Music Year 2024

Of course, it's too early for a year-end list. But as the proto-fascist organization of my youth insisted, one should always be prepared. For records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed or streamed. Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a "-NN" (e.g., -23 for 2023) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases, often hard to figure out official dates, but they were either December 2020 releases or unknown (to me, at least) before the current year.

I keep adding to the 2023 until the end of calendar 2024, especially where the record was known to exist in 2023 and I'm just getting around to it.

New Records

A
  1. Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms, 2CD)
  2. Heems & Lapgan: Lafandar (Veena Sounds) **
  3. Kate Nash: 9 Sad Symphonies (Kill Rock Stars) **
  4. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 2 (ESP-Disk, 2CD)
A-
  1. Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch) **
  2. Emmeluth's Amoeba: Nonsense (Moserobie)
  3. Luke Stewart Silt Trio: Unknown Rivers (Pi)
  4. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: Louis Armstrong's America Volume 1 (ESP-Disk, 2CD)
  5. Floating Points: Cascade (Ninja Tune) **
  6. Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness (B2B/Virgin) **
  7. Fox Green: Light Over Darkness (self-released) *
  8. Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless (Parlophone) **
  9. Darius Jones: Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  10. The Paranoid Style: The Interrogator (Bar/None) **
  11. Ballister: Smash and Grab (Aerophonic)
  12. Dave Douglas: Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
  13. Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown (Domino) **
  14. Kali Uchis: Orquídeas (Geffen) **
  15. The Core: Roots (Moserobie)
  16. Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism (Warner) **
  17. James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Transfiguration (Intakt) **
  18. Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da (Domino) **
  19. Roby Glod/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: No ToXiC (Nemu)
  20. Ivo Perelman Quartet: Water Music (RogueArt) *
  21. Mike Monford: The Cloth I'm Cut From (self-released)
  22. Matt Wilson: Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto)
  23. أحمد [Ahmed]: Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) **
  24. ØKSE: ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  25. Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Joshua Abrams/Tyler Damon: Propulsion (Aerophonic)
  26. Advancing on a Wild Pitch: Disasters, Vol. 2 (Hot Cup) **
  27. Jae Skeese & Superior: Testament of the Times (RRC Music/BarsOverBs) **
  28. Walter Smith III: Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) **
  29. Dan Weiss: Even Odds (Cygnus)
  30. QOW Trio: The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music) **
  31. Ivo Perelman/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj) **>
  32. Queen Esther: Things Are Looking Up (EL)
  33. Thomas Anderson: Hello, I'm From the Future (Out There) **
  34. LL Cool J: The FORCE (Def Jam) **
  35. Dave Rempis/Pandelis Karayorgis/Jakob Heinemann/Bill Harris: Truss (Aerophonic/Drift)
  36. Jim Snidero: For All We Know (Savant)
  37. Julia Vari Feat. Negroni's Trio: Somos (Alternative Representa)
  38. Chris Potter/Brad Mehldau/John Patitucci/Brian Blade: Eagle's Point (Edition) **
  39. Kim Gordon: The Collective (Matador) **
  40. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) **
  41. Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack (Interscope) **
  42. Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department (Republic) **
  43. Bob Vylan: Humble as the Sun (Ghost Theatre) **
  44. Laurie Anderson: Amelia (Nonesuch) **
  45. David Murray Quartet: Francesca (Intakt) **
  46. Willie Nelson: The Border (Legacy) **
  47. Matthew Shipp Trio: New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  48. Kneecap: Fine Art (Heavenly) **
  49. Rich Halley 4: Dusk and Dawn (Pine Eagle)
  50. Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson (self-released)
  51. Houston Person/Peter Beets: Live in Holland: Houston Person Meets Peter Beets Trio (Maxanter) **
  52. Four + Six: Four + Six (Jazz Hang)
  53. Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) **
  54. Ivanna Cuesta: A Letter to the Earth (Orenda) **
  55. Idit Shner & Mhondoro: Ngatibatanei [Let Us Unite!] (OA2)
  56. 1010benja: Ten Total (Three Six Zero) **
  57. Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics) **
  58. Kirk Knuffke: Super Blonde (SteepleChase) **
  59. Claudio Scolari Project: Intermission (Principal)
  60. Ivo Perelman/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez: Interaction (Ibeji Music) **
  61. Nia Archives: Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island) **
  62. Manu Chao: Viva Tu (Because Music) **
  63. Roberto Ottaviano: Lacy in the Sky With Diamonds (Clean Feed) **
  64. Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club: A Second Life (Mandorla Music) **
  65. أحمد [Ahmed]: Giant Beauty (Fönstret, 5CD) **
  66. Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird)
  67. Jamie xx: In Waves (Young) **
  68. Miguel Zenón: Golden City (Miel Music)
  69. John Surman: Words Unspoken (ECM) **
  70. Maggie Rogers: Don't Forget Me (Capitol) **
  71. Melissa Carper: Borned in Ya (Mae Music) **
  72. William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake: Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity)
  73. Kenny Barron: Beyond This Place (Artwork) **
  74. Catherine Russell/Sean Mason: My Ideal (Dot Time)
  75. Dafnis Prieto Sí o Sï Quartet: 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music)
  76. Joel Ross: Nublues (Blue Note) **
  77. Madi Diaz: Weird Faith (Anti-) **
  78. Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (Arabesque)
  79. Tomeka Reid Quartet: 3+3 (Cuneiform) **
  80. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore: TexiCali (Yep Roc) **
  81. Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  82. Alfredo Colón: Blood Burden (Out of Your Head)
  83. Miranda Lambert: Postcards From Texas (Republic Nashville) **
  84. Serengeti: KDIV (Othar) **
  85. Albert Beger/Ziv Taubenfeld/Shay Hazan/Hamid Drake: Cosmic Waves (No Business)
  86. اسم ISM [Pat Thomas/Joel Grip/Antonin Gerbal]: Maua (577) **
  87. Welf Dorr/Elias Meister/Dmitry Ishenko/Kenny Wollesen: So Far So Good (self-released) [**]
  88. Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (Interscope) **
  89. The Attic & Eve Risser: La Grande Crue (NoBusiness)
  90. Amy Rigby: Hang in There With Me (Tapete) **
  91. Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well (MCA Nashville) **
  92. Julieta Eugenio: Stay (Cristalyn)
  93. Javon Jackson/Nikki Giovanni: Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto)
  94. Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Radio Afloat (In a Circle)
  95. Coco & Clair Clair: Girl (Nice Girl World, EP) **
  96. Samo Salamon/Vasil Hadzimanov/Ra-Kalam Bob Moses: Dances of Freedom (Samo)
  97. Nicole Glover: Plays (Savant) **
  98. Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako Chicago Sound System (FPE) **
  99. Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center, Vol. Two (Outside In Music)
  100. Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers (Playscape)
  101. Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape)
  102. Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat (Anti-) **
  103. Nacka Forum: Peaceful Piano (Moserobie)
  104. Lyrics Born: Goodbye, Sticky Rice (Mobile Home) **
  105. Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Crescent City Jewels (Troubadour Jass)
  106. Beholder Quartet: Suspension of Disbelief (Sachimay) **
  107. Beings: There Is a Garden (No Quarter) **
  108. Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound)
  109. Chris Smither: All About the Bones (Signature Sounds) **
  110. Maria Faust Jazz Catastrophe: 3rd Mutation: Moth (Bush Flash) **
  111. Gilbert Holmström: Peak (Moserobie)
  112. Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora (Soft Launch)
  113. Hinds: Viva Hinds (Lucky Number) **
  114. Tucker Zimmerman: Dance of Love (4AD) **
  115. Ive: Ive Switch (Starship Entertainment, EP) **
  116. Hermanos Gutiérrez: Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye Sound) **
  117. Sprints: Letter to Self (City Slang) **
  118. Beabadoobee: This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit) **
  119. Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Four Guitars Live (Palilalia) **
  120. Morgan Wade: Obsessed (Ladylike/RCA Nashville) **
  121. William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting: Pulsar (NoBusiness)
  122. Ernesto Rodrigues/Bruno Parinha/João Madeira: Into the Wood (Creative Sources)
  123. Mathias Højgaard Jensen: Is as Is (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  124. Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place (Mercer Hassy)
  125. I Am Three: In Other Words (Leo) **

Pending:

Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded (sorted by artist, or release date if future). Those marked ** are downloads in hand.

