The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
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:
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
- Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind)
- Sophie Agnel, Song (Relative Pitch)
- Sophie Agnel & John Butcher, Rare (Les Disques Victo)
- Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret '24)
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
- Albita & Chucho Valdés, Masters of Our Roots (InnerCat Entertainment)
- Aleph Quintet, Hiwar (Igloo)
- Eric Alexander, Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group)
- Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar)
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
- Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop)
- Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano, The Healing: Live at ZDB (European Echoes)
- Zoh Amba, Sun (Smalltown Supersound)
- Arild Andersen, Landloper (ECM '24)
- Leon Anderson, Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music)
- Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band, What Is? (self-released)
- Arashi With Takeo Moriyama, Tokuzo (Trost '24)
- Florian Arbenz - Michael Arbenz - Ron Carter, The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer)
- Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic)
- Elia Aregger Trio, Live (Unit)
- Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note)
- The Attic & Eve Risser, La Grande Crue (NoBusiness '24)
- Omer Avital, New York Now & Then (Zamzama)
- Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project, Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music)
- Kinan Azmeh and CityBand, Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido)
- Tarun Balani, ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold)
- Charlie Ballantine, East by Midwest (Origin)
- Carlos Barretto, Solo: Lonely Dog (self-released '24)
- 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)
- Peter Bernstein, Better Angels (Smoke Sessions '24)
- Emmanuel Bex, Eddy M'a Dit (PeeWee)
- Michael Bisio, NuMBq (Mahakala Music)
- Ingi Bjarni, Hope (Losen)
- Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas, The Mythstory School (self-released)
- Jasper Blom Quartet + Metropole Orkest, Metropolarity (Whirlwind)
- Jane Ira Bloom, Songs in Space (Outline)
- Anneleen Boehme, Eunoia (W.E.R.F.)
- Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences, Resta Chi Va (We Insist!)
- Christer Bothén 3, L'Invisible (Thanatosis)
- Bobby Bradford - Frode Gjerstad - William Roper - Alex Cline, Frice (Fundacja Słuchaj '24)
- Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM)
- Adrien Brandeis, Resurgence (Montondea Productions)
- Anthony Braxton, Trillium X (PMP)
- Olie Brice, All It Was (West Hill)
- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue)
- Jakob Bro Large Ensemble, New Morning (Loveland Music)
- Alan Broadbent, Threads of Time (Savant)
- Owen Broder, Hodges: Front and Center Vol. Two (Outside In Music '24)
- Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra, Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis)
- Brom, Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label)
- Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love, Butterfly Mushroom (Trost '24)
- Peter Brötzmann Trio, Hurricane (2015, Old Heaven Books)
- Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku)
- Yves Brouqui, Mean What You Say (SteepleChase)
- Rob Brown, Walkabout (Mahakala Music)
- Gary Brunton, Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace)
- Michael Buckley, Ebb and Flow (Livia)
- Frank Carlberg, Dream Machine (Red Piano)
- Nanna Carling, Melodies for Two (The End)
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid)
- Daniel Carter & Ayumi Ishito, Endless Season (577)
- Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid)
- Brighde Chaimbeul, Sunwise (Tak:til)
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite)
- Chaos Magick, Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik)
- Brian Charette, Borderless (SteepleChase)
- Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock)
- Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
- Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote)
- Chicago Jazz Orchestra, More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra)
- Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
- Laura Cocks, FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads)
- Avishai Cohen, Ashes to Gold (ECM '24)
- Xhosa Cole, On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane)
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi '24)
- Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
- Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (Candid)
- Gustavo Cortiñas, The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente)
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
- Marilyn Crispell - Thommy Andersson - Michala Østergaard-Nilsen, The Cave (ILK Music)
- 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)
- Amalie Dahl, Breaking/Building Habits (SauaJazz)
- Sylvain Darrifourcq - Manuel Hermia - Valentin Ceccaldi, Unicorn and Flexibility (Hector)
