Did David Torn steal Lou Reed’s band? Probably not — the members of Torn’s early 1980s fusion ensemble Everyman Band, who released two albums on the storied ECM label, have all played with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal during in the late ’70s, but Reed had a notoriously mercurial relationship to personnel. Still, a budding jazz guitarist (Torn was mentored by pioneering trumpeter Don Cherry) joining forces with a rock icon’s sidemen for his recording debut shows a strong independent streak and no small amount of ambition. In the four decades since, Torn has delivered on that promise, producing a bewildering wealth of expansive music, from “arrogant ambient” (his term) to EDM (under the alias Splattercell) to acid jazz (check out his work with saxophonist…

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