Ballots 2024 [9]

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

NEW ALBUMS

1. Caroline Davis, Portals Vol. 2: Returning (Intakt) →
2. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) →
3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
4. Geoff Bradfield, Colossal Abundance (Calligram) →
5. Marquis Hill Composers Collective, Beyond the Jukebox (Black Unlimited Music Group) →
6. Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) →
7. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
8. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
9. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
10. Kirk Knuffke, Super Blonde (SteepleChase) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
2. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
3. Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
4. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
5. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →

VOCAL

• Vanisha Gould, She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live) →
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
• Norma Winstone, Wheeler With Words (AMM) →

LATIN

• Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
• Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
• Donald Vega, As I Travel (Imagery/Tiger Turn) →

DEBUT

• Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
• Euan Edmonds, Beyond Hope and Fear (Desafio Candente) →
• Jun Iida, Evergreen (OA2) →

Note: Voter also noted: in Vocal: Alyssa Allgood, From Here (Next); in Debut: Marcel Bonfim, Farewell/Despedida (Shifting Paradigm)

NEW ALBUMS

1. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
2. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
3. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
4. Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
5. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
6. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
7. The Bad Plus, Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue) →
8. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
9. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
10. Ghost Trees, Intercept Method (self-released) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Abercrombie-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette, Gateway (1975, ECM) →
2. Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
3. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
4. Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life (1975, ECM) →
5. Phil Ranelin, The Found Tapes: Live in Los Angeles (1978-81, ORG Music) →

VOCAL

• Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) →

LATIN

• Rodrigo Recabarren-Pablo Menares-Yago Yazquez, Familia (Greenleaf Music) →

DEBUT

• Andrew Wilcox, Dear Mr. Hill (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
2. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
3. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
4. Arild Andersen, Landloper (ECM) →
5. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
6. Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) →
7. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
8. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
9. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
10. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
2. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
3. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →

VOCAL

• Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →
• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Norma Winstone & Kit Downes, Outpost of Dreams (ECM) →

LATIN

• Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS

1. Tiziano Tononi & Emanuele Parrini, Other Interactions on . . . July 5th (Felmay) →
2. Ryan Keberle, Bright Moments (Posi-Tone) →
3. Anthony Branker & Imagine, Songs My Mom Liked (Origin) →
4. Michael Sarian, Live at Cliff Bell's (Shifting Paradigm) →
5. Rahsaan Barber & Everyday Magic, Six Words (Jazz Music City) →
6. Behn Gillece, Stick Together (Posi-Tone) →
7. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
8. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
9. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
10. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
2. Lee Morgan, Taru (1968, Blue Note Tone Poet) →
3. Bobby Hutcherson, Total Eclipse (1968, Blue Note Tone Poet) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →

DEBUT

• Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
2. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
3. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
4. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
6. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
7. Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions) →
8. Hermeto Pascoal, Pra Você, Ilza (Rocinante) →
9. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
10. Steph Richards, Power Vibe (Northern Spy) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
3. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →

VOCAL

• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →

LATIN

• Hermeto Pascoal, Pra Você, Ilza (Rocinante) →
• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
2. Fire!, Testament (Rune Grammofon) →
3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
4. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
5. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
6. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
7. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
8. David Maranha & Rodrigo Amado, Wrecks (Nariz Entupido) →
9. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
10. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →

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. Children of the Sun, Ofamfa (1971, Moved-by-Sound) →
4. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
5. Die Like a Dog [Peter Brötzmann-Toshinori Kondo-William Parker-Hamid Drake], Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler (1994, Cien Fuegos) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Sonic Tender, Odd Objects (Robalo Music) →
• Nout, Live Album (Trost) →
• Tizia Zimmerman & Jason Nazary, Particularly Irrelevant (Wide Ear) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
2. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
4. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
6. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
7. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
8. Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley, Journey to Where (Stoney Lane) →
9. Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside) →
10. Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
4. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
5. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

• Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
• Alice Zawadzki-Fred Thomas-Misha Mullov-Abbado, Za Górami (ECM) →
• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →

LATIN

• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
• Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →

DEBUT

• Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
• Nye Banfield, Trails and Traces (self-released) →
• Aengus Hackett Trio (self-released) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
2. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
3. Axel Dörner-Guilherme Rodrigues-Jung-Jae Kim-Stephen Flinn, Chess Music (Creative Sources '23) →
4. DUOT & ZARM Ensemble, DUOT With Strings (Fundacja Słuchaj '23) →
5. François Houle-Kate Gentile-Alexander Hawkins, Fatrasies (Victo) →
6. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
7. Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape) →
8. Harri Sjöström-Erhard Hirt-Philipp Wachsmann-Paul Lytton, Especially for You (Bead '23) →
9. Vazesh, Tapestry (Earshift Music) →
10. Albert Beger-Ziv Taubenfeld-Shay Hazan-Hamid Drake, Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. NRG Ensemble, Hold That Thought (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
2. Faruq Z. Bey, Atlant-Tan Suite (1982, Entropy Stereo) →
3. Derek Bailey & Sabu Toyozumi, Breath Awareness (1987, NoBusiness) →
4. Byard Lancaster-Steve McCall-Sylvin Marc, Us (1973, Souffle Continu) →
5. Daunik Lazro-Paul Lovens-Annick Nozati-Fred Van Hove, Résumé of a Century (1999, Fou) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• Kenneth Jimenez, Sonnet to Silence (We Jazz '23) →