  • Andy Haas: For the Time, Being (Resonant Music) []
  • Laird Jackson: Life (self-released) []
  • Big Bambi: Compositions for Bass Guitar & Bassoon, Vol. I (ESP-Disk) [09-27]
  • Lemadi Trio: Canonical Discourse (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
  • Tonus: Analog Deviation (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
  • Transition Unit: Fade Value (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
  • Martina Verhoeven Quintet: Indicator Light (Live at Paradox 2023) (A New Wave of Jazz Axis) [10-15]
  • Kevin Sun: Quartets (Endectomorph Music, 2CD) [10-18]
  • Ashtyn Barbaree: Sent Through the Ceiling (Artists 3 60) [10-25]
  • Steve Coleman and Five Elements: PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) [10-25]
  • Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7 (Holistic MusicWorks) [10-25]
  • Western Jazz Collective: The Music of Andrew Rathbun (Origin) [10-25]
  • Andy Wheelock/Whee 3 Trio: In the Wheelhouse (OA2) [10-25]
  • Rebecca Kilgore: A Little Taste: A Tribute to Dave Frishberg (Cherry Pie Music) [10-28]
  • Caleb Wheeler Curtis: The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani, 2CD) [11-01]
  • Friso van Wijck: Friso van Wijck's Candy Container (TryTone) [11-01]
  • Day Dream: Duke & Strays Live: Works by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Corner Store Jazz, 2CD) [11-08]
  • Peter Lenz: Breathe: Music for Large Ensembles (GambsART) [11-08]
  • Joe Fonda Quartet: Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song) [11-15]
  • Hayoung Lyou: The Myth of Katabasis (Endectomorph Music) [11-15]
  • Reut Regev's R*Time: It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk) [11-15]
  • Sara Serpa: Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) [11-15]
  • David Friesen: A Light Shining Through (Origin) [11-22]
  • Spinifex: Undrilling the Hole (TryTone) [11-22]

Also Noted:

Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in alphabetical order within grade slots:

B+(***)
  • Acceleration Due to Gravity: Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup, EP)
  • Nick Adema: Urban Chaos (ZenneZ)
  • Arooj Aftab: Night Reign (Verve) **
  • Allie X: Girl With No Face (Twin Music) **
  • Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) **
  • Gonçalo Almeida: States of Restraint (Clean Feed) **
  • Altus: Mythos (Biophilia) *
  • Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted II (Drag City) **
  • Roxana Amed: Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin)
  • Anitta: Funk Generation (Republic) **
  • Jason Anick/Jason Yeager: Sanctuary (Sunnyside)
  • Sam Anning: Earthen (Earshift Music)
  • Anycia: Princess Pop That (United Masters) **
  • Awon & Parental: Sublime (HHV) **
  • Bacchae: Next Time (Get Better) **
  • Bad Moves: Wearing Out the Refrain (Don Giovanni) **
  • Andrew Barker/William Parker/Jon Irabagon: Bakunawa (Out of Your Head) **
  • Basic: This Is Basic (No Quarter) **
  • BassDrumBone: Afternoon (Auricle)
  • Alex Beltran: Rift (Calligram)
  • Bruno Berle: No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline) **
  • Yaya Bey: Ten Fold (Big Dada) **
  • Pat Bianchi: Three (21H) **
  • Big Freedia With the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra: Live at the Orpheum Theater (Queen Diva) **
  • Black Lives: People of Earth (Jammin' Colors) **
  • Carsie Blanton: After the Revolution (self-released) **
  • Carsie Blanton: The Red Album Vol. 1 (self-released, EP) **
  • Blue Moods: Swing & Soul (Posi-Tone) **
  • Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions (Origin)
  • Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric McPherson]: Rewilder (Intakt) **
  • Geoff Bradfield: Colossal Abundance (Calligram)
  • Anthony Branker & Imagine: Songs My Mom Liked (Origin)
  • Alan Braufman: Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) **
  • The Buoys: Lustre (Sony) **
  • Isrea Butler: Congo Lament (Vegas)
  • John Cale: POPtical Illusion (Domino) **
  • Jonas Cambien: Jonas Cambien's Maca Conu (Clean Feed) **
  • Nicola Caminiti: Vivid Tales of a Blurry Self-Portrait (self-released)
  • Gerald Cannon: Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) **
  • Gunhild Carling: Jazz Is My Lifestyle! (Jazz Art)
  • Sabrina Carpenter: Short n' Sweet (Island) **
  • Kim Cass: Levs (Pi)
  • Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop: A Canadian Songbook (Three Pines) **
  • Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again (Blue Note) **
  • Charli XCX: Brat (Atlantic) **
  • Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 (43B) **
  • Rachel Chinouriri: What a Devastating Turn of Events (Elektra) **
  • The Choir Invisible [Charlotte Greve/Vinnie Sperazza/Chris Tordini]: Town of Two Faces (Intakt) **
  • Clairo: Charm (Clairo) **
  • Carl Clements: A Different Light (Greydisc)
  • Coco Chatru Quartet: Future (Trygger Music)
  • Common & Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. I (Loma Vista) **
  • Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy Chapter II: Visions of Dallas (Son of Davy) **
  • Stephan Crump: Slow Water (Papillon Sounds)
  • Amalie Dahl's Dafnie: Står Op Med Solen (Sonic Transmissions/Aguirre) **
  • Guy Davis: The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.) **
  • The Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  • Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project (Musæum Clausum)
  • Michael Dease: Found in Space: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin)
  • Devouring the Guilt: Not to Want to Say (Kettle Hole)
  • Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon (L&H Production)
  • Edition Redux: Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic '23) **
  • Ekko Astral: Pink Balloons (Topshelf) **
  • Signe Emmeluth: Banshee (Motvind) **
  • English Teacher: This Could Be Texas (Island) **
  • John Escreet: The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music)
  • Ethel & Layale Chaker: Vigil (In a Circle)
  • Etran De L'Aïr: 100% Saharan Guitar (Sahel Sounds) **
  • Jeff Evans Porkestra: Willow Pillow (self-releaed, EP) **
  • Alon Farber Hagiga With Dave Douglas: The Magician: Live in Jerusalem (Origin)
  • Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: Mestizk (International Anthem) **
  • R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap (Ruby Yacht) **
  • Sierra Ferrell: Trail of Flowers (Rounder) **
  • Nick Finzer: Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of JJ Johnson (Outside In Music) **
  • Fire!: Testament (Rune Grammofon) **
  • Delia Fischer: Beyond Bossa (Origin)
  • Flukten: Flukten (Odin) **
  • Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain) **
  • Adam Forkelid: Turning Point (Prophone)
  • Anne Foucher & Jean-Marc Foussat: Chair Ça (Fou)
  • Four Tet: Three (Text) **
  • Jean-Marc Foussat/Daunik Lazro: Trente-Cinq Minutes & Vingt-Trois Secondes (Fou)
  • Eric Frazier: That Place Featuring "Return of the Panther Woman" (EFP Productions)
  • Friends & Neighbors: Circles (Clean Feed) **
  • Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black (Libra)
  • Satoko Fujii Quartet: Dog Days of Summer (Libra)
  • Joel Futterman/William Parker: Why (Soul City Sounds) **
  • Joel Futterman: Innervoice (NoBusiness) [10-04]
  • Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band: Life Songs (Alternate Side) **
  • Frode Gjerstad Trio: Unknown Purposes (Circulasione Totale) **
  • Margaret Glaspy: The Sun Doesn't Think (ATO, EP) **
  • GloRilla: Ehhthang Ehhthang (CMG/Interscope) **
  • Ciara Grace: Write It Down (self-released) **
  • Laura Jane Grace: Hole in My Head (Polyvinyl) **
  • Gordon Grdina/Christian Lillinger: Duo Work (Attaboygirl)
  • Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: With Fathieh Honari (Attaboygirl)
  • Guillermo Gregorio: Two Trios (ESP-Disk '23)
  • Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Jim Black: Axes (We Insist!) **
  • Russell Haight: Go Forth (OA2)
  • Sahra Halgan: Hiddo Dhawr (La Région/Danaya Music) **
  • Jared Hall: Influences (Origin)
  • Sarah Hanahan: Among Giants (Blue Engine) **
  • Heems: Veena (Veena Sounds) **
  • Aaron Yale Heisler: Guitar Sketches (Toronto 2008-24) (2nd Bechet Century) **
  • Alden Hellmuth: Good Intentions (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Enrique Heredia Trio: Plays Herbie Nichols (Fresh Sound) **
  • Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig [Helveticus]: Our Way (Blaser Music) **
  • Ice Spice: Y2K! (10K/Capitol/Dolo) **
  • Shawneci Icecold/Vernon Reid/Matthew Garrison & Grant Calvin Weston: Future Prime (Underground45)
  • Ill Considered: Precipice (New Soil) **
  • Jon Irabagon Trio + One: Dinner & Dancing (Irabbagast) **
  • Vijay Iyer: Compassion (ECM) **
  • Keefe Jackson/Raoul van der Weide/Frank Rosaly: Live at de Tanker (Kettle Hole)
  • Jazz at the Ballroom: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared (Jazz at the Ballroom)
  • Jlin: Akoma (Planet Mu) **
  • Joel and the Neverending Sextet: Marbled (Motvind) **
  • J.U.S X Squadda B: 3rd Shift (Bruiser Brigade) **
  • Goran Kajfeš Tropiques: Tell Us (We Jazz) **
  • Kaytranada: Timeless (RCA) **
  • Kaze: Unwritten (Circum/Libra)
  • Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Music Is Connection (Alternate Side)
  • Izumi Kimura/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  • Anni Kiviniemi Trio: Eir (We Jazz) **
  • Jim Kweskin: Never Too Late: Duets With Friends (Storysound) **
  • Brian Landrus: Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto)
  • Matt Lavelle & the 12 Houses: The Crop Circles Suite Part One (Mahakala Music) **
  • Ellie Lee: Escape (self-released)
  • MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks (Anti-) **
  • Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future (4AD) **
  • Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) [06-28] *
  • Les Amazones d'Afrique: Musow Danse (Real World) **
  • Rosemary Loar: Vagabond Heart/Curação Vagabundo (Atlor Music)
  • Frank London/The Elders: Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk)
  • Corb Lund: El Viejo (New West) **
  • John Lurie: Painting With John (Royal Potato Family) **
  • Brady Lux: Ain't Gone So Far (6483357 DK) **
  • Mach-Hommy: #Richaxxhaitian (Mach-Hommy) **
  • The Taj Mahal Sextet: Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa (Lightning Rod) **
  • Nduduzo Makhathini: Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) **
  • Rose Mallett: Dreams Realized (Carrie-On Productions)
  • Nicole McCabe: Live at Jamboree (Fresh Sound) **
  • Ron McClure: Just Sayin' (SteepleChase) **
  • Chad McCullough: In These Hills, Beyond (Calligram)
  • Thollem McDonas: Infinite-Sum Game (ESP-Disk)
  • Eliza McLamb: Going Through It (Royal Mountain) **
  • Terence McManus: Music for Chamber Trio (Rowhouse Music)
  • Michael McNeill: Barcode Poetry (Infrasonic Press)
  • Charles McPherson: Reverence (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Megan Thee Stallion: Megan (Hot Girl) **
  • Ava Mendoza/Dave Sewelson: Of It but Not Is It (Mahakala Music) **
  • The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) **
  • Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles (Pi)
  • Mdou Moctar: Funeral for Justice (Matador) **
  • Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field (Warp) **
  • John Moreland: Visitor (Thirty Tigers) **
  • Megan Moroney: Am I Okay? (Columbia Nashville) **
  • Move: Free Baile: Live in Shenzhen (Clean Feed) **
  • Riley Mulherkar: Riley (Westerlies)
  • Mute: After You've Gone (Endectomorph Music) *
  • Simon Nabatov Quartet Feat. Ralph Alessi: Lovely Music (Clean Feed) **
  • Navy Blue: Memoirs in Armour (Freedom Sounds) **
  • The New Wonders: Steppin' Out (Turtle Bay) **
  • Michael Pagán: Paganova (Capri)
  • Fabiana Palladino: Fabiana Palladino (Paul Institute/XL) **
  • Emile Parisien Quartet: Let Them Cook (ACT) **
  • William Parker & Ellen Christi: Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity)
  • Hery Paz: River Creatures (Porta Jazz) **
  • Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (Big Machine) **
  • Ken Peplowski: Live at Mezzrow [Smalls Live Living Masters Series] (Cellar Music) **
  • Ivo Perelman/Tom Rainey: Duologues 1: Turning Point (Ibeji Music) **
  • Pest Control: Year of the Pest (Quality Control HQ, EP) **
  • Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk (Just One Recording/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Planet D Nonet: Echoes of Harlem: A Salute to Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (Eastlawn)
  • Bolis Popul: Letter to Yu (Deewee) **
  • Jonathan Powell: Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9)
  • John Primer & Bob Corritore: Crawlin' Kingsnake (VizzTone) **
  • Pylon Reenactment Society: Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones) **
  • Dave Rempis/Tashi Dorji Duo: Gnash (Aerophonic)
