Ballots 2021 [8]

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
2. Alchemy Sound Project, Afrika Love (ARC)
3. Ivo Perelman, Brass and Ivory Tales (Fundacja Sluchaj)
4. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
5. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Moon on the Lake (Libra)
6. Tim Hagans & NDR Bigband, A Conversation (Waiting Moon)
7. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
8. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
9. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
10. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
3. Bill Evans, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) (Concord)

VOCAL

• Mary LaRose, Out Here (Little (i) Music)

DEBUT

• Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)

LATIN

• Jean-Jacques Rojer, Soko (Sunnyside)

NEW RELEASES

1. Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt)
2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
3. Ghost Rhythms, Spectral Music (Cuneiform)
4. Marc Johnson, Overpass (ECM)
5. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
6. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
7. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
8. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
9. Benito Gonzalez, Sing to the World (Rainy Days)
10. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
3. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released -20)

VOCAL

• Lady Blackbird, Black Acid Soul (BMG)

DEBUT

• Sana Nagano, Smashing Humans (577)

LATIN

• Joe Chambers, Samba De Marcatu (Blue Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)
2. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
3. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
5. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
6. Marc Johnson, Overpass (ECM)
7. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
8. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
10. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

VOCAL

• Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)

DEBUT

• Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)

LATIN

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Slava Ganelin-Alexey Kruglov-Oleg Yudanov, Access Point (Losen)
2. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
3. Alex Sipiagin, Upstream (Posi-Tone)
4. Mark Lewis Quartet, Naked Animals (Audio Daddio)
5. Roberto Magris & Eric Hochberg, Shuffling Ivories (JMood)
6. Roots Magic, Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed -20)
7. Alchemy Sound Project, Afrika Love (ARC)
8. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
9. Kevin Sun, <3 Bird (Endectomorph)
10. Soil and "Pimp" Sessions, The Essence of Soil (JVC)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
3. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Nortonk, Nortonk (Biophilia)

LATIN

• Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet, Social Distancing (Saponegro)

NEW RELEASES

1. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
2. Terrace Martin, Drones (BMG)
3. Charlotte Greve, Sediments We Move (New Amsterdam)
4. Tyshawn Sorey & Alarm Will Sound, For George Lewis/Autoschediasms (Cantaloupe)
5. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
6. John Zorn, Nostradamus: The Death of Satan (Tzadik)
7. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
8. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
9. Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra, Bud Powell in the 21st Century (Sunnyside)
10. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Daring Mind (Motéma Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

VOCAL

• Terrace Martin, Drones (BMG)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Joëlle Léandre, Beauty/Resistance (Not Two)
2. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
3. Tom Ward-Martina Verhoeven-Dirk Serries-Cath Roberts, Imaginary Junction (A New Wave of Jazz)
4. KORR, Tombé De La Voûte (We Insist)
5. Bertrand Gauguet & John Tilbury, Contre-Courbes (Akousis)
6. Punkt. Vrt. Plastik [Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger], Somit (Intakt)
7. Flow Trio With Joe McPhee, Winter Garden (ESP-Disk)
8. Umlaut Big Band, Mary's Ideas (Umlaut)
9. See Through 4, Permanent Moving Parts (All-Set! Editions)
10. Lao Dan & Deng Boyu, TUTU Duo (NoBusiness)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor Quintet, Lifting the Bandstand (1998, Fundacja Sluchaj)
2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
3. Roberto Miranda's Home Music Ensemble, Live at Bing Theatre: Los Angeles, 1985 (Dark Tree)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Charlotte Keefe, Right Here Right Now (Discus)

LATIN

• Paula Shocron-William Parker-Pablo Díaz, El Templo (Astral Spirits)

NEW RELEASES

1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
2. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
3. Blue Reality Quartet, Blue Reality Quartet! (Mahakala)
4. Dopolarians, The Bond (Mahakala Music)
5. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
6. George Cables, Too Close for Comfort (HighNote)
7. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
8. Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)
9. Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow (self-released)
10. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)
3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)

VOCAL

• Sachal Vasandani & Romain Collin, Midnight Shelter (Edition)

DEBUT

• Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind)

