Streamnotes: Year 2025 Index

December 31

    November 25

    1. Aesop Rock: I Heard It's a Mess There Too (2025, Rhymesayers) A-
    2. Rodrigo Amado: The Bridge: Further Beyond (2023 [2025], Trost) A-
    3. Annahstasia: Tether (2025, Drink Sum Wtr) B+(*)
    4. Armand Hammer & the Alchemist: Mercy (2025, Backwoodz Studioz/Rhymesayers) B+(***)
    5. Ashnikko: Smoochies (2025, Parlophone) B+(***)
    6. Ata Kak: Batakari (2025, Awesome Tapes From Africa) B+(***)
    7. Martin Bejerano: The Purple Project: Reimagining the Music of Prince (2025, Figgland) B-
    8. Bitchin Bajas: Inland See (2025, Drag City) B+(***)
    9. Theo Bleckmann: Love and Anger (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B
    10. Lena Bloch/Kyoko Kitamura: Marina (2022 [2025], Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(**)
    11. Bloomers: Cyclism (2022-23 [2025], Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    12. Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso N'goni (2022-23 [2025], Black Truffle) B+(**)
    13. Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (2024 [2025], Pyroclastic) B+(***)|A-|2512-1
    14. Danny Brown: Stardust (2025, Warp) B+(***)|A-|2602-1
    15. David Broza & Omer Avital: Brozajazz: Paris Alhambra (2024 [2025], Magenta) B+(***)
    16. Carrier: Rhythm Immortal (2025, Modern Love) B+(*)
    17. Juan Chiavassa: Fourth Generation (2024 [2025], Whirlwind) B+(***)
    18. Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sunwise (2025, Tak:til) B+(*)
    19. Paul Cornish: You're Exaggerating! (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    20. The Cosmic Tones Research Trio: The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (2025, Mississippi) B+(*)
    21. Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (2025, Smalltown Supersound) B
    22. Joy Crookes: Juniper (2025, Insanity) A-
    23. Eddie Daniels: To Milton With Love (2025, Resonance) B+(**)
    24. Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp (2025, Neighbourhood) A-
    25. Deena: This Is the Time (2025, self-released, EP) B+(*)
    26. Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (2025, Brooklyn Basement) B+(**)
    27. Sam Dillon: My Ideal (2024 [2025], Cellar Music) B+(**)
    28. Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune (2025, Dot Dash) B+(**)
    29. Chandler Dozier: Bakersfield East (2025, self-released, EP) B+(***)
    30. Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things (2025, Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(***)
    31. Amir ElSaffar: New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (2023 [2025], Maqām) B+(***)
    32. Peter Evans/Being & Becoming: Ars Ludicra (2024 [2025], More Is More) B+(***)
    33. R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal: The Night Green Side of It (2025, Ruby Yacht/Alpha Pup) B+(***)
    34. Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet: Armando Mi Conga (2025, Amor De Flores Productions) B+(*)
    35. Adam Forkelid: Dreams (2024 [2025], Prophone) B+(***)
    36. Hannah Frances: Nested in Tangles (2025, Fire Talk) B
    37. Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick (2025, Libra) B+(***)
    38. Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (2024 [2025], Drummerslams) B+(*)
    39. David Greenberger & the Hi-Ho Barbers: Ginger Ale (2025, Pel Pel) A-
    40. Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight (2025, No Quarter) B+(**)
    41. John Gunther: Painting the Dream (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    42. Lafayette Harris Jr.: All in Good Time (2025, Savant) B+(**)
    43. Joshua Hedley: All Hat (2025, New West) B+(**)
    44. Carrie Jackson: Jersey Bounce (2025, Arabesque Jazz) B+(**)
    45. Nicholas Jamerson: The Narrow Way (2025, Cloverdale) B+(**)
    46. Jazzwrld & Thukuthela: The Most Wanted (2025, Waltz Music Group/Empire) B+(**)
    47. Jess Jocoy: Cul-De-Sac Kid (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    48. Jung Stratmann Quartet: Confluence (2025, self-released) B+(*)
    49. The Kasambwe Brothers: The Kasambwe Brothers (2025, MASS MoCA) A-
    50. Tyler Keith: I Confess (2025, Black & Wyatt) B+(*)
    51. KeiyaA: Hooke's Law (2025, XL) B+(*)
    52. Lagon Nwar: Lagon Nwar (2025, AirFono) B+(***)
    53. Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (2025, Mexican Summer) B+(**)
    54. Brennen Leigh: Don't You Ever Give Up on Love (2025, Signature Sounds) A-
    55. Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (2023 [2025], Meta/Defkaz) B+(**)
    56. Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert (2025, Blaser Music) B+(**)
    57. Demi Lovato: It's Not That Deep (2025, Island) B+(*)
    58. Seth MacFarlane: Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (2025, Verve) B+(***)
    59. Nicolas Masson: Renaissance (2023 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    60. Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2021 [2025], RogueArt) B+(***)
    61. Roscoe Mitchell/Michele Rabbia: In 2 (2024 [2025], RogueArt) B+(**)
    62. Mobb Deep: Infinite (2025, Mass Appeal) B
    63. Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (2025, Vaicomtudo Music) B+(*)
    64. Thomas Morgan: Around You Is a Forest (2024 [2025], Loveland Music) A-
    65. Gurf Morlix: Bristlecone (2025, Rootball) A-
    66. Maren Morris: Dreamsicle (2025, Columbia) B+(***)
    67. Van Morrison: Remembering Now (2025, Exile/Virgin) B+(**)
    68. The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (2025, Thirty Tigers) A-
    69. Camila Nebbia/Gonçalo Almeida/Sylvain Darrifourcq: Hypomaniac (2025, Defkaz) B+(**)
    70. Camila Nebbia/Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok: A Reflection Distorts Over Water (2024 [2025], Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    71. Camila Nebbia/Michael Formanek/Vinnie Sperrazza: Live at Blow Out (2024 [2025], Soundholes) B+(***)
    72. Willie Nelson: Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle (2025, Legacy) A-
    73. Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer (2025, NLV) B+(**)
    74. John O'Gallagher/Ben Monder/Andrew Cyrille/Billy Hart: Ancestral (2024 [2025], Whirlwind) A-
    75. Tom Ollendorff: Where in the World (2025, Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(**)
    76. Jake Owen: Dreams to Dream (2025, Good Company) B+(**)
    77. Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (2024 [2025], Miel Music) B+(***)
    78. Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (2024 [2025], OA2) B+(**)
    79. Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 3 (2025, 1332/Brutal Music/Greenfield Music) B+(**)
    80. Recognize Ali & Tragedy Khadafi: The Past the Present and the Future (2025, Greenfield Music) A-
    81. Red River Dialect: Basic Country Mustard (2024 [2025], Hinterground) B+(***)
    82. Vernon Reid: Hoodoo Telemetry (2025, Artone/The Players Club) B
    83. Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Chris Corsano: Dial Up (2025, Aerophonic) B+(***)
    84. Rosalía: Lux (2025, Columbia) B+(*)
    85. Ted Rosenthal Trio: Classics Reimagined: Impromp2 (2024 [2025], TMR) B+(**)
    86. Bobby Rozario: Healer (2024-25 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    87. Saint Pierre: Luck and Gravity (2025, Mutchcrud Music) B+(***)
    88. Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression (2025, Savant) B+(**)
    89. Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken: Double Reality Beyond Space and Time (2024 [2025], Grong) A-
    90. Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell: End of Something (2023 [2025], Obliquity) B+(*)
    91. Mark Sherman: Bop Contest (2025, Miles High) B+(**)
    92. Amanda Shires: Nobody's Girl (2025, ATO) A-
    93. Nick Shoulders: Refugia Blues (2025, Gar Hole) B+(**)
    94. Deborah Shulman: We Had a Moment (2025, Summit) B+(*)
    95. Laura Ann Singh: Mean Reds (2024 [2025], Out of Your Head) B+(**)
    96. Skrillex: Hit Me Where It Hurts X (2025, Atlantic/Owsla, EP) B
    97. Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (2025, Misfitme Music) B+(*)
    98. SML: How You Been (2024-25 [2025], International Anthem) A-
    99. Todd Snider: High, Lonesome and Then Some (2025, Aimless) A-
    100. Snocaps: Snocaps (2025, Anti-) A-
    101. Spinifex: Maxximus (2025, Trytone) B+(***)
    102. Split System: No Cops in Heaven/Pull the Trigger (2025, Legless, EP) B+(**)
    103. Split System: Live in Stockholm 2023 (2023 [2025], Legless) A-
    104. Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World (2025, Anti-) A-
    105. Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (二) (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(**)
    106. Chad Taylor Quintet: Smoke Shifter (2024 [2025], Otherly Love) B+(**)
    107. Pat Thomas: Hikmah (2024 [2025], TAO Forms) B+(***)
    108. Tortoise: Touch (2025, International Anthem) B+(**)
    109. Maxine Troglauer: Hymn (2024 [2025[, Fun in the Church) B+(**)
    110. Carolyn Trowbridge: Found Memories (2025 [2026], self-released) B
    111. Premik Russell Tubbs & Margee Minier-Tubbs: The Bells (2025, Margetoile, EP) B
    112. Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override (2025, dBpm) B+(**)
    113. Kalia Vandever: Another View (2025, Northern View) B+(***)
    114. Kenny Wheeler Legacy: Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (2024 [2025], Greenleaf Music) B+(**)
    115. Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal (2024, Partisan) B-
    116. WNC WhopBezzy/70th Street Carlos: Out the Blue (2025, WNC) B+(**)
    117. Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal (2025, Verve) B+(**)
    118. Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Lateral (2025, Verve/Opal) B+(*)
    119. Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Liminal (2025, Verve/Opal) B+(**)
    120. Stephane Wrembel: Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (2025, Water Is Life) B+(***)
    121. Alts 'N Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (1958-64 [2025], Blue Note) B+(**)
    122. Ray Barretto Y Su Orquesta: Celia · Ray · Adalberto: Tremendo Trio! (1983 [2025], Craft) B+(*)
    123. Big L: Harlem's Finest: Return of the King (1992-99 [2025], Mass Appeal) B+(***)
    124. Nahawa Doumbia: Vol. II (1982 [2024], Awesome Tapes From Africa) B+(***)
    125. Melvin Gibbs: Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25 [2025], Archetext) B+(**)
    126. Joseph Kamaru: Heavy Combination 1966-2007 (1966-2007 [2025], Disciples) A-
    127. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Live in Paris (1970 ( Lost ORTF Recordings) 1970 [2024], Transversales Disques
    128. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1964 [2025], Resonance) B+(***)
    129. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967 [2025], Resonance, 2CD) A-
    130. Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet: Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor (2004-24 [2025], Cellar Music, 2CD) B+(**)
    131. Makaya McCraven: PopUp Shop (2015 [2025], International Anthem, EP) B+(**)
    132. Makaya McCraven: Hidden Out! (2017 [2025], International Anthem, EP) B+(*)
    133. Makaya McCraven: The People's Mixtape (2025, International Anthem, EP) B+(***)
    134. Makaya McCraven: Techno Logic (2017-25 [2025], International Anthem, EP) B+(**)
    135. Makaya McCraven: Off the Record (2015-25 [2025], International Anthem) B+(**)
    136. Ø: Sysivalo (2014-17 [2025], Sähkö) B
    137. Jean Schwarz: Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002) (1972-2002 [2025], Transversales Disques) B+(***)
    138. Horace Silver: Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965 [2025], Blue Note) A-
    139. François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Après La Marée Noire: Vers Une Musique Bretonne Nouvelle (1979 [2025], Souffle Continu) A-
    140. X-Cetra: Summer 2000 [Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition] (2000 [2025], Numero Group) A-
    141. Zig-Zag Band: Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998 (1987-98 [2025], Analog Africa) A-
    142. Ashnikko: Weedkiller (2023, Parlophone) B+(**)
    143. Big L: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (1995, Columbia) B+(***)
    144. Big L: The Big Picture: 1974-1999 (1997-99 [2000], Rawkus) B+(**)
    145. Don Cherry/Jean Schwarz: Roundtrip (1977 ( Live at Théâtre Réccamier, Paris) 1977 [2023], Transversales Disques
    146. Ella Fitzgerald: Live at the Concergebouw 1961 [The Lost Recordings] (1961 [2017], Fondamenta) B+(**)
    147. Melvin Gibbs: Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave (2022, Editions Mego) B-
    148. The Staple Singers: The Staple Swingers (1971, Stax) B+(*)
    149. The Staple Singers: Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (1972, Stax) B+(**)
    150. The Staple Singers: Be What You Are (1973, Stax) B+(*)
    151. The Staple Singers: City in the Sky (1974, Stax) B+(**)
    152. Mavis Staples: Mavis Staples (1969, Volt) B+(**)
    153. Mavis Staples: Only for the Lonely (1970, Volt) B+(*)
    154. Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1995 [1996], Thrill Jockey) B+(***)
    155. Tortoise: Tortoise (1994, Thrill Jockey) B+(*)
    156. Stephane Wrembel: Django New Orleans (2022 [2023], Water Is Life) B+(***)
    157. Cecil McBee: Mutima (1974 [2025], Strata-East/Mack Avenue) B+(*)

