The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballots 2024 [3]
Anthony Dean-Harris (KMHD [Portland], DownBeat)
NEW ALBUMS
- Jeremy Pelt, Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) →
- Hiatus Kaiyote, Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder) →
- BADBADNOTGOOD, Mid Spiral: Order (XL) →
- Kiefer, Something for Real (Stones Throw) →
- Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland, United (Edition) →
- Adam O'Farrill, Hueso (Food) →
- Joe Sanders, Parallels (Whirlwind) →
- Julieta Eugenio, Stay (Cristalyn) →
- Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp) →
- The Bad Plus, Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
VOCAL
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Lawrence Fields, To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Albert Vila Trio, Reality Is Nuance (Fresh Sound New Talent '23) →
- Renaud Garcia-Fons, Cinematic Double Bass: Music for Imaginary Films (RGB '23) →
- TGB, Room 4 (Clean Feed) →
- Carlos Barretto, Solo: Lonely Dog (self-released) →
- Alexandre Frazão Quinteto, Quintessência (self-released) →
- Bruno Castellucci, Legacy (GAM) →
- Danielle Esposito, Per altri motivi (Hypnote) →
- Michel Massot-Tuur Florizoone-Marine Horbaczewski, Lignes de fruite (Aventura Musica) →
- Chris Mentens, XMNTNS (self-released) →
- Bas Bulteel, Eye of the Storm (WERF) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus to Pre Bird Revisited (1960-61, Ezz-Thetics) →
- Bill Evans, The Legendary Trio at Birdland 1960 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →
- Sidney Bechet, Live in Paris: 1952-1958 (Frémeaux & Associés) →
VOCAL
- Renaud Garcia-Fons, Blue Maqam (L'Autre Distribution) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Alexandre Frazão Quinteto, Quintessência (self-released) →
- Chris Mentens, XMNTNS (self-released) →
- Bas Bulteel, Eye of the Storm (WERF) →
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- John Butcher-Florian Stoffner-Chris Corsano, The Glass Changes Shape (Relative Pitch) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Prince Lasha Quintet Featuring Sonny Simmons, The Cry! (1962, Craft) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Laurence Donohue-Greene (The New York City Jazz Record)
NEW ALBUMS
- JD Allen, The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful (Savant) →
- Ben Goldberg-Todd Sickafoose-Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch) →
- Stephan Crump, Slow Water (Papillon Sounds) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz) →
- Lux Quartet, Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Nacka Forum, Peaceful Piano (Moserobie) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
- Byard Lancaster, The Complete Palm Recordings 1973-1974 (Souffle Continu) →
- 2R+2B [Gunārs Rozenbergs-Raimonds Raubiško-Boriss Bannihs-Vladmirs Boldirevs], Live at the Tbilisi Jazz Festival 1978 (Jersika) →
VOCAL
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
- Youn Sun Nah, Elles (Warner Bros.) →
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
LATIN
- Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours, Songs Del Yucayeke (Picaro) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
- Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini, Guinga (GroundUP Music) →
DEBUT
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
- Tomin, Flores Para Verene/Cantos Para Caramina (International Anthem) →
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →
Troy Dostert (All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt) →
- Geoff Bradfield, Colossal Abundance (Calligram) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Andrea Wolper, Wanderlust (Moonflower Music) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
DEBUT
- Hyeonseon Baek, Longing (You & Me Music) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Modney, Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic) →
- Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash, To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams) →
- Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) →
- Dave Rempis & Tashi Dorji Duo, Gnash (Aerophonic) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- NRG Ensemble, Hold That Thought (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Ken Dryden (New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM])
NEW ALBUMS
- Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM) →
- Michael Dease, Grove's Groove (Le Coq) →
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions) →
- Denny Zeitlin, Panoply (Sunnyside) →
- Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band, Life Songs (Alternate Side) →
- Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
- Jon Gordon, 7th Ave South (ArtistShare) →
- Dave Pietro, The Talisman (SteepleChase) →
- Emmet Cohen, Vibe Provider (Mack Avenue) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
- Louis Stewart & Jim Hall, The Dublin Concert (1982, Livia) →
VOCAL
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →
- Abena Koomson-Davis, Where Is Love (WJ3) →
- Cory Weeds Meets Champian Fulton, Every Now and Then: Live at OCL Studios (Cellar Music) →
LATIN
- Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →
