The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024 Mid-Year
Albums List: New Releases
This page offers an alphabetically sorted list of albums that have
received one or more votes in a given category. The categories are:
- Acceleration Due to Gravity, Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup)
- Advancing on a Wild Pitch, Disasters Vol. 2 (Hot Cup)
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
- أحمد [Ahmed], Wood Blues (Astral Spirits)
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23)
- Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
- Monty Alexander, D Day (Pee Wee)
- Ricky Alexander, Just Found Joy (Turtle Bay)
- Alyssa Allgood, From Here (Next)
- Alliance, Alliance (Shifting Paradigm)
- Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera)
- Rodrigo Amado/The Bridge, Beyond the Margins (Trost '23)
- Roxana Amed, Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin)
- Arashi With Takeo Moriyama, Tokuzo (Trost)
- Tim Armacost, Something About Believing (TMA)
- Sergio Armoli & Evan Parker, Dialog (Now-Ezz-Thetics '23)
- Daymé Arocena, Alkemi (Brownswood)
- Lynne Arriale Trio, Being Human (Challenge)
- Byron Asher's Skrontch Music, Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City)
- Charlie Ballantine, Love Letters & Graffiti (Green Mind)
- Ballister, Smash and Grab (Aerophonic)
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork)
- Basher, May Day (Sinking City)
- BassDrumBone, Afternoon (Auricle)
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside)
- Albert Beger-Ziv Taubenfeld-Shay Hazan-Hamid Drake, Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness)
- Beholder Quartet, Suspension of Disbelief (Sachimay)
- Beings, There Is a Garden (No Quarter)
- Alex Beltran, Rift (Calligram)
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope)
- Oddgeir Berg Trio, A Place Called Home (Ozella)
- Tim Berne-Hank Roberts-Aurora Nealand [Oceans And], Lucid/Still (Screwgun)
- Carlos Bica, 11:11 (Clean Feed)
- Andrew Bird Trio, Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista)
- Black Art Jazz Collective, Truth to Power (HighNote)
- Blue Moods, Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone)
- John Blum-David Murray-Chad Taylor, The Recursive Tree (Relative Pitch '23)
- John Blum Quartet Featuring Marshall Allen, Deep Space (Astral Spirits)
- Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt)
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search)
- Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House)
- Olie Brice-Rachel Musson-Mark Sanders, Immense Blue (West Hill)
- Bridgetown Sextet, Functionizin' (Rivermont)
- The Bobby Broom Organi-sation, Jamalot Live (Steele)
- Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love, Chicken Shit Bingo (2015, Trost)
- Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music)
- John Butcher + 13, Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax)
- Chris Byars, Boptics (SteepleChase)
- Summer Camargo, To Whom I Love (Blue Engine)
- Gerald Cannon, Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck)
- Ian Carey & Wood Metal Plastic, Strange Arts (Slow & Steady)
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside)
- Daniel Carter-Patrick Holmes-Matthew Putman-Hilliard Greene-Federico Ughi, Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2 (577)
- James Carter, Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone) (J.M.I.)
