Rhapsody Streamnotes: Missing Records

Simply a list of record that at one point or another I tried looking for and couldn't find. In theory it should help me keep from looking up the same things over and over again. Periodically I'll try to clean up this list, removing items that I subsequently found, as well as records that subsequently found me, but I can't be expected to be very dilligent about that.

* indicates a record that exists on Rhapsody but was unplayable.

+ indicates a record found elsewhere (although more often I either didn't report such records or later scratched them, since the point is less to monitor Rhapsody than to note what I thought important enough to look for but didn't find).

2014 Releases

  • Ralph Alessi/Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Lark (Skirl)
  • Eric Alexander: Chicago Fire (HighNote)
  • The Bad Plus: The Rite of Spring (Masterworks)
  • Suzy Bogguss: Lucky (Loyal Dutchess)
  • Eric Church: The Outsiders (Capitol Nashville)
  • Paolo Nutini: Caustic Love (Atlantic)
  • Imarhan Timbuktu: Akal Warled (Clermont Music)
  • Max Johnson Trio: The Invisible Trio (Fresh Sound)
  • Lake Street Dive: Bad Self Portraits (Signature Sounds)
  • Nickel Creek: A Dotted Line (Nonesuch)
  • Pink Martini: Dream a Little Dream (Heinz)
  • J. Spaceman and Kid Millions: Live at the Poisson Rouge (Northern Spy)

2013 Releases

  • Actress: Silver Cloud (Ninja Tune, EP)
  • Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983 (Analog Africa)
  • After Dark 2 (Italians Do It Better)
  • Matias Aguayo: The Visitor (Cómeme)
  • Ralph Alessi: Baida (ECM)
  • Ben Allison: The Stars Look Very Different Today (Sonic Camera)
  • Trevor Anderies: Shades of Truth (Nine Winds)
  • Angles 9: In Our Midst (Clean Feed)
  • Atomic: There's a Hole in the Mountain (Jazzland)
  • Daniel Avery: Drone Logic (Because)
  • Ballister: Mi Casa Es En Fuego (self-released)
  • Juliana Barwick: Nepenthe (Dead Oceans)
  • Stefano Battaglia Trio: Songways (ECM)
  • The Beatles: On the Air: Live at the BBC Vol. 2 (Capitol, 2CD)
  • Bitchin Bajas: Bichitronics (Drag City)
  • The Black Twig Pickers: Rough Carpenters (Thrill Jockey)
  • Stefano Bollani/Hamilton de Hollanda: O Que Sera (ECM)
  • Thomas Borgmann/Wilber Morris/Denis Charles: Live in Poland (Not Two)
  • Taylor Ho Bynum/John Hebert/Gerald Cleaver: Book of Three: Continuum (2012) (Relative Pitch)
  • Joe King Carrasco & El Molino: Tiaquepaque (Anaconda)
  • The Carrots: New Romance (Elefant)
  • Bill Carrothers: Castaways (Pirouet)
  • Daniel Carter/William Parker/Federico Ughi: Navajo Sunrise (Rudi)
  • Manu Chao: Siberie M'Etait Contege (Because Music)
  • The Buck Clayton Legacy Band: Claytonia (self-released)
  • Jayce Clayton: The Julius Eastman Memory Depot (New Amsterdam)
  • Alexis Cuadrado: A Lorca Landscape (Sunnyside)
  • Chris Darrow: Artist Proof (1972, Drag City)
  • Decoy With Joe McPhee: Spontaneous Combustion (Otoroku)