    October 27

    1. $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (2025, Lex/DB$B) B+(***)
    2. Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (2024-25 [2025], Origin) B+(***)
    3. Agnas Bros.: Sista Försöket (2025, Moserobie) B+(***)
    4. Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (2025, Fönstret) B+(*)
    5. Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (2025, ScienSonic, EP) B+(*)
    6. Eric Alexander: Like Sugar (2024 [2025], Cellar Live) B+(***)
    7. Lily Allen: West End Girl (2025, BMG) B+(***)
    8. Ammar 808: Club Tounsi (2025, Glitterbeat) B+(**)
    9. Bar Italia: Some Like It Hot (2025, Matador) A-
    10. Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (2022-23 [2025], OYO) B+(*)
    11. Bright Eyes: Kids Table (2025, Dead Oceans, EP) B+(*)
    12. Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One (2025, Dekmantel) B+(**)
    13. Chrome Hill: En Route (2024 [2025], Clean Feed) B+(**)
    14. Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (2024 [2025], Wide Hive) B+(***)
    15. Tom Cohen: Embraceable Brazil (2025, Versa) B+(**)
    16. Bobby Conn: Bobby's Place (2025, Tapete, EP) B+(*)
    17. Hollie Cook: Shy Girl (2025, Mr Bongo) B+(**)
    18. Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves (2025, RVNG Intl) B+(***)
    19. Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    20. Madi Diaz: Fatal Optimist (2025, Anti-) A-
    21. Earscratcher: Otoliths (2024 [2025], Aerophonic) A-
    22. El Michaels Affair: 24 Hr Sports (2025, Big Crown) B-
    23. Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (2023 [2025], Buh) B+(**)
    24. Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury (2025, Sunnyside) B+(**)
    25. The Expert: Vivid Visions (2025, Rucksack) B+(**)
    26. Carter Faith: Cherry Valley (2025, MCA Nashville) B+(**)
    27. Robert Finley: Hallelujah! Don't Let the Devil Fool You (2025, Easy Eye) A-
    28. Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (2025, Sub Pop) B+(***)
    29. Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (2023 [2025], Out of Your Head) A-
    30. Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (2025, ATO, EP) B+(***)
    31. Phil Haynes & Free Country: Liberty Now! (1996-2025 [2025], Corner Store Jazz, 2CD) B+(**)
    32. Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (2025, Edition) B+(*)
    33. Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (2024 [2025], TH Productions) B+(***)
    34. Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (2020 [2025], Savant) B+(***)
    35. Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim: Soli Deo Gloria (2025, Dirty Looks) B+(**)
    36. Homeboy Sandman & Guidance: Tears of Joy (2025, self-released, EP) B+(*)
    37. Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (2025, Tru Thoughts) B+(**)
    38. Hunx and His Punx: Walk Out on This World (2025, Get Better) B-
    39. Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (2025, Origin) B+(***)
    40. JID: God Does Like Ugly (2025, Dreamville/Interscope) B+(***)
    41. Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall (2025, Empire) A-
    42. Rick Keller: Heroes (2024-25 [2025], Vegas) B-
    43. Killah Priest & Purpose: Abraxas 2 (2025, Proverbs) B+(*)
    44. Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (2025, Summer House/Epic) B+(*)
    45. Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (2025, Secretly Canadian) B+(***)
    46. Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(**)
    47. Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (2025, Blue Note) B+(*)
    48. Zack Lober: So We Could Live (2025, Zennez) B+(***)
    49. Russ Lossing Trio: Moon Inhabitants (2020 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(*)
    50. Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (2024 [2025], Edition) B
    51. Jim McNeely: Primal Colors (2025, Challenge) B+(*)
    52. Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (2025, Puro Unity, EP) B+(***)
    53. John Michel/Anthony James: Egotrip (2025, Loudmouth) B+(**)
    54. Rhett Miller: A Lifetime of Riding by Night (2025, ATO) B+(**)
    55. Neal Miner: Invisibility (2025, Cellar Music) B+(***)
    56. Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (2024 [2025], OA2) B+(*)
    57. Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (2025, Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    58. Andy Nevala: El Rumbón (The Party) (2023-24 [2025], Zoho) B+(***)
    59. Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (2025, Pulse, EP) B+(**)
    60. Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (2024 [2025], Silver Current) B+(***)
    61. Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (2024 [2025], Calligram) B+(***)
    62. Nicholas Payton: Triune (2025, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
    63. Princess Nokia: Girls (2025, Artist House) B+(***)
    64. The Prize: In the Red (2025, Anti Fade) B+(**)
    65. Reneé Rapp: Bite Me (2025, Interscope) B+(**)
    66. Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt/Thirst (2025, Unmusic) B+(*)
    67. Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Kaiho - Live in Helsinki (2025, Unmusic) B+(*)
    68. Rubén Reinaldo: Fusión Olívica (2024 [2025], Free Code Jazz) A-
    69. Jason Rigby: Mayhem (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(***)
    70. Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Yainer Horta/Joey Calveiro: A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole (2025, Calveiro Entertainment) B+(***)
    71. Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (2025, self-released) A-
    72. Patrick Shiroishi: Forgetting Is Violent (2025, American Dream) B+(*)
    73. Kalie Shorr: My Type (2025, Pound It Out Loud, EP) B+(***)
    74. Rich Siegel: It's Always Been You (2025, self-released) B
    75. Tom Skinner: Kaleidoscopic Visions (2025, International Anthem) B+(**)
    76. Wadada Leo Smith/Sylvie Courvoisier: Angel Falls (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(***)
    77. Maria Somerville: Luster (2025, 4AD) B+(*)
    78. Sprints: All That Is Over (2025, City Slang/Sub Pop) B+(***)
    79. Grant Stewart: Next Spring (2024 [2025], Cellar Music) B+(**)
    80. Sudan Archives: The BPM (2025, Stones Throw) A-
    81. Suede: Antidepressants (2025, BMG) B+(*)
    82. Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl (2025, Republic) A-
    83. Laura Taylor: Think I'm in Love (2025, Vegas) B+(*)
    84. The Third Mind: Right Now! (2025, Yep Roc) B+(***)
    85. Pat Thomas: ود ود (Wadud/Most Loving) (2023 [2025], Nyahh) B+(***)
    86. Patrisha Thomson: Your Love (2025, PT Designs Productions) B
    87. Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (2025, Pi) B+(***)
    88. Mark Turner: Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (2025, Giant Step Arts) B+(***)
    89. UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1: Double or Nothing (2025, Vegas) B
    90. Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (2025, Milan) B
    91. Wednesday: Bleeds (2025, Dead Oceans) A-
    92. Chris Williams: Odu: Vibrations II (2025, AKP) B+(**)
    93. Kenny Barron: Sunset to Dawn (1973 [2025], Muse/Time Traveler) B+(**)
    94. Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (1970 [2025], Muse/Time Traveler) A-
    95. Ray Charles: Best of Country & Western (1962-85 [2024], Tangerine) B+(**)
    96. Armen Donelian: Stargazer (1980 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(**)
    97. Ivan Farmakovskiy: Epic Power (2010 [2025], SteepleChase) B+(***)
    98. Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus (1976 [2025], Muse/Time Traveler) B+(*)
    99. Hot Chip: Joy in Repetition (2005-22 [2025], Domino) B+(**)
    100. John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Power to the People: Live at the One to One Concert (1972 [2025], Universal, 2CD) B+(**)
    101. Mark O'Leary Group: I See Further Than You (2001 [2025], TIBProd.) B+(**)
    102. Eli "Paperboy" Reed: Sings "Walkin' and Talkin'" and Other Smash Hits [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005 [2025], Yep Roc) B+(**)
    103. Pharoah Sanders: Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (1975 [2025], Transcendence Sounds, 2CD) B+(**)
    104. Atef Swaitat: Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (1970s [2025], Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive) B+(***)
    105. John Taylor: Tramonto (2002 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    106. Abdullah: Life's Force (1979, About Time) B+(***)
    107. Agnas Bros.: Lycka Till Med Musiken (2017 [2018], Agnas Musikproduktioner) B+(**)
    108. Agnas Bros.: Frya (2022, Haphazard Music) B+(**)
    109. Pheeroan ak Laff: House of Spirit: "Mirth" (1979 [1980], Passin' Thru) B+(***)
    110. Willem Breuker Kollektief: William Breuker Collective (1983 [1984], About Time) B+(***)
    111. Roy Brooks: Beat (1964, Workshop Jazz) B+(**)
    112. François Carrier Trio With Uri Caine: All' Aba (2001 [2002], Justin Time) A-
    113. Ray Charles: The Complete Swing Time and Down Beat Recordings (1949-1952) (1949-52 [2004], Night Train, 2CD) B+(*)
    114. Mike Clark: Plays Herbie Hancock (2022 [2023], Sunnyside) B+(**)
    115. Jerome Cooper: The Unpredictability of Predictability (1979, About Time) A-
    116. Jerome Cooper Quintet: Outer and Interactions (1987 [1988], About Time) B+(***)
    117. Fred Hopkins/Diedre Murray Quartet: Prophecy (1990 [1998], About Time) B+(***)
    118. Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: Eye on You (1980 [1981], About Time) B+(***)
    119. Sam Jones Plus 10: The Chant (1961, Riverside) B+(***)
    120. Jim McNeely Quintet: Rain's Dance (1976 [1978], SteepleChase) B+(***)
    121. Joe Morris: Racket Club (1993 [1998], About Time) B+(***)
    122. Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album (1998 [2025], TIBProd.) B+(*)
    123. Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (1999 [2025], TIBProd.) B+(**)
    124. Mark O'Leary/Cuong Vu/Tom Rainey: Waiting (2004 [2006], Leo) B+(***)
    125. Mark O'Leary/Ståle Storløkken/Stein Inge Braekhus: St. Fin Barre's (2002 [2008], Leo) B+(*)
    126. Mark O'Leary/Eyvind Kang/Dylan Van Der Schyff: Zemlya (2004 [2008], Leo) A-
    127. Mark O'Leary/Kenny Wollesen/Jamie Saft: The Synth Show (2005 [2008], Leo) B+(*)
    128. The Henry Threadgill Sextet: When Was That? (1981 [1982], About Time) B+(*)
    129. The Henry Threadgill Sexett: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (1983, About Time) B+(**)
    130. Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (2025, Loma Vista) A-

    September 29

    1. Adult Mom: Natural Causes (2025, Epitaph) B+(**)
    2. Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (2025, World Circuit) B+(*)
    3. JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (2025, Savant) B+(**)
    4. Amaarae: Black Star (2025, Interscope) A-
    5. Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads 2 (2025, Ovation) B+(*)
    6. Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (2023 [2025], AD 93) B+(**)
    7. Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (2024 [2025], Drag City) B+(***)
    8. Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (2025, Lex) B+(*)
    9. Apathy: Mom & Dad (2025, Dirty Version/Coalmine) A-
    10. Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (2025, Strut) B+(***)
    11. Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (2022-23 [2025], Sunnyside) A-
    12. Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
    13. Baths: Gut (2025, Basement's Basement) B
    14. Jon Batiste: Big Money (2025, Verve/Interscope) A-
    15. Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (2025, Sony Music Argentina) B+(**)
    16. The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (2025, Anti-) B+(***)
    17. Big Thief: Double Infinity (2025, 4AD) A-
    18. Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    19. Blood Orange: Essex Honey (2025, RCA/Domino) B+(*)
    20. Blueprint: Vessel (2025, Weightless) A-
    21. Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (2025, Escapism) A-
    22. David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra: Who Is the Sky? (2025, Matador) B+(**)
    23. Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (2025, Daughters of Cain) B+(*)
    24. Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (2025, Atlantic) B+(**)
    25. Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (2025, EMI/Universal) B+(**)
    26. Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (2025, Island) A-
    27. Chance the Rapper: Star Line (2025, self-released) A-
    28. Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (2024 [2025], Chicago Jazz Orchestra) B+(*)
    29. Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (2024 [2025], International Anthem) B+(***)
    30. Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (2024-25 [2025], International Anthem) B+(***)
    31. CMAT: Euro-Country (2025, CMATBaby/AWAL) A-
    32. George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (2022 [2025], Savant) A-
    33. Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (2025, Lone Star Rider/Island) B+(***)
    34. Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (2025, New West) B+(***)
    35. Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (2025, Lightning Rod) B+(**)
    36. Matt Daniel: The Poet (2025, self-released) B+(***)
    37. Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (2025, The Leaf Label) B+(***)
    38. Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    39. Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (2024-25 [2025], Hittite) B+(**)
    40. Dijon: Baby (2025, R&R/Warner) B+(*)
    41. Doja Cat: Vie (2025, Kemosabe/RCA) B+(**)
    42. Double Virgo: Shakedown (2025, Year0001) B+(***)
    43. Dave Douglas: Alloy (2025, Greenleaf Music) B+(**)
    44. Baxter Dury: Allbarone (2025, Heavenly) B+(*)
    45. Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (2025, Dualtone) B+(**)
    46. Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (2025, Rack 'Em) B+(***)
    47. Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (2025, Ndagga) B+(**)
    48. Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (2025, Rhymesayers Entertainment) B+(*)
    49. Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (2025, Deathbomb Arc) B+(*)
    50. Fieldwork: Thereupon (2024 [2025], Pi) A-
    51. Ingebrigt Häker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Live at Artfacts '22 (2022 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(*)
    52. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (2024 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(**)
    53. Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (2025, Jagjaguwar) B
    54. Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
    55. From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (2025, self-released) B+(***)
    56. Robbie Fulks: Now Then (2025, Compass) B
    57. Geese: Getting Killed (2025, Partisan) B
    58. Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (2025, Mass Appeal) B+(*)
    59. Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (2025, ESGN/ALC) B+(*)
    60. GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (2025, XXIM) B+(**)
    61. Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (2024 [2025], J.M.I.) B+(***)
    62. Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (2024 [2025], LP345) B+(*)
    63. Haim: I Quit (2025, Columbia) A-
    64. Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (2024 [2025], Turtle Bay) A-
    65. The High & Mighty: Sound of Market (2025, Eastern Conference) B+(***)
    66. The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (2025, PIAS) B+(***)
    67. Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (2025, ARC Music) B+(*)
    68. Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (2025, No Quartet) B+(***)
    69. Ill Considered: Balm (2025, New Soil) B+(**)
    70. Ill Considered: Live at Eye Film Museum (2024, New Soil) B+(**)
    71. Ill Considered & Rob Lewis: Emergence (2024, New Soil) B+(**)
    72. Ill Considered: UnEvensong (2024, New Soil) B+(***)
    73. Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (2025, RCA) B+(**)
    74. Cody Jinks: In My Blood (2025, Late August) B+(*)
    75. Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (2025, BarsOverBs) B+(**)
    76. Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (2025, RCA) B+(***)
    77. Larry Keel/Jon Stickley: Larry Keel & Jon Stickley (2025, self-released, EP) B
    78. Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (2025, Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) B+(**)
    79. Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (2025, Royal Potato Family) B+(***)
    80. Lex Korten: Canopy (2024 [2025], Sounderscore) B
    81. Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (2025, Ninja Tune, EP) B+(**)
    82. KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (2025, R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) A-
    83. Laufey: A Matter of Time (2025, AWAL) B+(**)
    84. Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (2017 [2025], Ultra Sound) B+(**)
    85. Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (2025, Nice Life/Atlantic) B+(*)
    86. Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (2025, self-released) B+(***)
    87. Tony Logue: Dark Horse (2025, Jenny Ridge Productions) B+(***)
    88. Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (2025, Blue Art) B+(**)
    89. Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    90. Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (2024 [2025], JMood) B+(***)
    91. Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya: Come Back (2025, Umsakazo) A-
    92. Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi (2024 [2025], Pacific Coast Jazz) B+(**)
    93. Maruja: Pain to Power (2025, Music for Nations) B
    94. Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (2025, Mack Avenue) B+(**)
    95. Juliet McConkey: Southern Front (2025, Soggy Anvil) B+(*)
    96. Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (2025, Nonesuch) B
    97. MindsOne: Stages (2025, Fort Lowell) A-
    98. Nils Petter Molvær: Khmer Live in Bergen (2023 [2025], Edition) A-
    99. Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (2025, Mountainrose Sparrow) B+(*)
    100. Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (2025, Apt. B Productions) B+(**)
    101. Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (2025, XL) B
    102. Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (2025, Marshall) B+(**)
    103. Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (2025, TIBProd.) B+(**)
    104. Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (2025, Biophilia) A-
    105. Kassa Overall: Cream (2025, Warp) B+(***)
    106. The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (2025, Cleopatra) B+(**)
    107. Panic Shack: Panic Shack (2025, Brace Yourself) A-
    108. Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (2025, Iron Tusk Music) A-
    109. Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (2025, self-released) A-
    110. Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (2025, Rounder) B+(***)
    111. Sam Prekop: Open Close (2025, Thrill Jockey) B+(*)
    112. Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez: Sortilège (2025, Backwoodz Studioz) B+(***)
    113. Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (2025, Loma Vista) B+(***)
    114. Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (2025, Matic) A-
    115. Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue (2025, Ravita Music) B
    116. Rent Romus/Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift (2023 [2025], Edgetone) B+(**)
    117. Steve Rosenbloom Big Band: San Francisco 1948 (2024 [2025], Glory) C
    118. Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (2024-25 [2025], Pyroclastic) A-
    119. Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (2022 [2025], 5Passion, 2CD) B+(***)
    120. Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap (2025, Nonesuch) B
    121. Shame: Cutthroat (2025, Dead Oceans) B
    122. Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (2022 [2025], Changu) A-
    123. ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (2025, Fused Arrow) B+(**)
    124. Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
    125. Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds (2025, Jalopy) B-
    126. Sam Stoane: Tales of the Dark West (2025, Cloverdale) A-
    127. Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (2025, Merge) B+(**)
    128. Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (2025, Tan Cressida/Warner) B+(*)
    129. Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem (2025, Aunt Daddy) A-
    130. Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (2024 [2025], Pyroclastic) A-
    131. Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Ki (2025, Libra) B+(**)
    132. Teyana Taylor: Escape Room (2025, Taylormade/Def Jam) B
    133. Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (2025, Leo33) B+(**)
    134. Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (2025, Bossier City) B+(*)
    135. Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (2025, Nonesuch) B+(**)
    136. Tyler, the Creator: Don't Tap the Glass (2025, Columbia) B+(*)
    137. UFO Fev & Body Bag Ben: Thousand Yard Stare (2025, 1332) B+(**)
    138. Us3: Soundtrack (2025, Us3) B
    139. Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid (2025, Copenhagen Crates) B+(***)
    140. Milan Verbist Trio: Time Change (2025, Origin) B+(*)
    141. Martina Verhoeven/Luis Lopes/Dirk Serries: Invincible Time (2023 [2025], Raw Tonk) B+(**)
    142. Vlure: Escalate (2025, Music for Nations) B+(**)
    143. Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate (2024 [2025], Out of Your Head) B+(***)
    144. Wild Iris Brass Band: Way Up (2025, Ear Up) B+(*)
    145. Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (2025, Post Atlantic) B+(**)
    146. Saul Williams: Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople (2024 [2025], International Anthem) B+(**)
    147. Simón Willson: Feel Love (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(**)
    148. Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing With Elephants (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(*)
    149. Yoko Yates: Eternal Moments (2024 [2025], Banka) B
    150. Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (2025, Reconstruction) A-
    151. Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (2024 [2025], Miel Music) A
    152. Bar-B-Q Killers: Part 1: The Last Shit (1986 [2025], Chunklet Industries, EP) B
    153. Marshall Crenshaw: From "The Hellhole" (2012-16 [2025], Yep Roc) B-
    154. Woody Guthrie: Woody at Home: Vol 1 + 2 (1951-52 [2025], Shamus) B+(*)
    155. John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (1973 [2025], BMG) A
    156. Jovino Santos Neto Quartet: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995 (1995 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    157. Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album ([2025], TIBProd.) B+(*)
    158. Charlie Rouse: Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977 [2025], Resonance) B+(*)
    159. Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Live in Foggia (1985 [2025], Ogun) A-
    160. Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live in Tompkins Square Park 1967 (1967 [2025], Inky Dot Media) B+(**)
    161. Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (1950-65 [2025], Matsuli Music) B+(**)
    162. Body Type: Expired Candy (2023, Poison City) B+(***)
    163. Chris Cacavas: Chris Cacavas and Junk Yard Love (1989, Heyday) B+(*)
    164. Chris Cacavas & Junkyard Love: Good Times (1992, Heyday) B+(***)
    165. Decius: Decius Vol. I (2022, The Leaf Label) B+(**)
    166. Hannah Delynn: The Naked Room Demos (2021, self-released, EP) B
    167. Hannah Delynn: Making Friends (2023, self-released, EP) B
    168. Mary Halvorson/Kirk Knuffke/Matt Wilson: Sifter (2011 [2012], Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    169. The High & Mighty: Home Field Advantage (1999, Rawkus) B+(***)
    170. High on Fire: Cometh the Storm (2024, MNRK Heavy) B
    171. Brad Mehldau: Après Fauré (2023 [2024], Nonesuch) B
    172. Brad Mehldau: After Bach II (2017-23 [2024], Nonesuch) B-
    173. Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge: The Folly of Desire (2022 [2023], Pentatone) B-
    174. Mark O'Leary/Mat Maneri/Matthew Shipp: Chamber Trio (2002 [2005], Leo) B+(**)
    175. Mark O'Leary/Tomasz Stanko/Billy Hart: Levitation (2000 [2005], Leo) B+(***)
    176. Mark O'Leary/Mat Maneri/Randy Peterson: Self-Luminous (2002 [2005], Leo) B+(**)
    177. Mark O'Leary/Uri Caine/Ben Perowsky: Closure (2003 [2005], Leo) B+(**)
    178. Mark O'Leary/Steve Swallow/Pierre Favre: Awakening (2000 [2006], Leo) B+(*)
    179. Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg: The Monkey Puzzle (1997, Leo) B+(***)
    180. Sam Prekop/John McEntire: Sons Of (2022, Thrill Jockey) A-
    181. Ned Rothenberg Double Band: Overlays (1991, Moers) A-
    182. Ned Rothenberg: The Crux: Selected Solo Wind Works (1989-1992) (1989-92 [1993], Leo) B+(***)
    183. Ned Rothenberg Double Band: Parting (1996 [2004], Moers Music) B+(*)
    184. Ned Rothenberg: Ghost Stories (1999-2000 [2000], Tzadik) B+(*)
    185. Ned Rothenberg Sync: Harbinger (2001-03 [2004], Animul) B+(***)
    186. Ned Rothenberg/Satoh Masahiko: Decisive Action (2003-04 [2004], BAJ) B+(**)
    187. Perico Sambeat: Ademuz (1995 [1998], Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(**)
    188. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (2024 [2025], Pi) A

