Embrace Form, the latest long player from San Francisco’s unconventional jazz fusion band Joan Torres’s All Is Fused, amalgamates bass-heavy jazz, complex polyrhythms, and funk stylings into what comes close to being a concept album. Although released last year, the album deserves attention. According to the band, “‘Embrace Form’ is an album that explores the relationship between experimental instrumental music and popular music. Sometimes it’s easier to write experimental music that follows no rules other than ‘sound musical,’ but by leveraging familiar forms and enhancing or appropriating them to fit our expressive style, we can also expand our vocabulary and the diversity of our repertoire.” While making the album, the band was informed they had been awarded a San Francisco Arts Commiss...