The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
List of New Jazz Albums
This page offers an alphabetically sorted list of albums that have
received one or more votes in a given category. The categories are:
- Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind)
- Nat Adderley Jr., Took So Long (NAJ)
- Sophie Agnel & John Butcher, Rare (Les Disques Victo)
- Sophie Agnel, Learning (Otoroku)
- Sophie Agnel, Song (Relative Pitch)
- Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)
- أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret '24)
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
- Eric Alexander, Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group)
- Eric Alexander, Like Sugar (Cellar Live)
- Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring, Split Decision (Smoke Sessions)
- Lina Allemano Four, The Diptychs (Lumo)
- Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar)
- JD Allen, Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant)
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
- Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop)
- Almufaraka, Master of Disorder (Circum-Disc/Tour De Bras '24)
- Matteo Alfonso & Giovanni Maier, Mingus Revisited (Caligola)
- Joe Alterman & Houston Person, Brisket for Breakfast (self-released)
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost)
- Olga Amelchenko, Howling Silence (Edition)
- Angles 11, Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj)
- Kioto Aoki - Haruhi Kobayashi - Mai Sugimoto, Miminari (Asian Improv)
- Florian Arbenz - Michael Arbenz - Ron Carter, The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer)
- Arcadia Dance Orchestra, St. Louis Jazz (Rivermont)
- Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic)
- Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note)
- Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)
- The Attic & Eve Risser, La Grande Crue (NoBusiness '24)
- Omer Avital, New York Now & Then (Zamzama)
- Tarun Balani, ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold)
- Charlie Ballantine, East by Midwest (Origin)
- Baltimore Jazz Collective, Baltimore Jazz Collective (Stricker Street)
- Lucian Ban - John Surman - Mat Maneri, Cantica Profana (Sunnyside)
- Lucian Ban - John Surman - Mat Maneri, The Athenaeum Concert (Sunnyside)
- Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork)
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Spin (Ronin Rhythm '24)
- Gary Bartz & NTU, The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO)
- Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues (Verve '24)
- Fini Bearman, Last Night of the World (Pastiche)
- Bec & Ongles [François de Larrard & Mathieu Bec], Zanzibar (Mazeto Square)
- Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield], Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm)
- Gregg Belisle-Chi, Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt)
- Shems Bendali Quintet, Casbah Qassioun (Jazz Family)
- Ben Bennett, Answers (Lobby Art)
- Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers, Teasing Reflections (Let Me Out)
- Leif Berger, Secret, Normalization (Klaeng)
- Sasha Berliner, Fantôme (Outside In Music)
- Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
- Emmanuel Bex, Eddy M'a Dit (PeeWee)
- The Birdland Big Band, Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller (Birdland)
- Johnathan Blake, My Life Matters (Blue Note)
- Ron Blake, Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions)
- Lena Bloch & Kyoko Kitamura, Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Jane Ira Bloom & Brian Shankar Adler, Once Like a Spark (Adhyâropa)
- Jane Ira Bloom, Songs in Space (Outline)
- Bloomers, Cyclism (Relative Pitch)
- Blue Moods, Force & Grace (Posi-Tone)
- Sofia Borges & Ada Rave, The Unseen Pact (Relative Pitch)
- Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences, Resta Chi Va (We Insist!)
