Ballots 2025 [3]

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

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →
2. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
3. Alan Broadbent, Threads of Time (Savant) →
4. Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
5. Jim McNeely, Primal Colors (Challenge) →
6. Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) →
7. Eric Alexander, Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group) →
8. Michael Dease, Flow (Posi-Tone) →
9. Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
10. Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
2. Yusef Lateef, Golden Flower: Live in Sweden (1967-72, Elemental Music) →
3. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
4. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
5. Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions (1953-58, Mosaic) →

VOCAL

• Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
• Marianne Solivan, Break's Over (Imani) →
• Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →

LATIN

• Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) →
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
• Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band, Live at the Belly Up Tavern (Regime Music Group) →
• Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Melvin Gibbs, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25, Hausu Mountain) →
2. Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) →
3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
4. Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) →
5. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
6. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
7. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
8. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
9. Dave Douglas, Alloy (Greenleaf Music) →
10. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
• Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) →
• Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• JD Allen, Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) →
• Omer Avital, New York Now & Then (Zamzama) →
• Bob Bralove & Patti Weiss, Acoustic Conversations (BLove Music '24) →
• Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
• Jakob Dreyer, Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent) →
• Dave Liebman - Billy Hart - Adam Rudolph, Beingness (Meta) →
• Zack Lober, So We Could Live (Zennez) →
• John O'Gallagher - Ben Monder - Andrew Cyrille - Billy Hart, Ancestral (Whirlwind) →
• Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
• Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land) →
• John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse!) →
• Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) →
• Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →
• McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →

VOCAL

• Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
• Julia Úlehla and Dálava, Understories (Pi) →

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
• Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside '24) →

DEBUT

• Jakob Dreyer, Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum, A Near Permanent State of Wonder (RogueArt) →
2. Talk Show, Miss America (We Jazz) →
3. Dan Rosenboom, Coordinates (Orenda) →
4. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
5. Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
6. Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) →
7. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
8. The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) →
9. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
10. Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
2. Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) →
3. Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →

VOCAL

• Lena Bloch & Kyoko Kitamura, Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent) →
• Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
• Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic) →

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
• David Virelles, Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove) III (El Tivoli Productions) →

DEBUT

• Leandro Cardenas, Against the Jazz Police (577) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
4. Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem) →
5. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
6. Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) →
7. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
8. Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem) →
9. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
10. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Griot Galaxy, Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) →
2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
3. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
4. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →
5. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
4. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
5. Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound) →
6. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
8. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
9. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
10. Billy Mohler, The Eternal (Contagious Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) →
2. Oliver Lake, Live From Studio Rivbea 1975 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →

VOCAL

• Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
• Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →
• Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic) →

LATIN

• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
• Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
• Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band, Live at the Belly Up Tavern (Regime Music Group) →

DEBUT

• Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
• Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
• Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
• Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• Benjamin Lackner, Spindrift (ECM) →
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
• David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
• Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer- Immanuel Wilkins], Motion II (Blue Note) →
• Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
• Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
• James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
• Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →

VOCAL

• Kurt Elling & Christian Sands, Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) →
• Ledisi, For Dinah (Candid) →
• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →

LATIN

• Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant) →
• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →

DEBUT

• Caelan Cardello, Chapter One (Jazz Bird) →
• Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
• Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
2. Kamasi Washington, Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan/Sony Music) →
3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
4. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
5. Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote) →
6. Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) →
7. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
8. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
9. Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
10. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

Note: Also see The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2025 (Stereogum)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
2. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
3. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
4. Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
5. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
6. Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, Great Intentions (Action Jazz) →
7. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
8. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
9. Donny McCaslin, Lullaby for the Lost (Edition) →
10. Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

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

DEBUT

• Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
• Henry Plotnick, Tributaries (Tidebloom) →

Note: Debut vote for Trio of Bloom rejected.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
• Earscratcher, Otoliths (Aerophonic) →
• Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Fundacja Słuchaj '24) →
• Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →
• Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound) →
• Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
• Eunhye Jeong & Michael Bisio, Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) →
• Sylvain Kassap - Steve Swell - Benjamin Duboc - Chad Taylor, Edges (RogueArt) →
• Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
• Herb Robertson - Christopher Dell - Christian Ramond - Klaus Kugel, Blue Transient (Nemu) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) →
• Shamek Farrah, First Impressions (1974, Strata-East) →
• Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound) →
• James Newton Quartet, Live in Willisau Switzerland 1983 (Rhythm 'n' Flow) →
• Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Lina Allemano Four, The Diptychs (Lumo) →
• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
• Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
• Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
• Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
2. Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions (1953-58, Mosaic) →
3. Miles Davis, Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
• Kris Adams & Peter Perfido, Away (Jazzbird) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• History Dog, Root Systems (Otherly Love) →