DEBUT

• Salvoandrea Lucifora Quartet, Drifters (We Jazz '23) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
3. George Cables, I Hear Echoes (HighNote) →
4. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
5. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
6. Harry Skoler, Red Brick Hill (Sunnyside) →
7. Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
8. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
9. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
10. Rich Halley 4, Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
2. Al Jarreau, Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) →
3. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
4. Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
5. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →

VOCAL

• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
• Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
• Carlos Mena, Con Personas (With the People) (Pinch) →
• Summer Camargo, To Whom I Love (Blue Engine) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. One Another Orchestra, One Another Orchestra (Nato) →
2. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
3. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
4. Thollem McDonas, Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk) →
5. Titi Robin Quartet, Le Sable et L'Écume (Suraj Productions) →
6. Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
7. Ben Goldberg-Todd Sickafoose-Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch) →
8. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
9. Layale Chaker & Sarafand, Radio Afloat (In a Circle) →
10. Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
2. Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, L'Intercommunal (1976-78, Souffle Continu) →
3. Byard Lancaster, The Complete Palm Recordings 1973-1974 (Souffle Continu) →
4. Daunik Lazro-Paul Lovens-Annick Nozati-Fred Van Hove, Résumé of a Century (1999, Fou) →
5. Steve Beresford & Anne Marie Beretta, Dancing the Line (1985, WeWantSounds) →

VOCAL

• Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
• Chloé Cailleton & Nathalie Darche, Quart d'Heure Américain: Pour vous remercier de ne pas dédaigner ce petit rien (Pépin & Plume) →
• Reut Regev's R*Time, It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS

1. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
2. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
4. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
5. Kira Kira, Kira Kira Live (Alister Spence Music) →
6. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
7. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
8. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
9. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
10. Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
2. Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) →
3. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
4. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
5. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS

1. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
2. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
4. Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
5. Amanda Whiting, The Liminality of Her (First Word) →
6. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
7. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
8. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
9. Dayna Stephens, Closer Than We Think (Cellar Music) →
10. Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko, Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
2. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
• Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
• Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →

LATIN

• Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
• Dayramir González, V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) →
• Gili Lopes, Algures (self-released) →

DEBUT

• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media) →
2. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
3. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
4. Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (False Walls) →
5. Alice Zawadzki-Fred Thomas-Misha Mullov-Abbado, Za Górami (ECM) →
6. Ohad Talmor, Back to the Land (Intakt) →
7. Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM) →
8. Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) →
9. Mike Westbrook, Band of Bands (Westbrook Music) →
10. Daniel Sommer-Arve Henriksen-Johannes Lundberg, Sounds & Sequences (April) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
2. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
3. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
4. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
5. Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve) →

VOCAL

• Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →

LATIN

• Manu Chao, Viva Tu (Because Music) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS

1. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
3. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
4. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
5. Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
7. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
8. Jason Stein, Anchors (TAO Forms) →
9. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
10. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
3. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
4. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
5. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →

VOCAL

• Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
• Alyssa Allgood, From Here (Next) →
• Allegra Levy, Out of the Question (SteepleChase) →

LATIN

• Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Swing Forever (Ovation) →
• Dred Scott-Moses Patrou-Tom Beckham-Matt Pavolka, Cali Mambo (Ropeadope) →
• Jonathan Powell, Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) →

DEBUT

• Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
• Morten Duun, Code Breaker (Cmntx) →
• Miro Sprague-Marty Jaffe-Jason Ennis, Tone Forest (Outside In Music) →

NEW ALBUMS

1. Andrew Cyrille-Bill Frisell-Kit Downes, Breaking the Shell (Red Hook) →
2. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
3. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) →
4. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
7. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
8. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
9. Elephant9 With Terje Rypdal, Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon) →
10. Jacky Terrasson, Moving On (Earth Sounds) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →

VOCAL

• Becca Stevens, Maple to Paper (GroundUP Music) →

LATIN

• Hermeto Pascoal, Pra Você, Ilza (Rocinante) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW ALBUMS

1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
3. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
4. Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
5. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
6. Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) →
7. Jeff Coffin, Only the Horizon (Ear Up) →
8. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
9. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
10. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
3. Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
4. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
5. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

• Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
• Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
• Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →

LATIN

• Jonathan Powell, Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) →
• Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
• Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Luther Allison, I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone) →
• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
• Vanisha Gould, She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live) →

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

• John Butcher + 13, Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax) →
• Satoko Fujii Quartet, Dog Days of Summer (Libra) →
• Tord Gustavsen Trio, Seeing (ECM) →
• Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
• David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
• Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Pitsiokos, Uncanny Mirror (Eleatic) →
• Shibusashirazu, Shibukoh (Chitei) →
• Aki Takase Japanic, Forte (Budapest Music Center) →
• Aki Takase & Daniel Erdmann, Ellington (Enja/Yellowbird) →
• Toshi Tsuchitori & Eric-Maria Couturier, Different Echoes in the Same Dust (Ryuko Gakusha) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• New Direction for the Arts, Projection: The Complete Inspiration and Power Live at Shinjuku Art Theater (1973, Jinya Disc) →
• Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe, Real Jazz (1970, Jinya Disc) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

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