Ballots 2021 [6]

[Ackermann - Broomer] · [Brownlee - Drouot] · [Dryden - Grunenberg] · [Gutterman - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Miriello] · [Mitchell - Sachs] · [Saunders - Taylor] · [Tesser - Young]

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
2. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
3. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
4. Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound)
5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
6. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
7. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
8. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
9. Lauren Henderson, Musa (Brontosaurus)
10. Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
3. Oscar Peterson, A Time for Love: Live in Helsinki, 1987 (Mack Avenue)

VOCAL

• Lauren Henderson, Musa (Brontosaurus)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)
2. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, (Exit) Knarr (Odin)
3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
4. Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan, Plastic Wave (Odin)
5. The Source, . . . But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down (Odin)
6. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
7. Flukten, Velkommen Hap (Odin)
8. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
9. Aki Takase-Christian Weber-Michael Griener, Auge (Intakt)
10. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
2. Christian Reim Sextet, Mona Lisa (1973, Jazzaggression)
3. Total Music Association, Walpurgisnacht (1971, NoBusiness)

VOCAL

• Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)

DEBUT

• Flukten, Velkommen Hap (Odin)

LATIN

• Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)

NEW RELEASES

1. Milford Graves & Jason Moran, Live at Big Ears (Yes)
2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
3. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
5. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
6. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
7. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
8. Alexa Tarantino, Firefly (Posi-Tone)
9. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
10. Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
3. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

VOCAL

• Lucy Yeghiazaryan & Vanisha Gould, In Her Words (La Reserve)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
2. Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet + Big Band, It's All Your Fault (Savant)
3. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
4. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
5. Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
6. Gretchen Parlato, Flor (Edition)
7. John Pizzarelli, Better Days Ahead: Solo Guitar Takes on Pat Metheny (Ghostlight)
8. Lyle Mays, Eberhard (self-released)
9. Roxana Amed, Ontology (Sony Music Latin)
10. Emmet Cohen, Future Stride (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance -20)
3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

VOCAL

• Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)

DEBUT

• Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind)

LATIN

• Antonio Adolfo, Jobim Forever (AAM Music)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

• Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
• Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
• Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
• Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet + Big Band, It's All Your Fault (Savant)
• Brian Lynch, Songbook Vol. 1: Bus Stop Serenade (Holistic MusicWorks)
• Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
• Greg Murphy, Cool Water (Whaling City Sound)
• Helen Sung, Quartet + (Sunnyside)
• Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
• John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
• Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

VOCAL

• Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force, Dear Love (Empress Legacy)

DEBUT

• Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind)

LATIN

• Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours, Chapter 10: Breaking Cover (Picaro)

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
2. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
3. Lunar Octet, Convergence (Summit)
4. Nik Bärtsch, Entendre (ECM)
5. Claudio Scolari Project, Cosmology (Principal)
6. David Janeway, Distant Voices (SteepleChase LookOut)
7. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
8. Charged Particles With Tod Dickow, Live at the Baked Potato: The Music of Michael Brecker (Summit)
9. Cowboys & Frenchmen, Our Highway (Outside In Music)
10. Brian Charette, Power From the Air (SteepleChase)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Don Cherry, The Summer House Sessions (1968, Blank Forms Editions)
2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

VOCAL

• Roseanna Vitro, Sing a Song of Bird (Skyline)

DEBUT

• Ben Tiberio, Rare Peace (Outside In Music)

LATIN

• Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, Salswing! (Rubén Blades Productions)

NEW RELEASES

1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
2. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
3. Moor Mother, Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-)
4. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
5. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
6. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
7. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
8. Terrace Martin, Drones (BMG)
9. Alfa Mist, Bring Backs (Anti-)
10. Nubya Garcia, Source ⧺ We Move (Concord Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings (1982, Impulse!)
2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
3. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)

VOCAL

• Moor Mother, Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-)