  • The Dirtbombs: Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey (In the Red)
  • Paul Dunmall/Tony Bianco: Tribute to Coltrane (Slam)
  • Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China (Sublime Frequencies)
  • Orrin Evans: ". . . It Was Beauty" (Criss Cross)
  • Frog Eyes: Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  • Four Tet: 0181 (Text)
  • Bill Frisell: Silent Comedy (Tzadik)
  • Frog Eyes: Carey's Cold Spring (self-released)
  • Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus (ATP)
  • The Heliocentrics: 13 Degrees of Reality (Now-Again)
  • Fred Hersch & Julian Lage: Free Flying (Palmetto)
  • Hiss Golden Messenger: Haw (Paradise of Bachelors)
  • John Hollenbeck: Songs I Like a Lot (Sunnyside)
  • Jenny Hval: Innocence Is Kinky (Rune Grammofon)
  • Jon Irabagon/Hernani Faustino/Gabriel Ferrandini: Absolute Zero (Not Two)
  • Christine Jensen: Habitat (Justin Time)
  • Jerusalem in My Heart: Mo7it Al-Mo7it (Constellation)
  • Kirk Knuffke/Mike Pride: The Exterminating Angel (Not Two)
  • Joachim Kühn Trio: Voodoo Sense (ACT)
  • Livity Sound: Livity Sound (self-released)
  • Lydia Lunch: Retrovirus (UgExplode)
  • Sabir Mateen: The Sabir Mateen Jubilee Ensemble (Not Two)
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie "Prince" Billy: What the Brothers Sang (Drag City/Palace)
  • Pat Metheny: Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20 (Tzadik)
  • Lisa Mezzacappa's Bait & Switch: Comeuppance (Not Two)
  • Miss Kittin: Calling From the Stars (WSphere)
  • Thurston Moore & Loren Connors: The Only Way to Go Is Straight Through (Northern Spy)
  • My Bloody Valentine: MBV (self-released)
  • Myron & E: Broadway (Stones Throw)
  • The Necks: Open (Northern Spy)
  • Aiofe O'Donovan: Fossils (Yep Roc)
  • Aaron Parks: Arborescence (ECM)
  • Theo Parrish: Black Jazz Signature (Snow Dog)
  • Nicholas Payton: Sketches of Spain (BFM)
  • Duke Pearson: Baltimore 1969 (Uptown)
  • Andrew Pekler: Cover Versions (Senufo Editions)
  • Polysick: Daydream (AudioMER)
  • Rainbow Arabia: F.M. Sushi (Time No Place)
  • Mike Reed: Second Cities: Volume 1 (482 Music)
  • Rocket Science: Live at the Vortex (More Is More)
  • Michael Rodriguez: Reverence (Criss Cross)
  • Barbara Rosene: Nice and Naughty (Stomp Off)
  • Scoolptures: Please Drive By Carefully (Leo)
  • Sky Larkin: Motto (Wichita)
  • Slava: Raw Solutions (Software)
  • Marnie Stern: The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Stooshe: London With the Lights On (Warner Bros.)
  • Travis Sullivan's Björkestra: I Go Humble (Zoho)
  • 3 Cohens: Tightrope (Anzic)
  • Dawn Upshaw/Maria Schneider: Winter Morning Walks (ArtistShare)
  • Ken Vandermark: Impressions of Po Music (Okka)
  • Bob Wiseman: Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying (Blocks/God Finds Cats)
  • John Wizards: John Wizards (Planet Mu)
  • The Woggles: The Big Beat (Wicked Cool)
  • Wussy: Duo (Shake It)
  • Young Fathers: Tape Two (Anticon)
  • Zola Jesus: Versions (Sacred Bones)