- George Cartwright & Bruce Golden, Dilate (self-released)
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi)
- Caveira, Ficar Vivo (Shhpuma)
- Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop, A Canadian Songbook (Three Pines)
- Layale Chaker & Sarafand, Radio Afloat (In a Circle)
- Etienne Charles, Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock)
- Adriano Clemente, The Coltrane Suite and Other Impressions (Dodicilune '23)
- Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley, Journey to Where (Stoney Lane)
- Ed Clute, Shadows on the Moon (Rivermont)
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81)
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head)
- Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers)
- The Core, Roots (Moserobie)
- Stephan Crump, Slow Water (Papillon Sounds)
- Ivanna Cuesta, A Letter to the Earth (Orenda)
- Jeremiah Cymerman, Body of Light (5049)
- Dal Sasso Big Band, Chick Corea's Three Quartets Revisited (Jazz & People)
- Caroline Davis' Alula, Captivity (Ropeadope '23)
- Seth Andrew Davis & Will Yager, April 8th, 1969 (Ox Cart New Music)
- Yussef Dayes, Black Classical Music (Brownswood/Nonesuch '23)
- divr, Is This Water (We Jazz)
- Welf Dorr-Elias Meister-Dmitry Ishenko-Kenny Wollesen, So Far So Good (self-released)
- Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
- Kit Downes, Dr. Snap (Bimhuis)
- Thembi Dunjana, God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi (AfricArise)
- Paul Dunmall-Paul Rogers-Mark Sanders, Wildlife (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head)
- Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger, Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch)
- Yelena Eckemoff, Romance of the Moon (L&H Production)
- Edition Redux, Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic '23)
- Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP)
- Elephant9, Mythical River (Rune Grammofon)
- Elephantine, Moonshine (Northern Spy '23)
- John Ellis Quartet, Bizet: Carmen in Jazz (Blue Room Music '23)
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse)
- Emmeluth's Amoeba, Nonsense (Moserobie)
- Christoph Erb & Frantz Loriot, Wabi Sabi (Veto '23)
- Wayne Escoffery, Alone (Smoke Sessions)
- John Escreet, The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music)
- John Etheridge, Blue Spirits Live (Dyad)
- Julieta Eugenio, Stay (Cristalyn)
- Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani)
- Tanja Feichtmair-Mara Kolibri-Stefan Krist-Josef Novotny-Fredi Pröll-Julius Winter-Uli Winter, Adschi (Creative Sources)
- Lawrence Fields, To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow)
- Nick Finzer, Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of JJ Johnson (Outside In Music)
- Fire!, Testament (Rune Grammofon)
- Rod Fleeman Trio, Saturday Afternoon Live at Green Lady Lounge Volume 3 (Green Lady Radio)
- Flukten, Flukten (Odin)
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
- Jürg Frey, Outermost Melodies (Another Timbre)
- Friends & Neighbors, Circles (Clean Feed)
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Jet Black (Libra)
- The Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Sob Story (Relative Pitch)
- FUR [Hélčne Duret-Benjamin Sauzereau-Maxime Rouayroux], Bond (BMC)
- Fuubutsushi, Meridians (Cached.Media)
- Miha Gantar, New York City (Clean Feed)
- Raffi Garabedian, The Crazy Dog (Clandestine)
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
- Amanda Gardier, Auteur (Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson) (self-released)
- Hilary Gardner, On the Trial with the Lonesome Pines (Anzic)
- Tim Garland, Moment of Departure (Ubuntu Music)
- Kenny Garrett & Svoy, Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue)
- Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, The Doober (Leaving)
- Kate Gentile, Find Letter X (Pi '23)
- Ghost Trees, Intercept Method (self-released)
- Paul Giallorenzo Trio, Play (Delmark '23)
- Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band, Life Songs (Alternate Side)
- Behn Gillece, Stick Together (Posi-Tone)
- Roby Glod-Christian Ramond-Klaus Kugel, No Toxic (Nemu)
- Adam Goldfarb, Fire Lapping at the Creek (Infrequent Seams)
- Jon Gordon, 7th Ave South (ArtistShare)
- Gravelshard, Gravelshard (Phonogram Unit)
- Erik Griswold-Chloe Kim-Helen Svoboda, Anatomical Heart (Earshift Music)
- Gregory Groover Jr., Lovabye (Criss Cross)
- Muriel Grossmann, Devotion (Third Man '23)
- Morgan Guerin, Tales of the Facade (Candid)
- Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM)
- Joy Guidry, Amen (Whited Sepulchre)
- Gush, Afro Blue (1998, Trost)
- Noah Haidu, Standards II (Sunnyside)
