The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
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Critics
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Ballots 2024 [8]

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Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver])

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  4. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
  5. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  6. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
  7. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  8. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
  9. William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
  10. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  3. Dorothy Ashby, Afro-Harping [Deluxe Edition] (1968, Verve) →
  4. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
  5. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Sarah Schmidt (Jazz Director, WRFL-FM [Lexington, KY])

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Gene Seymour (The Nation, CNN.com)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
  2. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  4. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
  5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
  6. Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
  7. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  9. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
  10. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  2. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  4. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
  5. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Also see Gene Seymour's Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024.

Mike Shanley (Shanley on Music, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
  2. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  3. Jason Stein, Anchors (TAO Forms) →
  4. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & (Exit) Knarr, Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) →
  5. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  6. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
  7. Miles Okazaki, Miniature America (Cygnus) →
  8. Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg, Accept When (Astral Spirits) →
  9. Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside) →
  10. William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land) →
  2. Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1957, Blue Note) →
  3. Harold Land, The Fox (1960, Craft) →
  4. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

John Sharpe (The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. John Blum-David Murray-Chad Taylor, The Recursive Tree (Relative Pitch '23) →
  3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  4. Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt) →
  5. John Butcher-Pat Thomas-Dominic Lash-Steve Noble, Fathom (577) →
  6. Rob Brown, Oblongata (RogueArt '23) →
  7. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Jet Black (Libra) →
  8. Angelica Sanchez-Barry Guy-Ramón López, Live at Jazzdor (Maya) →
  9. Olie Brice-Rachel Musson-Mark Sanders, Immense Blue (West Hill) →
  10. Kirke Karja-Étienne Renard-Ludwig Wandinger, Caught in My Own Trap (BMC) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
  2. Gush, Afro Blue (1998, Trost) →
  3. Arthur Blythe Quartet, Live From Studio Rivbea: July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Adam Shatz (London Review of Books)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  2. Ron Horton, A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle '23) →
  3. Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) →
  4. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  5. Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) →
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23) →
  7. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  8. Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt) →
  9. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  10. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  4. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
  5. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  2. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra, Tension (Batov) →
  3. Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside) →
  4. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
  5. Colin Stetson, The Love It Took to Leave You (Invada) →
  6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  7. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
  8. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
  9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  10. Sun Ra Arkestra [Under the Direction of Marshall Allen], Lights on a Satellite (In+Out) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
  2. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  5. The Malombo Jazz Men, Castle Lager Jazz Fesetival 1964 (Strut) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: See also Rob Shepherd's Favorite Albums of 2024

Hank Shteamer (New York Times, Pitchfork, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
  2. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  3. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
  4. Louis Hayes, Artform Revisited (Savant) →
  5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
  6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  7. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
  8. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
  9. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
  10. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
  2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  3. Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
  4. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
  5. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Also see Best Jazz Albums of 2024 [New York Times]; also Best of 2024: Jazz [Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches]

Slim (WRCU: Slim's Spins and The Slim & Him Show)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Denis Badault, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Yolk) →
  2. Younee, Improvisations Live in Germany (Fulminantmusic) →
  3. Charlie Ballantine, Love Letters & Graffiti (Green Mind) →
  4. Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) →
  5. Camille Thurman With the Darrell Queen Quartet, Confluence Vol. 1: Alhambra (Epidote) →
  6. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
  7. Joel Futterman, Innervoice (NoBusiness) →
  8. Tucker Brothers, Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music) →
  9. Brandon Seabrook, Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic) →
  10. Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
  3. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
  4. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Stewart Smith (freelance: The Wire, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz, The Guardian)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  3. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
  4. Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) →
  5. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  6. Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams) →
  7. Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves) →
  8. Sakina Abdou-Toma Gouband-Marta Warelis, Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch) →
  9. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
  10. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) →

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. Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
  4. Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata, Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle) →
  5. Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Jeffrey St. Clair (Counterpunch: Sound Grammar)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
  2. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note) →
  3. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  4. Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) →
  5. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  6. Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) →
  7. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
  8. Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox) →
  9. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  10. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  2. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
  3. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
  4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  5. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Also see Sound Grammar: the Best Jazz Recordings of 2024

Thomas Staudter (The (Croton) Gazette, DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record, The Recorder)

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Sammy Stein (Free Jazz Collective, WeJazz, Platinum Mind, Something Else Reviews, Kind of Jazz)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Ivo Perelman-Fay Victor-Jim Morris-Ramon Lopez, Messa Di Voce (Mahakala Music) →
  2. Paula Rae Gibson, The Roles We Play to Disappear (33Xtreme) →
  3. Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) →
  4. Satya, Songs of the Fathers: A Celebration of the Music of Abdullah Ibrahim (Resonant Artists) →
  5. Maddalena Ghezzi & Ruth Goller, Dolomite (Deng Yue) →
  6. Charlotte Keeffe Right Here, Right Now Quartet, Alive! in the Studio (Discus Music '23) →
  7. Lara Eidi, Sun (self-released) →
  8. Mama Terra, The Summoned (Acid Jazz '23) →
  9. Terrence Collie, 384,400 (Mood Indigo '23) →
  10. Olie Brice-Rachel Musson-Mark Sanders, Immense Blue (West Hill) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Mark Stryker (Jazz From Detroit [University of Michigan Press])

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Mark Sullivan (All About Jazz)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
  2. Jakob Bro-Lee Konitz-Bill Frisell-Jason Moran-Thomas Morgan-Andrew Cyrille, Taking Turns (2014, ECM) →
  3. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music) →
  4. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
  5. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
  6. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
  7. Wolfgang Muthspiel, Etudes/Quietudes (Clap Your Hands) →
  8. Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund, e.s.t. 30 (ACT Music) →
  9. Brad Shepik, Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm) →
  10. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cannonball Adderley, Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music) →
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
  3. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
  4. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Dave Sumner (Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Tomin, A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem) →
  2. William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
  3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  4. La La Lars, La La Lars IV (<1000 '23) →
  5. Cassie Kinoshi's Seed., Gratitude (International Anthem) →
  6. Carlos Bica, 11:11 (Clean Feed) →
  7. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
  8. Rebecca Trescher Tentet, Character Pieces (self-released) →
  9. Alexi Tuomarila, Departing the Wasteland (Edition) →
  10. Sylvanie Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent, Rare Birds (Yolk) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  2. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  3. Jakob Bro-Lee Konitz-Bill Frisell-Jason Moran-Thomas Morgan-Andrew Cyrille, Taking Turns (2014, ECM) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

John Szwed (Wire, Gagosian Quarterly, Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies)

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  3. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Voter did not specify which volume of Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers (Edition), so counted as Vol. 1

Jeff Tamarkin (Relix, Best Classic Bands, Mojo)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
  2. Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
  4. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
  5. Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young) →
  6. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
  7. Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) →
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  9. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →
  10. John Scofield, Uncle John's Band (ECM '23) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Scott LaFaro, The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro (1957-61, El) →
  2. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
  3. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
  4. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Derek Taylor (Dusted)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
  3. Kirk Knuffke, Super Blonde (SteepleChase) →
  4. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
  5. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
  6. Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →
  7. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  8. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  9. Jason Kao Hwang, Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound) →
  10. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  2. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
  3. Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) →
  4. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  5. John Coltrane, Impressions From Graz 1962 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Sidney Terano (The Mortifying Ideal)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  2. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  3. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & (Exit) Knarr, Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) →
  4. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
  5. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
  6. The Core, Roots (Moserobie) →
  7. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
  8. Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
  9. Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
  10. Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers (Playscape) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve) →
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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