DEBUT

• Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
2. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)
3. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
4. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
5. Daniel Garcia Trio, Via De La Plata (ACT)
6. Keith Jarrett, Munich 2016 (ECM -19)
7. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
8. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
9. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
10. Benjamin Koppel-Kenny Werner-Scott Colley-Jack DeJohnette, The Art of the Quartet (Cowbell Music/Unit -20)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972) (Decca)
2. Ken Wheeler and the John Dankworth Orchestra, Windmill Tilter: The Story of Don Quixote (1969, Decca)
3. The New Jazz Orchestra, Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe (1969, Decca)

VOCAL

• Anna Gréta, Nightjar in the Northern Sky (ACT)

DEBUT

• Vincent Meissner Trio, Bewegtes Feld (ACT)

LATIN

• Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)

NEW RELEASES

1. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
2. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
3. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)
4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
5. Kuzu, All Your Ghosts in One Corner (Aerophonic)
6. Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt)
7. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
8. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
9. Ill Considered, Liminal Space (New Soil)
10. John Zorn, Heaven and Earth Magick (Tzadik)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Joe Harriott Quintet, Free Form & Abstract Revisited (1960-62, Ezz-Thetics)
2. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
3. Joe Henderson, The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Studio Sessions (1963-66, Mosaic)

VOCAL

• Roseanna Vitro, Sing a Song of Bird (Skyline)

DEBUT

• Emma-Jean Thackray, Yellow (Movementt/Warp)

LATIN

• Orquesta Akokán, 16 Rayos (Daptone)

NEW RELEASES

1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
2. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
3. Terrace Martin, Drones (BMG)
4. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Daring Mind (Motéma Music)
5. Carlos Niño & Friends, More Energy Fields, Currrent (International Anthem)
6. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Notes With Attachments (Impulse!)
7. Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)
8. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
9. Phil Ranelin, Infinite Expressions (ORG Music)
10. Ron Carter-Jack DeJohnette-Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Skyline (5 Passion)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Erroll Garner, Symphony Hall Concert (1964, Mack Avenue)
3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

VOCAL

• Gretchen Parlato, Flor (Edition)

DEBUT

• Michael Mayo, Bones (Artistry Music)

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
2. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
3. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
4. Camila Nebbia Quartet, Corre El Río De La Memoría Sobre La Tierra Que Arrastra Trazos, Dejando Rastros De Alguna Huella Que Hoy Es Número (Ramble)
5. Chamber 4, Dawn to Dusk (JACC)
6. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
7. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
8. Nate Wooley, Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text)
9. Jeremiah Cymerman, Citadels & Sanctuaries (5049)
10. Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)
3. Frank Zappa, Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show (Zappa)

VOCAL

• Sara Serpa, Intimate Strangers (Biophilia)

DEBUT

• Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble, Different Roots (Red Piano)

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. Jared Schonig, Two Takes Vol. 1 Quintet / Two Takes Vol. 2 Big Band (Anzic)
2. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
3. Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)
4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
5. Helen Sung, Quartet + (Sunnyside)
6. Kurt Elling, SuperBlue (Edition)
7. Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber, Angels Over Oakanda (Avant Groidd)
8. Terence Blanchard, Absence (Blue Note)
9. Benito Gonzalez, Sing to the World (Rainy Days)
10. Miho Hazama & Danish Radio Big Band, Imaginary Visions (Edition)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
2. Keith Jarrett, Facing You (1971, ECM)

VOCAL

• Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)

DEBUT

• Lady Blackbird, Black Acid Soul (BMG)

LATIN

• Dayramir González, Tributo a Juan Formell & Los Van Van (Producciones Abdala)

NEW RELEASES

1. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
2. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, (Exit) Knarr (Odin)
3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
4. Rocio Giménez López-Luciana Bass-Fermin Suarez-Rosina Scampino, Reunión En La Granja (Discos ICM)
5. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
6. The Source, . . . But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down (Odin)
7. Florian Arbenz, Conversations #2 & #3 (Hammer)
8. Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt)
9. Vincent Herring, Preaching to the Choir (Smoke Sessions)
10. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, Cosmic Transitions (Division 81)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
2. Juju, Live at 131 Prince Street (1973, Strut)
3. Dennis González & Yusef Komunyakaa, Herido: Live at St James Cathedral, Chicago (1999, 8th Harmonic Breakdown)