- Christer Bothén 3, L'Invisible (Thanatosis)
- Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM)
- Bob Bralove & Patti Weiss, Acoustic Conversations (BLove Music '24)
- Anthony Braxton, Trillium X (PMP)
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
- Olie Brice, All It Was (West Hill)
- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue)
- Jakob Bro - Wadada Leo Smith - Marilyn Crispell - Andrew Cyrille, The Montclair Session (Loveland Music)
- Jakob Bro - Wadada Leo Smith - Marcus Gilmore, Murasaki (Loveland Music)
- Alan Broadbent, Threads of Time (Savant)
- Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra, Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis)
- Brom, Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label)
- Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku)
- George Brown, Jazz in Paris (Astana Music)
- Rob Brown - Brandon Lopez - Juan P Carletti, Walkabout (Mahakala Music)
- Etienne Brunet, Ear Asphyxia (self-released)
- John Butcher/John Edwards, This Is Not Speculation (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Butcher Brown, Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
- Caelan Cardello, Chapter One (Jazz Bird)
- Nanna Carling, Melodies for Two (The End)
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid)
- Daniel Carter & Ayumi Ishito, Endless Season (577)
- George Cartwright & Bruce Golden, South From a Narrow Arc (self-released)
- Sharel Cassity, Gratitude (Sunnyside)
- Tereza Catarov, Koren (PKmusik)
- Brìghde Chaimbeul, Sunwise (Tak:til)
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite)
- Conor Chaplin - Anton Eger - Mathias Heise - Rasmus Sørensen, The Action 4s (April)
- Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock)
- Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
- Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote)
- Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
- Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors, Orangina (UnderPool)
- Mike Clark, Itai Doshin (Wide Hive)
- Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
- Laura Cocks, FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Head)
- Avishai Cohen, Ashes to Gold (ECM '24)
- Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet, Situation (PlayOn)
- Stella Cole, It's Magic (Decca)
- Xhosa Cole, On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane)
- George Coleman, George Coleman With Strings (HighNote)
- Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
- Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille & Mark Helias, Glow: Music for Trio . . . Add Voice (Silver Sphinx)
- Alana Amore Colvin, Huckleberries and Lullabies/Oh, Allegra (self-released)
- Braxton Cook, Not Everyone Can Go (Nettwerk)
- Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid)
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note)
- Gustavo Cortiñas, The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente)
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
- The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi)
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
- Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen, Forest (Fundacja Słuchaj '24)
- Theo Croker, Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
- Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil)
- Luca Curcio, La BOMBA (Boomslang)
- Czajka & Puchacz, Flapping (Lado ABC)
- Marleen Dahms' Alloy, Running and Belonging (Xjazz)
- Das B, Love (Thanatosis/Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Michael Dease, Flow (Posi-Tone)
- Michael Dease, City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin)
- Deepstaria Enigmatica, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk)
- Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem)
- Randal Despommier, South (Sunnyside)
- John Dikeman - Sun-Mi Hong - Aaron Lumley - Marta Warelis, Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch)
- Chano Dominguez & Ethan Margolis, The Blues Around Us (Unifying Sounds)
- Michel Doneda & Thierry Waziniak, Le Chemin Du Jour (Intrication '24)
- Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released)
- Pierre Dørge & Kirk Knuffke, Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever (SteepleChase)
- Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra, Jazzhus Montmartre Live (SteepleChase)
- Dave Douglas, Alloy (Greenleaf Music)
- Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas, A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books)
- Jakob Dreyer, Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleur De Cayenne (Sunnyside)
- Paul Dunmall, Red Hot Ice (Discus Music '24)
- Paul Dunmall Quartet, Here Today Gone Tomorrow (RogueArt '24)
- Nick Dunston, Reverse Broadcast (Carrier)
- Nick Dunston, Colla Voce: Praylewd (Out of Your Head)
- Earscratcher, Otoliths (Aerophonic)
- Ryan Ebaugh - Matt Crane - Cameron Presley, Detergent (ScatterArchive)
- Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt)
- Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield, Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa)
- Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic)
- Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen, Shikiori (Stunt)
- Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside)