  • Travis Reuter: Quintet Music (self-released)
  • Revival Season: Golden Age of Self Snitching (Heavenly) **
  • Steph Richards: Power Vibe (Northern Spy) **
  • Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions (self-released)
  • Diego Rivera: With Just a Word (Posi-Tone) **
  • Moses Rockwell Featuring Plain Old Mike: Regular Henry Sessions (Hipnott) **
  • Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Discordia (Earshift Music)
  • Jeff Rupert: It Gets Better (Rupe Media)
  • Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor: A Moster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) **
  • Marta Sanchez Trio: Perpetual Void (Intakt)
  • Carla Santana/José Lencastre/Maria do Mar/Gonçalo Almeida: Defiant Ilussion (A New Wave of Jazz) **
  • Scheen Jazzorkester & Cortex: Frameworks: Music by Thomas Johansson (Clean Feed) **
  • Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT! Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters Celebrate Clark Terry (Capri)
  • Frank Paul Schubert/Michel Pilz/Stefan Scheib/Klaus Kugel: Live at FreeJazz Saar 2019 (Nemu)
  • Dave Schumacher & Cubeye: Smoke in the Sky (Cellar)
  • Claudio Scolari Project: Opera 8 (Principal) [04-05]
  • Dirk Serries/Rodrigo Amado/Andrew Lisle: The Invisible (Klanggalerie) **
  • Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Sony Latin) **
  • Matthew Shipp: The Data (RogueArt) *
  • Nala Sinephro: Endlessness (Warp) **
  • Josh Sinton: Couloir & Book of Practitioners Vol. 2: Book W (Form Is Possibility, 2CD)
  • Matthew Shipp/Steve Swell: Space Cube Jazz (RogueArt) *
  • Ballaké Sissoko/Derek Gripper: Ballaké Cissoko & Derek Gripper (Matsuli Music) **
  • M Slago/Homeboy Sandman: And We Are Here (Fly 7 Music) **
  • TV Smith: Handwriting (JKP/Easy Action) **
  • SML: Small Medium Large (International Anthem) **
  • Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Red Future (Savage Mob) **
  • Tyshawn Sorey Trio: The Suspectible Now (Pi)
  • Omar Souleyman: Erbil (Mad Decent) **
  • Space: Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) **
  • Split System: Vol. II (Legless) **
  • Vince Staples: Dark Times (Def Jam/Blacksmith) **
  • Jason Stein: Anchors (Tao Forms)
  • Stemeseder Lillinger Quartet: Umbra II (Intakt) **
  • Geoff Stradling & the StradBand: Nimble Digits (Origin)
  • Sulida: Utos (Clean Feed) **
  • Kevin Sun: The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph Music) **
  • Sunny Five [Tim Berne/David Torn/Ches Smith/Devin Hoff/Marc Ducret]: Candid (Intakt) **
  • Swamp Dogg: Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St (Oh Boy) **
  • Ohad Talmor/Chris Tordini/Eric McPherson: Back to the Land (Intakt, 2CD) **
  • Natsuki Tamura/Jim Black: NatJim (Libra)
  • Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft (Libra)
  • Tarbaby: You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) **
  • Terton [Louie Belogenis/Trevor Dunn/Ryan Sawyer]: Outer, Inner, Secret (Tzadik) **
  • Michael Thomas: The Illusion of Choice (Criss Cross) **
  • Rosie Tucker: Utopia Now! (Sentimental) **
  • Steve Turre: Sanyas (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Oded Tzur: My Prophet (ECM) **
  • Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music)
  • Peter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons (Clean Feed) **
  • Verraco: Breathe . . . Godspeed (Timedance, EP) **
  • Piet Verbist: Flamenco Jazz Summit: El Mar Empieza Aquí (Origin)
  • Kelsey Waldon: There's Always a Song (Oh Boy) **
  • Jack Walrath: Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) **
  • Kamasi Washington: Fearless Moment (Young) **
  • Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (Anti-) **
  • Gillian Welch/David Rawlings: Woodland (Acony) **
  • Conchúr White: Swirling Violets (Bella Union) **
  • WHO Trio: Live at Jazz Festival Willisau 2023 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Lainey Wilson: Whirlwind (BBR) **
  • Norma Winstone/Kit Downes: Outpiost of Dreams (ECM) **
  • Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor (Ninja Tune) **
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Fu##in' Up (Reprise) **
B+(**)
  • 21 Savage: American Dream (Slaughter Gang/Epic) **
  • Nicki Adams/Michael Eaton: The Transcendental (SteepleChase LookOut) **
  • Adeem the Artist: Anniversary (Four Quarters) **
  • Neil Adler: Emi's Song (self-released)
  • Africatown, AL: Ancestor Sounds (Free Dirt) **
  • Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) **
  • Erlend Albertsen Basspace: Name of the Wind (Dugnad Rec) **
  • Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) **
  • Neal Alger: Old Souls (Calligram)
  • JD Allen: The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful (Savant) **
  • Alliance [Sharel Cassity/Colleen Clark]: Alliance (Shifting Paradigm) **
  • Karrin Allyson: A Kiss for Brazil (Origin)
  • Livio Almeida: The Brasilia Sessions (Zoho)
  • John Alvey: Loft Glow (Jazz Music City)
  • Robby Ameen: Live at the Poster Museum (Origin)
  • Apathy: Connecticut Casual: Chapter 2 (Dirty Version) **
  • Charlie Apicella & Iron City Meet the Griots Speak: Call to Action/Call to Prayer (OA2)
  • Florian Arbenz: Conversation #10 & #11: ON! (Hammer) **
  • Lynne Arriale Trio: Being Human (Challenge)
  • Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) **
  • Art Baden: How Much of It Is Real (Rainy Days)
  • David Bailis: Tree of Life (Create or Destroy)
  • Andy Baker: From Here, From There (Calligram)
  • Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Jakob Heinemann: Horizon Scanners (Clean Feed) **
  • Rahsaan Barber & Everyday Magic: Six Words (Jazz Music City)
  • BbyMutha: Sleep Paralysis (True Panther) **
  • Jazmin Bean: Traumatic Livelihood (Island) **
  • Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia) **
  • Eric Bibb: Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm (Repute) **
  • Carlos Bica: 11:11 (Clean Feed) **
  • Bruna Black/John Finbury: Vã Revelação (Green Flash)
  • Blu & Evidence: Los Angeles (Bigger Picture Music/New World Color) **
  • T.K. Blue: Planet Bluu (Jaja)
  • Aziza Brahim: Mawja (Glitterbeat) **
  • Olie Brice/Rachel Musson/Mark Sanders: Immense Blue (West Hill) **
  • Bridgetown Sextet: Functionizin' (Rivermont) **
  • Britti: Hello, I'm Britti (Easy Eye Sound) **
  • Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene (Belting Bronco/Warner) **
  • Cedric Burnside: Hill Country Love (Provogue) **
  • Chris Byars: Boptics (SteepleChase) **
  • Cakes Da Killa: Black Sheep (Young Art) **
  • Ian Carey & Wood Metal Plastic: Strange Arts (Slow & Steady)
  • Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside)
  • Willi Carlisle: Critterland (Signature Sounds) **
  • James Carter: Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone) (J.M.I.) **
  • The Castellows: A Little Goes a Long Way (Warner Music Nashville, EP) **
  • Cavalier: Different Type Time (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Mina Cho's Grace Beat Quartet: "Beat Mirage" (International Gugak Jazz Institute)
  • Chromeo: Adult Contemporary (BMG) **
  • Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold (ECM) **
  • Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: The Almighty (Division 81) **
  • A.G. Cook: Britpop (New Alias) **
  • Greg Copeland: Empire State (Franklin & Highland, EP)
  • Charley Crockett: $10 Cowboy (Son of Davy) **
  • Zaccai Curtis: Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) **
  • Daggerboard: Escapement (Wide Hive)
  • Jamale Davis: Run With the Hunted (SteepleChase) **
  • George Dearborne: Lotta Honky Tonkin' Left in Me (Wingate) **
  • The Rob Dixon/Steve Allee Quintet: Standards Deluxe (self-released)
  • Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg/Capitol) **
  • Arnaud Dolmen/Leonardo Montana; LéNo (Quai Son)
  • Giuseppe Doronzo/Andy Moor/Frank Rosaly: Futuro Ancestrale (Clean Feed) **
  • Ducks Ltd.: Harm's Way (Carpark) **
  • Nick Dunston: Colla Voce (Out of Your Head)
  • Wendy Eisenberg: Viewfinder (American Dreams) **
  • Tinsley Ellis: Naked Truth (Alligator) **
  • Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) **
  • Empirical: Wonder Is the Beginning (Whirlwind) **
  • Empress Of: For Your Consideration (Major Arcana/Giant) **
  • Peter Erskine and the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Bernstein in Vienna (Origin)
  • Joe Fahey: Andrea's Exile (Rough Fish) **
  • Lawrence Fields: To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow) **
  • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • Flo Milli: Fine Ho, Stay (RCA) **
  • Fontaines D.C.: Romance (XL) **
  • Chad Fowler/Shanyse Strickland/Sana Nagano/Melanie Dyer/Ken Filiano/Anders Griffen: Birdsong (Mahakala Music) **
  • Amaro Freitas: Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) **
  • Bill Frisell: Orchestras (Blue Note) **
  • The Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Sob Story (Relative Pitch) **
  • FUR [Hélène Duret/Benjamin Sauzereau/Maxime Rouayroux]: Bond (Budapest Music Center) **
  • Future & Metro Boomin: We Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic Boominati Worldwide) **
  • Future & Metro Boomin: We Still Don't Trust You (Epic/Freebandz/Republic/Boominati Worldwide, 2CD) **
  • Gangrene: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (ALC) **
  • Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) **
  • Myriam Gendron: Mayday (Thrill Jockey) **
  • Claudia Gibson: The Fields of Chazy (self-released) **
  • Girl in Red: I'm Doing It Again Baby! (Columbia) **
  • Jose Gobbo Trio: Current (self-released)
  • The Vinny Golia Quintet 2024: Almasty (Nine Winds) **
  • Phillip Golub: Abiding Memory (Endectomorph Music)
  • Gossip: Real Power (Columbia) **
  • Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy: Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
  • Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine (Republic) **
  • Frank Gratkowski/Ensemble Modern: Mature Hybrid Talking (Maria de Alvear World Edition) **
  • The Gringo Pistoleros: The Rise and . . . Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien (self-released) **
  • Erik Griswold/Chloe Kim/Helen Svoboda: Anatomical Heart (Earshift Music) **
  • Gregory Groover Jr.: Lovabye (Criss Cross) **
  • Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (self-released)
  • Giovanni Guidi: A New Day (ECM) **
  • The Haas Company [Featuring Frank Gambale]: Vol. 2: Celestial Latitude (Psychiatric)
  • Marika Hackman: Big Sigh (Chrysalis) **
  • Noah Haidu: Standards II (Sunnyside)
  • Mary Halvorson: Cloudward (Nonesuch) **
  • Simon Hanes: Tsons of Tsunami (Tzadik) **
  • Alex Harding/Lucian Ban: Blutopia (Sunnyside) **
  • Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi: Speak, Moment (AKP) **
  • Keyon Harrold: Foreverland (Concord) **
  • Jo Harrop: The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) **