- The Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic '24)
- Stephen Davis Unit, The Gleaming World (577)
- Caroline Davis, Portals Vol. 2: Returning (Intakt '24)
- Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse)
- Dawn Patrol Jazz Band, A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released)
- Michael Dease, City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin)
- Deepstaria Enigmatica, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk)
- John Dikeman - Sun-Mi Hong - Aaron Lumley - Marta Warelis, Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch)
- Diva Jazz Orchestra, A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life (self-released)
- Michel Doneda - Lê Quan Ninh - Núria Andorrà, El Retorn De L'Escolta: A La Memòria De Marianne Brull (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released)
- David Dower Trio, Sonder (self-released)
- Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner & Alexander Kranabetter], Breath in Definition (Trost)
- Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside)
- Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt)
- Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield, Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa)
- Eclectic Maybe Band, Cosmic Light Clusters (Discus Music)
- Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic)
- Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside)
- Eight Dice Cloth, The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released)
- John Ellis, Heroes (Blue Room Music)
- Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Kuroneko)
- Signe Emmeluth - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - Axel Filip, Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch)
- The Empress, Square One (Cellar Music Group)
- Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa)
- Ensemble Shippolly, Love Shippolly (Niteco Studio & Music Arts)
- Entre Amigos, Magpie: The Music of Joe Clark (Entre Amigos)
- Esthesis Quartet, Sound & Fury (Sunnyside)
- Peter Evans & Petter Eldh, JazzFest (More Is More)
- The Ex, If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex)
- Jimmy Farace, Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm)
- Alon Farber Hagiga, Dreams | Dream (Origin)
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions)
- Paul Flaherty, A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch)
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
- Joe Fonda Quartet, Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song '24)
- Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Fundacja Słuchaj '24)
- Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside)
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
- Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski, Suite (self-released)
- Alexandre Frazão Quinteto, Quintesséncia (self-released '24)
- Freedom Art Quartet, First Dance (self-released)
- Sinsuke Fujieda Group, Fukushima (SoFa)
- Satoko Fujii Quartet, Dog Days of Summer (Libra '24)
- Satoko Fujii This Is It!, Message (Libra)
- Satoko Fujii GEN, Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra)
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra)
- Michika Fukumori, Eternity (Summit)
- Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist, At Home (Turtle Bay)
- The Fury, Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts '24)
- Elliot Galvin, The Ruin (Gearbox)
- Ganavya, Nilam (Leiter)
- Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)
- Violeta Garcia, IN/OUT (Bongo Joe)
- Renaud Garcia-Fons, Blue Maqam (Sound Surveyor Music '24)
- Bertrand Gauguet & Didier Lasserre, Mehr (Akousis/NUNC '24)
- Ben Lamar Gay, Yowzers (International Anthem)
- Macha Gharibian, Phenomenal Women (Rue Bleu Meredith)
- Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant)
- Ben Goldberg - Todd Sickafoose - Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch '24)
- Larry Goldings, I Will (Sam First)
- Phillip Golub, Loop 7 (Greyfade)
- Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok, Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams)
- Ayelet Rose Gottlieb & Dream Keepers, Dust (Corne de Brume)
- GPS, Directions + Destinations (577)
- Pasquale Grasso, Fervency (Masterworks)
- Ronny Graupe's Szelest, Newfoundland Tristesse (BMC)
- Danny Grissett, Travelogue (Savant)
- GTO Trio [Gadi Levahi - Tal Mashiach - Ofri Nehemya], Within (Anzic)
- Joy Guidry, Five Prayers (Jaid)
- Sunna Gunnlaugs, Ástin, Bjartsýnin Og Andskotans Blaðrið Í Fólkinu (Sunny Sky '24)
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart)
- Noah Haidu, Standards III (Sunnyside)
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay)
- Hanging Hearts, Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope)
- Happy Family, 4037 (Cuneiform)
- Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
- John Hart, Love Is (SteepleChase '24)
- Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt)
- Phil Haynes, Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz)
- Hearts & Minds, Illuminescence (Astral Spirits)
- Gilad Hekselman, Downhill From Here (La Reserve)
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