- Eight Dice Cloth, The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released)
- El Infierno Musical, II (Klanggalerie)
- Ellinoa, Mejiro (Les P'tits Cailloux Du Chemin)
- John Ellis, Heroes (Blue Room Music)
- Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Ornithology/Maqām)
- Amir ElSaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām)
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse)
- Signe Emmeluth - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - Axel Filip, Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch)
- The Empress, Square One (Cellar Music)
- Enemy, Fiend (Edition)
- Enji, Sonor (Squama)
- Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa)
- Ensemble Shippolly, Love Shippolly (Niteco Studio & Music Arts)
- Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann, Under the Same Stars (Motéma Music)
- Martin Escalante - Charlie Mumma - Tete Leguia, This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear)
- Esthesis Quartet, Sound & Fury (Sunnyside)
- Peter Evans/Being & Becoming, Ars Ludicra (More Is More)
- The Ex, If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex)
- Kai Fagaschinski, Aerodynamics (Ni Vu Ni Connu)
- Jimmy Farace, Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm)
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions)
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi)
- Heat On [Lily Finnegan], Heat On (Cuneiform)
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's (Exit) Knarr, Drops (Sonic Transmissions)
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
- Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet, Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions)
- Floros Floridis - Matthias Bauer - Joe Hertenstein, Temporal Driftness (Evil Rabbit '24)
- Flyways, Mutualism (Daily Music)
- Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Fundacja Słuchaj '24)
- Thomas Fonnesbæk, In Rome (Storyville '24)
- Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside)
- For Living Lovers, Natural Name (Sunnyside)
- Anat Fort, The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
- Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions)
- Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski, Suite (self-released)
- Nnenna Freelon, Beneath the Skin (Origin)
- Mike Freeman Zonavibe, Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF)
- Fred Frith & Mariá Portugal, Matter (Intakt)
- Sinsuke Fujieda Group, Fukushima (SoFa)
- Satoko Fujii This Is It!, Message (Libra)
- Satoko Fujii GEN, Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra)
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra)
- Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head)
- Michika Fukumori, Eternity (Summit)
- The Fury, Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts '24)
- Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)
- Violeta Garcia, IN/OUT (Bongo Joe)
- Ben Lamar Gay, Yowzers (International Anthem)
- Melvin Gibbs, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25, Hausu Mountain)
- Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes, Move With Love (Morphius)
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams)
- Roger Glenn, My Latin Heart (Patois)
- Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant)
- Ben Goldberg - Todd Sickafoose - Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch '24)
- Vinny Golia - Ken Filiano - Michael TA Thompson, Catastasis (Nine Winds)
- Mac Gollehon & the Hispanic Mechanics, Pistoleros (World Funk Orchestra)
- Phillip Golub, Loop 7 (Greyfade)
- Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok, Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams)
- GPS, Directions + Destinations (577)
- Pasquale Grasso, Solo Be-Bop! (Sony Masterworks)
- Ronny Graupe's Szelest, Newfoundland Tristesse (BMC)
- Jimmy Greene, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works)
- Danny Grissett, Travelogue (Savant)
- Gregory Groover Jr., Old Knew (Criss Cross Jazz)
- Gulli Gudmundsson - Jeroen van Vliet - Koen Smits, Flóð Og Fjara (Challenge)
- Joy Guidry, Five Prayers (Jaid)
- Jean-Luc Guionnet, L'Épaisseur De L'Air Live (Potlatch)
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart)
- Caity Gyorgy, Hello! How Are You? (La Reserve '24)
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
- Scott Hamilton, Looking Back (Stunt '24)
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay)
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve '24)
- Lafayette Harris Jr., All in Good Time (Savant)
- Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
- Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions)
- Nanami Haruta, The Vibe (Origin)
- Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum, A Near Permanent State of Wonder (RogueArt)
- Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt)
- Phil Haynes, Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz)
- Phil Haynes & Free Country, Liberty Now! (1996-2025, Corner Store Jazz)
- Hearts & Minds, Illuminescence (Astral Spirits)
- Paul Hecht, Pyrography (Ears & Eyes)
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
- Tyler Henderson, Love Endures (Cellar Music)
- Arve Henriksen - Trygve Seim - Anders Jormin - Markku Ounaskari, Arcanum (ECM)
- Todd Herbert, Captain Hubs (TH Productions)
- Yaron Herman, Radio Paradise (Naive)