2012 Releases

  • Ahleuchatistas: Heads Full of Poison (Cuneiform)
  • Aimer et Perdre: To Love and Lose Songs, 1917-1934 (Tomkins Square)
  • Khaira Arby: Tchini Tchini (Clermont Music)
  • Michael Bisio/Matthew Shipp: Floating Ice (Relative Pitch)
  • Blues Control: Valley Tangents (Drag City)
  • Cory Branan: Mutt (Bloodshot)
  • The Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald) (History Always Favors the Winners)
  • Chromatics: Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better)
  • Cooly G: Playin' Me (Hyperdub)
  • Gaz Coombes: Presents . . . Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit)
  • Country Funk: 1969-1975 (1969-75, Light in the Attic)
  • Cut Chemist: Sound of the Police (2010, A Stable Sound)
  • Doseone: G Is for Deep (Anticon)
  • Jason Eady: AM Country Heaven (self-released)
  • Brian Eno: Lux (Warp)
  • Ensemble FisFüz & Gianluigi Trovesi: Papillons (HGBS)
  • Fac. Dance 02: Factory Records 12" Mixes and Rarities (1980-87, Strut, 2CD)
  • Field Music: Plumb (Memphis Industries)
  • Four Tet: Pink (Text)
  • Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs: Sunday Run Me Over (Transdreamer)
  • Jon Dee Graham: Garage Sale! (Freedom)
  • Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore: Play Some Fucking Stooges (Quasi Pop/Dumpster Diving Lab)
  • Will Guthrie: Sticks, Stones & Breaking Bones (Antboy)
  • Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi: Imikuzushi (Black Truffle)
  • Clay Harper: Old Airport Road (Terminus)
  • Angel Haze: Reservation (True Panther)
  • Thomas Heberer's Clarino: Cookbook (Red Toucan)
  • Robert Hood: Motor: Nighttime World 3 (Music Man)
  • Hanne Hukkelberg: Featherbrain (Propeller)
  • The Human Hearts: Another (Shrimper)
  • Idjut Boys: Cellar Door (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Jon Irabagon with Mike Pride and Mick Barr: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze (Irabbagast)
  • Ralph "Soul" Jackson: The Alabama Love Man (The Rabbit Factory)
  • Jagwa Music: Bongo Hotheads (Crammed Discs)
  • Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon (Jazz Village)
  • Darius Jones Quartet: Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Surprise) (AUM Fidelity)
  • Peter Karp/Sue Foley: Beyond the Crossroads (Blind Pig)
  • Calvin Keys: Shawn-Neeq (1971, Tompkins Square)
  • Lace Curtains: The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness (Female Fantasy)
  • Las Malas Amistades: Maleza (Honest Jon's)
  • Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power 1967-74 (1967-74, Light in the Attic)
  • LV: Sebenza (Hyperdub)
  • Makoomba: Rising Tide (Igloo)
  • Billy Martin/Wil Blades: Shimmy (Royal Potato Family)
  • Janis Martin: The Blanco Sessions (IODA)
  • Brad Mehldau Trio: Ode (Nonesuch)
  • Getatchew Merkuria & the Ex & Friends: Y'Anbessaw Tezeta (Terp)
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow/Madlib: Seeds (SomeOthaShip)
  • Moon Duo: Circles (Sacred Bones)
  • Joe Morris/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Altitude (AUM Fidelity)
  • Oh Mercy: Deep Heat (Casa del Disco)
  • Angel Olsen: Half Way Home (Bathetic)
  • Om: Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
  • Evan Parker/Agustí Fernández: The Voice Is One (Not Two)
  • William Parker Orchestra: Essence of Ellington (AUM Fidelity)
  • Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet (Real World)
  • Joe Pug: The Great Despiser (Lightning Rod)
  • Raime: Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
  • Rapsody: The Idea of Beautiful (Jamla)
  • Retisonic: Robots Fucking (Arctic Rodeo)
  • Herb Robertson: Party Enders (Not Two)
  • Royal Band de Thiés: Kadior Demb (Teranga Beat)
  • Pharoah Sanders: In the Beginning 1963-1964 (1963-64, ESP-Disk, 4CD)
  • Screaming Females: Ugly (Don Giovanni)
  • Shackleton: Music for the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs (Woe to the Septic Heart)
  • Spectrum Road (Palmetto)
  • Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
  • Strong Arm Steady/Statik Selektah: Stereotype (Stones Throw)
  • Taragana Pyjarama: Tipped Bowls (Kompakt)
  • Sidi Touré: Koïma (Thrill Jockey)
  • Trio M: The Guest House (Enja/Yellow Bird)
  • Alexander Tucker: Third Mouth (Thrill Jockey)
  • Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love: Letter to a Stranger (Smalltown Superjazz)
  • Voices From the Lake: Voices From the Lake (Prologue)
  • Moritz von Oswald Trio: Fetch (Honest Jon's)
  • Waco Brothers & Paul Burch: Great Chicago Fire (Bloodshot)
  • David S Ware/Planetary Unknown: Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011 (AUM Fidelity)
  • Wreckless Eric/Amy Rigby: A Working Museum (Southern Domestic)