    August 31

    1. Addison Rae: Addison (2025, As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) B+(*)
    2. Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (2025, Saponegro) B+(***)
    3. Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (2025, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
    4. David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (2025, Create or Destroy) B+(**)
    5. Barry Can't Swim: Loner (2025, Ninja Tune) B+(***)
    6. Alain Bédard Auguste Quartet: Particules Sonores (2024, Effendi) B+(**)
    7. Ilia Belorukov & Marina Džukljev: Everything Changes, Nothing Disappears (2022-23 [2024], Acheulian Handaxe) B+(***)
    8. Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (2025, Bella Union) B+(***)
    9. Gina Birch: Trouble (2025, Third Man) B+(**)
    10. Ron Blake: Scratch Band (2021 [2023], 7Ten33 Productions) B+(***)
    11. Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (2025, M.C.) B+(***)
    12. Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (2025, Mercury) B-
    13. Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (2025, Highway 87) A-
    14. Caroline: Caroline 2 (2025, Rough Trade) B
    15. Erika de Casier: Lifetime (2025, Independent Jeep Music) B+(**)
    16. Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
    17. Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra: Time Chamber (2023 [2024], Da Vinci Jazz) B+(**)
    18. Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (2025, RCA) A-
    19. Circuit Des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (2025, Matador) B
    20. Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (2025, Bootzilla/Roc Nation) B+(***)
    21. Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (2025, AED) B+(**)
    22. Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . and Voice (2025, Silver Sphinx) B+(***)
    23. Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (2025, Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) B+(***)
    24. Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (2025, Weird World/Domino) B
    25. Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (2025, Roadrunner) B+(*)
    26. Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (2025, Gravity/Capitol) B+(*)
    27. DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (2025, Pampa) B+(**)
    28. Djo: The Crux (2025, AWAL) B+(*)
    29. Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (2025, Hands Made, EP) B+(***)
    30. Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (2024, EMI North) B+(*)
    31. Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (2025, Cool Death, EP) B+(*)
    32. Wayne Escoffery: Alone (2024, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
    33. Ex_libris: Ex_libris - 001 (2025, Ex_libris, EP) B+(**)
    34. Ex_libris: Ex_libris - 002 (2025, Ex_libris, EP) B+(**)
    35. Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (2025, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
    36. Steven Feifke: The Role of the Rhythm Section Vol. II (2023 [2024], La Reserve) B+(**)
    37. Fines Double: Espejismo (2025, self-released) B+(***)
    38. Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio (2025, Thirty Tigers) B+(*)
    39. Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (2025, Domino) B(*)
    40. Mike Freeman Zona Vibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (2019 [2025], VOF) B+(***)
    41. Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (2025, Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) A-
    42. Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (2023 [2025], Yestereve) B+(**)
    43. Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (2023-24 [2025], International Anthem) B+(*)
    44. Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (2024 [2025], Open Mind Jazz) B+(*)
    45. Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (2025, Patois) B+(**)
    46. S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (2025, Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
    47. Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (2024 [2025], La Reserve) B+(*)
    48. Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (2024 [2025], Resonant Music) B+(***)
    49. Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (2025, Tare) B+(**)
    50. Heat On: Heat On (2024 [2025], Cuneiform) A-
    51. Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (2023 [2025], La Reserve/Diggers Factory) B+(*)
    52. Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (2025, Soft Launch) A-
    53. James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (2025, Border Community) A-
    54. The Horrors: Night Life (2025, Fiction/Universal) B+(**)
    55. Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (2024 [2025], Optical Substance) B+(*)
    56. Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (2025, Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) A-
    57. Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (2025, Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) B
    58. Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (2024-25 [2025[, MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) B+(*)
    59. Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (2023 [2025], Dot Time) A-
    60. Karol G: Tropicoqueta (2025, Bichota/Interscope) A-
    61. Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (2025, Red Hot Org, EP) B+(**)
    62. Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (2025, XL) B+(*)
    63. Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (2024 [2025], Sonic Transmission) B+(*)
    64. Lorde: Virgin (2025, Republic) B
    65. M(h)aol: Something Soft (2025, Merge) B+(***)
    66. Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (2022 [2025], Giant Step Arts) B+(**)
    67. Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (2023 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(**)
    68. Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (2022 [2025], Parco Della Musica) B+(*)
    69. Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (2025, Granary Music) B+(***)
    70. Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (2025, Nola Blue) A
    71. Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(***)
    72. PAL: Under Your Radar (2025, self-released, EP) B+(***)
    73. Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (2025, AWAL) A-
    74. PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (2024 [2025], Irabbagast) A-
    75. Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (2025, AWGE/Interscope) B+(**)
    76. Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (2022 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    77. Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (2025, Warp) B+(**)
    78. Pulp: More (2025, Rough Trade) B+(*)
    79. PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (2025, Rise) B+(*)
    80. Jesika von Rabbit: Bunnywood Babylon (2025, Dionysus) B+(**)
    81. Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway (2025, Blue Arrow) B+(*)
    82. Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen (2024, Verve) B+(***)
    83. Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (2022 [2025], 5Passion, 2CD) B+(***)
    84. Marc Seales With Ernie Watts: People & Places (2022-23 [2025], Origin) B+(***)
    85. Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (2025, Polydor) B+(***)
    86. Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (2025, Music Maker, EP) B+(**)
    87. Alex Sipiagin: Daydream (2024 [2025], SkyDeck Muisic) B
    88. Alex Sipiagin: Reverberations (2024 [2025], Criss Cross Jazz) B+(*)
    89. Slick Rick: Victory (2025, Mass Appeal) B+(***)
    90. Sparks: MAD! (2025, Transgressive) B-
    91. Sultan Stevenson: El Roi (2025, Edition) B+(*)
    92. Bill Stewart: Live at the Village Vanguard (2023 [2025], Criss Cross Jazz) B+(**)
    93. Swans: Birthing (2025, Young God/Mute) B
    94. Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (2025, Mushroom Music) B+(***)
    95. Kae Tempest: Self Titled (2025, Island) A-
    96. Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo (2025, Brownswood/Parlophone) B
    97. These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (2025, Domino) B+(*)
    98. Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat With the Grin and the Chuckle (2025, Origin) B+(**)
    99. Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (2025, Casa De Copas) B+(***)
    100. Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds (2025, Otherly Love) B+(**)
    101. Premik Russell Tubbs/Margee Minier-Tubbs: Oneness-World (2025, Margetoile) B+(*)
    102. Turnstile: Never Enough (2025, Roadrunner) B+(*)
    103. William Tyler: Time Indefinite (2025, Psychic Hotline) B+(*)
    104. Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(*)
    105. Vibration Black Finger: Everybody Cryin' Mercy (2024 [2025], Enid) B+(***)
    106. Chris Wabich: 1978 (Steep) (2024 [2025], ADW) B+(***)
    107. Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (2025, Ladylike/Sony) B+(***)
    108. Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (2025, Matador) A-
    109. Steven Wilson: The Overview (2025, Fiction) B+(*)
    110. Wretch 32: Home? (2025, AWAL) B+(**)
    111. Meryl Zimmerman: Easy to Love (2024, Tuxedo Cat) B
    112. Carlos "Zingaro"/João Madeira: Arcada Pendular (2023 [2025], 4DaRecord) A-
    113. Zurhub [Mattan Klein/Ezequiel Hezi Joit]: Countryside Motorways (2024 [2025], Origin) B
    114. Master Wilburn Burchette: Master Wilburn Burchette's Psychic Meditation Music (1974 [2025], Numero Group) B+(*)
    115. Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998 [2025], In Sheep's Clothing) B+(***)
    116. Brian Eno/Holger Czukay/J. Peter Schwalm: Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen (1998 [2024], Grönland) B+(**)
    117. Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (1963-72 [2025], Mississippi) B
    118. Hüsker Dü: Jan. 30, First Ave Pt. 1 (1985 [2025], Numero Group, EP) B+(**)
    119. Hüsker Dü: Nov. 3, Salt Lake City (1985 [2025], Numero Group, EP) B+(*)
    120. Lonnie Johnson With Elmer Snowden: Blues & Ballads (1960 [2025], Craft) B+(*)
    121. Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean (1950s-70s [2025], Strut) A-
    122. Kinloch Nelson: Waiting: More Recordings, 1968-1976 (1968-76 [2025], Tompkins Square) B+(**)
    123. Alick Nkhata: Radio Lusaka ([2025], Mississippi) B+(***)
    124. Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (1975-80 [2025], Analog Africa) B+(***)
    125. The Colson Unity Troupe: No Reservation (1980, Black Saint) B+(**)
    126. Holger Czukay: Der Osten Ist Rot (1984, Virgin) B+(*)
    127. Holger Czukay: Rome Remains Rome (1987, Virgin) A-
    128. Fines Double: Flotar (2021, Filthy Broke) B+(**)
    129. Blaze Foley: Blaze Foley [The Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings] (1984 [2017], Lost Art) B+(*)
    130. Roger Glenn: Reachin' (1976, Fantasy) B+(*)
    131. Alberta Hunter/Lucille Hegamin/Victoria Spivey: Songs We Taught Your Mother (1961 [1962], Bluesville) B+(***)
    132. Hüsker Dü: Extra Circus (1983 [2017], Numero Group) B
    133. Peter Ind: Looking Out (1958-61 [1962], Wave) B+(**)
    134. Peter Ind: Jazz Bass Baroque (1987 [1988], Wave) B+(**)
    135. Peter Ind: Looking Out/Jazz Bass Baroque (1958-87 [1999], Wave) B+(**)
    136. Lonnie Johnson With Victoria Spivey: Idle Hours (1961, Bluesville) B+(**)
    137. Sheila Jordan/Mark Murphy: One for Junior (1991 [1993], Muse) B+(**)
    138. Sheila Jordan/Jose Carra/Bori Albero: En La Fundación Valparaiso (2018 [2024], Clasijazz) B+(***)
    139. Stephan Kramer: Thank You Sheila (2018, House Master) B+(***)
    140. Steve Kuhn & Toshiko Akiyoshi: Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos (1963, Dauntless) B+(*)
    141. Steve Kuhn/Gary McFarland: The October Suite (1966 [1967], Impulse) B+(*)
    142. Steve Kuhn Quartet: Last Year's Waltz (1981 [1982], ECM) A-
    143. New Tutankhamen: I Wish You Were Mine (1979 [2019], Nyami Nyami) B+(*)
    144. PAL: PALS (2023, self-released, EP) B+(**)
    145. Roswell Rudd/Steve Lacy/Sheila Jordan: Blown Bone (1967-76 [1979], Philips) B+(***)
    146. Victoria Spivey: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 1 (11 May 1926 to 31 October 1927) (1926-27 [1995], Document) B+(**)
    147. Victoria Spivey: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 2 (31 October 1927 to 24 September 1929) (1927-29 [1995], Document) B+(***)
    148. Victoria Spivey: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 3 (1 October 1929 to 7 July 1936) (1929-36 [1995], Document) A-
    149. Victoria Spivey: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 4 (30 August 1936 to 21 July 1937) (1936-37 [1995], Document) B+(***)
    150. Victoria Spivey With Lonnie Johnson: Woman Blues! (1962, Bluesville) B+(**)
    151. Christian Stock Trio & Sheila Jordan & Adrian Mears: Straight Ahead (2000, YVP) B+(*)
    152. Aki Takase: ABC (1982, Union Jazz) B+(**)
    153. Vibration Black Finger: Blackism (2008 [2017], Enid) A-
    154. Vibration Black Finger: Can You See What I'm Trying to Say (2020, Jazzman) B+(***)

    July 28

    1. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (2024 [2025], Whirlwind) B+(**)
    2. Alchemy Sound Project/Sumi Tonooka: Under the Surface (2024 [2025], ARC) B+(***)
    3. Eric Alexander: Chicago to New York (2024 [2025], Cellar Music Group) B+(***)
    4. Arild Andersen: Landloper (2020 [2024], ECM) B+(**)
    5. Arashi With Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo (2019 [2024], Trost) B+(***)
    6. Michael Arbenz Meets Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    7. Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (2025, Columbia) B+(*)
    8. Elia Aregger Trio: Live (2025, Unit) B+(*)
    9. Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (2023 [2025], Zamzama) A-
    10. Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision (2025, AWAL) B+(**)
    11. Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (2025, Outside In Music) B+(**)
    12. Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (2025, Drink Sum Wtr) B+(*)
    13. Andy Biskin/Peter Hess/Mike McGinniss/Sam Sadigursky: Reed Basket (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    14. Ingi Bjarni: Hope (2023 [2025], Losen) B+(**)
    15. Jane Ira Bloom: Songs in Space (2024 [2025], Outline) B+(**)
    16. Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences: Resta Chi Va (2024 [2025], We Insist!) A-
    17. Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (2025, Mack Avenue) A-
    18. Alan Broadbent: Threads of Time (2025, Savant) B+(**)
    19. Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Ärvde (2024 [2025], Thanatosis) B+(**)
    20. Kevin Brunkhorst: After the Fire (2023 [2025], Calligram) B
    21. Nanna Carling: Melodies for Two (2024 [2025], The End) B+(*)
    22. Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (2025, Signature Sounds) B+(***)
    23. Milena Casado: Reflection of Another Self (2025, Candid) B+(*)
    24. Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (2023 [2025], Eremite) A-
    25. Chaos Magick: Through the Looking Glass (2024 [2025], Tzadik) B+(*)
    26. Brian Charette: Borderless (2024 [2025], SteepleChase) B
    27. Brian Charette: Working Out With Big G (2024 [2025], SteepleChase) B+(***)
    28. Etienne Charles: Gullah Roots (2025, Culture Shock) B+(**)
    29. Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (2024 [2025], Analog Tone Factory) B+(*)
    30. Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (2024 [2025], Lizard Breath) B+(***)
    31. Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (2025, UMG Nashville) B+(*)
    32. Dawn Clement/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Delight (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    33. Clipse: Let God Sort Them Out (2025, Roc Nation) A-
    34. Laura Cocks: FATHM (2025, Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads) B
    35. Coco Chatru Quartet: Limbokolia (2024 [2025], Trygger Music) B+(***)
    36. Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (2023 [2025], Eremite) A-
    37. Marco Colonna: Icarus Falling: To Mosab Abu Toha (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    38. Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (2020 [2025], Candid) B+(*)
    39. Theo Croker: Dream Manifest (2025, Dom Recs) B+(*)
    40. Theon Cross: Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (2025, New Soil) B+(**)
    41. Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band: La Fleure De Cayenne (2025, Sunnyside) B+(*)
    42. Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari: Journey to Nabta Playa (2025, Spiritmuse) B
    43. Dawn Patrol Jazz Band: A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (2024-25 [2025], self-released) B+(**)
    44. McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive! (2025, City Slang) B+(**)
    45. DJ Haram: Beside Myself (Hyperdub) B+(**)
    46. Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (2025, Strong Place Music) B+(*)
    47. Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (2025, Auto Reverse) A-
    48. Eight Dice Cloth: The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(***)
    49. John Ellis: Heroes (2023 [2025], Blue Room Music) B+(**)
    50. Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (2023-24 [2025], More Is More, EP) B+(**)
    51. Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance (2025, self-released) A-
    52. Sinsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (2025, SoFa) A-
    53. Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home (2025, Turtle Bay) B+(***)
    54. Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (2023 [2025], Gearbox) B+(*)
    55. Renaud Garcia-Fons: Blue Maqam (2024, Sound Surveyor Music) B+(**)
    56. Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love (2025, Morphius) B+(***)
    57. Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (2025, Savant) B+(**)
    58. José Gobbo Trio: Confluence (2025, Calligram) B+(**)
    59. Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (2024 [2025], Silkheart) B+(***)
    60. The Haas Company Featuring Jerry Goodman: Thirteen (2025, Psychiatric) B
    61. John Hart: Love Is (2023 [2024], SteepleChase) B+(**)
    62. Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (2023 [2025], Astral Spirits) B+(**)
    63. Arve Henriksen/Trygve Seim/Andmers Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (2023 [2025], ECM) B+(*)
    64. Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green (2024 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    65. History Dog: Root Systems (2024 [2025], Otherly Love) B+(***)
    66. Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (2025, Edition) B+(**)
    67. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (2025, Phantom Limb) B+(**)
    68. Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky: Music From the Deserts (2022-23 [2025], Edgetone, 2-LP) A-
    69. Rico Jones: Bloodlines (2024 [2025], Giant Step Arts) B+(***)
    70. Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (2022-23 [2025], Ronin Rhythm) B+(*)
    71. Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi (2024 [2025], Circum/Libra) A-
    72. Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil: Choro Das Aguas (2023 [2025], Alternate Side) B+(***)
    73. Jukka-Pekka Kervinen/Kevin Miller: Primordial (2025, Ramble) B+(**)
    74. Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys: Mutiny in the Parlor (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(***)
    75. Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (2025, Brownswood) B
    76. Joachim Kühn: Échappée (2023 [2025], Intakt) B+(**)
    77. Jim Kweskin: Doing Things Right (2025, Jalopy) B+(***)
    78. Hélène Labarrière: Puzzle (2025, Jazzdor) B+(**)
    79. José Lencastre/Flak: Cloudy Skies (2025, Phonogram Unit) B+(**)
    80. Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (2024 [2025], 4AD) B+(**)
    81. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI (2025, Young Money/Republic) B+(*)
    82. Peter Lin/AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity (2024 [2025], OA2) B+(***)
    83. Little Simz: Lotus (2025, Little Simz) B+(*)
    84. David Lord: Forest Standards Vol. 4 (2022 [2024], BIG EGO) B+(*)
    85. Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble: Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions (2021 [2025], Denouement) B+(*)
    86. Emi Makabe: Echo (2025, Sunnyside) B
    87. Chad McCullough/Gordon Spasovski/Kiril Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski: Transverse (2024 [2025], Calligram) B+(***)
    88. Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (2025, Artworks) B+(*)
    89. James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (2025, New West) A-
    90. Joe McPhee: I'm Just Sayin' (2025, Smalltown Supersound) B+(**)
    91. Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez: Mama Killa (2024-25 [2025], Burning Ambulance) B+(**)
    92. Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (2023 [2025], Red Hook) B+(**)
    93. Qasim Naqvi: Endling (2024 [2025], Erased Tapes) B+(*)
    94. Youssou N'Dour: Éclairer Le Monde - Light the World (2025, self-released) B+(***)
    95. Camila Nebbia/Dietrich Eichmann/John Hughes/Jeff Arnal: Chrononaux (2024, Generate) A-
    96. Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (2025, Lilaila) B+(**)
    97. Niontay: Fada<3of$ (2025, 10k) B+(*)
    98. Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (2024 [2025], Rabbit Hill) B+(***)
    99. Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (2024 [2025], Otoroku) B+(*)
    100. Pat Petrillo: Contemporaneous (2024 [2025], Innervision) B+(*)
    101. Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (2025, Dynamite Hill) B+(*)
    102. Public Enemy: Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 (2025, Enemy) A-
    103. Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    104. Eric Scott Reed: Out Late (2025, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
    105. Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumière (2024 [2025], Zoning) A-
    106. Toms Rudzinskis: Interception (2023 [2024], Jersika) B+(***)
    107. Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language (2025, Pacific Coast Jazz) B+(*)
    108. Stefan Schultze/Peter Ehwald/Tom Rainey: Public Radio (2024 [2025], Jazzwerkstatt) B+(**)
    109. Altin Sencalar: Unleashed (2024 [2025], Posi-Tone) B+(*)
    110. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (2024 [2025], Corbett vs. Dempsey) B+(***)
    111. Slikback: Attrition (2025, Planet Mu) B+(*)
    112. Hal Smith's San Francisco Jazz All-Stars: Live at the International Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival '24 Sedalia, MO [Vol. 1] (2024, self-released) B+(**)
    113. Junior Smith and His Remote Rangers: Junior Smith's Remote Round Up (2025, self-released) B+(*)
    114. Snowpoet: Heartstrings (2025, Edition) B+(*)
    115. Something Blue: In the Beginning (2024 [2025], Posi-Tone) B+(*)
    116. Sons of Ra: Standard Deviation (2025, Free Electric Sound) B+(*)
    117. Tessa Souter: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (2025, Noanara Music) B+(***)
    118. Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: Land of Hopes & Dreams (2025, Columbia) A-
    119. Larry Stabbins/Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (2024 [2025], Discus Music) B+(**)
    120. Laura Stevenson: Late Great (2025, Really) B+(*)
    121. Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann/Kazuhisa Uchihashi: Tanto (2022 [2025], Innocent) B+(***)
    122. Pat Thomas: The Bliss of Bliss (2024 [2025], Konnekt) B+(***)
    123. Dlala Thukzin: 031 Studio Camp 2.0 (2025, Dlala) B+(***)
    124. Triology Featuring Scott Hamilton: The Slow Road (2024 [2025], Cellar Music Group) B+(**)
    125. Tropos: Switches (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(**)
    126. Uroboro: As in an Unpicking of Time's Garment (2023 [2024], Discus Music) A-
    127. Kelsey Waldon: Every Ghost (2025, Oh Boy) B+(***)
    128. Jeff Walton: Pack Animals (2023 [2025], Jules) B+(**)
    129. Wet Leg: Moisturizer (2025, Domino) B+(**)
    130. Hailey Whitters: Corn Queen (2025, Big Loud/Pigasus) A-
    131. Sarah Wilson: Incandescence (2024 [2025], Brass Tonic) B+(*)
    132. Jessica Winter: My First Album (2025, Lucky Number) B+(**)
    133. Wu-Tang X Mathematics: Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (2025, 36 Chambers/DNA Music) A-
    134. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (2025, The Other Shoe/Reprise) A-
    135. Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (2025, Impulse!) B+(*)
    136. Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 1 (1968 [2024], Red) B+(***)
    137. Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 2 (1968 [2025], Red) B+(***)
    138. Blackbyrds: City Life (1973-74 [2025], Craft) B+(*)
    139. Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960 [2025], Candid) B+(**)
    140. Walter Davis Jr: A Being Such as You (1979 [2025], Red) B+(*)
    141. Manu Dibango: Dibango 82 (1982 [2025], We Want Sounds) B+(**)
    142. Dexter Gordon: Landslide (1961-62 [2025], Blue Note) B+(**)
    143. Green Cosmos: Abendmusiken (1981-82 [2025], Frederiksberg) B+(**)
    144. John Lee Hooker: The Charcot Sessions (1969 [2024], Southern Echoes) B+(***)
    145. Keith Jarrett: New Vienna: At the Musikverein, 2016 (2016 [2025], ECM) B+(***)
    146. Frank Kimbrough: The Call (2010 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(**)
    147. Grace Potter: Medicine (2008 [2025], Hollywood) B+(***)
    148. Sly & the Family Stone: The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 (1967 [2025], High Moon) B
    149. Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Lives! (Aka the Burden of Black Genius) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1967-73 [2025], Sony/Legacy) B+(**)
    150. Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (1977-79 [2025], Modern Marmonic) B+(**)
    151. Sun Ra: On Jupiter (1979 [2025], Saturn/Strut) B+(**)
    152. Nanna Carling: That's a Plenty (2022, Solters) B+(**)
    153. Billie Holiday: Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Billie Holiday (1936-58 [2000], Verve) A-
    154. KADEF: KADEF (2023, RR Gems) B+(***)
    155. Janet Klein: Come Into My Parlor (1998, Coeur De Jeanette) B+(**)
    156. Klas Lindquist: The Song Is You (2015, Do Music) B+(**)
    157. Klas Lindquist: Handle With Care (2024, Yellow Car) B+(**)
    158. Motown Classics: Gold (1960-72 [2005], Motown, 2CD) A+
    159. Joe Sanders: Introducing Joe Sanders (2011 [2012], Criss Cross Jazz) B+(**)
    160. Ran Blake/Claire Ritter: Eclipse Orange (2017 [2019], Zoning) A-
    161. Ray Charles: A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles (1954-71 [1971], ABC) A
    162. Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (2025, Def Jam) A-
    163. Louis Jordan: Five Guys Named Moe: Vol. 2 (1939-55 [1992], MCA) A+
    164. New York Dolls: In Too Much, Too Soon (1974, Mercury) A+
    165. PinkPantheress: Fancy That (2025, Warner, EP) B+(***)
    166. New York Dolls: New York Dolls (1973, Mercury) A

