Ballots 2024 Mid-Year [2]

[Ackermann - Dollar] · [Donohue-Greene - Hollis] · [Hull - Miles] · [Milner - Taylor] · [Toland - Wilson]

NEW RELEASES (unranked)

• Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt) →
• Erik Griswold-Chloe Kim-Helen Svoboda, Anatomical Heart (Earshift Music) →
• Rob Mazurek, Milan (Clean Feed) →
• Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
• Sam Newsome & Max Johnson, Tubes (Unbroken Sounds) →
• William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
• Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside) →
• Terton [Louie Belogenis/Trevor Dunn/Ryan Sawyer], Outer, Inner, Secret (Tzadik) →
• Lisa Ullén, Heirloom (Fönstret) →
• Void Patrol, Live @ Victo (Les Disques Victo) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
• Atrás del Cosmos, Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (1980, Blank Forms Editions) →
• Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
• Soft Machine, Høvikkoden 1971 (Cuneiform) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions) →
2. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
3. Denny Zeitlin, Panoply (Sunnyside) →
4. Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band, Life Songs (Alternate Side) →
5. Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
6. Ken Peplowski, Unheard Bird (Arbors) →
7. Jon Gordon, 7th Ave South (ArtistShare) →
8. Dave Pietro, The Talisman (SteepleChase) →
9. Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) →
10. Chris Byars, Boptics (SteepleChase) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
2. Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
3. Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
4. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
5. The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert (1960, SteepleChase) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
2. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
3. William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
4. Sunny Five [Tim Berne-David Torn-Ches Smith-Devin Hoff-Marc Ducret], Candid (Intakt) →
5. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
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. Elephantine, Moonshine (Northern Spy '23) →
9. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
10. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
2. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
3. Steph Richards, Power Vibe (Northern Spy) →
4. The Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Sob Story (Relative Pitch) →
5. Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity) →
6. Olie Brice-Rachel Musson-Mark Sanders, Immense Blue (West Hill) →
7. Kenny Warren, Sweet World (Out of Your Head) →
8. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms) →
9. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
10. Christopher Hoffman, Vision Is the Identity (Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
2. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
3. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
4. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
5. Soft Machine, Høvikkoden 1971 (Cuneiform) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
2. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
3. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
4. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
5. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
6. Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club, A Second Life (Mandorla Music) →
7. Ivanna Cuesta, A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →

NEW RELEASES (unranked)

• Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
• Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP) →
• Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
• Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
• Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
3. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
4. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
5. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
6. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
7. John Escreet, The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music) →
8. Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) →
9. John Surman, Words Unspoken (ECM) →
10. Gush, Afro Blue (1998, Trost) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) →
2. Darius Jones, Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz '23) →
3. François Houle-Kate Gentile-Alexander Hawkins, Fatrasies (Victo) →
4. Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet, Umbra II (Intakt) →
5. PNY Quintet, Over the Wall (RogueArt) →
6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
7. Potsa Lotsa XL, Chamber Works (Trouble in the East '23) →
8. Tomeka Reid-Isadora Edwards-Elisabeth Coudoux, Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (Relative Pitch) →
9. Albert Beger-Ziv Taubenfeld-Shay Hazan-Hamid Drake, Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) →
10. Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
2. Karen Borca Trio Quartet & Quintet, Good News Blues: Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (NoBusiness) →
3. Sun Ra Akrestra, Live at Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan 8-8-1988 (Super Fuji Discs) →
4. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →

NEW RELEASES (unranked)

• Fuubutsushi, Meridians (Cached.Media) →
• Joy Guidry, Amen (Whited Sepulchre) →
• Dave Harrington-Max Jaffe-Patrick Shiroishi, Speak, Moment (AKP) →
• Jowee Omicil, Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite (Bash! Village/Modular '23) →
• Josh Johnson, Unusual Object (Northern Spy) →
• Ariel Kalma-Jeremiah Chiu-Marta Sofia Honer, The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem) →
• Cassie Kinoshi, Gratitude (International Anthem) →
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
• William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
• SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
• Fumio Itabashi, Watarase (1982, Wewantsounds) →
• Hank Mobley, Workout (1962, Blue Note Classic Vinyl) →
• Wayne Shorter, Odyssey of Iska (1970, Blue Note Tone Poet) →
• Sun Ra, Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (1986, Strut) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
2. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
3. Federico Ughi, Infinite Cosmos Calling You You You, Vol. 1 (577) →
4. Joy Guidry, Amen (Whited Sepulchre) →
5. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
6. Basher, May Day (Sinking City) →
7. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
8. Elephant9, Mythical River (Rune Grammofon) →
9. Byron Asher's Skrontch Music, Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) →
10. New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Tipish (self-released) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Joe Henderson, Power to the People (1969, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) →
2. Jack Bruce, Smiles and Grins: Broadcast Sessions 1970-2001 (Esoteric) →