2011 Releases

  • Action Bronson: Dr. Lecter (Fine Fabric)
  • Hayvanlar Alemi: Guarana Superpower (Sublime Frequencies)
  • Axis of Awesome: Animal Vehicle (Laughspin)
  • Balam Acab: Wander/Wonder (Tri Angle)
  • Barreracudas: Nocturnal Missions (Douchemaster)
  • The Black Keys: El Camino (Nonesuch)
  • James Blackshaw: Holly EP (Important)
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Wolfroy Goes to Town (Drag City)
  • Rob Brown: Unexplained Phenomena (Marge)
  • John Cale: Extra Playful (Double Six/Domino)
  • The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (History Always Favors the Winners)
  • Chicago Blues: A Living History: The (R)Evolution Continues (Raisin' Music)
  • The Coathangers: Larceny and Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze)
  • Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto (Capitol)
  • Dark Ages: Can America Survive? (Sorry State)
  • Desolate: The Invisible Insurrection (Fauxpas Musik)
  • Disco Inferno: The 5 EPs (One Little Indian)
  • Brian Eno/Rick Holland: Drums Between the Bells (Warp)
  • Escort: Escort (Tirk)
  • Gloria Estefan: Miss Little Havana (Verve Forecast)
  • Brian F{/=}: Sleep Rough (Grave Mistake)
  • The Fall: Ersatz GB (Cherry Red)
  • Faust: Something Dirty (Bureau B)
  • Fennesz + Sakamoto: Flumina (Touch)
  • The Field: Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
  • Jim Ford: Harlan County (Light in the Attic)
  • Future Islands: On the Water (Thrill Jockey)
  • Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs: No Help Coming (Transdreamer)
  • Guelewar: Halleli N'Dakarou (1982, Terranga Beat)
  • Luke Haines: Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on the Wrestling of the 1970s and Early '80s (Fantastic Plastic)
  • Hauschka: Salon des Amateurs (Fat Cat)
  • Heidi: Jackathon (Get Physical)
  • Johann Johansson: The Miner's Hymns (Fat Cat)
  • The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: From the Stairwell (Denovali)
  • La Big Vic: Actually (Underwater Peoples)
  • Led Bib: Bring Your Own (Cuneiform)
  • Lone: Echolocations (R&S)
  • Los Massieras: Better Than Italian (Clone)
  • Luomo: Plus (Moodmusic)
  • Branford Marsalis/Joey Calderazzo: Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)
  • Mr. Dream: Trash Hit (God Mode)
  • Marissa Nadler: Marissa Nadler (Box of Color)
  • Owiny Sigoma Band: Owiny Sigoma Band (Brownwood)
  • Charlie Parr: When the Devil Goes Blind (Nero's Neptune)
  • Pinch and Shackleton: Pinch and Shackleton (Honest Jon's)
  • Prefuse 73: The Only She Chapter (Warp)
  • John Prine: The Singing Mailman Delivers (Oh Boy)
  • Razika: Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Lou Reed & Metallica: Lulu (Warner Brothers)
  • Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes (Polydor)
  • Arrica Rose and the . . . s: Let Alone Sea (pOprOck)
  • Shackleton: Fireworks (Honest Jon's)
  • Shlohmo: Bad Vibes (Friends of Friends)
  • Omar Souleyman: Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies)
  • Standard Fare: Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Melodic)
  • Andy Stott: Passed Me By/We Stay Together (Modern Love)
  • Sun Araw: Ancient Romans (Drag City)
  • Ta Lam 11: Mingus! (Jazzwerkstatt)
  • These Trails: These Trails (1973, Drag City)
  • The Thirteenth Assembly: Station Direct (Important)
  • Thundercat: The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
  • Total Control: Henge Beat (Iron Lung)
  • Tom Waits: Bad as Me (Anti-)
  • The Wave Pictures: Beer in the Breakers (Moshi Moshi)
  • Wussy: Funeral Dress II (Shake It)
  • Yob: Atma (Profound Lore)
  • Zola Jesus: Conatus (Sacred Bones)
  • Zs: New Slaves Part II: Essence Implosion! (Social Registry)

2010 Releases

  • Eric Alexander: Chim Chim Cheree (Venus)
  • Sam Amidon: I See the Sign (Bedroom Community)
  • Autechre: Move of Ten (Warp)
  • Beach Fossils: What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
  • Apollo Brown: The Reset (Mello Music Group)
  • Basia Bullat: Heart of My Own (Secret City)
  • The Cookers: Warriors (Jazz Legacy Productions)
  • Elephant9: Walk the Nile (Rune Grammofon)
  • El Guincho: Piratas de Sudamérica, Vol. 1 (Young Turks, EP)
  • Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)
  • Future Islands: In the Evening Air (Thrill Jockey)
  • Giant Sand: Blurry Blue Mountain (2010, Fire)
  • Hunx and His Punx: Gay Singles (True Panther Sounds)
  • Hurts: Happiness (Sony)
  • Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  • I See Hawks in L.A.: Shoulda Been Gold 2001-2009 (American Beat)
  • Kokayi: Robots and Dinosaurs (QN5)
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House (Intakt)
  • Lage Lund: Unlikely Stories (Criss Cross) *
  • Brian Lynch Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Bolero Nights: For Billie Holiday (Venus)
  • Maxilla Blue: Volume Two (Central Standard)
  • Menomena: Mines (Barsuk)
  • More or Les: Brunch With a Vengeance (Fuzzy Logic)
  • Mount Kimbie: Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
  • Georgia Anne Muldrow: Kings Ballad (Ubiquity)
  • Michael Musillami Trio: Old Tea (Playscape)
  • Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me (Drag City)
  • Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal (Editions Mego)
  • The Red Krayola/Art & Language: Five American Portraits (Drag City)
  • Mike Reed Loose Assembly: Empathetic Parts (482 Music)
  • Shit Browne: Every Single Penny Will Be Reinvested in the Party (Asphalt Duchess)
  • Peter Stampfel: Dook of the Beatniks (Piety Street Files & Archaic)
  • Sun City Girls: Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
  • Sweet Apple: Love & Desperation (Teepee)
  • Sweet Talks: The Kusum Beat (1974, Soundway)
  • Systema Solar: Systema Solar (Chusma)
  • Tame Impala: Innerspeaker (Modular)
  • Tyler, the Creator: Bastard (Odd Future)
  • The Vandermark 5: The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone (Not Two)
  • Rickey Woodard: Pineapple Delight (Wood and Wood)
  • John Zorn: Ipsissimus (Tzadik)