VOCAL

• Anthony Joseph, The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Orquestra Afro-Brasileira, 80 Anos (Day Dreamer)

NEW RELEASES

1. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
2. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
3. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
4. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
5. Theo Croker, BLK2LIFE ∥ A Future Past (Sony Masterworks)
6. Carlos Henriquez, The South Bronx Story (Tiger Turn)
7. Marc Cary, Life Lessons (Sessionheads United)
8. Russell Gunn & the Royal Krunk Jazz Orchestra, The Sirius Mystery Opus 4 No. 1 (Ropeadope)
9. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
10. Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto: The Custodian's Mix (1968, Impulse!)
3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

VOCAL

• Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)

DEBUT

• Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, Cosmic Transitions (Division 81)

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
2. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
3. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
4. Pedro Melo Alves Omniae Large Ensemble, Lumina (Clean Feed)
5. Nate Wooley, Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text)
6. Chamber 4, Dawn to Dusk (JACC)
7. The Coast Jazz Orchestra, The Temp (Music by Taylor Ho Bynum, Words by Matthea Harvey) (self-released)
8. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
9. Camila Nebbia Quartet, Corre El Río De La Memoría Sobre La Tierra Que Arrastra Trazos, Dejando Rastros De Alguna Huella Que Hoy Es Número (Ramble)
10. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Moon on the Lake (Libra)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
3. Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)

VOCAL

• Sara Serpa, Intimate Strangers (Biophilia)

DEBUT

• Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble, Different Roots (Red Piano)

LATIN

• Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)

NEW RELEASES

1. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Hope (Northern Spy)
2. Three-Layer Cake, Stove Top (RareNoise)
3. Benjamin Boone, The Poets Are Gathering (Origin -20)
4. The New Muse 4Tet, Blue Lotus (self-released)
5. Sarah Bernstein, Exolinger (577 -20)
6. Francisco Mela Featuring Matthew Shipp and William Parker, Music Frees Our Souls Vol. 1 (577)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Terence Blanchard, Absence (Blue Note)
2. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
3. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
4. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
5. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
6. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Daring Mind (Motéma Music)
7. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
8. Joey DeFrancesco, More Music (Mack Avenue)
9. Michael Wollny-Emile Parisien-Tim Lefebvre-Christian Lillinger, XXXX (ACT Music)
10. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
3. Charlie Parker, The Charlie Parker Collection 1941-54 (Acrobat)

VOCAL

• Gretchen Parlato, Flor (Edition)

DEBUT

• Emma-Jean Thackray, Yellow (Movementt/Warp)

LATIN

• Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)

NEW RELEASES

1. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
2. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
3. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
5. Futari [Satoko Fujii & Taiko Saito], Beyond (Libra)
6. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
8. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
9. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)
10. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
3. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)

VOCAL

• Theo Bleckmann and the Westerlies, This Land (Westerlies Music)

DEBUT

• Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)

LATIN

• Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)

NEW RELEASES

1. Ben LaMar Gay, Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem)
2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
3. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
4. Omar Sosa, An East African Journey (Ota)
5. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
6. Art Hirahara, Open Sky (Posi-Tone)
7. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
8. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
9. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
10. Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
2. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
3. Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band, Tezeta (1975, Awesome Tapes From Africa)

VOCAL

• Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri, Felt/not said (Auspice NOW)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
2. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
3. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
5. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
6. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
7. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
8. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
9. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
10. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
3. Sarah Vaughan, Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1969 (The Lost Recordings)

VOCAL

• Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force, Dear Love (Empress Legacy)

DEBUT

• Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)

LATIN

• Ernesto Jodos, Confluence (Ears & Eyes)

[Ackermann - Broomer] · [Brownlee - Drouot] · [Dryden - Grunenberg] · [Gutterman - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Miriello] · [Mitchell - Sachs] · [Saunders - Taylor] · [Tesser - Young]