- Fred Hersch & Rondi Charleston, Suspended in Time: A Song Cycle (Resilience Music Alliance)
- Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM)
- Jake Hertzog, Ozark Concerto (Zoho)
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant)
- The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band, Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay)
- Hilarious Disasters, Unnatural Root (Audio Cave)
- Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers, Gifts (Enja)
- Art Hirahara, Peace Unknown (Posi-Tone)
- Anna Högberg Attack, Ensamseglaren (Fönstret)
- Jasper Høiby, Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition)
- Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Live in NYC (Sony)
- Robin Holcomb & Peggy Lee, Reno (Songlines)
- Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto '24)
- William Hooker, Jubilation (ORG Music)
- Hvalfugl, Bag Vore Øjne Strømmer Drømme Sagte Forbi (self-released)
- Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound)
- HxH, Stark Phenomena (OFNOT)
- Zé Ibarra, Afim (Mr. Bongo)
- ICP Orchestra, Happy Birthday → Naar Zee Z.O.Z. (ICP)
- Johnny Iguana, At Delmark: Chicago-Style Solo Piano (Delmark)
- Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast)
- Jon Irabagon & Peter Brendler, Two-Part Inventions (Irabbagast)
- Italian Surf Academy, Ennio Morricone Is Dissolving (41st Parallel)
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
- Carrie Jackson, Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz)
- Keefe Jackson - Jakob Heinemann - Adam Shead, Stinger (Irritable Mystic)
- Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch)
- Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
- Eunhye Jeong & Michael Bisio, Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk)
- Simon Jermyn, Obsany (Elastic)
- Sven-Åke Johansson - Pierre Borel - Seymour Wright - Joel Grip, Two Days at Café Oto (Otoroku)
- Rico Jones, Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts)
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time)
- Anthony Joseph, Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness)
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve '24)
- Jung Stratmann Quartet, Confluence (self-released)
- Laura Jurd, Rites & Revelations (New Soil)
- Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music)
- Ayako Kanda - Tatsuya Yoshida ATP, Kalpty Vol. 1 (Tapestmemory)
- Prima Kanta, In a Purple Time (Linoleum)
- Sylvain Kassap - Steve Swell - Benjamin Duboc - Chad Taylor, Edges (RogueArt)
- Keelepeksjad, Kalev Tuli Koju (Ava Muusika)
- Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music)
- Stefan Keune - Sandy Ewen - Damon Smith, Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics)
- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, Live in Vilnius (Fern Flower)
- David Kikoski, Weekend at Smalls (Cellar Music)
- Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording Vol. II (2013, Red Hook)
- Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway, How the Dust Falls (Auricle)
- Mark Kirschenmann, Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams)
- Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys, Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released)
- KnCurrent, KnCurrent (Deep Dish)
- Kneebody, Reach (GroundUP Music)
- Kirk Knuffke - Stomu Takeishi - Bill Goodwin, Window (Royal Potato Family)
- Masayo Koketsu, Nyoinbow - Zenbu Nagareboshi No Sei (Somethin' Cool)
- Sarathy Korwar, There Is Beauty, There Already (Otherland)
- Vladimir Kostadinovic, Iris (Criss Cross)
- Malakoff Kowalski, Songs With Words (Sony)
- Jim Kweskin, Doing Things Right (Jalopy)
- Lagon Nwar, Lagon Nwar (AirFono)
- L'Antidote, L'Antidote (Ponderosa Music)
- Stian Larsen - Colin Webster - Ruth Goller - Andrew Lisle, Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch)
- Gwen Laster New Muse 4tet, Keepers of the Flame (Muffymarie Music)
- Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
- Lava Quartet, Ethereal Chant (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Joëlle Léandre & Evan Parker, Long Bright Summer (RogueArt)
- Ledisi, For Dinah (Candid)
- Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet, Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor (2004-24, Cellar Music)
- Charmaine Lee, Tulpa (Kou)
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
- José Lencastre & Flak, Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit)
- Peter Lenz, Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GamsbART '24)
- Billy Lester Trio, High Standards (Ultra Sound)
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
- Dave Liebman - Billy Hart - Adam Rudolph, Beingness (Meta)
- Littorina Saxophone Quartet, Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness)
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)
- Zack Lober, So We Could Live (Zennez)
- Joe Locke & Phil Markowitz, Smoke and Mirrors (Wire Walker)
- Gareth Lockrane Big Band, Box of Tricks (Whirlwind)
- Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem)
- Longnon Big Band, Istanbounce (Continuo Jazz)
- Brandon Lopez, Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch)
- Harold López-Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note)
- Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM)
