My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, November 2011:

The Claudia Quintet + 1, What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)

Joel Frahm Quartet, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)

Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerli, Modern Music (Nonesuch)

Ted Rosenthal Trio, Out of This World (Playscape)

Tony Malaby’s Novela (Clean Feed)

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