2009 Releases

  • Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Lost and Found (Engine)
  • Dee Alexander: Wild Is the Wind (Blujazz)
  • A-Trak: Fabriclive.45 (Fabric)
  • Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
  • Jakob Bro: Balladeering (Loveland)
  • Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
  • The Da Vincis: See You Tonight (Olympic)
  • DJ Koze: Reincarnations: The Remix Chapter 2001-2009 (Get Physical)
  • Justin Townes Earle: Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
  • The Emeralds: What Happened (No Fun)
  • The Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
  • Rosie Flores: Girl of the Century (Bloodshot)
  • Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band: Celestial Green Monster (Mutable/Big Red Media)
  • Meanderthals: Desire Lines (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Mika Miko: We Be Xuxa (PPM)
  • The Monks: Black Monk Time (1965-67, Light in the Attic)
  • Richmond Fontaine: We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River (Decor)
  • Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
  • Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen: Information Inspiration (Strut)

2008 Releases

  • Hamell on Trial: Rant and Roll (Righteous Babe)
  • Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
  • Otis Taylor: Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
  • White Denim: Workout Holiday (Full Time Holiday)
  • Wire: Object 47 (Pink Flag)

2007 Releases

  • Amerie: Because I Love It (Columbia)
  • The Field: From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
  • Freeway: Free at Last (Roc-A-Fella)
  • Menomena: Friend or Foe (Barsuk)
  • Róisín Murphy: Overpowered (EMI)
  • Tony Oxley/Derek Bailey: The Advocate (Tzadik) *
  • Pantha du Prince: This Bliss (Dial)
  • UGK: Underground Kingz (Jive)
  • Wussy: Left for Dead (Shake It)

Releases Unsorted by Year (something to do)

