Ballots 2025 Mid-Year [4]

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NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
4. John Dikeman - Sun-Mi Hong - Aaron Lumley - Marta Warelis, Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) →
5. Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) →
6. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
7. Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) →
8. Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside) →
9. Satoko Fujii This Is It!, Message (Libra) →
10. Joris Roelofs - Guus Janssen - Han Bennink, Rite of Spring (ICP) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
2. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
3. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
4. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
5. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
2. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
3. Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
4. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer - Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note '24) →
5. Sumi Tonooka & Alchemy Sound Project, Under the Surface (ARC) →
6. Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
7. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind) →
8. Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck, The Brahms Project (Heartcore) →
9. Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
10. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
2. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
3. Kyle Roussel, Church of New Orleans (self-released) →
4. Freedom Art Quartet, First Dance (self-released) →
5. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
6. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
7. Skerik - Brian Haas - James Singleton - Simon Lott, Compersion Quartet (Royal Potato Family '24) →
8. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
9. Steve Lands, Rearranging the Planets (self-released) →
10. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
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. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
5. David "Fathead" Newman - Ellis Marsalis - Cornell Dupree, Return to the Wide Open Spaces (1990, Amazing/Steady Boy) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) →
2. Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
4. Dieter Ilg Trio, Motherland (Jazzline) →
5. Marcin Masecki Trio, Monk (BMC) →
6. Marc Ribot, Map of a Blue City (New West) →
7. Julia Hülsmann Quartet, Under the Surface (ECM) →
8. Leif Berger, Secret, Normalization (Klaeng) →
9. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
10. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
2. Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) →
3. Geri Allen Trio, The Printmakers (1984, Minor Music '24) →
4. Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey, On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) →
5. Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
4. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
5. Caili O'Doherty, Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) →
6. Jim Snidero, Bird Feathers (Savant) →
7. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
8. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
9. Kneebody, Reach (GroundUP Music) →
10. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
2. Peter Bernstein, Better Angels (Smoke Sessions '24) →
3. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
4. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note '24) →
6. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi '24) →
7. Caroline Davis, Portals Vol. 2: Returning (Intakt '24) →
8. Julian Shore Trio, Sub Rosa (Chill Tone) →
9. M.T.B. [Brad Mehldau - Mark Turner - Peter Bernstein], Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz '24) →
10. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
2. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic '24) →
3. David Binney, Grains of Light (2009-13, Mythology) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
2. Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus, The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music Group) →
3. Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) →
4. Diva Jazz Orchestra, A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life (self-released) →
5. Leon Anderson, Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) →
6. Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone) →
7. Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP) →
8. Michael Buckley, Ebb and Flow (Livia) →
9. Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist, At Home (Turtle Bay) →
10. Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Louis Stewart, I Thought About You (1977, Livia) →
2. Nancy Harrow, Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1960, Candid) →
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) →

Note: Also see Best jazz of 2025 at the half way point.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
3. Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
4. Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) →
5. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
6. Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP) →
7. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
8. Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside) →
9. John Sturino, Blow Globe (Outside In Music) →
10. Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Out There (Telarc) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
2. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
3. Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (Candid) →
4. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
2. Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
4. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note) →
5. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
6. Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
7. Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band, Lumen (Prophone '24) →
8. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
9. Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) →
10. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Paul Bley Trio, Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics) →
2. Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →
3. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
4. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) →
5. Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
2. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
3. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
4. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
5. The Young Mothers, Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) →
6. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra) →
7. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
8. William Hooker, Jubilation (ORG Music) →
9. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt) →
10. Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band, What Is? (self-released) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind) →
• Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
• Peter Evans & Petter Eldh, JazzFest (More Is More) →
• GTO Trio [Gadi Levahi - Tal Mashiach - Ofri Nehemya], Within (Anzic) →
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
• Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
• Guthrie Ramsey, Race Music 21: Etudes/Grooves/Interludes (Musiqology) →
• Claudia Solal & Benjamin Moussay, Punk Moon (Jazzdor) →
• Sumi Tonooka & Alchemy Sound Project, Under the Surface (ARC) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey, On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) →
• Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
• Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) →
• Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
• Wayne Shorter, Introducing Wayne Shorter (1960, Craft) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
3. Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) →
4. Evan Parker & Bill Nace, Branches (Otoroku) →
5. Christer Bothén 3, L'Invisible (Thanatosis) →
6. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
7. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
8. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
10. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble, Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music) →
2. Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote) →
3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
4. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note) →
5. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
6. Marius Neset, Cabaret (ACT Music) →
7. Jake Hertzog, Ozark Concerto (Zoho) →
8. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
9. Knats, Knats (Gearbox) →
10. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
3. Kenny Wheeler, The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, Vol. 2 (1973-74, British Progressive Jazz) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. Wes Montgomery With the Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) →
2. John Hart, Love Is (SteepleChase '24) →
3. Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note) →
4. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind) →
5. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
6. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →
7. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) →
8. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
9. Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
10. Gilad Hekselman, Downhill From Here (La Reserve) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey, On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) →
2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
3. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
4. Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps, Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Pheeroan akLaff - Scott Robinson - Julian Thayer, aRT (ScienSonic) →
• Owen Broder, Hodges: Front and Center Vol. Two (Outside In Music '24) →
• John Ellis, Heroes (Blue Room Music) →
• Larry Goldings, I Will (Sam First) →
• Pasquale Grasso, Fervency (Masterworks) →
• Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
• Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
• Posi-Tone Swingtet, In Jazz We Trust (Posi-Tone) →
• Jamie Saft Trio, Plays Monk (Oystertones '24) →
• Triology & Scott Hamilton, The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) →
• Jeff Parker, The New Breed (2016, International Anthem) →
• Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM '24) →
• John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
2. Christer Bothén 3, L'Invisible (Thanatosis) →
3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
4. Luke Stewart Silt Rembrance Ensemble, The Order (Cuneiform) →
5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
6. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
7. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
8. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
9. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt) →
10. Sverre Sæbo Quintet, If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
3. Art Pepper, An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) →
4. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
5. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
3. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem) →
4. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
5. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
6. Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) →
7. Sasha Berliner, Fantôme (Outside In Music) →
8. Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) →
9. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
10. Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok, Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
2. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
4. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
5. Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt) →
6. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
7. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
8. Deepstaria Enigmatica, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) →
9. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
10. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt) →
4. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
5. Rob Brown, Walkabout (Mahakala Music) →
6. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
7. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
8. Brom, Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label) →
9. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
10. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Mary Halvorson Quartet, John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 1 (2019, Tzadik) →
2. Joe Henderson, Our Thing to In 'n Out Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-Thetics) →
3. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →
4. Albert Ayler Trio, Prophecy Live First Visit (1964, Ezz-Thetics) →
5. Paul Bley Trio, Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics) →

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