Twenty years into their collective journey, Toni Armetta's Threegonos have emerged with "Questioni di Pensiero" – a recording that demonstrates how contemporary jazz can embrace global traditions without sacrificing its essential character. This Italian sextet's second album reveals a mature ensemble unafraid to let their Mediterranean roots inform their musical wanderings across continents and cultures.

David Alex-Barton's latest offering arrives like a wistful December breeze, carrying with it the kind of melancholic beauty that transforms ordinary heartbreak into something approaching the sublime. The New England-born, Nashville-based troubadour has crafted a piece that sits comfortably between the windswept romanticism of early Springsteen and the more contemplative moments of Keith Whitley's catalogue.

Leah Chynoweth-Tidy's latest offering under her Kissing The Flint moniker arrives with the dust of Queensland still clinging to its metaphorical tyres, yet polished to a gleam by the accomplished hands of Unit 7 Studio's Huey Dowling. "Windscreen Dream" represents both a geographical and artistic journey - from the blues-rock territories of her previous EP toward sunnier country-pop pastures, with the artist's Scottish base providing an intriguing sonic counterpoint to her Australian roots.