Ballots 2024 [6]

[Ackermann - Booth] · [Borella - Davis] · [Dean-Harris - Geiken] · [Gijssels - Hull] · [Hum - Lange] · [Langhoff - Monsen] · [Moore - Saito] · [Saunders - Terano] · [Tesser - Yokoi]

NEW ALBUMS

1. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
2. Susie Ibarra-Jeffrey Zeigler-Graham Reynolds, Insectum (Golden Hornet) →
3. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
4. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
5. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
6. أحمد [Ahmed], Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) →
7. Kenny Garrett & Svoy, Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) →
8. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
9. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
10. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz) →
2. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
3. Tamara Lukasheva & INSO Lviv Orchestra, Anima (Tangible Music) →
4. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
6. Florian Weber, Imaginary Cycle (ECM) →
7. Tobias Hoffmann Trio, Start/Stop (Klaeng) →
8. Hildegunn Øiseth, Garden on the Roof (Clap Your Hands) →
9. Simon Oslender-Steve Gadd-Will Lee, All That Matters (Leopard/Broken Silence) →
10. Neon Dilemma [Elias Stemeseder-Robert Landfermann-Leif Berger], Neon Dilemma (Klaeng) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
• Ella Fitzgerald & the Tommy Flanagan Trio, Live at the Wiener Konzerthaus, 1969 (ORF) →
• Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
• McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
• Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

• Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
• Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
• Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
• Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
• Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash, To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) →
• Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
• The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
• Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
• Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Miles Davis, Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →
2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
3. Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) →
4. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
5. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

• Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue) →
• Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →

LATIN

• Pete Rodriguez, I'm Pete Rodriguez, Volume 1 (Sunnyside) →

DEBUT

• Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
2. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
3. Noah Preminger & Rob Garcia [Dead Composers Club], Hildegard Project: The Music of Hildegard Von Bingen (Connection Works) →
4. Brad Mehldau, Après Fauré (Nonesuch) →
5. Simon Moullier, Elements of Light (Candid) →
6. M.T.B. [Brad Mehldau-Mark Turner-Peter Bernstein], Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz) →
7. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
8. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
9. Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) →
10. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
2. Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) →
3. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Snorre Kirk, What a Day! (Stunt) →
2. David Weiss Sextet, Auteur (Origin) →
3. Roger Kellaway, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) →
4. Warren Wolf, History of the Vibraphone (Cellar Music) →
5. Ken Peplowski, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) →
6. Gerald Cannon, Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) →
7. Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet, Something About Believing (TMA) →
8. Ricky Alexander, Just Found Joy (Turtle Bay) →
9. Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
10. Ben Wolfe, The Understated (Resident Arts) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound) →
2. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
3. Oscar Peterson, City Lights: Live in Munich 1994 (Mack Avenue) →
4. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
5. Louis Stewart & Jim Hall, The Dublin Concert (1982, Livia) →

VOCAL

• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
• Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music) →

LATIN

• Antonio Adolfo, Love Cole Porter (AAM Music) →
• Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
• Enrico Granafel, It's Hard to Say Goodbye (CAP) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

• Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
• Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt) →
• Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
• Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
• Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
• Geoffrey Keezer, Live at Birdland (MarKeez) →
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
• Arun Ramamurthy Trio, New Moon (Greenleaf Music) →
• Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
• Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre - CPH 1988 (Storyville) →
• Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) →
• Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
• McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

• Julia Danielle, Julia Danielle (Shifting Paradigm) →
• Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →
• Andromeda Turre, From the Earth (Outside In Music) →

LATIN

• Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
• Arnaud Dolmen & Leonardo Montana, LéNo (Quai Son) →
• David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →

DEBUT

• Altus, Mythos (Biophilia) →
• John Alvey, Loft Glow (Jazz Music City) →
• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) →
2. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
3. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Decades (1992-2020, ArtistShare) →
4. Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
5. Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
6. Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
7. Pat Metheny, MoonDial (BMG) →
8. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
9. The Bad Plus, Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue) →
10. Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Paco de Lucia & Pepe de Lucia, Pepito y Paquito (1959-60, BMG) →
2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
3. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
4. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
5. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →

VOCAL

• Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Youn Sun Nah, Elles (Warner Bros.) →
• Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →

LATIN

• Eliane Elias, Time and Again (Candid) →
• Chucho Valdés & Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InterCat Music Group) →

DEBUT

• April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
2. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
3. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
4. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
5. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
6. Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
7. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
8. The Core, Roots (Moserobie) →
9. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
10. Emmeluth's Amoeba, Nonsense (Moserobie) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →

LATIN

• Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →

DEBUT

• Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

• Bill Charlap Trio, And Then Again (Blue Note) →
• Etienne Charles, Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) →
• Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
• Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
• Aaron Parks, Little Big III (Blue Note) →
• Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
• Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare) →
• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• John Abercrombie-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette, Gateway (1975, ECM) →
• Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
• Bill Evans, Tales: Live in Copenhagen (1964) (Elemental Music '23) →
• Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1957, Blue Note) →
• Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

• Cyrille Aimée, À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) →
• Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
• Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →

LATIN

• Gustavo Cortiñas, Live in Chicago (Desafio Candente) →
• Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel, The Room (Real World) →
• Sergio Pamies, Time to Say (New Trad) →