  • Helado Negro: Phasor (4AD) **
  • Jihee Heo: Flow (OA2)
  • Jake Hertzog: Longing to Meet You (self-released)
  • Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) **
  • Monika Herzig's Sheroes: All in Good Time (Zoho)
  • Homeboy Sandman: Rich II (self-released) **
  • Jazzmeia Horn: Messages (Empress Legacy) **
  • Hyeseon Hong Jazz Orchestra: Things Will Pass (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Hot Club of San Francisco: Original Gadjo (Hot Club)
  • Brittany Howard: What Now (Island) **
  • Ibibio Sound Machine: Pull the Rope (Merge) **
  • Idles: Tangk (Partisan) **
  • Ill Considered: Infrared (New Soil) **
  • Illuminati Hotties: Power (Hopeless) **
  • Randy Ingram: Aries Dance (Sounderscore)
  • Mikko Innanen Autonomous: Hietsu (Fiasko) **
  • Jon Irabagon's Outright!: Recharge the Blade (Irabbagast) **
  • Jon Irabagon: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3 Part 2: Exuberant Scars (Irabbagast) **
  • Boldy James/Conductor Williams: Across the Tracks (Near Mint) **
  • Janel & Anthony: New Moon in the Evil Age (Cuneiform) *
  • Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour) **
  • Johnny Blue Skies [Sturgill Simpson]: Passage Du Desir (High Top Mountain) **
  • Ka: The Thief Next to Jesus (Iron Works) **
  • Jason Keiser: Kind of Kenny (OA2)
  • Simone Keller: Hidden Heartache (Intakt) **
  • Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: New Monuments (We Jazz) **
  • Katy Kirby: Blue Raspberry (Anti-) **
  • Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Maria Warelis: Tendresse (Relative Pitch) **
  • Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners: Where It Really Starts (Tiny Global Productions) **
  • Last Word Quintet: Falling to Earth (Origin)
  • Bill Laurance/The Untold Orchestra: Bloom (ACT Music) **
  • Andy Laverne: Spot On (SteepleChase) **
  • David Leon: Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
  • Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF (Frenchkiss) **
  • Omer Leshem: Play Space (Ubuntu Music)
  • David Liebman & the CNY Jazz Orchestra: If a White Horse From Jerusalem . . . (CNY Jazz Arts Foundation)
  • Liquid Mike: Paul Bunyan's Slingshot (self-released) **
  • Little Simz: Drop 7 (Forever Living Originals, EP) **
  • Live Edge Trio With Steve Nelson: Closing Time (OA2)
  • Lupe Fiasco: Samurai (1st and 15th Too) **
  • Doug MacDonald and the Coachella Valley Trio: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (DMAC Music)
  • João Madeira/Margarida Mestre: Voz Debaixo (4DaRecord)
  • Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk (Mom + Pop) **
  • Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven (Epitaph) **
  • Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat (Chryalis/Partisan) **
  • Abbey Masonbrink: Rising (self-released) **
  • Masta Ace & Marco Polo: Richmond Hill (Fat Beats) **
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Sui Generis (Capri)
  • Mavi: Shadowbox (Mavi 4 Mayor Music) **
  • Shawn Maxwell: J Town Suite (Cora Street)
  • Rob Mazurek: Milan (Clean Feed) **
  • James McClaskey & the Rhythm Band: Later on Blues (BigTone) **
  • Zara McFarlane: Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Universal) **
  • Mike McGinnis + 9: Outing: Road Trip II (Sunnyside) **
  • Midnight Sons: Money Has No Owners (Chong Wizard) **
  • Andy Milne and Unison: Time Will Tell (Sunnyside) **
  • Mk.gee: Two Star & the Dream Police (R&R Digital) **
  • Gurf Morlix: In Love at Zero Degrees (Rootball) **
  • Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja (Odin) **
  • Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel: The Room (Real World) **
  • Richard Nelson/Makrokosmos Orchestra: Dissolve (Adhyâropa)
  • Sam Newsome/Max Johnson: Tubes (Unbroken Sounds) **
  • Ngwaka Son Système: Iboto Ngenge (Eck Echo) **
  • Cornelia Nilsson: Where Do You Go? (Stunt) **
  • Che Noir: The Color Chocolate, Volume 1 (Poetic Movement, EP) **
  • Normani: Dopamine (RCA) **
  • The Michael O'Neill Sextet: Synergy: With Tony Lindsay (Jazzmo)
  • Mali Obomsawin/Magdalena Abrego [Deerlady]: Greatest Hits (Out Of Your Head) **
  • Lothar Ohlmeier/Tobias Klein: Left Side Right (Trytone)
  • Nils Økland Band: Gjenskinn (Hubro) **
  • Old Mountain: Another State of Rhythm (Clean Feed) **
  • Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y: A New Beat (Cellar Music) **
  • Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Jonah Parzen-Johnson: You're Never Really Alone (We Jazz) **
  • Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Groove Junkies (Origin)
  • Ivo Perelman/Chad Fowler/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown (Mahakala Music) **
  • Kate Pierson: Radios & Rainbows (Lazy Meadow Music) **
  • Dave Pietro: The Talisman (SteepleChase) **
  • PNY Quintet: Over the Wall (RogueArt) *
  • Pony Boy All-Star Big Band: This Is Now: Live at Boxley's (Pony Boy)9
  • Porij: Teething (Play It Again Sam) **
  • Pouty: Forget About Me (Get Better) **
  • Jeanfrançois Prins: Blue Note Mode (GAM) **
  • Katie Pruitt: Mantras (Rounder) **
  • Reggie Quinerly: The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition)
  • Bruno Råberg Tentet: Evolver (Orbis Music)
  • Rapsody: Please Don't Cry (Jamla/Roc Nation) **
  • Real Bad Man & Lukah: Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. (Old Soul Music/Real Bad Man) **
  • Kenny Reichert: Switch (Calligram)
  • Terre Roche: Inner Adult (self-released) **
  • Brandon Ross Phantom Station: Off the End (Sunnyside) **
  • Jerome Sabbagh: Heart (Analog Tone Factory)
  • Dred Scott/Moses Patrou/Tom Beckham/Matt Pavolka: Cali Mambo (Ropeadope)
  • Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) **
  • Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites (Third Man) **
  • Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Revelations (Abeyance) **
  • Flavio Silva: Eko (Break Free)
  • Harry Skoler: Red Brick Hill (Sunnyside) **
  • Bria Skonberg: What It Means (Cellar Live) **
  • Connie Smith: Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches (Fat Possum) **
  • Vera Sola: Peacemarker (Spectraphonic/City Slang) **
  • Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Swing Forever (Ovation)
  • Simon Spiess Quiet Tree: Euphorbia (Intakt) **
  • Splitter Orchester: Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia, 3CD) **
  • St. Vincent: All Born Screaming (Virgin) **
  • Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard: Wildernauts (Don Giovanni) **
  • Anthony Stanco: Stanco's Time (OA2)
  • Ayra Starr: The Year I Turned 21 (Mavin Global Holdings) **
  • The Dave Stryker Trio With Bob Mintzer: Groove Street (Strikezone)
  • Superposition: II (We Jazz) **
  • Aki Takase Japanic: Forte (Budapest Music Center) **
  • Curtis Taylor: Taylor Made (Curtis Taylor Music) **
  • TGB: Room 4 (Clean Feed) **
  • This Is Lorelei: Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy) **
  • Thollem: Worlds in a Life, Two (ESP-Disk)
  • TiaCorine: Almost There (South Scope/Interscope, EP) **
  • Tinashe: Quantum Baby (Nice Life) **
  • Zach Top: Cold Beer & Country Music (Leo33) **
  • Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare, 3CD) *
  • Juanma Trujillo: Howl (Endectomorph Music) *
  • Akiko Tsugura: Beyond Nostalgia (SteepleChase) **
  • Tyla: Tyla (Epic) **
  • Lisa Ullén: Heirloom (Fönstret) **
  • Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (Columbia) **
  • Angela Verbrugge: Somewhere (OA2)
  • Luis Vicente Trio: Come Down Here (Clean Feed) **
  • Ben Waltzer: The Point (Calligram)
  • Marta Warelis/Andy Moor: Escape (Relative Pitch) **
  • Kenny Warren: Sweet World (Out of Your Head) **
  • Philip Weberndoerfer: Tides (Shifting Paradigm)
  • Randy Weinstein: Harmonimonk (Random Chance)
  • Hein Westergaard/Katt Hernandez/Raymond Strid: The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn (Gotta Let It Out)
  • Jack White: No Name (Third Man) **
  • Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note) **
  • Kelly Willis/Melissa Carper/Brennen Leigh: Wonder Women of Country (Brooklyn Basement, EP) **
  • Mark Winkler: The Rules Don't Apply (Cafe Pacific)
  • Chelsea Wolfe: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista) **
  • WoochieWobbler: Is My Future Bright? (3455092 DK, EP) **
  • Jack Wood & Nichaud Fitzgibbon: Movie Magic: Great Songs From the Movies (Jazz Hang)
  • Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (Island) **
  • Denny Zeitlin: Panoply (Sunnyside) **
  • Dann Zinn: Two Roads (Ridgeway)
  • Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance (self-released)
B+(*)
  • Jessica Ackerley: All of the Colours Are Singing (AKP) **
  • Actress: Statik (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • Okaidja Afroso: Àbòr Édín (Chechekule) **
  • Albare: Beyond Belief (AM)
  • Gino Amato: Latin Crsossroads (Ovation)
  • Bob Anderson: Live! (Jazz Hang)
  • Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions (Origin)
  • Daymé Arocena: Alkemi (Brownswood) **
  • Arrested Development: Bullets in the Chamber (Vagabond Productions) **
  • Bab L' Bluz: Swaken (Real World) **
  • John Basile: Heatin' Up (StringTime Jazz)
  • Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These (Sunnyside) **
  • Beans: Zwaard (Tygr Rawwk) **
  • Evan Nicole Bell: Runaway Girl (Humingbird, EP) **
  • Oddgeir Berg Trio: A Place Called Home (Ozella) **
  • Stix Bones/Bob Beamon: Olimpik Soul (BONE Entertainment)
  • Anthony Braxton: 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) **
  • The Bobby Broom Organi-sation: Jamalot Live (Steele)
  • Brother Ali: Love & Service (Travelers Media) **
  • Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo (Trost) **
  • Martin Budde: Back Burner (Origin)
  • Burial: Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above/b> (XL, EP) **
  • Caporaso Ensemble: Encounter (Psychosomatic)
  • George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: Dilate (self-released) **
  • Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock)
  • John Chin/Jeong Lim Yang/Jon Gruk Kim: Journey of Han (Jinsy Music)
  • The Chisel: What a Fucking Nightmare (Pure Noise) **
  • Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios) **
  • Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar: Dawn Clement/Steve Kovalcheck/Jon Hamar Trio (self-released)
  • Commodore Trio: Communal - EP (self-relesed, EP)
  • Chris Corsano/Joe Baiza/Mike Watt: Corsano Baiza Watt Trio (Yucca Alta) **
  • The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Fiction) **
  • Buck Curran: One Evening and Other Folks Songs (Obsolete/ESP-Disk)
  • Jeremiah Cymerman: Body of Light (5049) **
  • The Dare: What's Wrong With New York? (Republic) **
  • On Ka'a Davis: Here's to Another Day and Night for the LWA of the Woke (Tzadik) **
  • Dharma Down: Owl Dreams (Dharma Down)
  • Ani DiFranco: Unprecedented Sh!t (Righteous Babe) **