    June 26

    1. Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (2025, Sub Pop) B+(**)
    2. Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette (2025, Rhymesayers) B+(***)
    3. Sophie Agnel/John Butcher: Rare (2024 [2025], Les Disques Victo) B+(**)
    4. Sophie Agnel: Song (2022-24 [2025], Relative Pitch) B+(*)
    5. Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016 [2025], European Echoes) A-
    6. Zoh Amba: Sun (2025, Smalltown Supersound) B+(***)
    7. Aya: Hexed! (2025, Hyperdub) B
    8. Jon Balke: Skrifum (2023 [2025], ECM) B+(*)
    9. Benny Benack III: This Is the Life (2024 [2025], Bandstand Presents) B+(***)
    10. Antonia Bennett: Expressions (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    11. Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (2025, IOT) B+(***)
    12. Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (2025, Jagjaguwar) B+(*)
    13. Christer Bothén 3: L'Invisible (2024 [2025], Thanatosis) B+(***)
    14. BROM: Чёрная голова [Black Head] (2023 [2025], Addicted Label) B+(***)
    15. Yves Brouqui: Mean What You Say (2024 [2025], SteepleChase) B+(**)
    16. Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (2025, Livia) B+(**)
    17. Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (2025, Matador) B+(**)
    18. Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (2025, Candid) B+(***)
    19. Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (2023 [2025], 577) B+(***)
    20. Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (2025, CC4L/Columbia) B+(**)
    21. Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (2025, Kill Rock Stars) B
    22. Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos (2025, Blue Note) B
    23. Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (2025, Bella Union/Congrats) B+(*)
    24. The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (2025, Winspear) B+(**)
    25. Cosmic Ear: Traces (2025, We Jazz) A-
    26. Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (2025, MCEO/Columbia) B+(**)
    27. Amalie Dahl: Breaking/Building Habits (2024 [2025], SauaJazz) A-
    28. Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere (2024 [2025], Sounds Familiar) B+(**)
    29. DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(***)
    30. Michel Doneda/Lê Quan Ninh/Núria Andorrà: El Retorn De L'Escolta: A La Memòria De Marianne Brull (2023 [2024], Fundacja Słuchaj) B
    31. Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul (2022-24 [2025], Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(***)
    32. Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (2023 [2025], Trost) B+(***)
    33. Marty Ehrlich: Trio Exaltation: This Time (2024 [2025], Sunnyside) A-
    34. Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (2023 [2025], Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    35. Jeff Evans Porkestra: When Pigs Dance (2025, self-released, EP) B+(**)
    36. Alon Farber Hagiga: Dreams | Dream (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    37. Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (2021 [2025], Relative Pitch) B+(*)
    38. Robert Forster: Strawberries (2025, Tapete) A-
    39. Michika Fukumori: Eternity (2023 [2025], Summit) B+(***)
    40. Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (2025, Bella Union) B+(**)
    41. Rocio Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Forma Del Sueño (2023 [2025], Blue Art) B+(***)
    42. Danny Grissett: Travelogue (2025, Savant) B+(**)
    43. David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (2025, self-released) A-
    44. Noah Haidu: Standards III (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
    45. Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (2024 [2025], Nonesuch) A-
    46. Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (2023 [2025], Ropeadope) B+(*)
    47. Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(**)
    48. Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (2025, Edition) B+(*)
    49. Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (2022 [2025], True Sound) A-
    50. Jane in Ether: Oneiric (2023 [2025], Confront) B+(*)
    51. Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (2022 [2025], Trost) B+(***)
    52. Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (2023 [2025], Balance Point Acoustics) B+(***)
    53. Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (2025, Auricle) B+(***)
    54. Kneebody: Reach (2025, GroundUP Music) B
    55. James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (2024 [2025], Intakt) A-
    56. Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (2023 [2025], SteepleChase LookOut) B+(***)
    57. Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn (2025, Matador) B
    58. Littorina Saxophone Quartet: Leaking Pipes (2024 [2025], NoBusiness) B+(***)
    59. Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (2024 [2025], RogueArt) B+(**)
    60. Joe Lovano: Homage (2023 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    61. K. Curtis Lyle/Jaap Blonk/Alex Cunningham/Damon Smith/Kevin Cheli: A Radio of the Body (2024, Balance Point Acoustics) B+(***)
    62. K. Curtis Lyle/George Sams/Adi Du Dharma Joshua Weinstein/Damon Smith/Ra Kalaam Bob Moses/Henry Claude: 29 Birds You Never Heard (2022 [2024], Balance Point Acoustics) A-
    63. Madre Vaca: Yukon (2025, Madre Vaca) B+(***)
    64. Joe Magnarelli: Concord (2024 [2025], SteepleChase) B+(**)
    65. Maruja: Tír na nÓg (2025, Music for Nations, EP) B+(**)
    66. Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (2024 [2025], Capri) B+(***)
    67. Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (2023 [2025], Capri) B+(***)
    68. The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag (2025, Summit) B+(**)
    69. Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (2025, Dying Victims Productions) B+(*)
    70. Ava Mendoza: The Circular Train (2024, Palilalia) B+(*)
    71. Ela Minus: Día (2025, Domino) B+(**)
    72. Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (2024 [2025], Wide Hive) B+(*)
    73. Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (2025, Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) B+(**)
    74. MonoNeon: You Had Your Chance - Bad Attitude (2025, Floki Studios) B+(*)
    75. Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp: Realism (2023 [2025], ESP-Disk) A-
    76. Motian & More: Gratitude (2022-23 [2025], Phonogram Unit) A-
    77. Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (2025, Don Giovanni) B+(**)
    78. Greg Murphy: Snap Happy (2024 [2025], Whaling City Sound) B+(**)
    79. Nao: Jupiter (2025, Little Tokyo) B+(***)
    80. Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (2025, Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    81. Billy Nomates: Metalhorse (2025, Invada) B+(**)
    82. Eva Novoa: Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (2020 [2025], 577) B+(**)
    83. Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All the Way (2023 [2025], ESP-Disk) A-
    84. The Onions: Return to Paradise (2025, Hitt) C+
    85. Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive 4 (2024 [2025], Hausu Mountain) B+(**)
    86. PinkPantheress: Fancy That (2025, Warner, EP) B+(*)
    87. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower (2024 [2025], TAO Forms) A-
    88. Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (2025, Dekmantel) B+(**)
    89. Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance (2024 [2025], Trouble in the East) B+(**)
    90. Preservation Brass: For Fat Man (2025, Sub Pop) B+(***)
    91. The Quantum Blues Quartet: Quantum Blues (2025, Ropeadope) B+(**)
    92. Andrew Rathbun: Lost in the Shadows (2025, SteepleChase) B+(**)
    93. Resavoir & Matt Gold: Horizon (2025, International Anthem) B
    94. Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City (2025, New West) B+(*)
    95. Sverre Sæbo Quintet: If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (2025, SauaJazz) B+(**)
    96. Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura (2024 [2025], Tapestry) B+(**)
    97. Samia: Bloodless (2025, Grand Jury) B+(***)
    98. Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift: Trio Studies (2022 [2025], Jazz Haus Musik) B+(***)
    99. Scowl: Are We All Angels (2025, Dead Oceans) B+(***)
    100. The Sharp Pins: Radio DDR (2025, K/Perennial Death) B+(*)
    101. Sherelle: With a Vengeance (2025, Method 808) B+(***)
    102. Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (2024 [2025], Cantaloupe Music) A-
    103. Julian Shore Trio: Sub Rosa (2024 [2025], Chill Tone) B+(**)
    104. Deborah Silver/The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks! (2025, Green Hill) B
    105. Ches Smith: Clone Row (2024 [2025], Otherly Love) B+(***)
    106. Ches Smith: The Self (2023 [2025], Tzadik) B+(*)
    107. Mark Solborg: Tungemål: Confluencia (2025, ILK Music) B+(*)
    108. Bartees Strange: Horror (2025, 4AD) B+(*)
    109. Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music, EP) B+(*)
    110. Sun & Rain: Waterfall (2022 [2025], Out of Your Head) B+(**)
    111. Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny (2025, FMR) B+(**)
    112. Um, Jennifer?: Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (2025, Final Girl) B+(**)
    113. Inés Velasco: A Flash of Cobalt Blue (2025, self-released) B+(*)
    114. Viagra Boys: Viagr Aboys (2025, Shrimptech/YEAR0001) B+(***)
    115. Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 2 (2025, Turtle Bay) A-
    116. Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections (2024 [2025], Pi) B+(***)
    117. Wheelhouse: House and Home (2024 [2025], Aerophonic) A-
    118. Jim White/Marisa Anderson: Swallowtail (2022 [2024], Thrill Jockey) B+(*)
    119. Brandon Woody: For the Love of It All (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    120. John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points in Time (2024 [2025], See Tao) B+(**)
    121. Yeule: Evangelic Girl Is a Gun (2025, Ninja Tune) B+(**)
    122. African Jazz Invites O.K. Jazz (1961-70 [2025], Planet Ilunga) B+(***)
    123. The Bitter Ends: The Bitter Ends (2022 [2025], Trouble in River City) A-
    124. Anthony Braxton: B-X0 N0-47A (1969 [2025], BYG Actuel) B+(**)
    125. Dave Burrell/Sam Woodyard: The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (1979 [2025], NoBusiness) A-
    126. Marco Eneidi Quartet: Wheat Fields of Kleyehof (2004 [2025], Balance Point Acoustics) B+(***)
    127. Bill Evans: Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (1964-69 [2025], Elemental Music) B+(**)
    128. Charles Kynard: Woga (1972 [2025], We Want Sounds) B+(***)
    129. Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (1974-76 [2025], NoBusiness) A-
    130. Mazinga: Chinese Democracy Manifest: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (2024 [2025], Rubber Wolf?) B+(***)
    131. Nellie McKay: Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos (2003 [2005], Omnivore) B+(***)
    132. Misha Mengelberg/Sabu Toyozumi: The Analects of Confucius (2000 [2025], NoBusiness) A-
    133. Moskito: Idolar (2001 [2025], Awesome Tapes From Africa) B+(***)
    134. Gerry Mulligan: Nocturne (1992 [2025], Red) B+(**)
    135. David "Fathead" Newman/Ellis Marsalis/Cornell Dupree: Return to the Wide Open Spaces (1990 [2025], Amazing/Steady Boy) B+(**)
    136. Kristen Noguès/John Surman: Diriaou (1998 [2025], Souffle Continu) A-
    137. Ray Russell Quartet: The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (1967-69 [2024], Jazz in Britain) A-
    138. Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink: Irène's Hot Four (1981 [2025], Intakt) A-
    139. Louis Stewart: I Thought About You (1977 [2025], Livia) B+(**)
    140. Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970 [2025], Strut) B+(***)
    141. Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (1970s-80s [2025], Modern Harmonic) B+(**)
    142. John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969 [2025], Cuneiform) B+(***)
    143. Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï: The Ecstatic Electro Sound of Original Raï Cassettes 1986-1991 (1986-91 [2025], We Want Sounds) B+(***)
    144. Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: Flashing Spirits (1988 [2025], Burning Ambulance) A-
    145. Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua (1969 [2025], BYG Actuel) B+(**)
    146. Ryan Truesdell: Shades of Sound: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol. 2 (2014 [2025], Outside In Music) A-
    147. François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Vol. 4: Jo Maka (1977 [2025], Souffle Continu) A-
    148. Motoharu Yoshizawa/Kim Dae Hwan: Way of the Breeze (1993 [2025], NoBusiness) A-
    149. Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey: On View at the Five Spot Café (1959 [1960], Blue Note) B+(*)
    150. Amalie Dahl/Henrik Sandstad Dalen/Jomar Jeppsson Søvik: Fairytales for Daydreamers (2022 [2023], Nice Things) B+(*)
    151. Amalie Dahl: Memories (2023, Sonic Transmissions) B+(*)
    152. Amalie Dahl/Jomar Jeppsson Søvik/Henrik Sandstad Dalen: Live in Europe (2023 [2024], Nice Things) B+(**)
    153. Docteur Nico: Dieu De La Guitare (1954-70 [2018], Planet Ilunga) B+(***)
    154. Muriel Grossmann: Universal Code (2022 [2023], RR Gems) B+(**)
    155. Andy Haas/David Grollman: Act of Love (2023, Resonant Music, EP) B+(*)
    156. Les Rallizes Denudés: Blind Baby Has It's Mothers Eyes ([2003], bootleg) B+(***)
    157. K. Curtis Lyle: The Collected Poem/For Blind Lemon Jefferson (1971, Mbari) B+(**)
    158. Mazinga: Mazinga (1999, Reanimator) B+(*)
    159. Syran Mbenza: Sisika (1986, Syllart) B+(***)
    160. Resilient Vessels: Live at the Cell (2020 [2021], RR Gems) A-
    161. Deborah Silver: The Gold Standards (2016, Deborah Silver) B+(*)
    162. Soft Works [Elton Dean/Allan Holdsworth/Hugh Hopper/John Marshall]: Abracadabra in Osaka (2003 [2020], MoonJune) B+(***)
    163. Soft Works: Abracadabra (2002 [2025], MoonJune) B+(***)
    164. Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (2025, City Slang) A-
    165. Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (2023 [2025], ESP-Disk) B+(**)