- Lux Quartet, Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird '24)
- K. Curtis Lyle & Alex Cunningham, Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar)
- Seth MacFarlane, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (Verve)
- Joe Magnarelli, Concord (SteepleChase)
- Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, A Story Left Untold (Roomspin)
- Fabia Mantwill Orchestra, In.Sight (GroundUP Music)
- Paul Marinaro, Mood Ellington (Origin)
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
- Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus)
- Mark Masters Ensemble, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri)
- Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri)
- Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, Live Spirit 1 (WMQ)
- Wojtek Mazolewski, Solo (WMQ/NoPaper)
- Christian McBride Big Band, Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue)
- Nicole McCabe, A Song to Sing (Colorfield)
- Donny McCaslin, Lullaby for the Lost (Edition)
- Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem)
- Fergus McCreadie, The Shieling (Edition)
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks)
- The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, Mixed Bag (Summit)
- James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter, . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence)
- Alex McLaughlin, A Brand New State (self-released)
- Jim McNeely, Primal Colors (Challenge)
- Joe McPhee, I'm Just Say'n (Smalltown Supersound)
- Joe McPhee & Strings, We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt)
- Eric McPherson, Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts)
- Brad Mehldau, Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
- Tobias Meinhart, Sonic River (Sonic River)
- Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
- Melodies, Melodies (Ammonite Musique)
- Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance)
- Nate Mercereau - Josh Johnson - Carlos Niño, Openness Trio (Blue Note)
- Kelsey Mines & Erin Rogers, Scratching at the Surface (Relative Pitch)
- Matt Mitchell, Sacrosancticity (Obliquity)
- Roscoe Mitchell & Michele Rabbia, In 2 (RogueArt)
- Billy Mohler, The Eternal (Contagious Music)
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon)
- Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos, SOL (Olindo)
- Moor Mother, The Great Bailout (Anti- '24)
- Jason Moran - Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - Ole Morten Vagan, Go to Your North (Yes)
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music)
- Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk)
- Fred Moten & Brandon López, Revision (TAO Forms)
- Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit)
- Leszek Możdżer - Lars Danielsson - Zohar Fresco, Beamo (ACT Music)
- Mukta, A Night at Pannonica (Cepazz)
- David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
- Wolfgang Muthspiel - Scott Colley - Brian Blade, Tokyo (ECM)
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
- Max Nagl Quintett, Phasolny (Rude Noises)
- Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Totality (Drag City)
- Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow (Eremite)
- Camila Nebbia - James Banner - Max Andrzejewski, Presencia (Ears & Eyes)
- Camila Nebbia - Gonçalo Almeida - Sylvain Darrifourcq, Hypnomaniac (Defkaz)
- Camila Nebbia - Kit Downes - Andrew Lisle, Exhaust (Relative Pitch)
- Camila Nebbia - Marilyn Crispell - Lesley Mok, A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch)
- The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy)
- Steve Nelson - Joris Teepe - Eric Ineke, A Common Language (Daybreak)
- Marius Neset, Cabaret (ACT Music)
- Alan Niblock - John Butcher - Mark Sanders, Tectonic Plates (577)
- Bruno Angelini - Sakina Abdou - Angelika Niescier, Lotus Flowers (Abalone)
- Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, Great Intentions (Action Jazz)
- Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars, Turn Thy Loose (PNL)
- Martin Nodeland, Tributaries (Smeik)
- Nordkraft Big Band - Remy Le Boeuf - Danielle Wertz, Silent Course (Gateway Music)
- Oakland Reductionist Orchestra, West and East Baying (Queen Bee)
- Caili O'Doherty, Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music)
- Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho)
- John O'Gallagher - Ben Monder - Andrew Cyrille - Billy Hart, Ancestral (Whirlwind)
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
- Leila Olivesi, African Rhapsody (Attention Fragile)
- Petra Onderuf Quartet, An Odd Time of Day (Kaipati)
- O.N.E., Well, Actually . . . (April)
- Bill Orcutt - Steve Shelley - Ethan Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current)
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt)
- Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump - Darius Jones - Eric McPherson], Star Mountain (Intakt)
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer- Immanuel Wilkins], Motion II (Blue Note)
- Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp)
- Charles Owens Trio, The Music Tells Us (La Reserve '24)
- PainKiller, The Great God Pan (Tzadik)
- Ed Palermo Big Band, Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Ages (Sky Cat)
- Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, That Wasn't a Dream (Impulse!)
