The Baltimore-based trumpeter/bandleader Brandon Woody’s one of those players that, from the vantage of 2025, seems to contain the past, present, and future of jazz in one neat package. Recorded with his band Upendo (including players Woody has known since middle school), For the Love of It All wraps the collective intensity of early ’70s post-bop into pieces that feel both driving and remarkably smooth (“Beyond the Reach of Our Eyes”), rhythmically dense but melodically appealing (“Real Love Pt. 1,” “Perseverance”), funky and polyrhythmic and inclusive of influences beyond traditional jazz while still retaining jazz’s grounding origins as music of (and about) everyday life (“Wisdom; Terrace on St. Paul St.”). The eclecticism is refreshingly gimmick-free. And he makes vulnerability sound like power, which it is.