CD of the Month is Late Day Summer Breeze by Nashville filmmaker, artist, and bassist Dieter Spears. Get out of the cold with this ebullient, joyful and uplifting album.

But long before this resurgence, one of the earliest jazz-infused Hip-Hop albums, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was released by Brooklyn-based trio Digable Planets on this day in 1993 ...