DEBUT

• Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →
• Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
• Zacchae'us Paul, Jazz Money (Candid) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
2. Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
3. Jean-Michel Pilc-François Moutin-Ari Hoenig, You Are the Song (Justin Time) →
4. John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
5. Anat Cohen Quartetinho, Bloom (Anzic) →
6. Kevin Hays-Ben Street-Billy Hart, Bridges (Smoke Sessions '23) →
7. Doug Richards Orchestra, Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (self-released '23) →
8. Paul Dietrich, 5+4 (Shifting Paradigm) →
9. Yosef-Gutman Levitt (With Lionel Loueke), Soul Song (Soul Song '23) →
10. Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
2. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
3. The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live From the Northwest, 1959 (Brubeck Editions '23) →

VOCAL

• Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
• B.B. King, In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) →
• Al Jarreau, Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) →

LATIN

• Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
3. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
4. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
5. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
6. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
7. Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) →
8. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
9. Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
10. Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
2. Black Artist Group, For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds) →
3. Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Games (1991, Relative Pitch) →
4. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
5. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →

VOCAL

• Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
• Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside) →

LATIN

• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Holman Álvarez, Hidden Objects (Sunnyside) →
• Luther Allison, I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
2. Adam O'Farrill, Hueso (Food) →
3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
4. Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) →
5. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
6. Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
7. Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) →
8. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
9. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
10. Amalie Dahl's Dafnie, Står Op Med Solen (Aguirre) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
2. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
3. Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
4. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
5. Nisse Sandström Group, Öppet Ett (1965-67, Caprice '23) →

VOCAL

• Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →

LATIN

• Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →

DEBUT

• Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
3. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
4. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
5. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
7. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
8. ØKSE, ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) →
9. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
10. Sylvie Courvoisier, To Be Other-Wise (Intakt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

Note: Also see Best Jazz Albums of 2024

NEW ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
2. John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
3. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
4. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
5. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
6. Warren Wolf, History of the Vibraphone (Cellar Music) →
7. Bria Skonberg, What It Means (Cellar Live) →
8. Emile Parisien Quartet, Let Them Cook (ACT) →
9. Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
10. Troy Roberts, Green Lights (Toy Robot Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound) →
2. Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve) →
3. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
5. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →

VOCAL

• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
• Tierney Sutton and San Gabriel 7, Good People (JRL-SGS) →

LATIN

• Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
• Chucho Valdés & Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InterCat Music Group) →
• Dayramir González, V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) →

DEBUT

• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
• Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra, Time Chamber (Da Vinci Jazz) →
• Charles Chen, Charles, Play! (Cellar Music) →

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

• Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
• Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
• Yussef Dayes, Black Classical Music (Brownswood/Nonesuch '23) →
• Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox) →
• Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) →
• David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
• Reggie Quinerly, The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition) →
• Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
• Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour) →
• Steve Turre, Sanyas (Smoke Sessions) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
• Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →

VOCAL

• Tyla, Tyla (Epic) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

Note: New vote for James Carter Organ Trio, Live From Newport Jazz (Blue Note) disqualified (released in 2019)

NEW ALBUMS

1. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
2. Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
3. Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition) →
4. Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland, United (Edition) →
5. Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet, Something About Believing (TMA) →
6. Brian Lynch, 7x7by7 (Holistic MusicWorks) →
7. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
8. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
9. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
10. Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
2. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
3. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
4. Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue) →
• Lisa Rich, As Long as You're Living (Tritone) →

LATIN

• Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →
• Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
• Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →

DEBUT

• Neta Raanan, Unforeseen Blossom (Giant Step Arts) →
• Pritesh Walia, Hope Town (Pritesh Walia Music) →
• Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music) →
2. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
3. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
4. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
5. Kevin Sun, The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph) →
6. Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Polarity 3 (Burning Ambulance) →
7. Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) →
8. Elephant9 With Terje Rypdal, Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon) →
9. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
10. Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
2. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
3. Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
5. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

• Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
• Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
• Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
• Peter Bernstein, Better Angels (Smoke Sessions) →
• Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →
• Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP Music) →
• Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note) →
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
• Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition) →
• Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon, In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (1972, Jazz Detective) →
• Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
• Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
• Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
• Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

• Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
• Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
• Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →

LATIN

• Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil) →
• Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
• Donald Vega, As I Travel (Imagery/Tiger Turn) →

DEBUT

• Art Baden, How Much of It Is Real (Rainy Days) →
• Euan Edmonds, Beyond Hope and Fear (Desafio Candente) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
2. Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
3. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
4. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
5. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
6. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
7. Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues [Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1] (Verve/Interscope) →
8. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
9. Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
10. Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
3. Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
4. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
5. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →

VOCAL

• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
• Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
• Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →

LATIN

• Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Swing Forever (Ovation) →

DEBUT

• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. AALY Trio [Mats Gustafsson-Peter Janson-Kjell Nordeson], Sustain (Silkheart) →
2. ØKSE, ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) →
3. Ivo Perelman-Mark Helias-Tom Rainey, Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj) →
4. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
5. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
6. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
7. Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz) →
8. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
9. Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
10. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
3. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
5. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

• Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
• Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
• Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →

LATIN

• Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Dubbeltrion, Bringing Scandi-Baltic Powerhousejazz to the People (Sonic Transmissions) →
• Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
• Anni Kiviniemi Trio, Eir (We Jazz) →

Note: Also see Year end picks: 50 favorite albums of 2024

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