- Raphaël Pannier Quartet, Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music)
- Evan Parker & Bill Nace, Branches (Otoroku)
- Zeena Parkins, Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik)
- Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note)
- Carlos "Zingaro" - Bruno Parrinha - Fred Lonberg-Holm - João Madeira, Enleio (4DaRecord)
- John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
- Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland, Himmel Over Hav (Grappa)
- Alex Paxton, Delicious (New Amsterdam)
- Nicholas Payton, Triune (Smoke Sessions)
- Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote)
- Tommaso Perazzo - Marcello Cardillo - Buster Williams, Portrait of a Moment (Red)
- Ivo Perelman & John Butcher, Duologues 4 (Ibeji)
- Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Ivo Perelman & Ray Anderson, 12 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance)
- Ivo Perelman - Nate Wooley - Matt Moran - Mark Helias - Tom Rainey, A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
- Kim Perlak & Francisco Mela, Spaces (Sacred Black)
- Phi-Psonics, Expanding to One (Gondwana)
- Ted Piltzecker, Peace Vibes (OA2)
- Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Sextet (Reva)
- PlainsPeak, Someone to Someone (Irabbagast)
- Mehmet Polat Quartet, Roots in Motion (Aftab)
- Joe Policastro Trio, Mending Wall (JeruJazz)
- Potsa Lotsa XL, Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East)
- Luz Prado - Wade Matthews - Abdul Moimême, Trust From Intimacy (ScatterArchive)
- PRAED Orchestra!, The Dictionary of Lost Meanings (Discrepant)
- Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone)
- Nigel Price Organ Trio, It's On! (self-released)
- Ester Quevedo, Garabato (UnderPool)
- Emma Rawicz, Inkyra (ACT Music)
- Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note)
- Eric Scott Reed, Out Late (Smoke Sessions)
- Rubén Reinaldo, Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz)
- Marcelo dos Reis, Flora: Our Time (JACC)
- Dave Rempis - Russ Johnson - Jakob Heinemann - Jeremy Cunningham, Embers and Ash (Aerophonic)
- Dave Rempis - Jason Adasiewicz - Chris Corsano, Dial Up (Aerophonic)
- Anaïs Reno, Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club44)
- Rafaëlle Rinaudo - Raphaël Quenehen - Simon Winsé, Spin & Spells (Gigantonium)
- Herb Robertson - Christopher Dell - Christian Ramond - Klaus Kugel, Blue Transient (Nemu)
- Paul Rogers, Peace and Happiness (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Dan Rosenboom, Coordinates (Orenda)
- Kurt Rosenwinkel + Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos, Our Secret World: Live at Cara (Bandit Digital Media Services)
- Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions '24)
- Thom Rotella, Right Time Left (HighNote)
- Ned Rothenberg, Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic)
- Kyle Roussel, Church of New Orleans (self-released)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion)
- Dabin Ryu, Trio! (Endectomorph Music)
- Akira Sakata, Hyperentasis (Defkaz)
- Akira Sakata SOS, In a Sentimental Mood (Daphnia)
- Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois)
- Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante (ECM)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch)
- Paula Sanchez & Katharina Weber, . . . And Discovering Fishes That Have Their Own Light (Cubus)
- Brandon Sanders, Lasting Impression (Savant)
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete)
- Sara (.es) & Shoko Numao, Skywalker (Nomart)
- Masahiko Satoh & Yuji Takahashi, Open Cluster (BAJ)
- Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist, Framåt! (Grong)
- Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family '24)
- Giancarlo Schiaffini & Daniel Studer, Breeze (Linae Occultae)
- Loren Schoenberg and His Jazz Orchestra, So Many Memories (Turtle Bay)
- Louis Sclavis, India (Yolk)
- John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM)
- Yukari Sekiya, Duets Till Now, From Here (Umishima)
- Rin Seo Collective, City Suite (Cellar Music)
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity)
- Shakti, Mind Explosion: 50th Anniversary Tour Live (Abstract Logix)
- Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu)
- Shifa, Ecliptic (Discus Music)
- Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)
- Patrick Shiroishi, Forgetting Is Violent (American Dream)
- Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek, Greyhound Days (Mondoj)
- Ben Sidran, Are We There Yet (Bonsai/Nardis)
- Sifters, Sifters (Obliquity)
- Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra, Basie Rocks! (Green Hill)
- Alex Sipiagin, Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz)
- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Emma Smith, Bitter Orange (La Reserve)
- Tom Smith, A Year in the Life (Tom Smith)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier, Angel Falls (Intakt)
- Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love)
- SML, How You Been (International Anthem)
- Jim Snidero, Bird Feathers (Savant)
- Snowpoet, Heartstrings (Edition)
- Ben Solomon, Duet Etudes (Vireo Music Publishing)
- Omar Sosa, Sendas (Ota)
- Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music)
