Ballot 2018

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

• Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz, Random Dances and (A)tonalities (Intakt)
• Wendy Eisenberg, The Machinic Unconscious (Tzadik)
• Ben LaMar Gay, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (International Anthem)
• Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell, The Maid With the Flaxen Hair (Tzadik)
• Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note)
• Harold Lopez-Nussa, Un Día Cualquiera (Mack Avenue)
• MAST, Thelonious Sphere Monk (World Galaxy)
• Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings (International Anthem)
• Sons of Kemet, Your Queen Is a Reptile (Impulse!)
• Steve Tibbetts, Life Of (ECM)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

• No choice.

VOCAL

• Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• Wendy Eisenberg, The Machinic Unconscious (Tzadik)

LATIN

• Harold Lopez-Nussa, Un Día Cualquiera (Mack Avenue)