Ballots 2025 [2]

[Abreu - Brownlee] · [Buskirk - Drouot] · [Dryden - Gross] · [Hale - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Margasak] · [Medrano - Parnell] · [Perkins - Silva] · [Slim - Weiss] · [West - Yokoi]

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
2. Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite) →
3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
4. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
5. Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem) →
6. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
7. Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) →
8. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra) →
9. Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem) →
10. Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Totality (Drag City) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe, A Spirit Speaks (1974, Strata-East) →
2. Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) →
3. Sun Ra, Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) →
4. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
5. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• José James, 1978: Revenge of the Dragon (Rainbow Blonde) →
• Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse) →

LATIN

• Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
• Fabiano do Nascimento, Solstice Concert (Leaving) →

DEBUT

• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
2. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
3. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
4. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
6. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
8. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
9. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
10. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
2. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
2. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
3. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
4. Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
5. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
6. Luís Vicente, Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta) →
7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
8. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
9. Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) →
10. Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors, Orangina (UnderPool) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
3. Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) →
4. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
5. Jim Hall, Concierto [50th Anniversary Edition] (1975, Sony Music/Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
2. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
4. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
5. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
6. Michael Dease, City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) →
7. Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition '24) →
8. Florian Arbenz - Michael Arbenz - Ron Carter, The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) →
9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
10. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
3. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
4. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Cecil McBee, Mutima (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Emma Smith, Bitter Orange (La Reserve) →

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →

DEBUT

• Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
• Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
• Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
3. Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) →
4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
6. Eric McPherson, Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) →
7. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
8. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
9. Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) →
10. Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording Vol. II (2013, Red Hook) →
2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
3. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

VOCAL

• Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Dawn (Stretch) →
• Theo Bleckmann, Love and Anger (Sunnyside) →
• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →

LATIN

• Juan Pastor's Chinchano, Memorias (Calligram) →
• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Jeff Walton, Pack Animals (Jules) →
• Caelan Cardello, Chapter One (Jazz Bird) →
• Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
2. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
3. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
4. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
5. Ivo Perelman & Ray Anderson, 12 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
6. Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen, Forest (Fundacja Słuchaj '24) →
7. Paul Dunmall, Red Hot Ice (Discus Music '24) →
8. George Cartwright & Bruce Golden, South From a Narrow Arc (self-released) →
9. Ivo Perelman - Nate Wooley - Matt Moran - Mark Helias - Tom Rainey, A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
10. Gregg Belisle-Chi, Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
2. Snakeoil, In Lieu Of (2012, Screwgun) →
3. Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
2. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
3. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
4. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
6. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
7. Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) →
8. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
9. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
10. Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
2. Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
3. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
4. Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
5. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →

LATIN

• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
• Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
• Harold López-Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note) →

DEBUT

• Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
• Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →

Note: Also see The Best Jazz Albums of 2025

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Chad Taylor Quintet, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) →
2. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
3. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
4. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
5. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
6. Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
8. Dabin Ryu, Trio! (Endectomorph Music) →
9. James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter, . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence) →
10. William Hooker, Jubilation (ORG Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) →
2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
3. Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →

VOCAL

• Sonya Belaya, Dacha (Ropeadope) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Laura Ann Singh, Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
• Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) →
• Ben Lamar Gay, Yowzers (International Anthem) →
• Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
• Phil Haynes, Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz) →
• James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
• Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
• Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
• Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. The Fury, Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts '24) →
2. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
3. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
4. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
7. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
8. Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) →
9. Jim Snidero, Bird Feathers (Savant) →
10. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse!) →
2. Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) →
3. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24) →

VOCAL

• Harvey Diamond & John Lentz, How Strange the Road Should Be So Easy (Orchard of Pomegranates) →

LATIN

• Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) →

DEBUT

• Harvey Diamond & John Lentz, How Strange the Road Should Be So Easy (Orchard of Pomegranates) →
• Nanami Haruta, The Vibe (Origin) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
2. Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
3. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
4. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
5. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
6. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
7. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
8. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
9. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
10. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
3. Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
4. The Piano Choir, Handscapes (1972, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Snakeoil, In Lieu Of (2012, Screwgun) →

VOCAL

• Emi Makabe, Echo (Sunnyside) →
• Laura Ann Singh, Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) →
• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →

LATIN

• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →

DEBUT

• Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
• Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Martin Escalante - Charlie Mumma - Tete Leguia, This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) →
• The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
• Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
• Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
• Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
• Shifa, Ecliptic (Discus Music) →
• Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
• Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) →
• Ellery Eskelin, Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) →
• Misha Mengelberg & Sabu Toyozumi, The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness) →
• Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →

VOCAL

• David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
• Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →

LATIN

• Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Billy Lester Trio, High Standards (Ultra Sound) →
2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
3. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
4. Jung Stratmann Quartet, Confluence (self-released) →
5. Charlie Ballantine, East by Midwest (Origin) →
6. Joe Policastro Trio, Mending Wall (JeruJazz) →
7. Phil Haynes & Free Country, Liberty Now! (1996-2025, Corner Store Jazz) →
8. Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
10. Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
3. Kenny Barron, Sunset to Dawn (1973, Muse/Time Traveler) →
4. The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
• Sacha Boutros, Sacha: Paris After Dark (Hear Me Roar) →
• Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP) →

LATIN

• Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InnerJazz '24) →
• Andy Nevala, El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho) →

DEBUT

• Ami Taf Ra, The Prophet and the Madman (Brainfeeder) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Roscoe Mitchell & Michele Rabbia, In 2 (RogueArt) →
2. Sofia Borges & Ada Rave, The Unseen Pact (Relative Pitch) →
3. Olie Brice, All It Was (West Hill) →
4. Akira Sakata, Hyperentasis (Defkaz) →
5. Marina Džukljev - Christian Weber - Michael Griener, Industriesalon (Trouble in the East) →
6. Joe McPhee & Strings, We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt) →
7. Dave Liebman - Billy Hart - Adam Rudolph, Beingness (Meta) →
8. Marcelo dos Reis, Flora: Our Time (JACC) →
9. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
10. José Lencastre & Flak, Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
2. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) →
3. Alan Silva and His Celestrial Communication Orchestra, Luna Surface (1969, BYG-Actuel) →
4. Anthony Braxton, B-X0 N0-47A (1969, BYG) →
5. Khan Jamal, Give the Vibes Some (1974, Souffle Continu) →

VOCAL

• Silt Remembrance Ensemble [Luke Stewart], The Order (Cuneiform) →
• Kelsey Mines & Vinny Golia, Collusion and Collaboration (Relative Pitch) →
• Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson, Sprites (Out of Your Head) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Erez Dessel, Pro Fake No Reject (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
• Mateusz Rybicki, Apokalypsis (Audio Cave) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Alana Amore Colvin, Huckleberries and Lullabies/Oh, Allegra (self-released) →
• The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi) →
• Melvin Gibbs, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25, Hausu Mountain) →
• Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek, Greyhound Days (Mondoj) →
• K. Curtis Lyle & Alex Cunningham, Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar) →
• Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
• The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) →
• Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
• Phi-Psonics, Expanding to One (Gondwana) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) →
2. Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) →
3. Hiroshi Yoshimura, Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

Note: The new jazz vote for Colvin actually refers to two separately released EPs.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →
2. Butcher Brown, Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz) →
3. Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem) →
4. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
5. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
6. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
7. Braxton Cook, Not Everyone Can Go (Nettwerk) →
8. Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
9. Billy Mohler, The Eternal (Contagious Music) →
10. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
2. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
3. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
5. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
6. Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump - Darius Jones - Eric McPherson], Star Mountain (Intakt) →
7. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
8. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
9. Charmaine Lee, Tulpa (Kou) →
10. Rob Brown - Brandon Lopez - Juan P Carletti, Walkabout (Mahakala Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
2. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
4. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
5. Cecil McBee, Mutima (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
2. Amir ElSaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) →
3. Peter Evans/Being & Becoming, Ars Ludicra (More Is More) →
4. Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
5. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
7. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
8. The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) →
9. Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Sextet (Reva) →
10. TL;DR & Peter Knight, Too Long; Didn't Read (Earshift Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Yusef Lateef, Golden Flower: Live in Sweden (1967-72, Elemental Music) →
2. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
3. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
4. Noah Howard Group, Berlin Concert (1975, Cien Fuegos) →
5. Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording Vol. II (2013, Red Hook) →

VOCAL

• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
• Camille Bertault, Voz E Vocês (Sunnyside) →
• Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →

LATIN

• Camille Bertault, Voz E Vocês (Sunnyside) →
• Manuel Valera New Cuban Express, Rise Again Vol. 2 (Mavo) →
• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) →

DEBUT

• Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
• Chloe Kim, Ratsnake (Kou) →
• Nils Agnas, Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
2. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
4. PlainsPeak, Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) →
5. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
6. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
7. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
8. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
9. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
10. Michael Dease, City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe, Sidewalks in Motion (2001, Survival) →
• Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
• Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
• Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
• Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

VOCAL

• Atlantic Jazz Collective, Seascape (Alma) →

LATIN

• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Paul Hecht, Pyrography (Ears & Eyes) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
2. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
3. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
4. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
5. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
6. Heat On [Lily Finnegan], Heat On (Cuneiform) →
7. Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) →
8. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
9. Keefe Jackson - Jakob Heinemann - Adam Shead, Stinger (Irritable Mystic) →
10. Eunhye Jeong & Michael Bisio, Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
2. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
3. Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, Vol. 4: Jo Maka (1977, Souffle Continu) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →

DEBUT

• Heat On [Lily Finnegan], Heat On (Cuneiform) →
• Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) →

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