Ballot 2025

[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. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
4. Xhosa Cole, On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane) →
5. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
6. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
7. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
8. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
9. Joshua White, Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano (Orenda) →
10. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Miles Davis, Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →
2. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
3. Frank Zappa, Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe) →
4. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Joni Mitchell, Joni's Jazz (1968-2023, Rhino) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Theo Bleckmann, Love and Anger (Sunnyside) →
• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →

LATIN

• Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
• Los Cinco Cardones, El Quinto Cardón (Some Other Planet) →
• Mon Laferte, Femme Fatale (Sony Music Latin) →

DEBUT

• No choice.

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