- Simon Spang-Hanssen, Turtle Talk (Spangster)
- Alister Spence Trio, Gather (Alister Spence Music)
- Vinnie Sperrazza - Jacob Sacks - Masa Kamaguchi, Play Elmo Hope (Fresh Sound)
- Simon Spillett, Up in Town (Mister PC)
- Spinifex, Maxximus (Trytone)
- Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP)
- Carmen Staaf, Sounding Line (Sunnyside)
- Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders, Cup & Ring (Discus Music)
- Ben Stapp, Uzmic Ro'Samg (577)
- Dayna Stephens, Monk'D (Contagious Music)
- Dayna Stephens, Hopium (Contagious Music)
- Silt Remembrance Ensemble [Luke Stewart], The Order (Cuneiform)
- Dave Stryker, Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone)
- Yuhan Su, Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music)
- Kevin Sun, Quartets (Endectomorph Music '24)
- Sun & Rain, Waterfall (Out of Your Head)
- Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra, Strange Strings (1967, Cosmic Myth '24)
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)
- Talk Show, Miss America (We Jazz)
- Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii, Ki (Libra)
- Chad Taylor Quintet, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
- Claude Tchamitchian Quartet, Vortice (Emouvance)
- Ternion Q Expanded [Anne Mette Iversen], Marbles (Brooklyn Jazz Underground)
- Omar Thomas Large Ensemble, Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music)
- Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms)
- Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt)
- Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi)
- 3 Cohens & WDR Big Band, Interaction (Anzic)
- Three Layer Cake, Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love)
- Steve Tibbetts, Close (ECM)
- TL;DR & Peter Knight, Too Long; Didn't Read (Earshift Music)
- Alchemy Sound Project & Sumi Tonooka, Under the Surface (ARC)
- Rafael Toral, Traveling Light (Drag City)
- David Torn, Peace Upon You (self-released)
- Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music)
- Olivia Trummer, Like Water (Warner Music Italy)
- Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts)
- Mark Turner, We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music)
- Frances-Marie Uitti - Milana Zarić - Elisabeth Harnik, Unified Field (Strange Strings)
- Ken Vandermark, Snapshots: Complete (Kilogram '23)
- Kalia Vandever, Another View (Northern View)
- Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released)
- Luís Vicente, Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta)
- Rufus Wainwright With the Pacific Jazz Orchestra, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill (Thirty Tigers)
- The Waitiki 7, Exotica Reborn: In Studio and Live at House Without a Key (Waitiki International)
- Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band, Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay)
- Brad Walker, A Sliver of Catharsis (self-released)
- Kamasi Washington, Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan/Sony Music)
- WDR Big Band, Bluegrass (MCG Jazz)
- Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head)
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
- Jerry Weldon, The Summit (Cellar Music)
- Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition '24)
- The Westerlies, Paradise (Westerlies)
- Wheelhouse, House and Home (Aerophonic)
- Joshua White, Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano (Orenda)
- Tobias Wiklund, Inner Flight Music (Stunt)
- Wild Iris Brass Band, Way Up (Ear Up)
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note '24)
- Ben Williams, Between Church & State (Safe Space)
- Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus, The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music)
- Sarah Wilson, Incandescence (Brass Tonic)
- Jim Witzel, Very Early: Remembering Bill Evans (Joplin & Sweeney)
- Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk)
- Michael Wollny Trio, Living Ghosts (ACT Music)
- Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note)
- Stephane Wrembel, Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (Water Is Life)
- @xcrswx, Moodboard (Feedback Moves)
- Katsura Yamauchi & Kohsetsu Imanishi, Fumine (Ftarri)
- Jeong Lim Yang, Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
- Lingyuan Yang, Cursed Month (Chaospace)
- John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument, Points in Time (See Tao)
- Yes Deer, Everything That Shines, Everything That Hurts (Superpang)
- Yodok III, Nidarosdomen (Consouling Sounds)
- Otomo Yoshihide, Plays Christian Marclay (Little Stone)
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
- The Young Mothers, Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions)
- Zanussi 3, A Keen Beast (Sauajazz)
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music)
- John Zorn & Dave Lombardo, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections (Tzadik)
- Shiri Zorn - George Muscatello - Mauricio Zottarelli, Looking for the Light (self-released)
- Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance)
- Benjamin Lackner, Spindrift (ECM)
- Marina Džukljev - Christian Weber - Michael Griener, Industriesalon (Trouble in the East)
Album count: 576.