Ballot 2024

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

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

• Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
• John Zorn & Jesse Harris [Petra Haden], Love Songs Live (Tzadik) →
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →

LATIN

• Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
• Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
• David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →

DEBUT

• Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
• Willy Rodriguez, Seeing Sounds (Coucs) →
• Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →

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

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