    May 26

    1. Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (2021 [2025], Jazzbird) B+(*)
    2. Albare: Eclecticity (2025, Alfi) B+(*)
    3. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia (2022-24 [2025], Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) B+(***)
    4. Anika: Abyss (2025, Sacred Bones) B+(***)
    5. Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (2025, Matador) B+(***)
    6. Jon Batiste: Beethoven Blues [Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1] (2024, Verve) B+(*)
    7. Håkon Berre: Mirror Matter (2025, Barefoot) B+(**)
    8. Eric Bibb: In the Real World (2024, Stony Plain/True North) B+(**)
    9. Bloodest Saxophone Featuring Crystal Thomas: Extreme Heat (2024, Dialtone) B+(*)
    10. Buck 65: Keep Moving (2025, Handsmade) A-
    11. T Bone Burnett: The Other Side (2024, Verve Forecast) B+(**)
    12. Chris Cain: Good Intentions Gone Bad (2024, Alligator) B+(**)
    13. Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (2025, Valory Music) B+(*)
    14. Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (2024 [2025], HighNote) B+(***)
    15. Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (2023 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    16. George Colligan: You'll Hear It (2024, La Reserve) B+(*)
    17. Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (2022 [2025], Desafio Candente) B+(***)
    18. Alyn Cosker: Onta (2025, Calligram) B+(*)
    19. The Coward Brothers: The Coward Brothers (2024, New West) B+(*)
    20. Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (2025, Def Jam) B+(*)
    21. Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (2025, Geffen) A-
    22. James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (2024 [2025], Calligram) B+(***)
    23. Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (2024 [2025], International Anthem) B+(**)
    24. Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (2025, Merge) B+(**)
    25. DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(***)
    26. Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (2025, Houndstooth) B+(***)
    27. Paul Dunmall Quartet: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (2022 [2024], RogueArt) A-
    28. Early James: Medium Raw (2025, Easy Eye Sound) B
    29. Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (2024 [2025], Stunt) B+(**)
    30. Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (2024 [2025], Multiphonics Music) B+(***)
    31. Erik Friedlander: Dirty Boxing (2024, Skipstone) B+(**)
    32. Erik Friedlander: Floating City (2024, Skipstone) B
    33. Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/Kit Downes: Breaking the Shell (2022 [2024], Red Hook) B+(*)
    34. Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message (2024 [2025], Libra) A-
    35. Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (2025, Tchoup-Zilla) B+(***)
    36. Don Glori: Paper Can't Wrap Fire (2025, Mr Bongo) B
    37. Jon Gold: Chasing Echos (2025, Entropic) C+
    38. Larry Goldings: I Will (2023-24 [2025], Sam First) B+(*)
    39. The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (2025, Psychiatric) B+(*)
    40. Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (2025, Saustex) A-
    41. Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (2025, AGS, 2CD) B+(*)
    42. HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(**)
    43. Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (2025, Smalltown Supersound) B+(***)
    44. Art Hirahara: Good Company (2023 [2024], Posi-Tone) B+(*)
    45. HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (2025, Loma Vista) B+(*)
    46. Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (2025, self-released, EP) B+(*)
    47. Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (2025, 4AD) B+(***)
    48. Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence Live (2023 [2025], Intakt) B+(**)
    49. Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (2022 [2025], MKMusic) B+(*)
    50. Salif Keita: So Kono (2025, No Format) B+(**)
    51. KnCurrent: KnCurrent (2024 [2025], Deep Dish) B+(***)
    52. Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (2024 [2025], W.E.R.F.) B+(*)
    53. Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B-
    54. Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (2022 [2025], Waking Up Music) B+(***)
    55. Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (2023-24 [2025], 4DaRecord) B+(***)
    56. Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny (2025, The Audiophile Society) B+(*)
    57. Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (2025, Septic Tiger) B+(***)
    58. Magnus Lindgren & John Beasley: The Butterfly Effect (2023 [2024], ACT Music) B
    59. Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room on the Porch (2025, Concord Jazz) B+(***)
    60. Fergus McCreadie: Stream (2024, Edition) B+(***)
    61. Nate Mercereau: Excellent Traveler (2024, Third Man) B+(***)
    62. Mira Trio: Machinerie (2022-23 [2025], 4DaRecord) B+(**)
    63. Model/Actriz: Pirouette (2025, True Panther/Dirty Hit) B+(**)
    64. Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (2024 [2025], Rune Grammofon) B+(***)
    65. David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (2025, Impulse!) A-
    66. Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality (2025, Drag City) B+(**)
    67. Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (2025, Legacy) A-
    68. Nikara Presents . . . Black Wall Street: The Queen of Kings County (2022-23 [2024], Switch Hit) B+(**)
    69. Carlos "Zingaro"/Bruno Parrinha/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Enleio (2024 [2025], 4DaRecord) B+(***)
    70. John Patitucci: Spirit Fall (2024 [2025], Edition) B+(***)
    71. Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (2025, Tokinogake) B
    72. Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band: Honeysuckle (2025, Family Owned) B+(**)
    73. Dan Phillips Trio: Array in Brown (2025, Lizard Breath) B+(***)
    74. Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron: Hindsight: Live at La Seine Musicale (2024, CAM Jazz) B+(**)
    75. Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (2024 [2025], OA2) B+(**)
    76. The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars: Llegue (2025, F&F) B+(***)
    77. Ron Rieder: Día Precioso! (2025, Meson) B+(*)
    78. Sault: 10 (2025, Forever Living Originals) B+(*)
    79. Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framåt! (2023 [2025], Grong) B+(***)
    80. Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 2 (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(**)
    81. The Gary Smulyan and Frank Basile Quintet: Boss Baritones (2024, SteepleChase) B+(**)
    82. Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film (2025, Warp) B+(*)
    83. Luke Stewart/Silt Rembrance Ensemble: The Order (2023 [2025], Cuneiform) B+(***)
    84. Melinda Sullivan/Larry Goldings: Big Foot (2024, Colorfield) B+(*)
    85. Sumac and Moor Mother: The Film (2025, Thrill Jockey) A-
    86. Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (2025, We Jazz) B+(**)
    87. Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming (2025, 4AD) B+(*)
    88. Kali Uchis: Sincerely, (2025, Capitol) B+(**)
    89. Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (2023 [2025], International Anthem) B+(**)
    90. Julia Úlehla and Dálava: Understories (2021 [2025], Pi) B+(**)
    91. Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    92. Nasheet Waits: New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet) (2021-22 [2024], Giant Step Arts) B+(***)
    93. Michael Waldrop: Native Son (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    94. The War and Treaty: Plus One (2025, Mercury/UMG Nashville) B-
    95. David Weiss Sextet: Auteur (2023 [2024], Origin) B+(***)
    96. Ben Wendel: Understory: Live At The Village Vanguard (2022 [2024], Edition) B+(**)
    97. Carolyn Wonderland: Truth Is (2025, Alligator) B+(**)
    98. Billy Woods: Golliwog (2025, Backwoodz Studioz) A-
    99. Clay Wulbrecht: The Clockmaster (2024 [2025, Instru Dash Mental) B+(*)
    100. Neil Young: Coastal: The Soundtrack (2023 [2025], Reprise) B+(*)
    101. Carlos "Zingaro"/Flo Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Na Parede (2023 [2025], 4DaRecord) A-
    102. Borghesia: Clones (1984 [2025], Dark Entries) B+(**)
    103. Charles Brackeen: Rhythm X (1968 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    104. The Brass Company: Colors (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    105. George Colligan: Live at the Jazz Standard (2014 [2025], Whirlwind) B+(**)
    106. Stanley Cowell: Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    107. Stanley Cowell: Regeneration (1975 [2025], Strata-East) B
    108. Stanley Cowell/Billy Harper/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart: Such Great Friends (1983 [2025], Strata-East) A-
    109. The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks (1973 [2025], Strata-East) B
    110. Ellery Eskelin: Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) A-
    111. Shamek Farrah: First Impressions (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    112. Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith: The World of the Children (1976 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    113. Joe Fiedler's "Open Sesame": F . . . Is for Funny (2018 [2024], Multiphonics Music) B+(**)
    114. Ella Fitzgerald: The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967 [2025], Verve) B+(**)
    115. John Gordon: Step by Step (1975 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    116. Billy Harper: Capra Black (1973 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    117. John Hicks: Hells Bells (1975 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    118. John Hicks: Steadfast (1975 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    119. James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (2005 [2025], Origin) A-
    120. James Moody: The Moody Story: James Moody Septet 1951-1955 (1951-55 [2025], Fresh Sound, 3CD) B+(***)
    121. The New York Bass Violin Choir: The New York Bass Violin Choir (1969-75 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    122. Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom of Speech (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    123. Cecil Payne: Zodiac (1972 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    124. Art Pepper: An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980 [2025], Elemental Music) B+(***)
    125. The Piano Choir: Handscapes (1972 [2025], Strata-East) B
    126. The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2 (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B+(*)
    127. Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII (1972 [2025], Columbia) B+(*)
    128. Charlie Rouse: Two Is One (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B
    129. Louis Stewart & Jim Hall: The Dublin Concert (1982 [2024], Livia) B+(**)
    130. Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75 [2025], Strata-East, 4CD) B+(***)
    131. Sun Ra: Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (1986 [2024], Strut, 2CD) B+(***)
    132. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (1971 [2025], The Village) A-
    133. Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 1: Song of Soil (1979 [2025], We Want Sounds) B+(**)
    134. Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 2: Colour of Dream (1979 [2025], We Want Sounds) B+(**)
    135. Charles Tolliver With Gary Bartz/Herbie Hancock/Ron Carter/Joe Chambers: Right Now . . . and Then (1968 [2025], Strata-East) A-
    136. Charles Tolliver's Music Inc: Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    137. Charles Tolliver Music Inc & Orchestra: Impact (1975 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    138. Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Compassion (1977 [2025], Strata-East) A-
    139. Charles Tolliver: Live in Berlin: At the Quasimodo (1988 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    140. Harold Vick: Don't Look Back (1974 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    141. Albert White: The Definitive Albert White ([2025], Music Maker) B+(*)
    142. Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora (1987 [2025], Temporal Drift) B+(***)
    143. Armonicord: Esprits De Sel (1977, L'Électrobande) B+(***)
    144. The Buttress: Endofunctor (2023, self-released, EP) B+(**)
    145. The Buttre$$: Structural Stabilization of an Historic Barn (2011, self-released, EP) B
    146. Don Cherry/Lennart Åberg/Bobo Stenson/Anders Jormin/ Anders Kjellberg/Okay Temiz: Dona Nostra (1993 [1994], ECM) B+(***)
    147. Stanley Cowell: Brilliant Circles (1969 [1992], Black Lion) B+(***)
    148. Stanley Cowell: It's Time (2011 [2012], SteepleChase) B+(**)
    149. Joe Fiedler: Will Be Fire (2023, Multiphonics Music) B+(**)
    150. John Hicks: After the Morning (1979, West) B+(**)
    151. Khan Jamal: Cool (1989 [2008], Porter) B+(**)
    152. Nate Mercereau: Joy Techniques (Deluxe) (2019 [2020], How So) B+(**)
    153. James Moody: In the Beginning (1949 [2017], Inner City/Solid) B+(**)
    154. James Moody: Moody's Mood for Blues (1954-55 [1994], Prestige/OJC) B+(**)
    155. James Moody: At the Jazz Workshop (1961 [1998], Chess/GRP) B+(**)
    156. James Moody: Homage (2003 [2004], Savoy Jazz) B+(**)
    157. Cecil Payne: Patterns of Jazz (1956 [1959], Savoy) B+(***)
    158. Cecil Payne: Cerupa (1993 [1995], Delmark) B+(**)
    159. Dudu Pukwana and Zila: Life in Bracknell & Willisau (1983, Jika) A-
    160. Sumac: The Healer (2024, Thrill Jockey) B+(*)
    161. Torres: What an Enormous Room (2024, Merge) B+(**)
    162. Harold Vick: Steppin' Out (1963 [1996], Blue Note) B+(**)
    163. Joanna Wang: Modern Tragedy (2018, Sony) B+(**)
    164. Carl Winther/Richard Andersson/Jeff "Tain" Watts: WAW! (2023 [2024], Hobby Horse) B+(**)
    165. Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (2023 [2025], Eremite) ++
    166. Marshall Allen: New Dawn (2024 [2025], Mexican Summer) B+(***)
    167. New Orleans Party Classics (1955-91 [1992], Rhino) A