  • Muhal Richard Abrams/Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum (Mutable)
  • Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit (Profound Lore)
  • Alcest: Ecailles de Lune (Prophecy)
  • Ralph Alessi and Modular Theatre: Open Season (RKM)
  • Lina Allemano Four: Jargon (Lumo)
  • AMM/John Butcher: Sounding Music (Matchless)
  • Fred Anderson: Black Horn Long Gone (Southport)
  • ARP: The Soft Wave (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Atomic: Theater Tilters, Vol. 1 (Jazzland)
  • Atomic: Theater Tilters, Vol. 2 (Jazzland)
  • Avi Buffalo: Avi Buffalo (Sub Pop)
  • Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue/T2)
  • Bruce Barth/Steve Wilson: Home: Live in Columbia Missouri (WASJS)
  • Michael Bates: Live in New York (Greenleaf Music)
  • Bell Orchestre: As Seen Through Windows (Arts & Crafts)
  • Big KRIT: Wuz Here (Direct Connect)
  • Jeb Bishop Trio: 2009 (Better Animal)
  • Michael Blake: Hellbent (Label of Love)
  • Gui Boratto: Chromophobia (Kompakt)
  • Anthony Braxton/Gerry Hemingway: Old Dogs (2007) (Mode)
  • Bobby Carcasses y Afrojazz: De la Habana a Nueva York (Vero)
  • Daniel Carter/Alberto Fiori/Tom Abbs/Federico Ughi: The Perfect Blue (Not Two)
  • Jeff Chan: Horns of Plenty (Asian Improv)
  • Billy Childs: Autumn: In Moving Pictures (ArtistShare)
  • Evan Christopher: Finesse (Fremeaux)
  • The Clean: Mister Pop (Merge)
  • Andrew Cyrille/Greg Osby: Low Blue Flame (TUM)
  • Tim Daisy/Ken Vandermark Duo: Light on the Wall (Laurence Family)
  • Jeff Davis: We Sleep Outside (Loyal Label)
  • Michael Dease: Grace (Jazz Legacy)
  • Tony DeSare: Radio Show (Telarc)
  • Fefe Dobson: Joy (21 Music)
  • Hamid Drake & Bindu: Reggaeology (RogueArt)
  • Dominic Duval & Cecil Taylor: The Last Dance (Cadence)
  • The Engines: Wire and Brass (Okka Disk)
  • The Ex: Catch My Shoe (Ex)
  • Firewater: The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
  • Forest Swords: Dagger Paths (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  • Foxy Shazam: Foxy Shazam (Sire)
  • Joel Frahm & Bruce Katz: Project A (Anzic)
  • Four Tet: Ringer EP (Domino)
  • The Fugs: Be Free: The Fugs Final CD, Pt. II (Kindred Rhythm)
  • Tomas Fujiwara: Actionspeak (482 Music)
  • Golem: Citizen Boris (J-Dub)
  • Vinny Golia/Mark Dresser: Live at Lotus (Kadima)
  • Dennis González: Cape of Storms (Ayler)
  • G-Side: The One . . . Cohesive (Slow Motion Soundz)
  • Guido: Anidea (Punch Drunk)
  • Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: In Search of a Standard (Leo)
  • Ha Ha Tonka: Death of a Decade (Bloodshot)
  • Tigran Hamasyan: Red Hail (Plus Loin)
  • Barry Harris: Live in Rennes (Plus Loin)
  • Tamir Hendelman: Destinations (Resonance)
  • Eddie Henderson: For All We Know (Furthermore)
  • William Hooker: Earth's Orbit (No Business)
  • Susie Ibarra: Drum Sketches (Innova)
  • Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time (Dreyfus)
  • Lee Konitz New Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
  • KORT: Invariable Heartache (City Slang)
  • Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  • Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey (Furthermore)
  • Jamie Lidell: Compass (Warp)
  • Lydia Loveless: The Only Man (Peloton)
  • Lucero: 1372 Overton Park (Republic)
  • Frank Macchia: Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony)
  • Taj Mahal: Maestro (Heads Up)
  • Rudi Mahall: Der Rote Bereich 7 (Intakt)
  • Roc Marciano: Marcberg (Fat Beats)
  • Maxïmo Park: Quicken the Heart (Warp)
  • Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten: Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two)
  • Joe McPhee/Mikolaj Trzaska/Dominic Duval/Jay Rosen: Magic (Not Two)
  • Javiera Mena: Mena (Jabalina)
  • Joe Morris: Sensor (No Business)
  • James Murphy/Pat Mahoney: Fabriclive 36 (Fabric)
  • Meshell Ndegéocello: The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (Emarcy)
  • Dick Oatts: Two Hearts (Steeplechase)
  • OM: Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
  • The Paperhead: The Paperhead (Trouble in Mind)
  • PreNup: Hell to Pay (Rampage)
  • Marcus Printup: Ballads All Night (Steeplechase)
  • Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
  • Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall (Epitaph/Hellcat)
  • John Roberts: Glass Eights (Dial)
  • Jamie Saft: Bag of Shells (Tzadik)
  • Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)
  • Scuba: Triangulation (Hotflush)
  • Shed: The Traveller (Ostgut Ton)
  • Skream: Outside the Box (Tempa)
  • Martial Solal: At Newport '63 (1963, RCA)
  • Solar Bears: She Was Coloured In (Planet Mu)
  • Lew Soloff, Steve Richman and Harmonie Ensemble New York: Sketches of Spain (Sheffield Lab)
  • Walter Smith III: III (Criss Cross)
  • Supersilent: 10 (Rune Grammofon)
  • Swamp Dogg: Resurrection (SDEG)
  • Earl Sweatshirt: Earl (OFWGKTA)
  • Swedish Azz: Pazz På Svenska (Not Two)
  • Aki Takase: A Week Went By (Psi)
  • Aki Takase/Louis Sclavis: Yokohama (Intakt)
  • Moritz von Oswald Trio: Vertical Ascent (Honest Jons)
  • Weather Report: 8:30 (1979, Columbia)
  • White Denim: Last Days of Summer (self-released)
  • Wolf Parade: Kissing the Beehive (Sub Pop)
  • Nate Wooley/Jason Roebke/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Throw Down Your Hammer (Porter)
  • Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby: Two Way Family Favorites (Southern Domestic)
  • Zola Jesus: Stridulum II (Souterrain Transmissions, EP)
  • [various]: Now That's What I Call Club Hits 2 (EMI)
  • [various]: Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978 (Now-Again)

