The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballots 2024 [9]
Neil Tesser (Jazziz, KSDS-FM)
NEW ALBUMS
- Caroline Davis, Portals Vol. 2: Returning (Intakt) →
- Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Geoff Bradfield, Colossal Abundance (Calligram) →
- Marquis Hill Composers Collective, Beyond the Jukebox (Black Unlimited Music Group) →
- Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) →
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
- Kirk Knuffke, Super Blonde (SteepleChase) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
- John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
- 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)
Michael Toland (The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle)
NEW ALBUMS
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- The Bad Plus, Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue) →
- Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Ghost Trees, Intercept Method (self-released) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- John Abercrombie-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette, Gateway (1975, ECM) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life (1975, ECM) →
- 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) →
Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)
NEW ALBUMS
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Arild Andersen, Landloper (ECM) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
- Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
- 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
Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence)
NEW ALBUMS
- Tiziano Tononi & Emanuele Parrini, Other Interactions on . . . July 5th (Felmay) →
- Ryan Keberle, Bright Moments (Posi-Tone) →
- Anthony Branker & Imagine, Songs My Mom Liked (Origin) →
- Michael Sarian, Live at Cliff Bell's (Shifting Paradigm) →
- Rahsaan Barber & Everyday Magic, Six Words (Jazz Music City) →
- Behn Gillece, Stick Together (Posi-Tone) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Lee Morgan, Taru (1968, Blue Note Tone Poet) →
- Bobby Hutcherson, Total Eclipse (1968, Blue Note Tone Poet) →
VOCAL
LATIN
- Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →
DEBUT
- Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →
George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune/Tribune News Service)
NEW ALBUMS
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions) →
- Hermeto Pascoal, Pra Você, Ilza (Rocinante) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Steph Richards, Power Vibe (Northern Spy) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- 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
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Fire!, Testament (Rune Grammofon) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- David Maranha & Rodrigo Amado, Wrecks (Nariz Entupido) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Children of the Sun, Ofamfa (1971, Moved-by-Sound) →
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
- 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
LATIN
DEBUT
- Sonic Tender, Odd Objects (Robalo Music) →
- Nout, Live Album (Trost) →
- Tizia Zimmerman & Jason Nazary, Particularly Irrelevant (Wide Ear) →
Philip Watson (Irish Times, Irish Examiner)
NEW ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
- Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley, Journey to Where (Stoney Lane) →
- Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside) →
- Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- 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
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Axel Dörner-Guilherme Rodrigues-Jung-Jae Kim-Stephen Flinn, Chess Music (Creative Sources '23) →
- DUOT & ZARM Ensemble, DUOT With Strings (Fundacja Słuchaj '23) →
- François Houle-Kate Gentile-Alexander Hawkins, Fatrasies (Victo) →
- Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
- Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape) →
- Harri Sjöström-Erhard Hirt-Philipp Wachsmann-Paul Lytton, Especially for You (Bead '23) →
- Vazesh, Tapestry (Earshift Music) →
- Albert Beger-Ziv Taubenfeld-Shay Hazan-Hamid Drake, Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- NRG Ensemble, Hold That Thought (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Faruq Z. Bey, Atlant-Tan Suite (1982, Entropy Stereo) →
- Derek Bailey & Sabu Toyozumi, Breath Awareness (1987, NoBusiness) →
- Byard Lancaster-Steve McCall-Sylvin Marc, Us (1973, Souffle Continu) →
- Daunik Lazro-Paul Lovens-Annick Nozati-Fred Van Hove, Résumé of a Century (1999, Fou) →
VOCAL
LATIN
- Kenneth Jimenez, Sonnet to Silence (We Jazz '23) →
DEBUT
- Salvoandrea Lucifora Quartet, Drifters (We Jazz '23) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- George Cables, I Hear Echoes (HighNote) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
- Harry Skoler, Red Brick Hill (Sunnyside) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Rich Halley 4, Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
- Al Jarreau, Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
- 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
DEBUT
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
- Carlos Mena, Con Personas (With the People) (Pinch) →
- Summer Camargo, To Whom I Love (Blue Engine) →
Jason Weiss (The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille, Listenings)
NEW ALBUMS
- One Another Orchestra, One Another Orchestra (Nato) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Thollem McDonas, Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk) →
- Titi Robin Quartet, Le Sable et L'Écume (Suraj Productions) →
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
- Ben Goldberg-Todd Sickafoose-Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch) →
- David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
- Layale Chaker & Sarafand, Radio Afloat (In a Circle) →
- Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, L'Intercommunal (1976-78, Souffle Continu) →
- Byard Lancaster, The Complete Palm Recordings 1973-1974 (Souffle Continu) →
- Daunik Lazro-Paul Lovens-Annick Nozati-Fred Van Hove, Résumé of a Century (1999, Fou) →
- 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
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Kira Kira, Kira Kira Live (Alister Spence Music) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)
NEW ALBUMS
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
- Amanda Whiting, The Liminality of Her (First Word) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Dayna Stephens, Closer Than We Think (Cellar Music) →
- Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko, Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
- Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- 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
- Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
- Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (False Walls) →
- Alice Zawadzki-Fred Thomas-Misha Mullov-Abbado, Za Górami (ECM) →
- Ohad Talmor, Back to the Land (Intakt) →
- Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM) →
- Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) →
- Mike Westbrook, Band of Bands (Westbrook Music) →
- Daniel Sommer-Arve Henriksen-Johannes Lundberg, Sounds & Sequences (April) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- 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
Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax)
NEW ALBUMS
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Jason Stein, Anchors (TAO Forms) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
- 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) →
Josef Woodard (DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara Independent, All About Jazz, JoeWoodard.com)
NEW ALBUMS
- Andrew Cyrille-Bill Frisell-Kit Downes, Breaking the Shell (Red Hook) →
- Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
- Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Elephant9 With Terje Rypdal, Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon) →
- Jacky Terrasson, Moving On (Earth Sounds) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- 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
NEW ALBUMS
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) →
- Jeff Coffin, Only the Horizon (Ear Up) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- 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
LATIN
DEBUT