Welcome to Stereogum’s monthly jazz column! Jazz has an amazing and exhaustively documented past; classic albums are constantly being reissued, and newly discovered live recordings are unearthed seemingly on a weekly basis. But there’s also a ton of fantastic music being made right now, by young and living musicians, and it deserves just as much of your attention. It’s just that it can be harder to get a grip on what’s going on right now, because while jazz is a global and multifaceted music, its online presence isn’t what it could be. For example, a lot of jazz labels are on Spotify, but relatively few are on Bandcamp — and ECM, which regularly puts out amazing and important music, doesn’t believe in streaming at all.