DEBUT
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
- William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
- Linda Sikhakhane, Iladi (Blue Note) →
- Sunny Five [Tim Berne-David Torn-Ches Smith-Devin Hoff-Marc Ducret], Candid (Intakt) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Ezra Collective, Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan) →
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
LATIN
DEBUT
John Ephland (DownBeat, All About Jazz)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Artemis, In Real Time (Blue Note '23) →
- Carlos Bica, 11:11 (Clean Feed) →
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
- Nicole Glover, Plays (Savant) →
- Tom Harrell, Alternate Summer (HighNote) →
- Jeremy Pelt, Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) →
- Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi '23) →
- Henry Threadgill Ensemble, The Other One (Pi '23) →
- Western Jazz Collective, Dark Journey: The Music of Andrew Rathbun (Origin) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Keith Jarrett, Solo-Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne (1973, ECM '23) →
- James Moody, The Moody Story (1951-55, Fresh Sound) →
- Sun Ra, Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (1986, Strut) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
- Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) →
- Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity) →
- Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) →
- John Zorn, New Masada Quartet, Volume 3: Live at Roulette (Tzadik) →
- Weird of Mouth [Mette Rasmussen-Craig Taborn-Ches Smith], Weird of Mouth (Otherly Love) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
- Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) →
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Barbara Hannigan, Hannigan Sings Zorn, Volume One (Tzadik) →
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Karen Borca & Paul Murphy, Entwined (Relative Pitch) →
- Arun Ramamurthy Trio, New Moon (Greenleaf Music) →
Steve Feeney (ArtsFuse, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram)
NEW ALBUMS
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Thumbscrew, Wingbeats (Cuneiform) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
VOCAL
- Madeleine Peyroux, Let's Walk (Just One/Thirty Tigers) →
LATIN
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil) →
DEBUT
- Neta Raanan, Unforeseen Blossom (Giant Step Arts) →
- Ivanna Cuesta, A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) →
Gary Finney (WQLN NPR [Eric, PA])
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP Music) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
- Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
VOCAL
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Hilary Gardner, On the Trail With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) →
LATIN
DEBUT
Phil Freeman (Burning Ambulance, Stereogum, The Wire, DownBeat)
NEW ALBUMS
- Lisa Ullén, Heirloom (Fönstret) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
- Thembi Dunjana, God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi (AfricArise) →
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
- Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) →
- Anna Webber, Simpletrio2000 (Intakt) →
- Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
- Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →
VOCAL
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Ganavya, Daughter of a Temple (Leiter) →
LATIN
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
DEBUT
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Euan Edmonds, Beyond Hope and Fear (Desafio Candente) →
Will Friedwald (Wall Street Journal, New York Sun, KSDS Jazz Radio [San Diego])
NEW ALBUMS
- Ken Peplowski, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) →
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Jeremy Pelt, Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) →
- Sun Ra Arkestra [Under the Direction of Marshall Allen], Lights on a Satellite (In+Out) →
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Bria Skonberg, What It Means (Cellar Live) →
- Grace Kelly With Strings, At the Movies (PAZZ Productions) →
- Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O, Tree Jazz: The Shape of Christmas to Come (Palmetto) →
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet, Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe '23) →
- Veronica Swift, Veronica Swift (Mack Avenue '23) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Martha Raye, Martha Raye & Co-Stars in Hollywood (1936-44, Sepia) →
- Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
- Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions, 1943-49 (Mosaic) →
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Bria Skonberg, What It Means (Cellar Live) →
- Veronica Swift, Veronica Swift (Mack Avenue '23) →
- Natalie Douglas, Back to the Garden (Club 44) →
- Hilary Gardner, On the Trail With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) →
- Sweet Meg, Blues Than Blue (Turtle Bay) →
LATIN
- Paulo Fresu & Omar Sosa, Food (Tǔk Music '23) →
- Eliane Elias, Time and Again (Candid) →
DEBUT