- Nick Hempton & Cory Weeds, Horns Locked (Cellar Music Group)
- Felix Henkelhausen Quintet, The Excruciating Pain of Boredom (self-released)
- Arve Henriksen - Trygve Seim - Andmers Jormin - Markku Ounaskari, Arcanum (ECM)
- Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM)
- Jake Hertzog, Ozark Concerto (Zoho)
- Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers, Gifts (Enja)
- Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Out There (Telarc)
- History Dog, Root Systems (Otherly Love)
- Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Live in NYC (Sony)
- James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel, The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community)
- Sun-Mi Hong, Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition)
- William Hooker, Jubilation (ORG Music)
- Julia Hülsmann Quartet, Under the Surface (ECM)
- Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound)
- Luis Ianes & Noël Akchoté, Seuil (self-released)
- Dieter Ilg Trio, Motherland (Jazzline)
- Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast)
- Ayumi Ishito, Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577)
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
- Ashley Jackson, Take Me to the Water (Decca)
- Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni, Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto '24)
- Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch)
- Naissam Jalal, Souffles (Les Couleurs Du Son)
- Jane in Ether, Oneiric (Confront)
- Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
- Kazzrie Jaxen & Don Messina, The Dance (New Artists)
- Eunhye Jeong & Michael Bisio, Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk)
- Rodney Jordan, Memphis Blue (Baxter Music)
- Juno 3 [Han-earl Park - Lara Jones - Pat Thomas], Proxemics (Buster and Friends)
- Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music)
- Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil, Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side)
- 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)
- 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)
- Guy Klucevsek & Volker Goetze, Little Big Top (Motéma '24)
- Knats, Knats (Gearbox)
- Kneebody, Reach (GroundUP Music)
- Charlie Kohlhase's Explorerer Club, A Second Life (Mandorla Music)
- Masayo Koketsu, Nyoinbo - Zenbu Nagareboshi No Sei (Somethin' Cool)
- Malakoff Kowalski, Songs With Words (Sony)
- Kristoff K.Roll, Les Ombres De La Nuit (Mazeto Square)
- Alexey Kruglov, Transfiguration 100 Duos (Solyd)
- Joachim Kühn, Échappée (Intakt)
- Jim Kweskin, Doing Things Right (Jalopy)
- Hélène Labarrière, Puzzle (Jazzdor)
- Mathias Landæus - Nina de Heney - Kresten Osgood, Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR)
- Steve Lands, Rearranging the Planets (self-released)
- Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
- José Lencastre & Flak, Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit)
- 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)
- Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem)
- Longnon Big Band, Istanbounce (Continuo Jazz)
- Brandon Lopez, Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch)
- Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Syzygy Vol. 1 (577)
- Rocio Giménez López - Franco Di Renzo - Luciano Ruggieri, La Forma Del Sueño (Blue Art)
- David Lord, Forest Standards Vol. 4 (Big Ego '24)
- Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM)
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk '24)
- Joe Magnarelli, Concord (SteepleChase)
- Emi Makabe, Echo (Sunnyside)
- Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, A Story Left Untold (Roomspin)
- Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer (MarKeez)
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
- Maruja, Tír Na Nóg (Music for Nations)
- Marcin Masecki Trio, Monk (BMC)
- Janette Mason, ReWired (JMMusic)
- Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus)
- Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri)
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks)
- The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, Mixed Bag (Summit)
- Alex McLaughlin, A Brand New State (self-released)
- Joe McPhee, I'm Just Sayin' (Smalltown Supersound)
- Brad Mehldau, Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
- 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)
- Camila Meza, Portal (GroundUP Music)
- Pasquale Mirra & Hamid Drake, Lhasa (Parco Della Musica)
- Matt Mitchell, Sacrosancticity (Obliquity)
- Roscoe Mitchell, Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive)
- Billy Mohler, The Eternal (Contagious Music)
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon)
- Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos, SOL (Olindo)
- Morley, Follow the Sound (self-released '24)
- Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk)
- Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit)
- Leszek Możdżer - Lars Danielsson - Zohar Fresco, Beamo (ACT Music)
- M.T.B. [Brad Mehldau - Mark Turner - Peter Bernstein], Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz '24)