JazzTimes best-of-decade nominees:

  • Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life (ECM, 1976) []
  • Weather Report: Black Market (Columbia, 1976) []
  • Bill Evans: The Bill Evans Album (Columbia, 1971) []
  • Oscar Peterson/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: The Trio (Pablo, 1974) []
  • V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (Columbia, 1977) []
  • Stan Getz: Captain Marvel (Columbia, 1972) []
  • John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana: Love Devotion Surrender (Columbia, 1973) []
  • McCoy Tyner: Trident (Milestone, 1975) []
  • John McLaughlin: My Goal's Beyond (Douglas, 1971) []
  • Bill Evans: Alone Again (Fantasy, 1975) []
  • Weather Report: 8:30 (Columbia, 1979) []
  • The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Les Stances a Sophie (Nessa, 1970) []
  • McCoy Tyner: Echoes of a Friend (Milestone, 1972) []
  • Sarah Vaughan: Send in the Clowns (Mainstream, 1974) []
  • Lee Ritenour: Captain Fingers (Epic, 1977) []
  • Joe Henderson: In Pursuit of Blackness (Milestone, 1971) []
  • Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass: Fitzgerald & Pass . . . Again (Pablo, 1976) []
  • McCoy Tyner: Supertrios (Milestone, 1977) []
  • Stanley Clarke: Journey to Love (Nemperor, 1975) []
  • Sonny Rollins: Don't Stop the Carnival (Milestone, 1978) []
  • Herbie Hancock: Herbie Hancock Trio (CBS, 1977) []
  • Dexter Gordon: Bouncin' with Dex (SteepleChase, 1975) []
  • George Benson: Good King Bad (CTI, 1976) []
  • Tony Williams: The Joy of Flying (Columbia, 1979) []
  • Ron Carter: Piccolo (Milestone, 1977) []
  • Sonny Rollins: Easy Living (Milestone, 1977) []
  • The Heath Brothers: Passin' Through (Columbia, 1978) []
  • Bill Evans with the George Russell Orchestra: Living Time (Columbia, 1972) []
  • Ron Carter: Peg Leg (Milestone, 1978) []
  • George Benson: Give Me the Night (Warner Bros., 1980) []
  • Herb Ellis: Trio (Concord, 1980) []
  • Irakere: Irakere II (Columbia, 1980) []
  • Pat Metheny: 80/81 (ECM, 1980) []
  • Mingus Dynasty: Chair in the Sky (Elektra, 1980) []
  • McCoy Tyner: Quartets 4 X 4 (Milestone, 1980) []
  • Chick Corea: Three Quartets (Stretch, 1981) []
  • Chick Corea Trio: Music (ECM, 1981) []
  • Al Jarreau: Breakin' Away (Warner Bros., 1981) []
  • John McLaughlin: Belo Horizonte (Warner Music Group, 1981) []
  • Jaco Pastorius: Word of Mouth (Warner Bros., 1981) []
  • Oscar Peterson: Nigerian Marketplace (Pablo, 1981) []
  • Pharoah Sanders: Rejoice (Theresa, 1981) []
  • John Scofield: Shinola (Enja, 1981) []
  • Phil Woods: Birds of a Feather (Antilles, 1981) []
  • Monty Alexander: Triple Threat (Concord, 1982) []
  • Miles Davis: We Want Miles (CBS, 1982) []
  • Paquito D'Rivera: Mariel (Columbia, 1982) []
  • Herbie Hancock: Quartet (Columbia, 1982) []
  • Woody Shaw: Master of the Art (Elektra, 1982) []
  • Sphere: Four in One (Elektra, 1982) []
  • Herbie Hancock: Future Shock (Columbia, 1983) []
  • Freddie Hubbard: Sweet Return (Atlantic, 1983) []
  • Steve Lacy: The Door (RCA Novus, 1983) [U]
  • Wynton Marsalis: Think of One (Columbia, 1983) []
  • Muhal Richard Abrams: Rejoicing With the Light (Black Saint, 1984) []
  • The Heath Brothers: Brothers & Others (Antilles, 1984) []
  • Bobby McFerrin: The Voice (Elektra/Musician, 1984) []
  • Pat Metheny Group: First Circle (ECM, 1984) []
  • Tito Puente: El Rey (Concord Picante, 1984) []
  • James Williams: Alter Ego (Sunnyside, 1984) []
  • Larry Coryell and Emily Remler: Together (Concord, 1985) []