    April 28

    1. 2hollis: Star (2025, Interscope) B+(**)
    2. Carl Allen: Tippin' (2024 [2025], Cellar) B+(***)
    3. Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (2024 [2025], Hammer) B+(**)
    4. Archer: Sudden Dusk (2024 [2025], Aerophonic) A-
    5. Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (2025, Ugly Hag) B+(***)
    6. Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    7. Barker: Stochastic Drift (2025, Smalltown Supersound) B+(***)
    8. MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (2025, Househusband) B+(***)
    9. Basic: Dream City (2025, No Quarter, EP) B+(*)
    10. Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (2023 [2025], Shifting Paradigm) B+(***)
    11. Benefits: Constant Noise (2025, Invada) B+(**)
    12. Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (2023 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(***)
    13. Nat Birchall Unity Ensemble: New World (2023 [2024], Ancient Archive of Sound) B+(***)
    14. Nat Birchall: Dimensions of the Drums: Roots Reggae Instrumentals (2024, Ancient Archive of Sound) B+(***)
    15. Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong (2025, Ninja Tune) B
    16. Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas: The Mythstory School (2023 [2025], self-released) B+(**)
    17. Blockhead: It's Only a Midlife Crisis if Your Life Is Mid (2025, Future Archive) B+(**)
    18. Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (2025, No Quarter) B+(***)
    19. Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewicz/Steve Noble/John Edwards: The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (2023 [2025], Otoroku) A-
    20. Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (2023 [2025], Stoney Lane) B+(***)
    21. Corook: Committed to a Bit (2025, Atlantic) A-
    22. Anla Courtis Ja Lehtisalo: 1972 (2022-24 [2025], Full Connect) A-
    23. Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (2022 [2025], ILK Music) B+(*)
    24. Christopher Dammann: Sextet (2024 [2025], Out of Your Head) B+(***)
    25. Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (2024 [2025], Cellar Music) B+(*)
    26. The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (2025, Decor) A-
    27. John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (2022 [2025], Relative Pitch) B
    28. Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(***)
    29. The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (2025, Ex) A-
    30. Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (2025, Dene Jesmond) A-
    31. Craig Finn: Always Been (2025, Tamarac/Thirty Tigers) A-
    32. Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (2025, Slaraffensongs) B+(**)
    33. Food House: Two House (2025, self-released) B
    34. Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (2024 [2025], Origin) A-
    35. Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (2024 [2025], PUMA) A-
    36. Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (2022 [2025], Zoho) B+(***)
    37. GFOTY: Influenzer (2025, Girlfriend) B+(*)
    38. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (2025, Nonesuch) B+(***)
    39. Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (2025, Fat Possum) B+(***)
    40. Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    41. Phil Haynes/Ben Monder: Transition[s] (2024 [2025], Corner Store Jazz) B
    42. Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (2024 [2025], Corner Store Jazz) B+(**)
    43. The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (2023 [2025], Out of Your Head) B+(***)
    44. Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (2023-24 [2025], Cellar Music) B+(**)
    45. Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (2023 [2025], Edition) B
    46. Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (2021 [2025], Kettle Hole) B+(***)
    47. Lilly Hiatt: Forever (2025, New West) B+(*)
    48. Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (2025, Telarc) B
    49. Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (2025, self-released, EP) B+(***)
    50. Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (2025, self-released, EP) B+(*)
    51. Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (2025, Southeastern) A-
    52. Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (2021 [2025], 577) B+(*)
    53. Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (2025, Dead Oceans) B+(*)
    54. Eunhye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (2023 [2025], ESP-Disk) A-
    55. Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (2025, The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) B+(**)
    56. Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (2024 [2025], Greenleaf Music) B+(**)
    57. Kelela: In the Blue Light (2024 [2025], Warp) B+(**)
    58. Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    59. Knats: Knats (2025, Gearbox) B+(*)
    60. Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia (2025, Down the Road) B+(**)
    61. Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(**)
    62. Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (2022-24 [2025], Pyroclastic, 2CD) B-
    63. Kedr Livanskiy: Myrtus Myth (2025, 2MR) B
    64. Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (2025, Last Music) B+(***)
    65. Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (2025, Columbia) B+(*)
    66. Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (2024 [2025], New Focus) B+(**)
    67. Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (2025, Colorfield) B+(**)
    68. Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love: I Love Noise (2022 [2024], PNL) B+(***)
    69. Medler Sextet: River Paths (2024 [2025], OA2) B+(**)
    70. Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (2024 [2025], Sonic River) B+(**)
    71. Mekons: Horror (2025, Fire) A
    72. Myra Melford: Splash (2024 [2025], Intakt) B+(***)
    73. Billy Mohler: The Eternal (2025, Contagious Music) B+(***)
    74. Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    75. Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (2022 [2025], Northsound) B+(*)
    76. Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (2024 [2025], Rootball) B+(**)
    77. Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (2023 [2025], ACT Music) B+(*)
    78. Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (2023 [2025], Irabbagast) B+(***)
    79. Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. (2025, Legendary) B+(***)
    80. Marius Neset: Cabaret (2024 [2025], ACT Music) B+(*)
    81. The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (2025, Fire) B+(*)
    82. Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (2024 [2025], PNL) B+(***)
    83. Adam O'Farrill: For These Streets (2022 [2025], Out of Your Head) A-
    84. Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (2022 [2025], Zoho) B+(***)
    85. Oklou: Choke Enough (2025, True Panther/Because Music) B+(**)
    86. Organic Pulse Ensemble: Ad Hoc (2024, Ultraääni) B+(**)
    87. Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (2023 [2025], Origin) B+(*)
    88. Perfume Genius: Glory (2025, Matador) B
    89. Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (2024 [2025], Moserobie) B+(***)
    90. Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (2024 [2025], Reva) B+(**)
    91. Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (2025, Secretly Canadian, EP) B+(*)
    92. Private Property: Private Property (2025, Kraakeslottet Platekompagni) B+(***)
    93. Bobby Rush/Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Young Fashioned Ways (2025, Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
    94. Samo Salamon & Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (2023 [2025], Samo) A-
    95. Michael Sarian: Esquina (2024 [2025], Greenleaf Music) B+(**)
    96. Jaysun Silver: No Excuses (2025, self-released) B+(*)
    97. Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (2025, Atlantic/Owsla) B-
    98. Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III: Live Setting (2021 [2025], Intakt) B+(**)
    99. Macie Stewart: When the Distance Is Blue (2023-24 [2025], International Anthem) B+(*)
    100. Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet: What Happens Next (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(*)
    101. The Third Mind: Live Mind (2024 [2025], Yep Roc) B+(**)
    102. The Tubs: Cotton Crown (2025, Trouble in Mind) B+(*)
    103. Mark Turner: We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (2019 [2025], Loveland Music) B+(**)
    104. Unity Quartet [Helio Alves/Guilherme Monteiro/Gili Lopes/Alex Kautz]: Samba of Sorts (2022 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(**)
    105. Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (2025, Losen) B+(*)
    106. Dean Wareham: That's the Price of Loving Me (2025, Carpark) A-
    107. The Weather Station: Humanhood (2025, Fat Possum) B+(*)
    108. Christian Winther: Sculptures From Under the City Ice (2025, Earthly Habit) B+(**)
    109. Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (2023 [2025], ESP-Disk) B+(*)
    110. Y: Y (2025, Hideous Mink, EP) B+(*)
    111. Yseult: Mental (2024, Y.Y.Y) B+(**)
    112. James Zito: Zito's Jump (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(*)
    113. Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962 [2025], Craft) A-
    114. Johnny Bragg: Let Me Dream On ([2025], ORG Music) B+(*)
    115. Peter Brötzmann Trio: Hurricane (2015 [2025], Old Heaven Books) B+(***)
    116. Champeta w/Edna Martinez: Diblo Dibala Special ([2024], NAS) A-
    117. Blind Gary Davis: Harlem Street Singer (1960 [2024], Craft) A
    118. Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957 [2025], Resonance) B+(***)
    119. Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Levin: The Good Feelings (2009 [2024], 577) B+(**)
    120. Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 2 (2019 [2025], Tzadik) B+(**)
    121. Vince Guaraldi Trio: Jazz Impreassions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964 [2025], Craft, 2CD) B+(**)
    122. Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Volume 1 (2019 [2025], Tzadik) A-
    123. Joe Henderson: Multiple (1973 [2025], Craft) A-
    124. Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967 [2025], Resonance, 2CD) B+(**)
    125. Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980 (1970-80 [2025], Bureau B) B
    126. Rob Mazurek: Alternate Moon Cycles [IA11 Edition] (2012 [2025], International Anthem) B+(**)
    127. Mac Miller: Balloonerism (2014 [2025], REMember Music/Warner) B+(***)
    128. Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977 [2025], Resonance, 2CD) A-
    129. Charles Mingus: Reincarnations (1960 [2024], Candid) B+(**)
    130. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Music Inc. (1970 [2025], Strata-East) B+(**)
    131. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Live at Sluggs' Volume I & II (1970 [2025], Strata-East) B+(***)
    132. Art Pepper: Geneva 1980 (1980 [2025], Omnivore) B+(***)
    133. Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025 [2025], Patois, 2CD) B+(*)
    134. Serengeti: Mixtape 2 ([2025], self-released) B+(*)
    135. The Soul and Songs of Curtis Mayfield: The Spirit of Chicago (1958-64 [2024], Craft) B+(**)
    136. Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Game [Ten Year Edition] (2015 [2025], Vinyl Digital) B+(***)
    137. Trigger: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 3 (2019 [2025], Tzadik) B+(*)
    138. Nat Birchall Unity Ensemble: Spiritual Progressions (2021 [2022], Ancient Archive of Sound) B+(**)
    139. Nat Birchall: The Infinite (2022 [202]3, Ancient Archive of Sound) B+(**)
    140. Nat Birchall: Songs of the Ancestors: Afro Trane Chapter 2 (2023, Ancient Archive of Sound) B+(**)
    141. Scrapper Blackwell: The Virtuoso Guitar of Scrapper Blackwell (1925-34 [1991], Yazoo) A-
    142. Xhosa Cole: Ibeji (2021-22 [2022], Stoney Lane) A-
    143. Miles Davis: The Lost Septet (1971 [2000], Sleepy Night) A-
    144. Dean & Britta: L'Avventura (2003, Jet Set) B+(**)
    145. Dean & Britta: Back Numbers (2007, Rounder) B+(*)
    146. Dean & Britta/Sonic Boom: A Peace of Us (2024, Carpark) B+(*)
    147. Kenny Dorham: Blues in Bebop (1946-56 [1998], Savoy Jazz) B+(**)
    148. Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts (1957 [1992], Riverside/OJC) B+(**)
    149. Kenny Dorham: Quiet Kenny (1959 [1986], New Jazz/OJC) B+(***)
    150. Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contemporary (1960, Time) B+(***)
    151. Kenny Dorham: Whistle Stop (1961 [2014], Blue Note) B+(***)
    152. Charles Mingus/Max Roach/Eric Dolphy/Roy Eldridge/Jo Jones [Jazz Artists Guild]: Newport Rebels (1961 [2024], Candid) B+(***)
    153. Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus and the Newport Rebels (1960 [2010], Candid) B+(**)
    154. Charles Mingus: The Complete Town Hall Concert (1962 [1994], Blue Note) B+(*)
    155. Phew: Phew (1981, Pass) B+(***)
    156. TEST: TEST (1998 [1999], AUM Fidelity) B+(***)
    157. Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (2025, ATO) A-

    March 31

    1. Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (2023 [2025], Moserobie) A-
    2. Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (2025, Night Time Stories) B
    3. Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (2023 [2025], Nonesuch) B+(**)
    4. Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (2024 [2025], Jazzville) B
    5. Marshall Allen: New Dawn (2024 [2025], Mexican Summer) B+(*)
    6. Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (2024 [2025], self-released) A-
    7. Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (2023 [2025], Luaka Bop) A-
    8. Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (2025, Hermine) B+(*)
    9. Artemis: Arboresque (2025, Blue Note) B+(**)
    10. Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (2025, Assemble Sound/Atlantic) B+(**)
    11. Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025, Rimas Entertainment) B+(***)
    12. Bag of Bones: No One Gets Saved (2023 [2024], 577) B+(**)
    13. Banks: Off With Her Head (2025, Her Name Is Banks) B+(**)
    14. Barry Can't Swim: When Will We Land? (2023, Ninja Tune) B+(***)
    15. Bdrmm: Microtonic (2025, Rock Action) B+(***)
    16. Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (2024 [2025], Screwgun/Out of Your Head, 2CD) B+(***)
    17. Towa Bird: American Hero (2024, Interscope) B+(***)
    18. Michael Bisio: NuMBq (2024 [2025], Mahakala Music) B+(***)
    19. Black Milk & Fat Ray: Food From the Gods (2025, Computer Ugly/Fat Beats) B+(**)
    20. Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (2025, Same Room) B+(**)
    21. Benjamin Booker: Lower (2025, Fire Next Time/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
    22. Booker T & the Bleeds: Ode to BC/LY . . . And Eye Know BO . . . Da Prez (2022 [2025], Mahakala Music) B
    23. Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (2024 [2025], ECM) B+(***)
    24. Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (2025, Mello Music Group) A-
    25. Rob Brown: Walkabout (2023 [2025], Mahakala Music) B+(**)
    26. Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (2024 [2025[, Calligram) B+(***)
    27. Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: If You Can't Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Pt. Two (2022-24 [2025], Avant Groid Musica) B+(**)
    28. Ethel Cain: Perverts (2025, Daughters of Cain) B
    29. Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (2023 [2025], Red Piano) A-
    30. Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (2021-23 [2025], Pacific Coast Jazz) B+(**)
    31. Charly Bliss: Forever (2024, Lucky Number) A-
    32. The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (2025, Fire) A-
    33. Chlöe: Trouble in Paradise (2024, Parkwood/Columbia)
    34. Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (2024 [2025], Blue Note) A-
    35. Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (2025, Sub Pop) A-
    36. Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (2024 [2025], PlayOn) B
    37. Liz Cole: I Want to Be Happy (2024 [2025], self-released) B
    38. Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (2024 [2025], Pyroclastic) A-
    39. Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (2025, Son of Davy) B+(**)
    40. Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (2025, self-released) A-
    41. Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(*)
    42. Cumgirl8: The 8th Cumming (2024, 4AD) B+(*)
    43. Cymande: Renascence (2025, BMG) B+(**)
    44. Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (2024 [2025], Swish Tap) B+(*)
    45. Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (2025, Deewee) A-
    46. Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (2022 [2025], ESP-Disk) A-
    47. Dengue Dengue Dengue!: Agita2 (2024, Club Romantico, EP) B+(**)
    48. The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (2025, New West) B+(*)
    49. Jorrit Dijkstra: PorchBone (2023 [2024], Driff) B+(***)
    50. Kenyon Dixon: The R&B You Love (2023, self-released) B+(**)
    51. Doodlebug and 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (2025, Gladiator) B
    52. Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (2025, Backwoodz Studioz) B+(**)
    53. Paul Dunmall: Red Hot Ice (2024, Discus) B+(**)
    54. Paul Dunmall/Kevin Figes: Duos (2022 [2024], Discus) B+(*)
    55. Mathias Eick: Lullaby (2024 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    56. Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(*)
    57. Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (2025, Kuroneko) B+(*)
    58. Ensemble C: Every Journey (2024 [2025], Adhyâropa) B
    59. Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(*)
    60. Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (2025, Tapete) B+(*)
    61. FACS: Wish Defense (2025, Trouble in Mind) A-
    62. Lorraine Feather: The Green World (2022-24 [2025], Relation) B+(***)
    63. Sam Fender: People Watching (2025, Polydor) B+(*)
    64. R.A.P. Ferreira: Outstanding Understanding (2025, Ruby Yacht) B+(**)
    65. FKA Twigs: Eusexua (2025, Young/Atlantic) B+(*)
    66. Flagboy Giz and the Wild Tchoupitoulas: Live From the French Quarter Fest 2023 (2023 [2024], Injun Money) B+(**)
    67. Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (2023 [2025], Artwork) B+(**)
    68. Satoko Fujii GEN: Altitude 1100 Meters (2024 [2025], Libra) B+(***)
    69. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream (2024 [2025], Libra) A-
    70. Funkrust Brass Band: Make a Little Spark (2024, self-released) A-
    71. Future: Mixtape Pluto (2024, Freebandz/Epic) B+(**)
    72. Daniel Garbin: Rising (2023 [2025], 6x20) B+(*)
    73. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterheit: Music for Unknown Rituals (2023 [2024], Umor Rex) A-
    74. Freddie Gibbs: You Only Die 1nce (2024, ESGN) B+(**)
    75. LP Giobbi: Garcia (Remixed) (2024, Round) B+(**)
    76. John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (2025, Young) B+(*)
    77. Philip Glass: Philip Glass Solo (2021 [2024], Orange Mountain Music) B+(***)
    78. Glorygirl2950: Queen of the Land (2024, self-released) B+(*)
    79. Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (2023 [2025], Origin) B+(**)
    80. Rose Gray: Louder, Please (2025, PIAS) B+(***)
    81. Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (2022 [2025], Powerhouse) B+(***)
    82. Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (2024 [2025], Libra) A-
    83. Billy Hart Quartet: Just (2021 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    84. Tim Hecker: Shards (2020-22 [2025], Kranky) B+(**)
    85. Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (2024 [2025], Zoho) B-
    86. Hieroglyphic Being: Quadric Surfaces (2024, Viernulvier) B+(***)
    87. Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (2025, ATO) B+(***)
    88. William Hooker: Jubilation (2023 [2025], ORG Music) B+(**)
    89. Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On (2025, Matador) B+(**)
    90. Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (2023 [2025], Irabbagast) B+(***)
    91. Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (2024 [2025], ECM) B+(**)
    92. Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (2024 [2025], Wide Hive) B+(**)
    93. Jennie: Ruby (2025, Columbia) B
    94. Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (2020 [2025], Reva) B+(***)
    95. Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (2020 [2025], Baxter Music) B+(***)
    96. Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (2025, Heavenly Sweetness) A-
    97. Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (2025, Airfono) B+(*)
    98. Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall: Fanfares & Freedom (2023 [2024], Discus) B+(***)
    99. Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (2025, One Riot) B+(***)
    100. Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (2024 [2025], ECM) B+(***)
    101. Lady Blackbird: Slang Spirituals (2024, Foundation Music Productions/BMG) B+(***)
    102. Lady Gaga: Mayhem (2025, Interscope) B+(***)
    103. Karl Latham: Living Standards II (2024 [2025], Dropzone Jazz) B+(*)
    104. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (2024 [2025], Pi) A-
    105. James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (2025, Anti-) A-
    106. Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (2023 [2024], Don Giovanni/Blang) A-
    107. Damon Locks: List of Demands (2024 [2025], International Anthem) A-
    108. Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (2025, Black Sweat) B+(***)
    109. Loot: Loot (2023 [2025], ICP) A-
    110. Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (2023 [2025], Relative Pitch) B+(***)
    111. Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (2024 [2025], DMAC Music) B+(*)
    112. John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (2024 [2025], self-released) B+(**)
    113. Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (2024 [2025], OA2) B+(*)
    114. Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(***)
    115. Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (2024 [2025], Blue Note) A-
    116. Tate McRae: So Close to What (2025, RCA) B+(***)
    117. Michi: Dirty Talk (2025, Stones Throw) B+(*)
    118. MIKE: Showbiz! (2025, 10k) B+(**)
    119. Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (2025, Matador) B+(***)
    120. Mogwai: The Bad Fire (2025, Rock Action) B+(*)
    121. Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (2025, Outside In Music) B+(**)
    122. Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (2024 [2025], Rewound Echoes) B+(**)
    123. Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (2025, Domino) B+(*)
    124. Jeremy Pelt: Woven (2024 [2025], HighNote) B+(*)
    125. Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (2022-24 [2025], Zoho) B+(*)
    126. Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (2025, Mahakala Music) B+(***)
    127. Polyfillas: Rude Boys of England E.P. (2024, self-released, EP) B+(*)
    128. Jackson Potter: Small Things (2024 [2025], Shifting Paradigm) B+(**)
    129. Praktika: Balani Factory (2023 [2024], Blanc Manioc) A-
    130. Noah Preminger: Ballads (2024 [2025], Chill Tone) B+(***)
    131. PremRock: Did You Enjoy Your Time Here . . . ? (2025, Backwoodz Studioz) B+(***)
    132. Redman: Muddy Waters Too (2024, Gilla House) B+(**)
    133. Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (2024 [2025], Cold Plunge) B+(**)
    134. Saba & No I.D.: From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. (2025, From the Private Collection) A-
    135. Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon (2025, Transgressive) A-
    136. Gina Saputo: Daydream (2024 [2025], GSJQ Productions) B+(**)
    137. Mark Scott III: Soft Light (2024 [2025], Miller Three Publishing) B+(**)
    138. Sentient Beings: Truth Is Not the Enemy (2024, Discus) B+(***)
    139. Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (2023 [2025], Mahakala Music) B+(**)
    140. Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (2025, Because Music, EP) B+(***)
    141. Six Sex: X-Sex (2025, Dale Play, EP) A-
    142. Skaiwater: #gigi (2024, GoodTalk/Capitol) B+(**)
    143. Skaiwater: #mia (2025, GoodTalk/Capitol, EP) B+(*)
    144. Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (2024 [2025], Savant) B+(***)
    145. Songhoy Blues: Héritage (2025, Transgressive) B+(***)
    146. Squid: Cowards (2025, Warp) B+(*)
    147. Dayna Stephens: Hopium (2022 [2025], Contagious Music) B+(*)
    148. Stress Eater: Everybody Eats! (2024, Silver Age) A-
    149. Thomas Strønen: Relations (2018-22 [2024], ECM) B+(**)
    150. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs (2024 [2025], Omar Thomas Music, 2CD) B+(*)
    151. Mitch Towne: Refuge (2024 [2025], Cross Towne) B+(*)
    152. Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (2024 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(***)
    153. University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let the Good Times Roll (2024 [2025], Vegas) B+(**)
    154. Valknee: Ordinary (2024, TuneCore) B+(**)
    155. Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (2025, Jagjaguwar) B+(*)
    156. Chris Varga: Breathe (2024 [2025], Calligram) B+(*)
    157. Vincenzo Virgillito: Precondition (2017 [2025], self-released) B
    158. Sunny War: Armageddon in a Summer Dress (2025, New West) B+(*)
    159. Warmdüscher: Too Cold to Hold (2024, Strap Originals) B+(*)
    160. Reggie Watkins: Rivers (2024 [2025], BYNK) B+(***)
    161. Wavy Bagels With Driveby: A Carfull (2024, Break All) B+(**)
    162. WDR Big Band: Bluegrass (2025, MCG Jazz) B+(*)
    163. Jesse Welles: Middle (2025, self-released) B+(**)
    164. Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (2024 [2025], Origin) B+(***)
    165. Simón Willson: Bet: Live at Ornithology (2024 [2025], Endectomorph Music) B+(***)
    166. Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (2024 [2025], ACT) B+(***)
    167. Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity (2023 [2025], Sunnyside) B+(***)
    168. YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds (2025, AD 93) A-
    169. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarin Yoksa = If There Is No Tomorrow (2025, Big Crown) B+(**)
    170. The Young Mothers: Better If You Let It (2022 [2025], Sonic Transmissions) B+(**)
    171. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: azz Is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor (2025, Jazz Is Dead) B+(*)
    172. ZA!/Tomás De Perrate: Jolifanto (2024, Lovemonk) B+(**)
    173. Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Orrell: That's My Life (1989 [2023], 577) A-
    174. William Hooker: A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (1977 [2025], Valley of Search) B+(***)
    175. Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers: African Party [Deluxe Edition] (1967 [2025], Innovative Collective/BBE Music) A-
    176. The Laws of William Bonney Saxophone Quartet: 1993-2007 (1993-2007 [2023], Acheulian Handwave) B+(***)
    177. Music Is a Message From Space ([2025], Corbett vs. Dempsey) B+(*)
    178. Plastikman: Musik (1994 [2024], Nova Mute) B+(**)
    179. Studio: West Coast (2006 [2025], Ghostly International) A-
    180. Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006 [2025], Mississippi, EP) B+(*)
    181. Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977 [2025], Reprise) B+(***)
    182. Bantou Mentale: Bantou Mentale (2019, Glitterbeat) B+(**)
    183. Bantou Mentale: Congo Animal (2020, Glitterbeat) A-
    184. Helene Cronin: Restless Heart (2014, self-released, EP) B+(*)
    185. Helene Cronin: Belong to the River (2015, self-released, EP) B+(**)
    186. Helene Cronin: Old Ghosts & Lost Causes (2019, self-released) B+(*)
    187. Helene Cronin: Landmarks (2023, self-released) B+(***)
    188. Jorrit Dijkstra/François Houle/Karlis Silins/Kenton Loewen: Coastlines: Music of Steve Lacy, Volume I - Quartets (2022 [2023], Afterday) B+(***)
    189. Jorrit Dijkstra/François Houle: Coastlines: Music of Steve Lacy: Volume II - Duos (2022 [2023], Afterday) B+(*)
    190. Paul Dunmall Sun Ship Quartet/Alan Skidmore/Julie Kjær/Ståle Liavik Solberg/Mark Wastell: John Coltrane 50th Memorial Concert at Cafe OTO (2017 [2019], Confront) B+(***)
    191. FACS: Negative Houses (2018, Trouble in Mind) B+(*)
    192. FACS: Lifelike (2019, Trouble in Mind) B+(*)
    193. FACS: Void Moments (2020, Trouble in Mind) B+(*)
    194. FACS: Present Tense (2021, Trouble in Mind) B+(*)
    195. FACS: Maggot Brain 020324 (2024, self-released) B+(***)
    196. Funkrust Brass Band: Dark City (2017, self-released) B+(***)
    197. Funkrust Brass Band: Bones and Burning (2019, self-released, EP) B+(***)
    198. Andreas Gerth & Carl Oesterhelt: The Aporias of Futurism (2021, Umor Rex) B+(*)
    199. Patterson Hood: Killers and Stars (2004, New West) B+(*)
    200. Kölner Saxophon Mafia: Die Saxuelle Befreiung (1984, Jazz Haus Musik) B+(**)
    201. Kölner Saxophon Mafia: Unerhört - Stadtklänge (1984 [1985], Jazz Haus Musik) B+(***)
    202. Six Sex: Fantasy (2019, Dale Play, EP) B+(*)
    203. Six Sex: Area 69 (2022, Dale Play, EP) B+(**)
    204. Six Sex: 6X (2023, Dale Play, EP) B+(**)
    205. Six Sex: Satisfire (2024, Dale Play, EP) B+(***)
    206. Laura Taylor: Cry Me a River: A Tribute to Julie London (2000 [2001], Quicksilver) B+(**)
    207. Laura Taylor: My Funny Valentine: Memories of Chet Baker (2002, Staying Power) B+(***)
    208. Laura Taylor: Mountain Greenery (2006, Staying Power) B+(**)
    209. Laura Taylor: Have Mercer on Me: Laura Taylor Sings Johnny Mercer (2010, Staying Power) B+(***)
    210. Laura Taylor: Dancing in My Feet (1979, Good Sounds) B+(**)
    211. John Coltrane: Sun Ship (1965 [1971], Impulse!) B+(***)
    212. John Coltrane: Sun Ship: The Complete Session (1965 [2013], Impulse!, 2CD) B+(**)