  • DIIV: Frog in Boiling Water (Fantasy) **
  • Divr: Is This Water (We Jazz) **
  • Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger: Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch) **
  • Morten Duun: Code Breaker (Cmntx)
  • Gui Duvignau/Jacob Sacks/Nathan Ellman-Bell: Live in Red Hook (Sunnyside) **
  • El Khat: Mute (Glitterbeat) **
  • Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) *
  • Christian Fabian Trio: Hip to the Skip (Spicerack)
  • Forq: Big Party (GroundUP)
  • Hannah Frances: Keeper of the Shepherd (Ruination) **
  • Future Islands: People Who Aren't There Anymore (4AD) **
  • Hilary Gardner: On the Trial With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic) **
  • Frode Gjerstad/Margaux Oswald/Ivar Myrset Asheim: Another Step (Circulasione Totale) **
  • The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive (Joyous)
  • Jon Gordon: 7th Ave South (ArtistShare)
  • María Grand With Marta Sánchez: Anohin (Biophilia) **
  • Morgan Guerin: Tales of the Facade (Candid) **
  • Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed Volume II: Life Signs (Motéma) **
  • Joel Harrison & Alternative Guitar Summit: The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. I (AGS)
  • Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho (Intakt) **
  • Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband: Turnchest (Particular) **
  • Arve Henriksen/Harmen Fraanje: Touch of Time (ECM) **
  • Fred Hersch: Silent, Listening (ECM) **
  • Christopher Hoffman: Vision Is the Identity (Out of Your Head) **
  • Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves (Domino) **
  • Home Counties: Exactly as It Seems (Submarine Cat) **
  • Hovvdy: Hovvdy (Arts & Crafts) **
  • Abdullah Ibrahim: 3 (Gearbox) **
  • Jon Irabagon: Survivalism (Irabbagast) **
  • Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) **
  • Ize Trio: The Global Suites (self-released)
  • Eric Jacobson: Heading Home (Origin)
  • Jazz Ensemble of Memphis: Playing in the Yard (Memphis International)
  • Karen Jonas: The Rise and Fall of American Kitsch (self-released) **
  • Norah Jones: Visions (Blue Note) **
  • Danny Jonokuchi Big Band: A Decade (Bandstand Presents)
  • I. Jordan: I Am Jordan (Ninja Tune) **
  • JPEGMafia: I Lay Down My Life for You (AWAL) **
  • Julie: My Anti-Aircraft Friend (Atlantic) **
  • Benji Kaplan: Untold Stories (self-released)
  • Alex Kautz: Where We Begin (Sunnyside)
  • Roger Kellaway: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) **
  • Cassie Kinoshi's SEED.: Gratitude (International Anthem) **
  • Lola Kirke: Country Curious (One Riot, EP) **
  • Julien Knowles: As Many, as One (Biophilia)
  • Anysia Kym: Truest (10k, EP) **
  • Lady Gaga: Harlequin (Interscope) **
  • Julian Lage: Speak to Me (Blue Note) **
  • Dawn Landes: The Liberated Woman's Songbook (Fun Machine Music) **
  • The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy (Island) **
  • Molly Lewis: On the Lips (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets: Indoor Safari (Yep Roc) **
  • Lucy Rose: This Ain't the Way You Go Out (Communion) **
  • Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session (DMAC Music)
  • Mai-Liis: Kaleidoscope (OA2)
  • Roc Marciano: Marciology (Marci Enterprises) **
  • Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin: Ennio (ACT Music) **
  • Brian Marsella/Jon Irabagon: Blue Hour (Irabbagast) **
  • Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark: Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Kali Malone: All Life Long (Ideologic Organ) **
  • Christian McBride/Edgar Meyer: But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) **
  • Pat Metheny: MoonDial (BMG) **
  • MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball (10k, EP) **
  • Modney: Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic, 2CD)
  • Moor Mother: The Great Bailout (Anti-) **
  • Willie Morris: Attentive Listening (Posi-Tone) **
  • Simon Moullier: Elements of Light (Candid)
  • Ms. Boogie: The Breakdown (self-released) **
  • Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra: Hereafter (Sofa Music) **
  • NLE Choppa: Slut Szn (Warner, EP) **
  • Nubiyan Twist: Find Your Flame (Strut) **
  • O.: WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground) **
  • Old 97's: American Primitive (ATO) **
  • Alicia and Michael Olatuja: Olatuja (Whirlwind) **
  • One for All: Big George (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Sam Outlaw: Terra Cotta (Black Hills) **
  • Chuck Owen & Resurgence: Magic Light (Origin)
  • Mavis Pan: Rising (self-released)
  • Charlie Parr: Little Sun (Smithsonian Folkways) **
  • Rob Parton's Ensemble 9+: Relentless (Calligram)
  • Jeremy Pelt: Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) **
  • Clarence Penn: Behind the Voice (Origin)
  • Pissed Jeans: Half Divorced (Sub Pop) **
  • Andy Pratt: Trio (Thrift Girl)
  • Yvonnick Prené/Geoff Keezer: Jobim's World (Sunnyside) **
  • Robert Prester & Adriana Samargia: Quenara (Commonwealth Ave. Productions)
  • Tutu Puoane: Wrapped in Rhythm, Vol. 1 (SoulFactory) **
  • Alvin Queen Trio: Feeling Good (Stunt) **
  • Zach Rich: Solidarity (OA2)
  • Ride: Interplay (Wichita) **
  • Claire Rousay: Sentiment (Thrill Jockey) **
  • Taliba Safiya: Black Magic (self-released, EP) **
  • Anne Sajdera: It's Here (Bijuri)
  • Sault: Acts of Faith (Forever Living Originals) **
  • A. Savage: The Loft Sessions (Rough Trade, EP) **
  • Ann Savoy: Another Heart (Smithsonian Folkways) **
  • Schoolboy Q: Blue Lips (Interscope) **
  • Brandon Seabrook: Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic)
  • Altin Sencalar: Discover the Present (Posi-Tone) **
  • Shaboozey: Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going (Republic/Empire) **
  • Nadine Shah: Filthy Underneath (EMI North) **
  • Patrick Shiroishi: Glass House (Otherly Love) **
  • Michael Shrieve: Drums of Compassion (7D Media) **
  • Shygirl: Club Shy (Because Music, EP) **
  • Sisso & Maiko: Singeli Ya Maajabu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Skee Mask: ISS010 (Ilian Tape) **
  • Håkon Skogstad: 8 Concepts of Tango (Øra Fonogram)
  • Ches Smith: Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  • Ronny Smith: Struttin' (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) **
  • Something Else! [Featuring Vincent Herring]: Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Daniel Son & Futurewave: Bushman Bodega (WavGodMusic) **
  • Moses Sumney: Sophcore (Tuntum, EP) **
  • Fred Thomas: Window in the Rhythm (Polyvinyl) **
  • Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (Storysound) **
  • Viktoria Tolstoy: Stealing Moments (ACT) **
  • Rafael Toral: Spectral Evolution (Moikai) **
  • Tropical Fuck Storm: Tropical Fuck Storm's Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed) **
  • Tucker Brothers: Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music)
  • The Umbrellas: Fairweather Friend (Tough Love) **
  • Jordan VanHemert: Deep in the Soil (Origin)
  • Alan Walker: A Little Too Late (Aunt Mimi's)
  • Faye Webster: Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian) **
  • Amber Weekes: A Lady With a Song: Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson (Amber Inn)
  • Cecily Wilborn: Kuntry Gurl Playplist (self-released) **
  • Wilco: Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm, EP) **
  • Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand: Willson Williams (One Little Independent) **
  • Luke Winslow-King: Flash-a-Magic (Bloodshot) **
  • Lizz Wright: Shadow (Blues & Greens) **
  • X: Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum) **
  • Xaviersobased: Keep It Goin Xav (34Ent) **
B
  • John Ambrosini: Songs for You (self-released)
  • Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power (HighNote) **
  • Blue Lab Beats: Blue Eclipse (Blue Adventure) **
  • Anne Burnell & Mark Burnell: This Could Be the Start of Something Big (Spectrum Music)
  • Annie Chen: Guardians (JZ Music)
  • Marc Ciprut: Moonshine (White Label)/li>
  • Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) **
  • DJ Anderson do Paraiso: Queridão (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Elbow: Audio Vertigo (Polydor) **
  • Doug Ferony With His Swingin Big Band: Alright Okay You Win (Ferony Enterprizes Music)
  • David Friesen: This Light Has No Darkness (Origin)
  • Nubya Garcia: Odyssey (Concord Jazz) **
  • Dayramir González: V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) **
  • Grandaddy: Blu Wav (Dangerbird) **
  • The Haas Company [Featuring Andy Timmons]: Vol. 1: Galactic Tide (Psychiatric)
  • Hawkwind: Stories From Time and Space (Cherry Red) **
  • Aaron Yale Heisler: Zoot's Soprano EP [Alternate Takes and Remixes From the Bechet Century] (2nd Bechet Century, EP) **
  • Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto, 2CD)
  • Colin James: Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain) **
  • Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra: Time Takes Odd Turns (self-released) **
  • Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows: Heartland Radio (SoundSpore)
  • The Libertines: All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade (Casablanca/Republic) **
  • The Bruce Lofgren Group: Earthly and Cosmic Tales (Night Bird)
  • Old Man Luedecke: She Told Me Where to Go (Outside) **
  • Shelby Lynne: Consequences of the Crown (Monument) **
  • Paula Maya: Rio De Janeiro (Yellow House)
  • Yuka Mito: How Deep Is the Ocean (Nana Notes)
  • Jesus Molina: Selah (Dynamo Production) **
  • Carlos Niño & Friends: Placenta (International Anthem) **
  • Miles Okazaki: Miniature America (Cygnus)
  • Eric Person: Rhythm Edge (Distinction)
  • Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer) **
  • Gruff Rhys: Sadness Sets Me Free (Rough Trade) **
  • Rosali: Bite Down (Merge) **
  • Jim Rotondi: Finesse (Cellar Music) **
  • Otis Sandsjö: Y-Otis Tre (We Jazz) **
  • ShrapKnel: Nobody Planning to Leave (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Jacob Shulman: High Firmament (Endectomorph Music) *
  • Jacob Shulman: Ferment Below (Endectomorph Music) *
  • The Smile: Wall of Eyes (XL) **
  • Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope (Loma Vista) **
  • Star Splitter [Gabriele Mitelli/Rob Mazurek]: Medea (We Insist!) **
  • Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger (Merge) **
  • Stian Westerhus & Maja S.K. Ratkje: All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover) **
B-
  • Gary Clark Jr.: JPEG RAW (Warner) **
  • Glass Beach: Plastic Death (Run for Cover) **
  • Arushi Jain: Delight (Leaving) **
  • Ken Peplowski: Unheard Bird (Arbors) **
  • Still House Plants: If I Don't Make It, I Love U (Bison) **
  • Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties: In Lieu of Flowers (Hopeless) **
C+
  • Raul Midón: Lost & Found (ReKondite ReKords) **

