Ballots 2026 Mid-Year [2]

[Acquaro - Catarino] · [Cebulski - Finney] · [Freeman - Hoff] · [Hovan - Lorrai] · [Luen - Piccirilli] · [Pick - Varga] · [Watson - Yokoi]

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →
2. Simon Moullier, Ceiba (Simon Moullier Music) →
3. Gregory Hutchinson, Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis (Warner) →
4. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
5. Lakecia Benjamin, We Dream (Artwork) →
6. Joe Lovano, Paramount Quartet (ECM) →
7. John Beasley & SWR Big Band, Invisible Piano (O-Tone Music) →
8. Joe Magnarelli, Decidedly So (Cellar) →
9. Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
10. Julia Hülsmann Octet, While I Was Away (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
• Rob Garcia, Sizzle Works (Connection Works) →
• Alden Hellmuth, Tether (Leiter) →
• Virginia MacDonald, In Search Of . . . (Cellar) →
• Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore, Shards (Red Hook) →
• Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
• Miles Okazaki, Boomtown (Pi) →
• Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
• Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
• Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
• Ahmad Jamal, At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago (1976, Resonance) →
• Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer '25) →
• Black Nile, Indigo Garden (Hen House Studios) →
• Michael Hampton, Into the Public Domain (SMN/So '25) →
• The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Deface the Currency (Impulse!) →
• Bill Orcutt, Music in Continuous Motion (Palilalia) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Harriet Tubman & Georgia Muldrow, Electical Field of Love (Pi) →
2. Phillip Golub, Partisan Ship (Berthold) →
3. Brandon Seabrook, Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic) →
4. DoYeon Kim, Wellspring (TAO Forms) →
5. Shawn Lovato, Biotic (Endectomorph Music) →
6. Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
7. Ivo Perelman, Trifecta (Mahakala Music) →
8. Micah Thomas, Lucid (Birdwatcher) →
9. Alan Braufman, Anthem for Peace (The Control Group/Valley of Search) →
10. Jamie Saft, Rhodes Scholar (Veal/Team Love) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) →
2. Marty Ehrlich & Julius Hemphill, Circle the Heart (1982, Relative Pitch) →
3. Nels Cline & Elliott Sharp, Open the Door (1999-2007, Zoar) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Steven Bernstein/Scotty Hard, ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance (Royal Potato Family) →
• Caleb Wheeler Curtis, Ritual (Chill Tone) →
• Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →
• Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
• Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio, Ash (Attaboygirl) →
• The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Deface the Currency (Impulse!) →
• Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
• John O'Gallagher, Ancestral (Whirlwind '25) →
• The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
• Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Craig Taborn, Dream Archives (ECM) →
2. Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
3. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
4. Joe Lovano, Paramount Quartet (ECM) →
5. Marta Sanchez, For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head) →
6. The Phoenix Trio, Tomorrow Is Today (Giant Step Arts) →
7. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
8. Quinsin Nachoff, Patterns From Nature (Whirlwind) →
9. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
10. Cécile McLorin Salvant, With Every Breath I Take (Nonesuch) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch, Feebles, Fables and Ferns (1988, ECM) →
2. Oscar Peterson, The Classic Oscar Peterson Trio Sessions With Ray Brown & Ed Thigpen (1959-65, Mosaic) →
3. Anthony Braxton, Six Monk's Compositions (1987) (Black Saint) →
4. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
5. Mal Waldron, Stardust & Starlight: At the Jazz Showcase (1979, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Steven Bernstein/Scotty Hard, ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance (Royal Potato Family) →
• Christopher Dammann, Dead Words (Shifting Paradigm) →
• Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →
• Myra Melford & Satoko Fujii, Katarahi (RogueArt) →
• Gregory Hutchinson, Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis (Warner) →
• Per Texas Johansson, Orkester Omnitonal På Musikaliska Kvarteret (Moserobie) →
• Angelika Niescier, Chicago Tapes (Intakt) →
• Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
• Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Happy Today (International Anthem/Nonesuch) →
• Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Louis Armstrong, Reference: Hot Five & Hot Seven at 100 (1925-28, AlAy/Thingamajig) →
• Albert Ayler Quintet, Reference: Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release (AlAy/Thingamajig '25) →
• Marion Brown, Live in Europe 1968 & 1972 (NoBusiness) →
• Sunny Murray & Sabu Toyozumi, Sun's Blessings (1999, NoBusiness) →
• Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Éclats - Live in Europe (Intakt) →
2. David Janeway Trio, Live at Blue LLama (SteepleChase) →
3. Javon Jackson, Jackson Plays Dylan (Solid Jackson/Palmetto) →
4. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
5. Rich Willey, Laid Back Vol. 1 (Boptism) →
6. Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet, A Blue Time (Circle 9) →
7. Walter Smith III, Twio Vol. 2 (Blue Note) →
8. Pete Mills, This Is Now (Mighty Ernie) →
9. أحمد [Ahmed], Play Monk (Otoroku) →
10. Parlor Greens, Emeralds (Colemine) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
2. Fie Schouten - Vincent Courtois - Sofia Borges - Pierre Baux, Open Space (Relative Pitch) →
3. Christian Lillinger, Open Form for Society II (Plaist) →
4. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Wailers (European Echoes) →
5. Ivo Perelman - Matthew Shipp - William Parker - Bobby Kapp, Synesthesia (Defkaz) →
6. Art Edmaiston & Chad Fowler, Memphis Mandala (Mahakala Music) →
7. Peter Van Huffel - Rieko Okuda - Sofia Borges, Lagrangian Points (4DaRecord) →
8. Sei Miguel, Viva! (Clean Feed) →
9. Wrens, Live @ NUBLU (Out of Your Head) →
10. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Jacques Coursil, Black Suite (1971, BYG/Charly) →
2. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
3. Sun Ra, Hidden Fire (1988, Strut '25) →
4. Joe Henderson Quartets, Tetragon (1967-68, Craft) →
5. Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
2. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Happy Today (International Anthem/Nonesuch) →
3. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
4. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
5. Ben Wendel, Barcode (Edition) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
• Alan Braufman, Anthem for Peace (The Control Group/Valley of Search) →
• Simon Hanes, Gargantua (Pyroclastic) →
• DoYeon Kim, Wellspring (TAO Forms) →
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Omni (Intakt) →
• Ivo Perelman - Matthew Shipp - William Parker - Bobby Kapp, Synesthesia (Defkaz) →
• The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
• Marta Sanchez, For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head) →
• Brandon Seabrook, Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic) →
• Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Alexis Marcelo, Solo Piano (Intakt) →
2. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
3. Maria Schneider Orchestra, American Crow (ArtistShare) →
4. Jason Moran, Plays Duke Ellington (Yes) →
5. The Westerlies, Have You Heard? The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 (Westerlies) →
6. Marta Sanchez, For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head) →
7. Gregory Hutchinson, Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis (Warner) →
8. Lisa Rich, I Still Rise (Tritone) →
9. Frankfurt Radio Big Band - Nils Wogram - Jim McNeely, Trilogue + 15: A Tribute to Albert Mangelsdorff (ACT Music) →
10. Kiri Ra!, Nen (WeJazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Randy Weston, The Music of Randy Weston (1985-88, Groovin' High/In + Out) →
2. Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) →
3. Jimmy Scott, Falling in Love Is Wonderful (1963, Tangerine) →
4. Marty Ehrlich & Julius Hemphill, Circle the Heart (1982, Relative Pitch) →
5. Pierre Favre Trio, Bird Food (1968, Songs) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Martin Wind, Stars (Newvelle) →
2. John Clayton, The Two-o Duo Project (ArtistShare) →
3. Ingrid Jensen, Landings (Newvelle) →
4. Steve Wilson, Enduring Sonance (Smoke Sessions) →
5. Emmet Cohen, Universal Truth (Mack Avenue) →
6. Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Roots & Byways (Sunnyside) →
7. Joe Lovano, Paramount Quartet (ECM) →
8. Brian Lynch, Torch Bearers (Holistic MusicWorks) →
9. Virginia MacDonald, In Search Of . . . (Cellar) →
10. Tia Fuller & Shamie Fuller-Royston, Fuller Sound Vol. 2: Dynasty (Cellar) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Kenny Barron - Ray Drummond - Ben Riley, So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon (1995, Elemental Music) →
2. Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch, Feebles, Fables and Ferns (1988, ECM) →
3. Oscar Peterson, The Classic Oscar Peterson Trio Sessions With Ray Brown & Ed Thigpen (1959-65, Mosaic) →
4. Bill Evans, At the BBC (1965, Elemental Music) →
5. Yusef Lateef, Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1975, Resonance) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Omar Sosa - Joo Kraus - Diego Pinera, Vibe Factor (Music Hub) →
2. Lakecia Benjamin, We Dream (Artwork) →
3. Anthony Joseph, The Ark (Heavenly Sweetness) →
4. Shabaka, Of the Earth (Shabaka) →
5. Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore, Shards (Red Hook) →
6. Irreversible Entanglements, Future Present Past (Impulse!) →
7. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
8. Ragini Trio, 3 (W.E.R.F.) →
9. James Brandon Lewis & Lutosławski Quartet, These Are Soulful Days (2021, TAO Forms) →