- Muddy Gurdy, Seven (Buda Musique '24)
- Mu Quintet, Enos (Jazz Aggression)
- David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
- Qasim Naqvi, Endling (Erased Tapes)
- Camila Nebbia, Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila)
- Camila Nebbia - Dietrich Eichmann - John Hughes - Jeff Arnal, Chrononaux (Generate '24)
- Camila Nebbia - Kit Downes - Andrew Lisle, Exhaust (Relative Pitch)
- Steve Nelson - Joris Teepe - Eric Ineke, A Common Language (Daybreak)
- Marius Neset, Cabaret (ACT Music)
- Jef Neve & Teus Nobel, Esho Funi (Blue Keys Productions)
- New Origin, The Poet's Walk (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- The New York Second, Room for Other People (self-released '24)
- Maggie Nichols & Geoff Eales, Beautiful Love (33 Jazz)
- Angelika Niescier - Sakina Abdou - Bruno Angelini, Lotus Flowers (Abalone)
- Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars, Turn Thy Loose (PNL)
- Nordkraft Big Band - Remy Le Boeuf - Danielle Wertz, Silent Course (Gateway Music)
- Eva Novoa, Novoa - Kamaguchi - Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577)
- Larry Ochs - Joe Morris - Charles Downs, Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk)
- 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)
- Okonski, Entrance Music (Colemine)
- Iúri Oliveira, Manifesto (Respirar De Ouvido)
- Organic Pulse Ensemble, Ad Hoc (Ultraääni '24)
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer - Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note '24)
- Ed Palermo Big Band, Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Agea (Sky Cat)
- Evan Parker & Jean-Marc Foussat, Insolence (Nashazphone)
- Evan Parker & Bill Nace, Branches (Otoroku)
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem '24)
- Bruno Parrinha - Carlos "Zingaro" - Fred Lonberg-Holm - João Madeira, Enleiro (4DaRecord)
- John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
- Alex Paxton, Delicious (New Amsterdam)
- Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote)
- Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
- Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band, Lumen (Prophone '24)
- Sabeth Perez, Searching for Beauty (Rogue Tone)
- Phantom Honeymoon, Interstellar Underpass (MechaBenzaiten)
- Zoe Pia & Mats Gustafsson, Rite (Parco Della Musica)
- Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Sextet (Reva)
- Memet Polat Quartet, Roots in Motion (Aftab)
- Posi-Tone Swingtet, In Jazz We Trust (Posi-Tone)
- Potsa Lotsa XL, Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East)
- Premazzi Nasser Quartet, From What I Recall (OA2)
- Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone)
- The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope)
- Ra Bishop [Avreeayl Ra & Jeb Bishop], Of the Essence (Amalgam)
- Shez Raja, Spellbound (Raja)
- Guthrie Ramsey, Race Music 21: Etudes/Grooves/Interludes (Musiqology)
- Andrew Rathbun, Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase)
- Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note)
- Eric Scott Reed, Out Late (Smoke Sessions)
- Remedy [Thomas Heberer - Joe Fonda - Joe Hertenstein], Hipp Hipp Hooray: Celebrating the Centennial of Jutta Hipp (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Anaïs Reno, Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club44)
- Resavoir & Matt Gold, Horizon (International Anthem)
- Marc Ribot, Map of a Blue City (New West)
- Diego Rivera, West Circle (Posi-Tone)
- Pheeroan akLaff - Scott Robinson - Julian Thayer, aRT (ScienSonic)
- Joris Roelofs - Guus Janssen - Han Bennink, Rite of Spring (ICP)
- Charlie Rose - Silvan Joray - Paulo Almeida, Perceptions Trio: The Wicked Crew (Sense)
- Ted Rosenthal Trio, High Standards (TMR Music)
- Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck, The Brahms Project (Heartcore)
- Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions '24)
- Kyle Roussel, Church of New Orleans (self-released)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion)
- Toms Rudzinskis, Interception (Jersika '24)
- Sverre Sæbo Quintet, If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz)
- Jamie Saft Trio, Plays Monk (Oystertones '24)
- Salin, Rammana (Salin)
- Felipe Salles, Camera Obscura (Tapestry)
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete)
- Michael Sarian, Esquina (Greenleaf Music)
- Masahiko Satoh & Roger Turner, AOI (Chap Chap)
- Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist, Framåt! (Grong)
- Stefan Schultze - Peter Ehwald - Tom Rainey, Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Jacques Schwarz-Bart & Gregory Privat, 22 (Buddham)
- Yukari Sekiya, Duets Till Now, From Here (Umishima)
- Altin Sencalar, Unleashed (Posi-Tone)
- Dave Sewelson - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - George Cartwright - Anthony Cox - Steve Hirsh, Murmuration (Mahakala Music)
- Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu)
- Brad Shepik, Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm '24)
- Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)
- Julian Shore Trio, Sub Rosa (Chill Tone)
- Yotam Silberstein, Standards Vol. 2 (Jojo)
- Alex Sipiagin, Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz)