Limited sampling: Records I played parts of, but not enough to grade: -- means no interest, - not bad but not a prospect, + some chance, ++ likely prospect.

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Reissues/Compilations/Vault Music:

In previous years I tried to separate reissues from compilations, including newly released vault items in the latter. This made sense when I was reviewing a lot of Recycled Goods material, but led to other problems with year-end lists, so anything containing any previously released material is collected here, and anything that is wholly previously unreleased is treated as new, above.

A
  1. Unholy Modal Rounders: Unholier Than Thou 7/7/77 (Don Giovanni, 2CD) **
A-
  1. Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance, 3CD)
  2. Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music, 2CD)
  3. Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola (Strut) **
  4. Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) **
  5. Karen Borca Trio Quartet & Quintet: Good News Blues: Live at the Vision Festival 1998 & 2005 (No Business)
  6. Mars Williams & Hamid Drake: I Know You Are but What Am I (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  7. Charles Gayle/Milford Graves/William Parker: WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) **
  8. Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino: Reminicent Suite (1973, BBE) **
  9. Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?: The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz, 3CD) **
  10. Grupo Irakere: Grupo Irakere (1976, Mr. Bongo) **
  11. Franco & O.K. Jazz: Franco Luambo Makiadi Presents Les Editions Populaires (1968-1970) (Planet Ilunga) **
  12. Louis Armstrong: Louis in London (1968, Verve) **
  13. África Negra: Antologia Vol. 2 (1979-90, Bongo Joe) **
  14. Mixmaster Morris/Jonah Sharp/Haruomi Hosono: Quiet Logic (1998, WRWTFWW) **
  15. Rail Band: Buffet Hotel De La Gare, Bamako (1973, Mississippi) **
  16. Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance, 3CD)
  17. Merengue Típico, Nueva Generación! (1960s-70s, Bongo Joe) **
  18. Terry Gibbs Dream Band: Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound)
  19. Austin Peralta: Endless Planets [Deluxe Edition] (2011, Brainfeeder) **
  20. Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata: Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle) **
  21. Atrás del Cosmos: Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (1980, Blank Forms Editions) **
  22. Peter Brötzmann/Toshinori Kondo/Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link (2016, NoBusiness)
  23. Wayne Shorter: Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) **
  24. Roberto Magris: Love Is Passing Thru: Solo/Duo/Trio/Quartet (2004, JMood)

