on our desks, and hard drives. Usually, we do it twice a year, in June and in December. However, we have already accumulated so much great material since June that there was no point in waiting until December to start sharing some of the songs we have been putting aside for our ‘favorites' playlist’. So, here we go...

Master saxophonists of yesterday and today, piano trios from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and a piano-bouzouki duo exploring uncharted territories should give you plenty of pleasure and surprises in this week's Mondo Jazz set.

Enjoy a set focusing on guitar players, Italian cult musicians at the intersection of jazz and many other genres, Northern European rising stars and poets trapped in the bodies of musicians.

The love of nature is at the heart of the three albums by Elsa Nilsson, Brad Shepik and Layale Chaker that open today's set, which is then wrapped-up by the slow but unstoppable crescendo of Norwegian prog icons, Elephant9 and a very special guest, Terje Rypdal.

Here is the second part of an edition of Mondo Jazz celebrating the birth of James Baldwin, 100 years ago in Harlem, through the countless connections between his life and work, the music he loved and the music he inspired.

The centennial of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin offers a great opportunity to look into the call and response which has been going on, for decades, between Baldwin’s inner world and the world of jazz.

Henry Hey, Kurt Elling and Kit Downes provide the thread of today's set, which also figures on the large ensembles led by Monique Chao, Ben Kono and Rob Mazurek.