Ballots 2026 Mid-Year [7]

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

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
2. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
3. Jason Moran, Plays Duke Ellington (Yes) →
4. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
5. Cécile McLorin Salvant, With Every Breath I Take (Nonesuch) →
6. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
7. Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →
8. The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Deface the Currency (Impulse!) →
9. Insufficient Funs, Chunk (Diatribe) →
10. Ben Wendel, Barcode (Edition) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →
2. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
3. Miles Davis, Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (1957, Decca France) →
4. Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity [50th Anniversary Edition] (1976, Moved-By-Sound) →
5. Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Christine Abdelnour - Frantz Loriot - David Meier - Pascal Niggenkemper, Et Il Y Aura . . . (Veto) →
• Philipp Eden - Frantz Loriot - Marina Tantanozi, And Raw, Lift My Eyes (Inexhaustible Editions '25) →
• Christoph Erb - Magda Mayas - Gerry Hemingway, Phyla Music (Veto '25) →
• Arkady Gotesman, Music for an Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness '25) →
• Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
• Sylvain Kassap - Steve Swell - Benjamin Duboc - Chad Taylor, Edges (RogueArt '25) →
• Alexis Marcelo, Solo Piano (Intakt) →
• Vera Morais, Eupnea (Porta Jazz) →
• Camila Nebbia - James Banner - Max Andrzejewski, Presencia (Ears & Eyes '25) →
• Udo Schindler & Paul Rogers, Ephemeral Essences of LowTone Studies (for Duo) (FMR '25) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow (1969, Play Loud!) →
• Derek Bailey - Evan Parker - Han Bennink, Topographie Parisienne (1981, Fou '25) →
• Marion Brown, Live in Europe 1968 & 1972 (NoBusiness) →
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance '25) →
• Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Catherine Delaunay, L'Homme Des Damps (Nato) →
2. Keyvan Chemirani, Tales of Nar (PeeWee!) →
3. Dominique Cravic Et Les Primitifs Du Futur, Les Crimes Du Musette (Buda Musique) →
4. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
5. Jean-Luc Thomas Quartet, Sillons (Hirustica) →
6. Simon Hanes, Gargantua (Pyroclastic) →
7. Luciano Biondini - Michel Godard - Lucas Niggli, Fables of Time (Intakt) →
8. Tom Raworth & Giancarlo Nino Locatelli, A Decent Run (We Insist!) →
9. E'Joung-Ju - Simon Mary - Anne-Laure Bourget, Samin Dong Rak (Label Ouest) →
10. Jean Derome & Somebody Special, Le Sourire (Ambiances Magnétiques) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Either/Orchestra, Nalbandian L'Ethiopien [Éthiopiques 32] (2011, Buda Musique '25) →
2. Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, Vol. 1: Concert À Prades-Le-Lez (1974, Souffle Continu) →
3. Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) →
4. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
5. Bill Evans, At the BBC (1965, Elemental Music) →

Note: Voter only specified Vol. 1 of Intercommunal Free Dance Orchestra, Concert À Prades-Le-Lez.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Aaron Shaw, And So It Is (Leaving) →
2. Virginia MacDonald, In Search Of . . . (Cellar) →
3. Tyrone Allen II, Upward (Dreams and Fears) →
4. Craig Taborn, Dream Archives (ECM) →
5. Hugo Fernandez, Rivermind (self-released) →
6. Corcoran Holt, Freedom of Art (Holt House Music) →
7. Leo Genovese, Solo Brooklyn (577) →
8. Angelika Niescier, Chicago Tapes (Intakt) →
9. John Beasley & SWR Big Band, Invisible Piano (O-Tone Music) →
10. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye III+ (Uniquity Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Randy Weston, The Music of Randy Weston (1985-88, Groovin' High/In + Out) →
2. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
3. Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) →
4. Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler) →
5. Duke Ellington, Copenhagen 1964 (Storyville) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Chris Potter, Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition) →
2. أحمد [Ahmed], Play Monk (Otoroku) →
3. Maria Schneider Orchestra, American Crow (ArtistShare) →
4. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
5. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
6. Elias Stemeseder & Thomas Morgan, Io Pur Respiro (Squama) →
7. Karsten Vogel, Late Night Ballads (Storyville) →
8. Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere, Theta Seven (Discus Music) →
9. Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore, Shards (Red Hook) →
10. Julia Hülsmann Octet, While I Was Away (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow (1969, Play Loud!) →
2. Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (Columbia/Legacy) →
3. Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me: 1959 Live at the Cellar (Omnivore) →
4. Kenny Wheeler Sextet, What Was (1995, False Walls) →
5. Keith Tippett, At the BBC 1969-70 (Rhythm and Blues) →

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head) →
2. Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →
3. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
4. Harry Skoler, Echoes (Red Brick Hill) →
5. Brandon Seabrook, Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic) →
6. Melissa Aldana, Filin (Blue Note) →
7. Udeigwe, Four Lemmas (LU Factors) →
8. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
9. Yelena Eckemoff, Rosendals Garden (L+H Production) →
10. Joshua Achiron, Climbing (Calligram) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

• No choice.

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• John Butcher, Away, I Was (Relative Pitch) →
• Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Éclats - Live in Europe (Intakt) →
• Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
• Gerry Hemingway, Live at Bau 4 (Hat Hut) →
• Joe Lovano, Paramount Quartet (ECM) →
• Myra Melford & Satoko Fujii, Katarahi (RogueArt) →
• Angelika Niescier, Chicago Tapes (Intakt) →
• Shoko Numao, The Siwnin Sails (Elsewhere '25) →
• Orchestre National De Jazz, With Carla (ONJ) →
• Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

• Pierre Favre & Andrea Centazzo, Endless Dialogues 1977 & 2024: The Complete Sessions (Ictus) →
• Barre Phillips & György Kurtág Jr., Togetherness (2014, BMC) →
• Miroslav Vitous, Mountain Call (2003-10, ECM) →

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