LATIN

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
2. Alexander Hawkins, Togetherness Music: For Sixteen Musicians (Intakt)
3. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
4. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
5. Josh Sinton, b. (Form Is Possibility)
6. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
7. Jacqueline Kerrod, 17 Days in December (Orenda)
8. ROVA, The Circumference of Reason (ESP-Disk)
9. Michael Bisio-Kirk Knuffke-Fred Lonberg-Holm, The Art Spirit (ESP-Disk)
10. Pablo Ledesma-Paula Shocron-Mono Hurtado-Pablo Díaz, Inmanencia (Nendo Dango)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
2. Charlie Parker, Bird in LA (1945-52, Verve)
3. Elton Dean Quartet, They All Be on This Old Road (1976, Ogun)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Ohad Talmor Trio, Mise En Place (Intakt)
2. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)
4. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
5. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
6. The Vinny Golia Quartet, Left, Outside . . . ! (Nine Winds -19)
7. Harold Danko, Spring Garden (SteepleChase)
8. Rich Halley-Dan Clucas-Clyde Reed-Carson Halley, Boomslang (Pine Eagle)
9. Gordon Grdina's Square Peg, Klotski (Attaboygirl)
10. Alister Spence Trio With Ed Kuepper, Asteroid Ekosystem (Alister Spence Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Jamire Williams, But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)
2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
3. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
4. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
5. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
6. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
7. Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)
8. James Francies, Purest Form (Blue Note)
9. Helen Sung, Quartet + (Sunnyside)
10. Dan McCarthy, A Place Where We Once Lived (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

VOCAL

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

DEBUT

• Abe Mamet, The Abe Mamet Trio (LMB)

LATIN

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording (Red Hook)
2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
3. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
4. Alexander Hawkins, Togetherness Music: For Sixteen Musicians (Intakt)
5. Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)
6. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
7. Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)
8. Xhosa Cole, Know Them, Know Us (Stoney Lane)
9. Tom Rainey Obbligato, Untucked in Hannover (Intakt)
10. John Zorn, Parables (Tzadik)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
3. Splinters, Inclusivity (1972, Jazz in Britain)

VOCAL

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

DEBUT

• Xhosa Cole, Know Them, Know Us (Stoney Lane)

LATIN

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Charnett Moffett, New Love (Motéma)
2. John Daversa Jazz Orchestra, All Without Words: Variations Inspired by Loren (Tiger Turn)
3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
4. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
5. Jeff Lederer's Sunwatcher, Eightfold Path (Little(i)Music)
6. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
7. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
8. Mary LaRose, Out Here (Little (i) Music)
9. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
10. Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble, Different Roots (Red Piano)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
2. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
3. Neil Ardley, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows Live '75 (Jazz in Britain)

VOCAL

• Mary LaRose, Out Here (Little (i) Music)

DEBUT

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

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
2. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
3. Roscoe Mitchell, Dots: Pieces for Percussion and Woodwinds (Wide Hive)
4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
5. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
6. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
7. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
8. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Notes With Attachments (Impulse!)
9. Gregg Belisle-Chi, Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Relative Pitch)
10. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)
3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

VOCAL

• Gretchen Parlato, Flor (Edition)

DEBUT

• Lady Blackbird, Black Acid Soul (BMG)

LATIN

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
2. Chick Corea Akoustic Band, Live! (Concord Jazz)
3. Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
4. Terence Blanchard, Absence (Blue Note)
5. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
6. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
7. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
8. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
9. Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)
10. Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force, Dear Love (Empress Legacy)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
2. Nina Simone, The Montreux Years (1968-90, BMG)
3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

VOCAL

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

DEBUT

• Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)

LATIN

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

NEW RELEASES

1. Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)
2. The Cookers, Look Out! (Gearbox)
3. John McLaughlin, Liberation Time (Abstract Logix)
4. Rossano Sportiello, That's It (Arbors)
5. Bruce Forman, Reunion! (B4Man Music)
6. Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound)
7. Benito Gonzalez, Sing to the World (Rainy Days)
8. Hiromi, Silver Lining Suite (Telarc)
9. Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
10. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
2. Arv Garrison, The Unknown Arv Garrison: Wizard of the Six String (1945-48, Fresh Sound)
3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

VOCAL

• Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)

DEBUT

• Anaïs Reno, Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno Sings Ellington & Strayhorn (Harbinger)

LATIN

• Diego Urcola, El Duelo (Sunnyside -20)

NEW RELEASES

1. Derrick Gardner and the Big Dig! Band, Still I Rise (Impact Jazz -20)
2. Bence Vas & Big Band, Overture et al. (self-released -20)
3. Sana Nagano, Smashing Humans (577)
4. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
5. Greg Loughman, RE: Connection (self-released)
6. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
7. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
8. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
9. The JCA Orchestra, Live at the BPC (JCA -20)
10. Gordon Grdina's Square Peg, Klotski (Attaboygirl)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released -20)
2. SPP, L'Albero Delle Meduse (2009, The Museum of Viral Memory)
3. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

VOCAL

• Luciana Morelli, Lo Abismal, El Agua (Ears & Eyes)

DEBUT

• Alex Louloudis, Words (Off)

LATIN

• Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet, Social Distancing (Saponegro)

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