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine)
- Peter Hand, Blue Topaz (Whaling City Sound)
- Simon Hanes, Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik)
- Alex Harding & Lucian Ban, Blutopia (Sunnyside)
- Dave Harrington-Max Jaffe-Patrick Shiroishi, Speak, Moment (AKP)
- Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize)
- Mercer Hassy Orchestra, Duke's Place (Mercer Hassy)
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt)
- Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz)
- Remedy [Thomas Heberer-Joe Fonda-Joe Hertenstein], Live at Jazzkammer (420 CPW)
- Eirik Hegdal, Eklektisk Samband: Turnchest (Particular)
- Xaver Hellmeier, X-Man in New York (Cellar Music '23)
- Helveticus [Daniel Humair-Samuel Blaser-Heiri Känzig], Our Way (Blaser Music)
- Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM)
- Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant)
- Christopher Hoffman, Vision Is the Identity (Out of Your Head)
- Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies)
- Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto)
- Ron Horton, A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle '23)
- Ramona Horvath Trio, Carmen's Karma (Camille Productions '23)
- The Hot Toadies Jazz Band (Prohibition Productions)
- François Houle-Kate Gentile-Alexander Hawkins, Fatrasies (Victo)
- Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox)
- Ill Considered, Precipice (New Soil)
- Jon Irabagon Trio, Dinner & Dancing (Irrabagast)
- Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast)
- اسم [ism] [Pat Thomas-Joel Grip-Antonin Gerbal], Maua (577)
- Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable (Blue Note)
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
- Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour)
- Josh Johnson, Unusual Object (Northern Spy)
- Darius Jones, Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz '23)
- Norah Jones, Visions (Blue Note)
- Goran Kajfeš Tropiques, Tell Us (We Jazz)
- Ariel Kalma-Jeremiah Chiu-Marta Sofia Honer, The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
- Kaze, Unwritten (Circum/Libra)
- Charlotte Keefe/Right Here, Right Now Quartet, Alive! in the Studio (Discus Music '23)
- Roger Kellaway, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music)
- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, New Monuments (We Jazz)
- Izumi Kimura-Barry Guy-Gerry Hemingway, Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Cassie Kinoshi, Gratitude (International Anthem)
- Snorre Kirk, Top Dog (Stunt '23)
- Neal Kirkwood Big Band, Night City (Brooklyn Jazz Underground)
- Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club, A Second Life (Mandorla Music)
- Kronos Quartet, Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Red Hot Org)
- Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note)
- Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto)
- Timo Lassy & Jaukka Eskola, Nordic Stew (Dox)
- Laufey, Bewitched (AWAL '23)
- LDL [Urs Leimgruber-Jacques Demierre-Thomas Lehn], In the Endless Wind (Wide Ear)
- Marthe Lea Band, Herlighetens Vei (Motvind '23)
- Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows, Heartland Radio (SoundSpore)
- Ellie Lee, Escape (Sori-E Naite Music)
- Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music)
- Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi '23)
- José Lencastre-Zbigniew Kozera-Vasco Trilla, Chymeia (Phonogram Unit)
- David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
- Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash, To March Is to Love (Cuneiform)
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
- Casimir Liberski & Tatsuya Yoshida, Troubled Water (Totalism)
- Live Edge Trio With Steve Nelson, Closing Time (OA2)
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
- Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk)
- The London Experimental Ensemble With Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Hayem, Marissa Nadler and Gina Fergione, Child Ballads: The Final Six (Don Giovanni '23)
- John Lurie, Painting With John (Royal Potato Family)
- Roberto Magris, Love Is Passing Thru: Solo/Duo/Trio/Quartet (2005, JMood)
- Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note)
- Royce Martin, Memories on Morgan Street (Rivermont '23)
- Rob Mazurek, Milan (Clean Feed)
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue)
- James McClaskey & the Rhythm Band, Later on Blues (BigTone)
- Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark, Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions)
- Francisco Mela & Zoh Amba, Causa y Efecto (Vol. 2) (577)
- Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt '23)
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
- Pat Metheny, MoonDial (BMG)
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
- Allison Miller, Rivers in Our Veins (Royal Potato Family '23)
- John Minnock, A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire (Dot Time)
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi)
- Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity)
- Modney, Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic)
- Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside)
- Mike Monford, The Cloth I'm Cut From (self-released)
- Bruno Montrone, Unaware Beauty (A.MA)
- Moor Mother, The Great Bailout (Anti-)
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies)
- David Murray-Questlove-Ray Angry, Plumb (J.M.I. '23)
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
- Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra, Hereafter (Sofa Music)
- Jasmine Myra, Rising (Gondwana)
- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel, The Room (Real World)
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
- Negarit Band, Origins (Buda Musique '23)
- The New Mastersounds, Old School (One Note)
- New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Tipish (self-released)
- The New Orleans Night Owls, St. Louis Rag and Other Ragtime Classics (Rivermont)
- Sam Newsome & Max Johnson, Tubes (Unbroken Sounds)
- The New Wonders, Steppin' Out (Turtle Bay)
- Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark, Japan 2019 (PNL/Audiographic)
- Carlos Nińo & Friends, Placenta (International Anthem)
- The Nordic Quintet, Originals (AMM)
- Nils Řkland Band, Gjenskinn (Hubro)
- Omawi [Marta Warelis-Onno Govaert-Wilbert De Joode], Waive (Relative Pitch '23)
- Jowee Omicil, Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite (Bash! Village/Modular '23)
- One Another Orchestra, One Another Orchestra (Nato)
- One for All, Big George (Smoke Sessions)
- Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, Four Guitars Live (Palilalia)
- Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, Músicas Brasileiras, Músicos Portugueses (self-released)
- Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund, e.s.t. 30 (ACT Music)
- Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y, A New Beat (Cellar Music)
- The Palomar Trio, The Song in Our Soul (Turtle Bay)
- Shane Parish, Repertoire (Palilalia)
- Emile Parisien Quartet, Let Them Cook (ACT)
- Han-earl Park-Lara Jones-Pat Thomas, Juno 3 (Ramble '23)
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity)
- William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity)
- Hery Paz, River Creatures (Porta Jazz)
- Jeremy Pelt, Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote)
- Ken Peplowski, Unheard Bird (Arbors)
- Ken Peplowski, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music)
- Ivo Perelman Quartet, Water Music (RogueArt)
- Ivo Perelman-Barry Guy-Ramon Lopez, Interaction (Ibeji Music)
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Magical Incantation (Soul City Sounds)
- Ivo Perelman-Mark Helias-Tom Rainey, Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj)
- Madeleine Peyroux, Let's Walk (Just One/Thirty Tigers)
- Dave Pietro, The Talisman (SteepleChase)
- Anthony Pirog, The Nepenthe Series Vol. 1 (Otherly Love '23)
- Planet D Nonet, Echoes of Harlem: A Salute to Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (Eastlawn)
- PNY Quintet, Over the Wall (RogueArt)
- Poeji, Nant (Squama)
- Potsa Lotsa XL, Chamber Works (Trouble in the East '23)
- Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition)
- Present, This Is NOT the End (Cuneiform)
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music)
- Dan Pugach Big Band, Bianca (Outside In Music)
- Tutu Puoane, Wrapped in Rhythm, Vol. 1 (SoulFactory)
- QOW Trio, The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music)
- Alvin Queen Trio, Feeling Good (Stunt)
- Queen Esther, Things Are Looking Up (EL)
- Reggie Quinerly, The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition)
- Rachel Z, Sensual (Dot Time)
- Tomeka Reid-Isadora Edwards-Elisabeth Coudoux, Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (Relative Pitch)
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
- Dave Rempis-Pandelis Karayorgis-Jakob Heinemann-Bill Harris, Truss (Aerophonic/Drift)
- Emilio Reyna, Los Nińos Perdidos (Ropeadope Sur)
- Steph Richards, Power Vibe (Northern Spy)
- Troy Robers, Green Lights (Toy Robot Music)
- Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra, Discordia (Earshift Music)
- Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside)
- Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note)
- Jim Rotondi, Finesse (Cellar Music)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil)
- Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Archaisms II (Meta)
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time)
- Akira Sakata-Toshimaru Nakamura-Raiga Hayashi, Kinjo No Tabibito (Meenna '23)
- Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Moster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt)
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt)
- Brandon Sanders, Compton's Finest (Savant '23)
- Otis Sandsjö, Y-Otis Tre (We Jazz)
- Carla Santana-José Lencastre-Maria do Mar-Gonçalo Almeida, Defiant Ilussion (A New Wave of Jazz)
- Frank Paul Schubert-Michel Pilz-Stefan Scheib-Klaus Kugel, Live at FreeJazz Saar 2019 (Nemu)
- Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
- Matthew Shipp, The Data (RogueArt)
- Idit Shner & Mhondoro, Ngatibatanei [Let Us Unite!] (OA2)
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
- Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media)
- Alex Sipiagin, Horizons (Blue Room Music)
- Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
- SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant)
- Something Else! [Featuring Vincent Herring], Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions)
- Sonic Tender, Odd Objects (Robalo Music)
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi '23)
- Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves)
- Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch)
- Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal, Sunday (Loyal Label)
- Splitter Orchester, Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia)
- Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM)
- Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics)
- Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet, Umbra II (Intakt)
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi)
- Yuhan Su, Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside '23)
- Mai Sugimoto, Sunlight Filtering Through the Leaves (Asian Improv)
- Kevin Sun, The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph)
- Sunny Five [Tim Berne-David Torn-Ches Smith-Devin Hoff-Marc Ducret], Candid (Intakt)
- John Surman, Words Unspoken (ECM)
- Anders Svanoe, Astro Eclipse: State of the Baritone Vol. 6 (Irabbagast)
- Aki Takase Japanic, Forte (Budapest Music Center)
- Christian Tamburr-Dominick Farinacci-Michael Ward-Bergeman, Triad (Ropeadope)
- Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii, Aloft (Libra)
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts)
- Gregory Tardy, In His Timing (WJ3 '23)
- Gegč Telesforo, Big Mama Legacy (Ropeadope)
- Jacky Terrasson, Moving On (Believe)
- Terton [Louie Belogenis/Trevor Dunn/Ryan Sawyer], Outer, Inner, Secret (Tzadik)
- Samuel Torres & the Latin Chamber Ensemble, A Dance for Birds (Blue Conga)
- Rebecca Trescher Tentet, Character Pieces (self-released)
- Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare)
- Steve Turre, Sanyas (Smoke Sessions)
- Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM)
- Federico Ughi, Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577)
- Lisa Ullén, Heirloom (Fönstret)
- Kiki Valera, Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music)
- Peter Van Huffel's Callisto, Meandering Demons (Clean Feed)
- Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion, From Me to You (String Damper)
- Juliet Varnedoe Jazz Band, Cajun Bleu (self-released)
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music)
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms)
- Void Patrol, Live @ Victo (Les Disques Victo)
- Jack Walrath, Live at Smalls (Cellar Music)
- Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad, In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks)
- Marta Warelis & Andy Moor, Escape (Relative Pitch)
- Kenny Warren, Sweet World (Out of Your Head)
- Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young)
- Weasel Walter Large Ensemble, Igneity: After the Fall of Civilization (Improved Sequence)
- Dan Weiss, Even Odds (Cygnus)
- Stian Westerhus & Maja S. K. Ratkje, All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover)
- Amanda Whiting, The Liminality of Her (First Word)
- Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto)
- Kathrine Windfeld Sextet, Aldebaran (Stunt)
- Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn, Duo (ACT Music)
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens)
- yPLO, ob TRU (Feedback Moves)
- Denny Zeitlin, Panoply (Sunnyside)
- Zen Widow, IV (From One Dark Age to Another) (Objet-a '23)
Album count: 366.