    February 28

    1. _thesmoothcat & Wino Willy: Ready, Set (2024, Sinking City) B+(*)
    2. Ab-Soul: Soul Burger (2024, Top Dawg) B+(***)
    3. Beatenberg: The Great Fire of Beatenberg (2024, Leafy Outlook) B+(***)
    4. Being Dead: Eels (2024, Bayonet) B-
    5. BigXthaPlug: Take Care (2024, United Masters) B+(**)
    6. Kimmi Bitter: Old School (2024, self-released) B+(**)
    7. Body Count: Merciless (2024, Century Media) B+(***)
    8. Kaitlin Butts: Roadrunner! (2024, Soundly Music) B+(*)
    9. Kasey Chambers: Backbone (2024, Metropolitan Groove Merchants/Essence Music Group) B+(**)
    10. Luke Combs: Fathers & Sons (2024, Columbia Nashville) B+(**)
    11. Ernest: Nashville, Tennessee (2024, Big Loud) B+(**)
    12. Fashion Club: A Love You Cannot Shake (2024, Felte) B+(**)
    13. Foxing: Foxing (2024, Grand Paradise) B-
    14. Friko: Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here (2024, ATO) B+(*)
    15. Jake Xerxes Fussell: When I'm Called (2024, Fat Possum) B+(**)
    16. David Gilmour: Luck and Strange (2024, Sony) B
    17. Girl Ultra: Blush (2024, Big Dada, EP) B+(*)
    18. Groovology: Almost Home (2024 [2025], Sugartown) B
    19. Muriel Grossmann: The Light of the Mind (2024, RR Gems) B+(***)
    20. Tim Heidecker: Slipping Away (2024, Bloodshot) B
    21. Homeboy Sandman: Nor Can These Be Sold (At Least by Me) (2024, self-released) B+(**)
    22. Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (2025, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(***)
    23. Inert: 2Inert (2024, self-released) B+(**)
    24. Sarah Jarosz: Polaroid Lovers (2024, Rounder) B+(**)
    25. Jax: Dear Joe, (2024, Atlantic) A-
    26. Cody Jinks: Cody Jinks Sings Lefty Frizzell (2024, Late August) B+(*)
    27. Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (2024 [2025], Open Mic) B+(**)
    28. Justice: Hyperdrama (2024, Ed Banger/Because Music) B
    29. Jerry Kalaf: Safe Travels (2024, self-released) B
    30. Kehlani: Crash (2024, Atlantic) B+(**)
    31. Kehlani: While We Wait 2 (2024, Atlantic) B+(**)
    32. Khruangbin: A La Sala (2024, Dead Oceans) B+(**)
    33. Ella Langley: Hungover (2024, Sawgod/Columbia) B+(**)
    34. Merce Lemon: Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild (2024, Darling) B+(*)
    35. Ravyn Lenae: Bird's Eye (2024, Atlantic) B+(**)
    36. Los Campesinos!: All Hell (2024, Heart Swells) B+(*)
    37. Post Malone: F-1 Trillion (2024, Mercury/Republic) B
    38. MC Lyte: 1 of 1 (2024, Sunni Gyrl/My Block/Vydia) B+(**)
    39. Scotty McCreery: Rise & Fall (2024, Triple Tigers) B+(*)
    40. Lizzie No: Halfsies (2024, Miss Freedomland/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
    41. Nobro: Set Your Pussy Free (2023, Dine Alone) A-
    42. Nobro: Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar (2021 [2022], Dine Alone) B+(**)
    43. Nobro: Sick Hustle (2020, Dine Alone, EP) B+(*)
    44. NxWorries: Why Lawd? (2024, Stones Throw) B+(***)
    45. Noel Okimoto: Hō'ihi (2024 [2025], Noel Okimoto Music) B
    46. Joy Oladokun: Observations From a Crowded Room (2024, Amigo) B+(***)
    47. Pearl Jam: Dark Matter (2024, Republic) B+(**)
    48. Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (2024 [2025], Funklove Productions) B+(**)
    49. PyPy: Sacred Times (2024, Goner) B+(***)
    50. Red Clay Strays: Made by These Moments (2024, RCA) B+(*)
    51. Reyna Tropical: Malegría (2024, Psychic Hotline) B+(***)
    52. Chase Rice: Go Down Singin' (2024, Broken Bow) B+(***)
    53. Serengeti: Palookaville (2024, CC King) A-
    54. Shellac: To All Trains (2017-22 [2024], Touch and Go) B+(*)
    55. Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (2024 [2025], J-Nett Music) B+(*)
    56. Steve Smith and Vital Information: New Perspective (2024 [2025], Drum Legacy) B
    57. Brittney Spencer: My Stupid Life (2024, Elektra) B+(**)
    58. St. Lenox: Ten Modern American Work Songs: In Honor of the 10-Year Reunion of the NYU Law Class of 2014 (2024, Don Giovanni/Anyway) B+(***)
    59. Billy Strings: Highway Prayers (2024, Reprse) B+(*)
    60. Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (2024 [2025], Strikezone) B-
    61. Rose Tang & Patrick Golden: A White Horse Is Not a Horse (2024, ESP-Disk') B+(***)
    62. Jesse Terry: Arcadia (2024, Wander) B+(***)
    63. Leon Thomas: Mutt (2024, EZMNY/Motown) B+(**)
    64. Richard Thompson: Ship to Shore (2024, New West) B+(**)
    65. Amadou & Mariam: La Vie Est Belle (1998-2022 [2024], Because Music) A-
    66. Homeboy Sandman: Rich 2.5 (2023-24 [2025], self-released) B+(***)
    67. My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (2024, Oh Boy) B+(***)
    68. Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980 (1965-80 [2024], Analog Africa) B+(***)
    69. Amadou & Mariam: La Confusion (2017, Because Music) B+(***)
    70. Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (1967 [1988], MCA) A-
    71. Louis Armstrong: Rhythm Saved the World [The Original Decca Recordings: Volume 1] (1935-36 [1991], MCA) B+(***)
    72. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra: Heart Full of Rhythm [The Original Decca Recordings: Volume 2] (1936-38 [1993], MCA) A-
    73. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra: Vol. III: Pocketful of Dreams (1935-38 [1995], Decca Jazz) A-
    74. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Town Hall Concert 1947 (1947 [2004], Fresh Sound) A-
    75. Louis Armstrong: The Best Live Concert (1965 [1976], Disques Festival) A-
    76. Louis Armstrong: The Best Live Concert Vol. 1 [Jazz in Paris] (1965 [2000], Gitanes Jazz/EmArcy) B+(***)
    77. Louis Armstrong: The Best Live Concert Vol. 2 [Jazz in Paris] (1965 [2000], Gitanes Jazz/EmArcy) B+(***)
    78. Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong and Friends [Jazz in Paris] (1933-39 [2001], Gitanes Jazz/EmArcy) B+(***)
    79. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (1925-30 [2000], Columbia/Legacy, 4CD) A
    80. Louis Armstrong: The Best of the Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (1925-29, [2000], Columbia/Legacy) A
    81. Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Sings (1955, Decca) A-
    82. Louis Armstrong: Louis and the Angels (1957 [2001], Verve) B-
    83. Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Plays King Oliver (1959 [1960], Audio Fidelity) B+(***)
    84. Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars: Satchmo Plays King Oliver (1959 [2000], Fuel 2000/Varèse Sarabande) B+(**)
    85. Louis Armstrong/Dukes of Dixieland: Louie and the Dukes of Dixieland (1960, Audio Fidelity) B
    86. Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Great Summit: Complete Sessions (1961 [2000], Roulette, 2CD) B+(**)
    87. Louis Armstrong: Let's Do It: Best of the Verve Years (1957-65 [1995], Verve, 2CD) B+(*)
    88. Louis Armstrong: Disney Songs the Satchmo Way (1968 [1996], Walt Disney) B+(***)
    89. Dingonek Street Band: Primal Economics (2018, Accurate) B+(***)
    90. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella & Louis (1956-57 [2021], Ober Entertainment/20th Century Masterworks) A-
    91. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve (1956-57 [1997], Verve, 3CD) B+(***)
    92. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong: Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on Verve (1957-57 [1997], Verve) A-
    93. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong: Our Love Is Here to Stay: Ella and Louis Sing Gershwin (1956-59 [1998], Verve) B+
    94. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong: For Lovers (1956-57 [2005], Verve) B
    95. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (1956 [1997], Verve, 2CD) A-
    96. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book (1956 [1997], Verve, 2CD) B+(***)
    97. Ella Fitzgerald With Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (1957 [1999], Verve, 3CD) B+(**)
    98. Ella Fitzgerald: Day Dream: Best of the Duke Ellington Songbook (1956-57 [1995], Verve) B+
    99. Ella Fitzgerald: The Very Best of the Duke Ellington Song Book (1956-57 [2007], Verve) B+(***)
    100. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book (1958 [2000], Verve, 2CD) A-
    101. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at the Hollywood Bowl (1958 [2022], Verve) B+(***)
    102. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Books (1959 [1998], Verve, 4CD) B+(***)
    103. Ella Fitzgerald: The Very Best of the Gershwin Song Book (1959 [2007], Verve) A-
    104. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book (1960-61 [1993], Verve, 2CD) A
    105. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book (1963 [2005], Verve) B+(**)
    106. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book (1964 [1997], Verve) B+(***)
    107. Ella Fitzgerald: Like Someone in Love (1957, Verve) B+(**)
    108. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House (1957 [1986], Verve) A-
    109. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (1958 [1988], Verve) A-
    110. Ella Fitzgerald: Get Happy! (1957-59 [1998], Verve) A-
    111. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (1958-59 [2003], Verve) B+(***)
    112. Ella Fitzgerald: Hello, Love (1957-59 [2004], Verve) B+(*)
    113. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1959-60 [2002], Verve) B+(*)
    114. Ella Fitzgerald: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961 [1989], Verve) B+(***)
    115. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Gently With Nelson (1961-62 [1993], Verve) B+(**)
    116. Ella Fitzgerald: Rhythm Is My Business (1962 [1999], Verve) B+(***)
    117. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Sings Broadway (1962 [2001], Verve) B+(***)
    118. Ella Fitzgerald/Count Basie: Ella and Basie! (1963 [1997], Verve) B+(**)
    119. Ella Fitzgerald: These Are the Blues (1963, Verve) B+(***)
    120. Ella Fitzgerald: Hello, Dolly! (1964 [2005], Verve) B+(**)
    121. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Japan: 'S Wonderful (1964 [2011], Verve, 2CD) B+(***)
    122. Ella Fitzgerald: Whisper Not (1966 [2002], Verve) B+(**)
    123. Ella Fitzgerald: Brighten the Corner (1967, Capitol) B+(*)
    124. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (1967, Capitol) B-
    125. Ella Fitzgerald: Misty Blue (1967 [1968], Capitol) B
    126. Ella Fitzgerald: 30 by Ella (1968 [2000], Capitol) B+(*)
    127. Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love (1968 [1969], MPS/Prestige) B+(*)
    128. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella (1969, Reprise) B+(*)
    129. Ella Fitzgerald: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (1969 [1970], Reprise) B+(***)
    130. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald in Budapest (1970 [1999], Pablo) B+(***)
    131. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella à Nice (1971 [1982], Pablo) B+(***)
    132. Ella Fitzgerald/Count Basie/Oscar Peterson/Stan Getz/Roy Eldridge/Eddie Lockjaw Davis/Ray Brown/Harry Edison/Al Grey/Tommy Flanagan/Ed Thigpen/Keeter Betts: Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972 [1991], Pablo, 3CD) B+(***)
    133. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole: New Interpretations by Ella Fitzgerald of the Great Cole Porter Songs (1972, Atlantic) B+(***)
    134. Ella Fitzgerald: Dream Dancing: Ella Fitzgerald & Cole Porter (1972-78 [1978], Pablo) A-
    135. Ella Fitzgerald/Joe Pass: Take Love Easy (1973 [1974], Pablo) B+(**)
    136. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in London (1974, Pablo) B+(**)
    137. Ella Fitzgerald: "Fine and Mellow" (1974 [1979], Pablo) B+(***)
    138. Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975 [1993], Pablo/OJC) B+(***)
    139. Ella Fitzgerald/Joe Pass: Fitzgerald and Pass . . . Again (1976, Pablo) B+(*)
    140. Ella Fitzgerald With the Tommy Flanagan Trio: Montreux '77 (1977 [1989], Pablo/OJC) B+(**)
    141. Ella: Lady Time (1978, Pablo) B+(***)
    142. Greta Keller: Greta Keller Sings Kurt Weill (1953, Atlantic) B+(***)
    143. Ella Mae Morse: Capitol Collectors Series (1942-57 [1992], Capitol) B+(**)
    144. Bobby Vee: Legendary Masters (1959-68 [1973], United Artists) B
    145. The Brill Building Sound (1957-67 [1993], ERA, 4CD) A
    146. Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of '50s Rock (1951-59 [1999], Rhino, 4CD) A
    147. Corb Lund: El Viejo (2024, New West) A-
    148. Megan Moroney: Am I Okay? (2024, Columbia Nashville) A-
    149. Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era (1965-68 [1998], Rhino, 4CD) B+(***)