- Harri Sjöström, SoundScapes #4 Festival Berlin 2023 (Fundacja Słuchaj)
- Skerik - Brian Haas - James Singleton - Simon Lott, Compersion Quartet (Royal Potato Family '24)
- Skullcap, Snakes of Albuquerque (Cuneiform)
- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Sloth Racket, Ten Years of Live Sloths (Luminous Label)
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note '24)
- Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love)
- Jim Snidero, Bird Feathers (Savant)
- Snowpoet, Heartstrings (Edition)
- Claudia Solal & Benjamin Moussay, Punk Moon (Jazzdor)
- Mark Solborg, Tungemål: Confluencia (ILK Music)
- Something Blue, In the Beginning (Posi-Tone)
- Sons of Ra, Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound)
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi '24)
- Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music)
- Simon Spang-Hanssen, Turtle Talk (Spangster)
- Spindrift [Frank Paul Schubert - Dieter Manderscheid - Martin Blume], Trio Studies (Jazz Haus Musik)
- Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP)
- Moe Staiano, Away Towards the Light (Edgetone '24)
- Stef.in, Icterus II (Barnyard)
- Elias Stemeseder - Christian Lillinger - Craig Taborn, Umbra III: Live Setting (Intakt)
- Dayna Stephens, Hopium (Contagious Music)
- Quinn Sternberg, Pleasant Returns (Mind Beach)
- Sultan Stevenson, El Roi (Edition)
- Bill Stewart Trio, Live at the Village Vanguard (Criss Cross Jazz)
- Luke Stewart Silt Rembrance Ensemble, The Order (Cuneiform)
- Eric St-Laurent, El Choclo (Kazenmuzik)
- John Sturino, Blow Globe (Outside In Music)
- Ray Suhy & Lewis Porter Quartet, What Happens Next (Sunnyside)
- Kevin Sun, Lofi at Lowlands (Endectomorph Music)
- Sun & Rain, Waterfall (Out of Your Head)
- Aki Takase - Daniel Erdmann - Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Tanto (Innocent)
- Claude Tchamitchian Quartet, Vortice (Emouvance)
- TGB, Room 4 (Clean Feed '24)
- Stephan Thelen, Worlds in Collision (RareNoise)
- Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project, Mi Hogar II (self-released)
- Omar Thomas Large Ensemble, Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music)
- Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku '24)
- Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt)
- 3 Cohens & WDR Big Band, Interaction (Anzic)
- Three Layer Cake, Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love)
- Joona Toivanen Trio, Gravity (We Jazz)
- Sumi Tonooka & Alchemy Sound Project, Under the Surface (ARC)
- Treverket, Et Bedre Sted (Eget Selskap)
- Trio Glossia, Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions)
- Triology & Scott Hamilton, The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group)
- Tropos, Switches (Endectomorph Music)
- Ryan Truesdell, Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music)
- Gregory Uhlmann - Josh Johnson - Sam Wilkes, Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes (International Anthem)
- Unity Quartet [Helio Alves - Guilherme Monteiro - Gili Lopes - Alex Kautz], Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside)
- Uroboro, As in an Unpicking of Time's Garment (Discus Music '24)
- Jordan VanHemert, Survival of the Fittest (Origin)
- Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band, Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay)
- Kamasi Washington, Lazarus (Sony Music)
- WDR Big Band, Bluegrass (MCG Jazz)
- Anna Webber, Simpletrio2000 (Intakt '24)
- Tom Weeks, Paranoid II (Wolfsblood)
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
- Matthew Welch & Dan Plonsey, Eudimorphodon (Kotekan)
- Rodney Whitaker, Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin)
- Tobias Wiklund, Inner Flight Music (Stunt)
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note '24)
- Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus, The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music Group)
- Sarah Wilson, Incandescence (Brass Tonic)
- Eli Winter, A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed)
- 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)
- Tal Yahalom, Mirror Image (Adhyâropa)
- Jeong Lim Yang, Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
- Savina Yannatou Primavera en Salonico and Larnia Bedioui, Watersong (ECM)
- Raed Yassin, Phantom Orchestra (Morphine)
- Otomo Yoshihide, Plays Christian Marclay (Little Stone)
- Adrian Younge, Something About April III (Jazz Is Dead)
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
- The Young Mothers, Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions)
- Denny Zeitlin, With a Song in My Heart (Sunnyside)
- Meryl Zimmerman, Easy to Love (self-released '24)
- Carlos "Zingaro" - Flo Stoffner - Fred Lonberg-Holm - João Madeira, Na Parede (4DaRecord)
- Carlos Zingaro - João Madeira - Sofia Borges, Trizmaris (4DaRecord '24)
- John Zorn, New Masada Quartet, Volume 3: Live at Roulette (Tzadik '24)
- Benjamin Lackner, Spindrift (ECM)
- Marina Džukljev - Christian Weber - Michael Griener, Industrielsalon (Trouble in the East)
- Andy Biskin - Peter Hess - Mike McGinniss - Sam Sadigursky, Reed Basket ()
Album count: 441.