10. Douglas J. Cuomo, A Raft, the Sky, the Wild Sea (Blue Cloud Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Ben Allison - Steve Cardenas - Ted Nash, Triological (Sunnyside) →
• Paulo Almeida, Love in Motion (Dox) →
• Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance '25) →
• Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of Chick Corea (Savant) →
• Willy Rodriguez, In the Unknown (I Will Find You) (Sunnyside) →
• Fie Schouten - Vincent Courtois - Sofia Borges - Pierre Baux, Open Space (Relative Pitch) →
• Lo Steele, Only a Drop (Side Hustle/Little Village) →
• Dave Stryker, Blue Fire: The Van Gelder Session (Strikezone) →
• Honoring Pat Martino, Volume 2 (HighNote) →
• WDR Big Band & John Goldsby, Big Band Bass (Bass Lion '25) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land '25) →
• John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse! '25) →
• Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM '25) →
• Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM '25) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Josh Berman Trio, Everybody Else's Life Too (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
2. Charles Downs Quartet, Inner (ESP-Disk') →
3. Daunik Lazro - Joëlle Léandre - Paul Lovens, For Baritone Sax, Double Bass & Drumset (2013, Relative Pitch) →
4. Vinny Golia Quintet, Angular Momentum (Nine Winds) →
5. Steven Bernstein/Scotty Hard, ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance (Royal Potato Family) →
6. The Phoenix Trio, Tomorrow Is Today (Giant Step Arts) →
7. Pat Thomas & XT, Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary) (We Jazz) →
8. Satoko Fujii Quartet, Burning Wick (Libra '25) →
9. Jon Irabagon, Focus Out (Irrabagast) →
10. Hilary Jeffrey, Green Prism: Music by Keith Tippett (Discus Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
2. Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity [50th Anniversary Edition] (1976, Moved-By-Sound) →
3. Marty Ehrlich & Julius Hemphill, Circle the Heart (1982, Relative Pitch) →
4. Woody Shaw, Love Dance (1976, Time Traveler) →
5. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance '25) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
2. Alabaster DePlume, Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue (International Anthem) →
3. Harriet Tubman & Georgia Muldrow, Electical Field of Love (Pi) →
4. Janel Leppin's Ensemble Volcanic Ash, Pluto in Aquarius (Cuneiform) →
5. Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier, Talamanti (Antlia) →
6. Marta Sanchez, For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head) →
7. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Happy Today (International Anthem/Nonesuch) →
8. DoYeon Kim, Wellspring (TAO Forms) →
9. Arturo Sandoval, Sangú (TM) →
10. Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →
2. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
3. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
4. Sun Ra, Do the Impossible [Original Soundtrack to the Documentary] (1957-82, Modern Harmonic) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
2. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
3. Henry Threadgill - Vijay Iyer - Dafnis Prieto, Fifteen (Nonesuch) →
4. Vera Morais, Eupnea (Porta Jazz) →
5. Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin, Memento (ECM) →
6. Mané Fernandes, sQuigg: playground_etiQuette (Porta Jazz) →
7. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
8. Gerry Hemingway, Live at Bau 4 (Hat Hut) →
9. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Wailers (European Echoes) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Art Blakey & the New Jazz Messengers, Buttercorn Lady (1966, Elemental Music) →
2. Joseph Jarman - Famoudou Don Moye - Johnny Dyani, Black Paladins (1979, Dead Currencies) →
3. Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) →
4. The Visitors [Earl & Carl Grubbs], Motherland (1975, Craft) →
5. The Oscar Peterson Trio, At Baker's Keyboard Lounge: The Complete Recordings (1960, Verve) →

Note: Rejected vote for Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, To Whom Who Buys a Record (Odin), released in 2019.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
2. Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
3. Irreversible Entanglements, Future Present Past (Impulse!) →
4. Angelika Niescier, Chicago Tapes (Intakt) →
5. Aymeric Avice - Luke Stewart - Chad Taylor, Deep in the Earth High in the Sky (RogueArt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
• Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Éclats - Live in Europe (Intakt) →
• Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →
• Chris Potter, Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition) →
• Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
• Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler) →
• Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
• Yusef Lateef, Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1975, Resonance) →
• Mal Waldron, Stardust & Starlight: At the Jazz Showcase (1979, Resonance) →

[Acquaro - Catarino] · [Cebulski - Finney] · [Freeman - Hoff] · [Hovan - Lorrai] · [Luen - Piccirilli] · [Pick - Varga] · [Watson - Yokoi]