    January 27

    1. 2nd Grade: Scheduled Explosions (2024, Double Double Whammy) B+(*)
    2. 070 Shake: Petrichor (2024, GOOD Music/Def Jam) B+(**)
    3. Amy Allen: Amy Allen (2024, AWAL) B+(***)
    4. Luther Allison: I Owe It All to You (2023 [2024], Posi-Tone) B+(**)
    5. Arild Andersen/Daniel Sommer/Rob Luft: As Time Passes (2023 [2024], April) B+(***)
    6. Armbruster: Can I Sit Here (2024, Dear Life) B+(***)
    7. Avalanche Kaito: Talitakum (2024, Glitterbeat) B+(***)
    8. Ab Baars/Joost Buis/Berlinde Deman: Cecil's Dance (2023 [2024], Wig) B+(*)
    9. Steve Baczkowski: Cheap Fabric (2022 [2024], Relative Pitch) B+(**)
    10. Kelsea Ballerini: Patterns (2024, Black River) B+(*)
    11. Bashy: Being Poor Is Expensive (2024, Bish Bash Bosh) A-
    12. BkTherula: LVL5 P2 (2024, Warner) B+(**)
    13. Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere (2024, Century Media) B+(*)
    14. Naima Bock: Below a Massive Dark Land (2024, Sub Pop) B
    15. John Butcher + 13: Fluid Fixations (2021 [2024], Weight of Wax) A-
    16. Camila Cabello: C,XOXO (2024, Geffen/Interscope) B+(*)
    17. Caribou: Honey (2024, Merge/City Slang) B+(**)
    18. Hayes Carll/Band of Heathens: Hayes & the Heathens (2024, BOH) B+(***)
    19. Cavalier & Child Actor: Cine (2024, Backwoodz Studioz) B+(**)
    20. Caxtrinho: Queda Livre (2024, QTV) B+(***)
    21. Brian Charette: You Don't Know Jack! (2024, Cellar Music) B+(**)
    22. Chat Pile: Cool World (2024, The Flenser) B+(**)
    23. Mahmoud Chouki: Caravan: From Marrakech to New Orleans (2024, Gallatin Street) B+(**)
    24. Cigarettes After Sex: X's (2024, Partisan) B+(***)
    25. Ed Clute: Shadows on the Moon (2024, Rivermont) B+(**)
    26. Anat Cohen: Quartetinho: Bloom (2024, Anzic) B+(***)
    27. Avishai Cohen: Bright Light (2024, Naïve) B+(**)
    28. Emmet Cohen: Vibe Provider (2024, Mack Avenue) B+(**)
    29. Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 (2024, PH/Loma Vista/Concord) B+(**)
    30. Karl D'Silva: Love Is a Flame in the Dark (2024, Night School) B+(*)
    31. Tomasz Dąbrowski & the Individual Beings: Better (2023 [2024], April) B+(**)
    32. Daisy Moon: System Creak (2024, Peach Discs, EP) B+(***)
    33. Dar Disku: Dar Disku (2024, Soundway) B+(*)
    34. Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg: Accept When (2023 [2024], Astral Spirits) B+(*)
    35. Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More (2024, 4AD) B+(**)
    36. Doris: Ultimate Love Songs Collection (2024, Janine) B+(*)
    37. Dubbeltrion: Bringing Scandi-Baltic Powerhousejazz to the People (2024, Sonic Transmissions) B+(**)
    38. Kurt Elling/Sullivan Fortner: Wildflowers Vol. 1 (2024, Edition) B-
    39. Kurt Elling: Wildflowers Vol. 2 (2024, Edition) C
    40. Fake Fruit: Mucho Mistrust (2024, Carpark) A-
    41. Father John Misty: Mashashmashana (2024, Sub Pop/Bella Union) B+(*)
    42. Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes (2024, Fat Possum) B+(*)
    43. The Flowers of Indulgence: Dylan's Lost Songs, Vol. 1 (2024, Bothy Studio) B+(**)
    44. Michael Foster/Ben Bennett/Jacob Wick: Carne Vale (2024, Relative Pitch) B+(*)
    45. Joel Frahm Trio: Lumination (2023 [2024], Anzic) B+(***)
    46. Joel Futterman: Forever (2022 [2024], Mahakala Music) B+(*)
    47. Sally Gates/Steve Hirsh/Daniel Carter: Phosphene (2024, Mahakala Music) B+(***)
    48. Girl Scout: Headache (2024, Human Garbage, EP) B+(*)
    49. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead (2024, Constellation) B+(***)
    50. Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band: Live at the Texas Theatre (2024, Astral Spirits) A-
    51. Charles Goold: Triptych Lespri (2023 [2024], La Reserve) B+(**)
    52. Gouge Away: Deep Sage (2024, Deathwish) B+(**)
    53. Devin Gray: Melt All of the Guns II (2024, Rataplan) B+(**)
    54. Geordie Greep: The New Sound (2024, Rough Trade) B
    55. David Hazeltine: Ballads and Blues Volume 1 (2023 [2024], Cellar Music, EP) B+(*)
    56. David Hazeltine: Ballads and Blues Volume 2 (2023 [2024], Cellar Music, EP) B+(*)
    57. Heavee: Unleash (2024, Hyperdub) B
    58. High Vis: Guided Tour (2024, Dais) B+(*)
    59. Hubbub: abb abb abb (2019 [2024], Relative Pitch) B+(**)
    60. Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Harbour (2022 [2024], Justin Time) B+(*)
    61. Judas Priest: Invincible Shield (2024, Columbia) B+(*)
    62. Ryan Keberle: Bright Moments (2023 [2024], Posi-Tone) B+(**)
    63. Kira Kira: Kira Kira Live (2024, Alister Spence Music) B+(**)
    64. Knocked Loose: You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To (2024, Pure Noise) B
    65. Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (2025, City Slang) B+(*)
    66. Latto: Sugar Honey Iced Tea (2024, Streamcut/RCA) B+(***)
    67. Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet + Gospel Choir: Wonderful! (2023 [2024], Cellar Music Group) B-
    68. Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections (2023 [2024], Motéma Music) B+(*)
    69. Peggy Lee/Julien Wilson/Theo Carbo/Dylan van der Schyff: Open Threat (2024, Earshift Music) B+(***)
    70. The Lemon Twigs: A Dream Is All We Know (2024, Captured Tracks) B-
    71. Jeffrey Lewis: Ghosterbusters (2024, self-released, EP) B+(**)
    72. Loidis: One Day (2024, Incienso) B+(***)
    73. Lollise: I Hit the Water (2024, Switch Hit) B+(**)
    74. Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland: United (2023 [2024], Edition) B+(**)
    75. Low Cut Connie: Connie Live (2024, Contender) B+(*)
    76. Lyrics Born: That 1 Tyme in the Studio: Acoustic Selections (2019 [2024], Mobile Home) B+(**)
    77. Kira Martini: Open Wide (2024, Storyville) B+(*)
    78. The Mavericks: Moon & Stars (2024, Mono Mundo) B+(***)
    79. Michael Mayo: Fly (2024, Mack Avenue) B+(*)
    80. Microplastique: Blare Blow Bloom! (2024, Irritable Mystic) B+(**)
    81. Grey McMurray: Crying at Breakfast (2024, Out of Your Head, EP) B-
    82. Ben Monder: Planetarium (2020-23 [2024], Sunnyside) B
    83. Mount Eerie: Night Palace (2024, PW Elverum & Sun) B+(*)
    84. Alison Moyet: Key (2024, Cooking Vinyl) B+(*)
    85. Mustafa: Dunya (2024, Jagjaguwar) B+(*)
    86. Wolfgang Muthspiel: Etudes/Quietudes (2024, Clap Your Hands) B+(**)
    87. Camila Nebbia & Angelica Sanchez: In Another Land, Another Dream (2023 [2024], Relative Pitch) A-
    88. Camila Nebbia/Leo Genovese/Alfred Vogel: Eyes to the Sun (2023 [2024], Boomslang) B+(***)
    89. Emily Nenni: Drive & Cry (2024, New West) B+(**)
    90. New Orleans Klezmer All Stars: Tipish (2024, self-released) B+(***)
    91. Molly Nilsson: Un-American Activities (2024, Night School/Dark Skies Association) B+(**)
    92. Nines: Quit While You're Ahead (2024, Zino) B+(*)
    93. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre Unique (2024, Bongo Joe/Red Wig) B+(**)
    94. Bill Orcutt: How to Rescue Things (2024, Palilalia) B
    95. Ivo Perelman/Iva Bittová/Michael Bisio: Vox Popoli Vox Dei (2017 [2024], Mahakala Music) B+(**)
    96. Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band: Lumen (2021 [2024], Prophone) B+(*)
    97. Peverelist: Pulse EP (2023, Livity Sound, EP) B+(***)
    98. Peverlist: Pulse Modulation (2023, Livity Sound, EP) B+(***)
    99. Peverelist: Pulse Phase (2024, Livity Sound, EP) B+(**)
    100. Peverelist: Pulse Echo (2024, Livity Sound, EP) B+(**)
    101. Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers: Izigqinamba (2024, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
    102. Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came (2024, Pixies/BMG) B
    103. Previous Industries: Service Merchandise (2024, Merge) A-
    104. Tim Reaper & Kloke: In Full Effect (2024, Hyperdub) B+(**)
    105. Tomeka Reid/Isadora Edwards/Elisabeth Coudoux: Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (2021 [2024], Relative Pitch) B+(**)
    106. Rema: Heis (2024, Mavin/Jonzing World/Interscope) B+(**)
    107. Diego Rivera: Ofendra (2024, Posi-Tone) B+(***)
    108. Porter Robinson: Smile! :D (2024, Mom+Pop/Sample Sized) B
    109. Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths (2024, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
    110. Toms Rudzinskis: Abyss (2019-21 [2023], self-released) B+(**)
    111. SahBabii: Saaheem (2024, self-released) B+(***)
    112. Saint Etienne: The Night (2024, Heavenly) B+(*)
    113. Akira Sakata/Jim O'Rourke/Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano: Live at SuperDeluxe Volume 1 (2017 [2024], Trost) B+(*)
    114. Michael Sarian: Live at Cliff Bell's (2023 [2024], Shifting Paradigm) B+(***)
    115. De Schuurman: Bubbling Forever (2024, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
    116. Secret Sisters: Mind, Man, Medicine (2024, New West) B+(***)
    117. Sexyy Red: In Sexyy We Trust (2024, Rebel) B+(**)
    118. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Rectangles and Circumstance (2024, Nonesuch) B+(***)
    119. Brad Shepik: Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (2022 [2024], Shifting Paradigm) A-
    120. Harri Sjöström/Erhard Hirt/Philipp Wachsmann/Paul Lytton: Especially for You (2022 [2023], Bead) B+(*)
    121. Skee Mask: Resort (2024, Ilian Tape) A-
    122. The Smile: Cutouts (2024, XL) B+(*)
    123. Smino: Maybe in Nirvana (2024, Zero Fatigue/Motown) B+(**)
    124. Daniel Sommer/Arve Henriksen/Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences (2022-23 [2024], April) B+(**)
    125. Peter Somuah: Highlife (2024, ACT Music) B+(**)
    126. Astrid Sonne: Great Doubt (2024, Escho) B
    127. Sound the Alarm: Sound the Alarm: A Large Ensemble Instigation for Palestine [Recorded Live in Concert] (2024, Relative Pitch) A-
    128. Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal: Sunday (2022 [2024], Loyal Label) B+(***)
    129. Dayna Stephens: Closer Than We Think (2023 [2024], Cellar Music) B+(***)
    130. Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann: Ellington (2023 [2024], Enja/Yellowbird) B+(**)
    131. Takkak Takkak: Takkak Takkak (2024, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
    132. Tems: Born in the Wild (2024, RCA) A-
    133. That Mexican OT: Texas Technician (2024, Manifest/Good Talk/Good Money Global/Capitol) B+(***)
    134. Pat Thomas: This Is Trick Step (2023 [2024], 577) B+(**)
    135. Dlala Thukzin: Finally Famous Too (2024, Dlala) B+(***)
    136. Anna Tivel: Living Thing (2024, Fluff and Gravy) B+(***)
    137. Transmission Towers: Transmission One (2024, É Soul Cultura/Mr Bongo) B+(**)
    138. Tulpas: Atisbo (2021 [2024], Astral Spirits) B+(**)
    139. Two Shell: Two Shell (2024, Young) B+(**)
    140. Weird of Mouth [Mette Rasmussen/Craig Taborn/Ches Smith]: Weird of Mouth (2022 [2024], Otherly Love) A-
    141. Sam Wilkes/Craig Weinrib/Dylan Day: Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib and Dylan Day (2024, Leaving) B+(*)
    142. Lucinda Williams: Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road (2024, Highway 20) B+(*)
    143. Willow: Empathogen (2024, Three Six Zero/Gamma) B+(**)
    144. Kathrine Windfeld Sextet: Aldebaran (2024, Stunt) B+(***)
    145. Remi Wolf: Big Ideas (2024, Island) B+(*)
    146. Warren Wolf: History of the Vibraphone (2023 [2024], Cellar Music) B+(**)
    147. WoochieWobbler: Thrilla (2024, self-released, EP) B
    148. Wussy: Cincinnati Ohio (2024, Shake It) B+(***)
    149. Wussy: The Great Divide (2017-24 [2024], Shake It, EP) B
    150. Wussy Duo: Cellar Door (2024, Shake It, EP) B+(*)
    151. Xylitol: Anemones (2024, Planet Mu) B+(***)
    152. Eri Yamamoto Quadraphonic: Fly With the Wings (2024, Mahakala Music) B+(***)
    153. Dwight Yoakam: Brighter Days (2024, VIA/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
    154. Zawose Queens: Maisha (2024, Real World) B+(***)
    155. Carlos Zingaro/João Madeira/Sofia Borges: Trizmaris (2023 [2024], 4DaRecord) A-
    156. John Zorn: Ballades (2024, Tzadik) B+(*)
    157. John Zorn: Lamentations (2024, Tzadik) B+(**)
    158. John Zorn: Ou Phrontis (2024, Tzadik) B+(**)
    159. Peter Brötzmann/Paal Nilssen-Love: Butterfly Mushroom (2015 [2024], Trost) B+(**)
    160. George Cartwright: Send Help (2008 [2024], Mahakala Music) B+(*)
    161. Charli XCX: Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat (2024, Atlantic) B+(**)
    162. Denzel Curry: King of the Mischievous South (2024, PH/Loma Vista) B+(**)
    163. Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958 [Bonus: After Hours 1950] (1950-58 [2024], Storyville) B+(**)
    164. Joe Ely: Driven to Drive ([2024], Rack 'Em) A-
    165. Funk.BR - São Paulo (2024, NTS) B+(**)
    166. Michael Griener & Jan Roder: Be Our Guest (1994-2022 [2024], Trouble in the East) A-
    167. Margo Guryan: Words and Music (1957-68 [2024], Numero Group, 2CD) B+(***)
    168. Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan (2024, Sub Pop) B+(*)
    169. Happy Apple: New York CD ([2024], Sunnyside) B+(*)
    170. Fumio Itabashi: Watarase (1982 [2024], Wewantsounds) B+(**)
    171. Skip James: Today! (1966 [2024], Craft) B+(***)
    172. Judas Priest: Rocka Rolla [50th Anniversary Edition] (1974 [2024], MNRK/Exciter/Reach) B
    173. Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping (1974 [2024], MPL) B
    174. Van Morrison: Live at Orangefield (2014 [2024], Townsend Music/Orangefield) B+(***)
    175. Michel Petrucciani Trio: Jazz Club Montmartre - CPH 1988 (1988 [2024], Storyville) B+(***)
    176. Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (1996 [2024], Heartcore) A-
    177. Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (2024, Republic) B+(**)
    178. Virtual Dreams, Vol. II: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999 (1993-99 [2024], Music From Memory) B+(***)
    179. Brenton Wood: Brenton Wood's 18 Best (1967-71 [2024], Craft) B
    180. Fake Fruit: Fake Fruit (2021, Rocks in Your Head) B+(**)
    181. Metal Preyers: Metal Preyers (2020, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B+(*)
    182. Allen Ravenstine: Nautilus/Rue de Poisson Noire (2021, Waveshaper) B+(**)
    183. Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations in the House & Techno Age, Japan 1993-1999 (1993-99 [2020], Music From Memory) B+(***)
    184. Lucinda Williams: Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 1] (2021, Highway 20) B
    185. Lucinda Williams: Southern Soul: From Memphis to Muscle Shoals and More [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 2] (2021, Highway 20) B
    186. Lucinda Williams: Bob's Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 3] (2021, Highway 20) B+(**)
    187. Lucinda Williams: Funny How Time Slips Away: A Night of 60's Country Classics [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 4] (2021, Highway 20) B+(***)
    188. Lucinda Williams: Have Yourself a Rockin' Little Christmas [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 5] (2021, Highway 20) B+(**)
    189. Lucinda Williams: You Are Cordially Invited . . . A Tribute to the Rolling Stones [Lu's Jukebox in Studio Concert Series Vol. 6] (2021, Highway 20) B+(***)
    190. Zach Bryan: The Great American Bar Scene (2024, Belting Bronco/Warner) B+(***)
    191. Sabrina Carpenter: Short 'n' Sweet (2024, Island) A-
    192. Charli XCX: Brat (2024, Atlantic) A-
    193. Doechii: Alligator Bites Never Heal (2024, Top Dawg/Capitol) B+(***)
    194. Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (2024, Big Machine) A-
    195. Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us (2024, Columbia) A-
    196. Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood (2024, Anti-) A-
    197. Yard Act: Where's My Utopia? (2024, Island) A-

    Total albums: 1842