Ballots 2025 Mid-Year [5]

[Acquaro - Collins] · [Considine - Geiken] · [Gottschalk - Kenny] · [Koblin - Niland] · [Orlov - Stein] · [Sullivan - Yokoi]

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Qasim Naqvi, Endling (Erased Tapes) →
• James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel, The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) →
• Eli Winter, A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed) →
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
• The Young Mothers, Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) →
• Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski, Suite (self-released) →
• Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
• Daniel Carter & Ayumi Ishito, Endless Season (577) →
• Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas, The Mythstory School (self-released) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Tony Allen & La Bogotá Orquesta Afrobeat, La BOA Meets Tony Allen (2011, Comet) →
• Edison Machado & Boa Nova (1978, Far Out) →
• Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Organic Pulse Ensemble, Ad Hoc (Ultraääni '24) →
2. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
3. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
4. William Hooker, Jubilation (ORG Music) →
5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
6. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
7. Zoh Amba, Sun (Smalltown Supersound) →
8. Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas, The Mythstory School (self-released) →
9. Trio Glossia, Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) →
10. Rocio Giménez López - Franco Di Renzo - Luciano Ruggieri, La Forma Del Sueño (Blue Art) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Marco Eneidi Quartet, Wheat Fields of Kleyehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) →
2. William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) →
3. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band, Lumen (Prophone '24) →
• Alex Sipiagin, Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz) →
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
• Pheeroan akLaff - Scott Robinson - Julian Thayer, aRT (ScienSonic) →
• Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
• Bill Stewart Trio, Live at the Village Vanguard (Criss Cross Jazz) →
• Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer (MarKeez) →
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
• Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) →
• Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
• Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
• Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
• Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions (1953-57, Mosaic '24) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• Larry Goldings, I Will (Sam First) →
• Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
• Esthesis Quartet, Sound & Fury (Sunnyside) →
• John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
• Rodney Whitaker, Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) →
• Brian Charette, Borderless (SteepleChase) →
• Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
• Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) →
• Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →
• Andrew Hill, Grass Roots (1968, Blue Note) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Kinan Azmeh and CityBand, Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) →
• Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
• Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa) →
• Phillip Golub, Loop 7 (Greyfade) →
• Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic) →
• Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
• Phantom Honeymoon, Interstellar Underpass (MechaBenzaiten) →
• Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone) →
• Stef.in, Icterus II (Barnyard) →
• Tal Yahalom, Mirror Image (Adhyâropa) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
2. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
3. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
4. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
6. Tropos, Switches (Endectomorph Music) →
7. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
8. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
9. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
10. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
3. Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →
4. Misha Mengelberg & Sabu Toyozumi, The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness) →
5. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
2. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
3. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
5. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
6. Jeong Lim Yang, Synchronicity (Sunnyside) →
7. Ray Suhy & Lewis Porter Quartet, What Happens Next (Sunnyside) →
8. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
9. Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
10. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
3. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
5. Sarah Wilson, Incandescence (Brass Tonic) →
6. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve) →
7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
8. Guy Klucevsek & Volker Goetze, Little Big Top (Motéma '24) →
9. Ben Goldberg - Todd Sickafoose - Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch '24) →
10. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
2. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
3. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem) →
2. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
3. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
4. Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) →
5. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind) →
6. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
7. Skullcap, Snakes of Albuquerque (Cuneiform) →
8. The Fury, Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts '24) →
9. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
10. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
• Ashley Jackson, Take Me to the Water (Decca) →
• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
• Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Out There (Telarc) →
• Janette Mason, ReWired (JMMusic) →
• Macha Gharibian, Phenomenal Women (Rue Bleu Meredith) →
• Shez Raja, Spellbound (Raja) →
• Sultan Stevenson, El Roi (Edition) →
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire) →
• Celia Cruz & Willie Colón, Celia Y Willie (1981, Craft) →
• Dexter Gordon, Our Man in Paris (1963, Blue Note) →
• Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Satoko Fujii GEN, Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra) →
• Masayo Koketsu, Nyoinbo - Zenbu Nagareboshi No Sei (Somethin' Cool) →
• Melodies, Melodies (Ammonite Musique) →
• Yukari Sekiya, Duets Till Now, From Here (Umishima) →
• Ensemble Shippolly, Love Shippolly (Niteco Studio & Music Arts) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Toshiyuki Sekine Trio, Strode Rode (1978, Craftman) →
• Masayuki Takayanagi, Holy Holy (1985, Jinya Disc) →
• Masayuki Takayanagi, Stardust (1979, Jinya Disc) →

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. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
5. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
6. Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk) →
7. Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch) →
8. Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) →
9. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
10. Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
3. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
4. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
5. Sun Ra, Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
2. Sophie Agnel & John Butcher, Rare (Les Disques Victo) →
3. Joe McPhee, I'm Just Sayin' (Smalltown Supersound) →
4. Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner & Alexander Kranabetter], Breath in Definition (Trost) →
5. Evan Parker & Bill Nace, Branches (Otoroku) →
6. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
8. Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love, Butterfly Mushroom (Trost '24) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
2. Larry Stabbins - Keith Tippett - Louis Moholo-Moholo, Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
2. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
3. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
4. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
6. Eric Scott Reed, Out Late (Smoke Sessions) →
7. Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil, Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) →
8. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
9. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
10. Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
2. Art Pepper, An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) →
3. Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey, On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) →
4. Ryan Truesdell, Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
• Sophie Agnel & John Butcher, Rare (Les Disques Victo) →
• Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi '24) →
• Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra) →
• Camila Nebbia - Kit Downes - Andrew Lisle, Exhaust (Relative Pitch) →
• Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
• Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
• Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
2. Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt) →
3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
4. Olie Brice, All It Was (West Hill) →
5. Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
6. Marilyn Crispell - Thommy Andersson - Michala Østergaard-Nilsen, The Cave (ILK Music) →
7. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
8. Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
2. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
4. Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) →
5. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
6. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
7. The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) →
8. Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
10. Resavoir & Matt Gold, Horizon (International Anthem) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) →
2. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) →
3. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
2. Ben Lamar Gay, Yowzers (International Anthem) →
3. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
4. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
5. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
6. Laura Cocks, FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads) →
7. Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) →
8. Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) →
9. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
10. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Larry Stabbins - Keith Tippett - Louis Moholo-Moholo, Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) →
2. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
3. To Live and Shave in L.A., The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (1995-2000, Palilia) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
2. Sinsuke Fujieda Group, Fukushima (SoFa) →
3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
4. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
5. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
6. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
7. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
8. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
9. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
10. Okonski, Entrance Music (Colemine) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Blackbyds, City Life (1975, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) →
2. Dexter Gordon, Landslide (1961-62, Blue Note) →
3. Art Pepper, An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) →
4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
5. Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) →

Note: Also see Sound Grammar: Francis Davis and the Best Jazz of 2025 (So Far)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
• Maggie Nichols & Geoff Eales, Beautiful Love (33 Jazz) →
• Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) →
• Zoe Pia & Mats Gustafsson, Rite (Parco Della Musica) →
• Juno 3 [Han-earl Park - Lara Jones - Pat Thomas], Proxemics (Buster and Friends) →
• Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid) →
• Luis Ianes & Noël Akchoté, Seuil (self-released) →
• David Dower Trio, Sonder (self-released) →
• Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

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