Pending

Records in hand, sorted by artist, or release date if future. Those marked ** are downloads in hand.

  • Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto, 2CD) [11-01]
  • Bill Evans: In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music, 2CD) [11-29]
  • B.B. King: In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) [11-29]
  • Emily Remler: Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance, 2CD) [11-29]
  • Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance, 2CD) [11-29]
  • Al Jarreau: Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) [12-06]

Also Noted:

B+(***)
  • Cannonball Adderley: Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music) [04-26]
  • Derek Bailey/Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness (1987, NoBusiness)
  • Arthur Blythe Quartet: Live From Studio Rivbea: July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness)
  • Congo Funk: Sound Madness From the Shores of the Mighty Congo River: Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982 (Analog Africa) **
  • Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus (1979-93, Jazz in Britain, 3CD) **
  • Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Gebru: Souvenirs (1977-85, Mississippi) **
  • Johnny Griffin Quartet: Live in Valencia 92 [The Jordi Suñol Archives 3] (1992, Storyville) **
  • Gush: Afro Blue (1998, Trost) **
  • Joe Henderson: Power to the People (1969, Craft) **
  • In the Beginning There Was Rhythm (1978-84, Soul Jazz) **
  • Love Child: Never Meant to Be 1988-1993 (12XU) **
  • Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: Live From Studio Rivbea: July 12, 1975 [Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 1] (No Business)
  • Ron Miles: Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) **
  • Tony Oxley: Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Phil Ranelin: The Found Tapes: Live in Los Angeles (1978-1981, ORG Music) **
  • Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1958, Blue Note, 2CD) **
  • Pharoah Sanders: Festival de Jazz de Nice, Nice, France, July 18, 1971 (1971, Kipepeo Publishing) **
  • Septet Matchi-Oul: Terremoto (1971, Souffle Continu) **
  • Pat Smythe Quartet: New Dawn: Live 1973 (British Progressive Jazz) **
  • Sonic Youth: Walls Have Ears (1985, Goofin') **
  • Tomasz Stanko Quartet: September Night (2004, ECM) **
  • The Louis Stewart Trio: Louis the First (1975, Livia) **
  • Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic) **
  • Mars Williams/Darin Gray/Chris Corsano: Elastic (2012, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Jack Wood: The Gal That Got Away: The Best of Jack Wood, Featuring Guest Nichaud Fitzgibbon (Jazz Hang)
B+(**)
  • Cannonball Adderley: Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music)
  • Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (1972, Jazz Detective)
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestkra Chamber: The Reconstru-Ducted Repatriation Road-Rage ReMiXeS (Avantgroidd) **
  • George Cartwright's GloryLand PonyCat: Black Ants Crawling (Mahakala Music) **
  • Nat King Cole: Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) **
  • Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89 (Soul Jazz) **
  • Gastr Del Sol: We Have Dozens of Titles (1993-98, Drag City, 2CD) **
  • Stan Getz: Unissued Session: Copenhagen 1977 (SteepleChase) **
  • The Jazz Dispensary: The Freedom Sound! The People Arise (1963-76, Craft) **
  • The Jazzanians: We Have Waited Too Long (1988, Ubuntu Music) **
  • Sven-Åke Johansson und Alexander von Schlippenbach: Über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten Beim Turmbau zu Babel (1994, Trost) **
  • Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music, 2CD)
  • Les Belgicains: Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-70 (Covadia) **
  • Shelly Manne & His Men: Jazz From the Pacific Northwest (1958-66, Reel to Real) **
  • Charlie Mariano: Boppin' in Boston 1947-1953 (Fresh Sound) **
  • Miami Sound: More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-1974 (Soul Jazz) **
  • Charles Mingus: Incarnations (1960, Candid) **
  • Louis Moholo-Moholo: Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun) **
  • The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic) **
  • Lou Reed: Hudson River Wind Meditations (2007, Light in the Attic) **
  • Raphael Roginski: Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes (2013, Unsound) **
  • Todd Snider: Songs for the Daily Planet (Purple Version) (Aimless) **
  • Alan Tomlinson Trio: Loft 1993 (Scatter Archive) **
  • The John Wright Trio: South Side Soul (1960, Craft) **
B+(*)
  • William Basinski: September 23rd (1982, Temporary Residence) **
  • Raymond Burke: The Southland Recordings 1958-1960 (Jazzland) **
  • John Coltrane Quartet + Stan Getz + Oscar Peterson: Live/Dusseldorf March 28th, 1960 (Lantower) **
  • Ghetto Brothers: Power-Fuerza (1972, Vampisoul) **
  • Pete Jolly: Seasons (1970, Future Days) **
  • Brother Jack McDuff: Ain't No Sunshine: Live in Seattle (1972, Reel to Real) [**]
  • Microstoria: Init Ding + _Snd (1995-96, Thrill Jockey, 2CD) **
  • Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights (1963, Philips) **
  • The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert (1960, SteepleChase) **
  • Todd Snider: Viva Satellite (Purple Version) (Aimless) **
  • Sun Ra: At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective, 2CD)
B
  • Broadcast: Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp) **
  • Sun Ra: Excelsior Mill (1984, Sundazed/Modern Harmonic) **
B-
  • DJ Notoya: Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87 (Wewantsounds/Electric Bird) **