“The first time Kidd and I played together in 1974 it was like instead of a kinship it was a twin-ship,” remembers master drummer Alvin Fielder of saxophonist Kidd Jordan. “I understood Kidd right away because I had been playing with [creative jazz saxophonists] Roscoe Mitchell and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre.”

Jordan, who co-founded the Impr...