NEW RELEASES

1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
2. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) →
3. Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
4. Marta Warelis & Andy Moor, Escape (Relative Pitch) →
5. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Anthony Braxton-Roland Dahinden-Hildegard Kleeb, Four Compositions (Wesleyan) 2013 (Prague Music Platform '23) →
2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
3. Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Tutu Puoane, Wrapped in Rhythm, Vol. 1 (SoulFactory) →
2. Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil) →
3. Oddgeir Berg Trio, A Place Called Home (Ozella) →
4. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
5. Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) →
6. Madeleine Peyroux, Let's Walk (Just One/Thirty Tigers) →
7. Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM) →
8. Monty Alexander, D Day (Pee Wee) →
9. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
10. Dal Sasso Big Band, Chick Corea's Three Quartets Revisited (Jazz & People) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
2. Kiki Valera, Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land) →
2. John Coltrane 4tet, Live in France July 27/28 1965: The Complete Concerts (Fingerpoppin) →
3. Mal Waldron & Terumasa Hino, Reminscent Suite (1973, BBE) →
4. Johnny Griffin, Live at Ronnie Scott's (1964, Gearbox '23) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
4. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
5. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
6. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
7. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →
8. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
9. Ivanna Cuesta, A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) →
10. Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra, Hereafter (Sofa Music) →
2. Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger, Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch) →
3. Stian Westerhus & Maja S. K. Ratkje, All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover) →
4. Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark, Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
5. Izumi Kimura-Barry Guy-Gerry Hemingway, Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
6. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) →
7. John Butcher + 13, Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax) →
8. Splitter Orchester, Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia) →
9. Jürg Frey, Outermost Melodies (Another Timbre) →
10. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Die Like a Dog [Peter Brötzmann-Toshinori Kondo-William Parker-Hamid Drake], Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler (1994, Cien Fuegos) →
2. Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love, Chicken Shit Bingo (2015, Trost) →
3. Peter Brötzmann-Toshinori Kondo-Sabu Toyozumi, Complete Link (2016, NoBusiness) →
4. Anthony Braxton, Solo Bern 1984 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) →
5. Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark, Japan 2019 (PNL/Audiographic) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Etienne Charles, Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) →
2. John Ellis Quartet, Bizet: Carmen in Jazz (Blue Room Music '23) →
3. Queen Esther, Things Are Looking Up (EL) →
4. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →
5. Snorre Kirk, Top Dog (Stunt '23) →
6. Blue Moods, Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone) →
7. Nick Finzer, Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of JJ Johnson (Outside In Music) →
8. Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →
9. Live Edge Trio With Steve Nelson, Closing Time (OA2) →
10. Andrew Bird Trio, Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
2. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
3. Les McCann, Never a Dull Moment! Live From Coast to Coast 1966-1967 (Resonance '23) →
4. Cal Tjader, Catch the Groove: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967 (Jazz Detective/Elemental '23) →
5. Gerry Mulligan, Night Lights (1963, Philips) →

NEW RELEASES (unranked)

• Gush, Afro Blue (1998, Trost) →
• Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
• Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
• Void Patrol, Live @ Victo (Les Disques Victo) →
• Jon Irabagon's Outright!, Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) →
• اسم [ism] [Pat Thomas-Joel Grip-Antonin Gerbal], Maua (577) →
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
• Dan Weiss, Even Odds (Cygnus) →
• Elephant9, Mythical River (Rune Grammofon) →
• Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Nina Simone, Blackbird: The Colpix Recordings (1959-1963) (Soul Music) →
• Archie Shepp, Derailleur: The 1964 Demo (Triple Point '23) →
• Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
• Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
• Shelly Manne & His Men, Jazz From the Pacific Northwest (1958-66, Reel to Real) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23) →
2. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
3. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
4. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
5. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
6. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
7. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
8. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
9. Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) →
10. Gregory Tardy, In His Timing (WJ3 '23) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
2. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
3. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →

NEW RELEASES

1. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
2. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
4. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
5. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
6. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
7. Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
8. Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP) →
9. John Escreet, The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music) →
10. Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
2. Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio, Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (Resonance '23) →

NEW RELEASES (unranked)

• Alliance, Alliance (Shifting Paradigm) →
• Black Art Jazz Collective, Truth to Power (HighNote) →
• Xaver Hellmeier, X-Man in New York (Cellar Music '23) →
• Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
• One for All, Big George (Smoke Sessions) →
• Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y, A New Beat (Cellar Music) →
• Jim Rotondi, Finesse (Cellar Music) →
• Brandon Sanders, Compton's Finest (Savant '23) →
• Something Else! [Featuring Vincent Herring], Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions) →
• Jack Walrath, Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Johnny Griffin Quartet, Live in Valencia 92 (Storyville) →
• Shelly Manne & His Men, Jazz From the Pacific Northwest (1958-66, Reel to Real) →
• Brother Jack McDuff, Ain't No Sunshine: Live in Seattle (1972, Reel to Real) →
• Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
• Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

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