Note: Also see the author's section in The Best Jazz Albums of 2025

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
• Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
• Joy Guidry, Five Prayers (Jaid) →
• Kelsey Mines & Erin Rogers, Scratching at the Surface (Relative Pitch) →
• The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) →
• Sun & Rain, Waterfall (Out of Your Head) →
• Rafael Toral, Traveling Light (Drag City) →
• Kalia Vandever, Another View (Northern View) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Griot Galaxy, Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) →
• Green Cosmos, Abendmusiken (1981-82, Frederiksberg) →
• William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) →
• Yusuf Mumin, Journey to the Ancient (We Want Sounds) →
• Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow (Eremite) →
2. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
3. Ed Palermo Big Band, Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Ages (Sky Cat) →
4. Amir ElSaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) →
5. Mark Kirschenmann, Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams) →
6. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
7. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
8. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
9. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's (Exit) Knarr, Drops (Sonic Transmissions) →
10. Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Frank Zappa, Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe) →
2. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
3. Roland Kirk Quartet, Domino: Live at Radio Bremen TV-Studios 1963 (1963, MIG) →
4. Pharoah Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
• Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
• Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Roger Glenn, My Latin Heart (Patois) →
• Alex McLaughlin, A Brand New State (self-released) →
• Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
• John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete) →
• Kevin Sun, Quartets (Endectomorph Music '24) →
• Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
• Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
• The Waitiki 7, Exotica Reborn: In Studio and Live at House Without a Key (Waitiki International) →
• WDR Big Band, Bluegrass (MCG Jazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Doug Beavers, Titanes Del Trombón [Remastered] (2015, Circle 9) →
2. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Camila Meza, Portal (GroundUP Music) →
• Lili Maljic, The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi (Pacific Coast Jazz) →
• Gino Amato, Latin Crossroads 2 (Ovation) →

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
• John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete) →
• Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project, Mi Hogar II (self-released) →
• Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project, Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music) →
• Edward Simon, Venezuela Latin American Songbook Vol. 2 (ArtistShare) →

DEBUT

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

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
2. Brandon Lopez, Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) →
3. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
5. Alex Paxton, Delicious (New Amsterdam) →
6. Potsa Lotsa XL, Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) →
7. PRAED Orchestra!, The Dictionary of Lost Meanings (Discrepant) →
8. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
9. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
10. Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Derek Bailey - Paul Lovens - Jon Rose, Podewil (1992, The Jon Rose Archive) →
2. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
3. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) →
4. Fred Frith & Shelley Burgon, The Life and Behavior (2002-05, Relative Pitch) →
5. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Saadet Türköz & Anaïs Tuerlinckx, Le Chant Des Noiseuses (ScatterArchive) →
• Adrian Younge, Something About April III (Jazz Is Dead) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

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

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
3. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
4. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
5. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
6. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
7. The Westerlies, Paradise (Westerlies) →
8. Chad Taylor Quintet, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) →
9. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
10. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
3. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
4. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →

VOCAL

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) →
• Luca Curcio, La BOMBA (Boomslang) →
• Enemy, Fiend (Edition) →
• Zé Ibarra, Afim (Mr. Bongo) →
• Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
• Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, Live Spirit 1 (WMQ) →
• Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland, Himmel Over Hav (Grappa) →
• Louis Sclavis, India (Yolk) →
• Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
• Rufus Wainwright With the Pacific Jazz Orchestra, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill (Thirty Tigers) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Russ Johnson - Christian Weber - Dieter Ulrich, To Walk on Eggshells (2009, Ezz-Thetics) →
• Steve Lacy Three, Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) →
• Mickey Finn, Antiruggine (2012, Hora) →
• John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →
• John Taylor, Tramonto (2002, ECM) →