  • James Newton: The African Flower (Blue Note, 1985) []
  • Bill Frisell: Rambler (ECM, 1985) []
  • Dave Holland Quintet: Seeds (ECM, 1985) []
  • The Mel Lewis Orchestra: 20 Years at the Village Vanguard (Atlantic, 1985) []
  • Carmen Lundy: Good Morning Kiss (Black Hawk, 1985) []
  • Manhattan Transfer: Vocalese (Atlantic, 1985) []
  • Frank Morgan: Easy Living (OJC, 1985) []
  • Wayne Shorter: Atlantis (Columbia, 1985) []
  • Cedar Walton: The Trio, Vols. 1-3 (Soul Note, 1985) []
  • Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue (Blue Note, 1985) []
  • Kenny Barron: What If? (Enja, 1986) []
  • Tim Berne: Fulton Street Maul (Columbia, 1986) []
  • Chick Corea: Elektric Band (GRP, 1986) []
  • Hank Crawford: Soul Survivors (Milestone, 1986) []
  • Kenny G: Duotones (Arista, 1986) []
  • Bob James and David Sanborn: Double Vision (Warner Bros., 1986) []
  • Marc Johnson: Bass Desires (ECM, 1986) []
  • Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions (Elektra/Musician, 1986) []
  • Mulgrew Miller: Work (Landmark, 1986) []
  • Poncho Sanchez: Papa Gato (Concord, 1986) []
  • Wayne Shorter: Phantom Navigator (Columbia, 1986) []
  • Jimmy Smith: Go for Whatcha Know (Blue Note, 1986) []
  • Tony Williams: Civilization (Blue Note, 1986) []
  • Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition: Irresistible Forces (MCA, 1987) [U]
  • Dave Holland: Razor's Edge (ECM, 1987) []
  • Dave Liebman: Homage to John Coltrane (Owl, 1987) []
  • Branford Marsalis: Random Abstract (Columbia, 1987) []
  • Pat Metheny Group: Still Life (Talking) (Geffen, 1987) []
  • Greg Osby: Sound Theater (JMT, 1987) []
  • Oscar Peterson: With Harry Edison and Eddie Vinson (Pablo, 1987) []
  • Power Tools: Strange Meeting (Antilles, 1987) []
  • Marvin "Smitty" Smith: Keeper of the Drums (Concord, 1987) []
  • David Torn: Cloud About Mercury (ECM, 1987) []
  • McCoy Tyner: Blues for Coltrane (Impulse!, 1987) []
  • Joe Williams: Every Night (Verve, 1987) []
  • John Blake: New Beginnings (Gramavision, 1988) []
  • Michael Brecker: Don't Try This at Home (Impulse!, 1988) []
  • Betty Carter: Look What I Got (Bet-Car/Verve, 1988) []
  • Stanley Clarke: If This Bass Could Talk (Portrait, 1988) []
  • Joe Lovano: Village Rhythm (Soul Note, 1988) []
  • Music Revelation Ensemble: Music Revelation Ensemble (DIW, 1988) []
  • Wayne Shorter: Joy Ryder (Columbia, 1988) []
  • Take 6: Take 6 (Reprise, 1988) []
  • Toots Thielemans: Only Trust Your Heart (Concord, 1988) []
  • Grover Washington, Jr.: Then and Now (Columbia, 1988) []
  • Bobby Watson: No Question About It (Blue Note, 1988) []
  • World Saxophone Quartet: Rhythm and Blues (Elektra, 1988) [B-]
  • George Adams: America (Blue Note, 1989) []
  • Geri Allen: In the Year of the Dragon (JMT, 1989) []
  • George Benson: Tenderly (Warner Bros., 1989) []
  • Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Grooves Up (Capri, 1989) []
  • Harry Connick, Jr.: When Harry Met Sally . . . (Columbia, 1989) []
  • Chick Corea: Akoustic Band (GRP, 1989) []
  • Gene Harris: Listen Here! (Concord, 1989) []
  • Christopher Hollyday: Christopher Hollyday (RCA, 1989) []
  • Shirley Horn: Close Enough for Love (Verve, 1989) []
  • Branford Marsalis: Trio Jeepy (Columbia, 1989) []
  • Jean-Luc Ponty: Storytelling (Columbia, 1989) []
  • Marcus Roberts: The Truth Is Spoken Here (RCA/Novus, 1989) []
  • Gary Thomas: By Any Means Necessary (JMT, 1989) []
  • Tony Williams: Native Heart (Blue Note, 1989) []
  • Yellowjackets: The Spin (MCA, 1989) []