- Lucy Wijnands, Something Awaits (4605843 DK2 '23) →
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
Note: Extra votes disqualified: Rara Avis: Louis Jordan, World Broadcast Recordings 1944/45 (GHB/Circle); Vocal: Caity Gyorgy, Hello! How Are You? (La Reserve)
Pat Frisco (WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI])
NEW ALBUMS
- Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) →
- François Houle-Kate Gentile-Alexander Hawkins, Fatrasies (Victo) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Dave Rempis-Jason Adasiewicz-Joshua Abrams-Tyler Damon, Propulsion (Aerophonic) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet, Umbra II (Intakt) →
- PNY Quintet, Over the Wall (RogueArt) →
- Albert Beger-Ziv Taubenfeld-Shay Hazan-Hamid Drake, Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) →
- Floros Floridis-Matthias Bauer-Joe Hertenstein, Temporal Driftness (Evil Rabbit) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Karen Borca Trio Quartet & Quintet, Good News Blues: Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (NoBusiness) →
- Sun Ra, Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (1986, Strut) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
- Laila Biali, Wintersongs (self-released) →
LATIN
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
- Sergio Pamies, Time to Say (New Trad) →
- Dave Schumacher & Cubeye, Smoke in the Sky (Cellar Music) →
DEBUT
- Ben Solomon, Echolocation (Giant Step Arts) →
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
- Neta Raanan, Unforeseen Blossom (Giant Step Arts) →
Jon Garelick (Boston Globe, Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club, A Second Life (Mandorla Music) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
- Travis Reuter, Quintet Music (self-released) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Juanma Trujillo, Howl (Endectomorph Music) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Miles Davis, Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →
VOCAL
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
- Roxana Amed, Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin) →
- Fernando Huergo Big Band, Relentless (Whaling City Sound) →
DEBUT
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
- Ivanna Cuesta, A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) →
Ana Gavrilovska (Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- Fuubutsushi, Meridians (Cached.Media) →
- Joy Guidry, Amen (Whited Sepulchre) →
- Josh Johnson, Unusual Object (Northern Spy) →
- Cassie Kinoshi's Seed., Gratitude (International Anthem) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Miles Okazaki, Miniature America (Cygnus) →
- Jowee Omicil, Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite (Bash! Village/Modular '23) →
- William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
- Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Black Artist Group, For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
- Fumio Itabashi, Watarase (1982, Wewantsounds) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Joy Guidry, Amen (Whited Sepulchre) →
- The Necks, Bleed (Northern Spy) →
- Joe Fonda Quartet, Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song) →
- Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) →
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
- John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
- Leo Genovese-Demian Cabaud-Marcos Cavaleiro, Estrellero 2 (Sunnyside) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
VOCAL
- John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
LATIN
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
DEBUT
Brooks Geiken (Arts Fuse, Latinjazznet)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Bill Banfield's Jazz Urbane, Take Time to Listen (Muse/Bluemoon) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
- Gustavo Cortiñas, Live in Chicago (Desafio Candente) →
- Vincent Hsu & the Jazz Supreme Orchestra, Music for the River Jazz Suite: The Spirit of Love River and Mississippi River (Truth Revolution) →
- Brian Lynch, 7x7by7 (Holistic MusicWorks) →
- Roy McGrath-Hana Fujisaki-Kitt Lyles-Gustavo Cortiñas, Entre Amigos (self-released) →
- Yulia Musayelyan, Strange Times (Wherego Music) →
- Scott Colley-Edward Simon-Brian Blade, Three Visitors (GroundUP) →
- Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits, On Different Paths (Truth Revolution) →
- Darryl Yokley's Sound Reformation, Un Mundo En Soledad (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Hampton Hawes, For Real! (1958, Craft) →
- Harold Land, The Fox (1960, Craft) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums (1996-2018, Otá) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
VOCAL
- Bruna Black & John Finbury, Vã Revelação (Green Flash) →
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Swing Forever (Ovation) →
- Gino Amato, Latin Crossroads (Ovation) →
LATIN
- Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre, No Words Needed (Ovation) →
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Dave Schumacher & Cubeye, Smoke in the Sky (Cellar Music) →
DEBUT
- Felipe Brito, Não Deixe Para Amanhã (Outside In Muisic) →
- Jubu Smith, Jubu (Little Village) →