VOCAL

• Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus, Is That Jazz? (Fonterossa) →
• Esinam & Sibusile Xaba, Healing Voices (W.E.R.F.) →
• Dominique Fils-Aimé, Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival (Ensoul) →

LATIN

• Roxana Amed, Todos Los Fuegos (Sony) →
• Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil, Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) →
• Sabeth Perez, Searching for Beauty (Rogue Tone) →

DEBUT

• Emma Dayhuff, Innovations & Lineage: The Chicago Project (Division 81) →
• Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
• Nicolò Ricci, Schiacciasette (Dox) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. John O'Gallagher - Ben Monder - Andrew Cyrille - Billy Hart, Ancestral (Whirlwind) →
2. Stephane Wrembel, Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (Water Is Life) →
3. Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
4. Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
5. Christian McBride Big Band, Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) →
6. Johnny Iguana, At Delmark: Chicago-Style Solo Piano (Delmark) →
7. Jim Witzel, Very Early: Remembering Bill Evans (Joplin & Sweeney) →
8. Mike Freeman Zonavibe, Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) →
9. Seth MacFarlane, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (Verve) →
10. Carrie Jackson, Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
2. Ray Barretto Y Su Orquesta, Celia · Ray · Adalberto: Tremendo Trio! (1983, Craft) →
3. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
4. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
5. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →

VOCAL

• Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
• Seth MacFarlane, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (Verve) →
• Carrie Jackson, Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz) →
• Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra, Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) →

LATIN

• Ray Barretto Y Su Orquesta, Celia · Ray · Adalberto: Tremendo Trio! (1983, Craft) →
• Bad Bunny, Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) →
• Fuerza Regida, 111xpantia (Rancho Humilde/Street Mob/Sony Music Latin) →

DEBUT

• Adrian Galante, Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho) →
• Juan Perea, Lightkeeper (Zoho) →
• Perceptions Trio [Charley Rose - Silvan Joray - Paulo Almeida], The Wicked Crew (Sense) →

Note: Perceptions Trio is not strictly a debut album (Rose and Joray have previous, but were not well known).

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse) →
2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
3. Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
4. Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
5. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
6. Sasha Berliner, Fantôme (Outside In Music) →
7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
8. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
9. Hearts & Minds, Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) →
10. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) →
2. Mal Waldron, Candy Girl (1975, Strut) →
3. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
4. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
5. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →

VOCAL

• Sophie Dunér & Steve Beck, Stockhausen: Tierkreis/Schwartz: The Neon Pterodactyl (Urlicht) →
• Fred Moten & Brandon López, Revision (TAO Forms) →
• Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →

LATIN

• Rita Donte, Ritual (Ansonia) →
• Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos, SOL (Olindo) →
• Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, A Centennial Salute to Tito & Tito (Truth Revolution) →

DEBUT

• Laura Ann Singh, Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) →
• Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid) →
• Sonic Chambers Quartet, Kiss of the Earth (577) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) →
2. Stephane Wrembel, Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (Water Is Life) →
3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
4. Art Hirahara, Peace Unknown (Posi-Tone) →
5. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) →
6. Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
7. George Brown, Jazz in Paris (Astana Music) →
8. Tom Smith, A Year in the Life (Tom Smith) →
9. Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
10. Nicole McCabe, A Song to Sing (Colorfield) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sam Rivers, A New Conception (1966, Blue Note) →
2. Hank Mobley, Roll Call (1960, Blue Note) →
3. Wes Montgomery With the Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966, Resonance) →
4. Nina Simone, Let It All Out: Selected Singles 1961-1978 (Ace) →
5. Scandinavian Art Ensemble With Tomasz Stanko, The Copenhagen Session Vol. 2 (2016, April) →

VOCAL

• Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers, Teasing Reflections (Let Me Out) →
• Sandra-Mae Lux, Seasons in Jazz (ECN Music) →
• Kokoroko, Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood) →

LATIN

• Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois) →
• Tomás Martin López, Right Here (self-released) →

DEBUT

• Alex McLaughlin, A Brand New State (self-released) →
• Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
• Chris Smith, Jazz Grunge (Cellar Live) →

Note: Latin vote for Foto Rodríguez Y Charanga La Única, Homenaje a Pupi Legarreta (TTH) couldn't be verified, so voter took it off list.

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