• 75 Dollar Bill: Little Big Band Live at Tubby's (self-released) **
• 79rs Gang: Expect the Unexpected (Sinking City) **
• The 1975: Notes on a Conditional Form (Dirty Hit) **
• Abraham Inc.: Together We Stand (Table Pounding -19) **
• Aesop Rock: Spirit World Field Guide (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
• Against All Logic: 2017-2019 (Other People) **
• Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus: Rats and Mice (Lumo) **
• Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band: Just Like Moby Dick (Paradise of Bachelors) **
• Antibalas: Fu Chronicles (Daptone) **
• Erlend Apneseth: Fragmentarium (Hubro) **
• Florian Arbenz & Greg Osby: Reflections of the Eternal Line (Hammer) **
• Armand Hammer: Shrines (Backwoodz Studioz) **
• Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience: To Know Without Knowing (Agogo) **
• Gregg August: Dialogues on Race: Volume One (Iacuessa) **
• AVA Trio: Digging the Sand (Marocco Music -19) **
• Teodross Avery: Harlem Stories: The Music of Thelonious Monk (WJ3) **
• The Awakening Orchestra: Volume II: To Call Her to a Higher Plain (Biophilia) **
• Victoria Bailey: Jesus, Red Wine & Patsy Cline (Rock Ridge Music) **
• Danny Barnes: Man on Fire (ATO) **
• Barrage: The Was and Is to Come (Øra Fonogram) **
• Gary Bartz and Maisha: Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions (Night Dreamer) **
• Beauty Pill: Sorry You're Here (Taffety Punk Theatre Company) **
• Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt) **
• Daniel Bingert: Berit in Space (Moserobie)
• Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner: Tradition Disc in Dub (Tradition Disc) **
• Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner: Upright Living (Tradition Disc) **
• Raoul Björkenheim: Solar Winds (Long Song) **
• Black Eyed Peas: Translation (Epic) **
• Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Life Goes On (ECM) **
• Blueface: Dirt Bag (Cash Money, EP -19) **
• Boldy James & the Alchemist: The Price of Tea in China (ALC/Boldy James) **
• Boldy James/Sterling Toles: Manger on McNichols (Sector 7-G) **
• Jorun Bombay & Phill Most Chill: Jorun PMC (AE Productions) **
• Benjamin Boone: The Poets Are Gathering (Origin)
• Don Braden/Joris Teepe Quartet: In the Spirit of Herbie Hancock: Live at De Witte (O.A.P.) **
• Geof Bradfield/Ben Goldberg/Dana Hall Trio: General Semantics (Delmark) **
• Jamie Branch/Dave Repis/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Tollef Østvang: Tripel/Dubbel (Aerophonic) **
• Anthony Braxton/Jacqueline Kerrod: Duo (Bologna) 2018 (I Dischi Di Angelica) **
• Phoebe Bridgers: If We Make It Through December (Dean Oceans, EP) **
• BROM: Dance With an Idiot (Trost) **
• Will Butler: Generations (Merge) **
• Cabaret Voltaire: Shadow of Fear (Mute) **
• Call Super: Every Mouth Teeth Missing (Incienso) **
• James Carney Sextet: Pure Heart (Sunnyside) **
• François Carrier/Tomek Gadecki/Marcik Bozek/Michel Lambert: Wide (FMR -19)
• François Carrier/Masayo Koketsu/Daisuke Fuwa/Takashi Itani: Japan Suite (NoBusiness)
• Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1 (577) **
• Ceramic Dog: What I Did on My Long Vacation (Northern Spy) **
• Chicago Underground Quartet: Good Days (Astral Spirits)
• The Chicks: Gaslighter (Columbia) **
• Tyler Childers: Long Violent History (Hickman Holler) **
• Clipping: Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop) **
• Dan Clucas/Jeb Bishop/Damon Smith/Matt Crane: Universal or Directional (Balance Point Acoustics) **
• Emmet Cohen Featuring George Coleman: Masters Legacy Series Volume 4 (self-released -19) **
• Bootsy Collins: The Power of the One (Sweetwater Sounds) **
• Marco Colonna & Alexander Hawkins: Dolphy Underlined (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Conference Call: Prism (Not Two) **
• Conway the Machine: From King to a GOD (Griselda) **
• Jeff Cosgrove/John Medeski/Jeff Lederer: History Gets Ahead of the Story (Grizzley Music)
• CP Unit: One Foot on the Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown (Ramp Local) **
• Ronnie Cuber: Four (SteepleChase -19) **
• Dan Ex Machina: Pity Party Animal (self-released) **
• Marie Davidson/L'OEil Nu: Renegade Breakdown (Ninja Tune) **
• Josephine Davies: Sartori: How Can We Wake? (Whirlwind) **
• Bertrand Denzler/Antonin Gerbal: Sbatax (Umlaut) **
• Dena DeRose: Ode to the Road (HighNote) **
• Diabla Diezco: Memento Mori (Mord) **
• Vito Dieterle: Anemone (Ride Symbol)
• Daniel Donato: A Young Man's Country (Cosmic Country Music) **
• Tashi Dorji/Tyler Damon: To Catch a Bird in a Net of Wind (Trost) **
• Dave Douglas: Marching Music (Greenleaf Music) **
• Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger: Force Majeure (International Anthem) **
• Lara Driscoll: Woven Dreams (Firm Roots Music)
• Drive-By Truckers: The New OK (ATO) **
• Lajos Dudas: The Lake and the Music (JazzSick) **
• Drunken Kong: Where We Start (Tronic) **
• Dueling Experts: Dueling Experts (Mello Music Group) **
• Emily Duff: Born on the Ground (Mr Mudshow Music) **
• Steve Earle: Ghosts of West Virginia (New West) **
• Silke Eberhard/Dave Rempis/Kent Kessler/Mike Reed: Exposure (Aerophonic) **
• Liberty Ellman: Last Desert (Pi)
• The Engines: Wooden Legs (Aerophonic) **
• The Exbats: Kicks, Hits and Fits (Burger) **
• Fat Tony & Taydex: Wake Up (Carpark, EP) **
• Fat Tony: Exotica (Carpark) **
• Agustí Fernández/Liudas Mockunas: Improdimensions (NoBusiness) *
• Michael Foster/Dave Rempis/Jason Roebke/Tyler Damon: The Eagle (Aerophonic) **
• Jean-Marc Foussat/Thomas Lehn: Spie(l)gehungen (Fou)
• Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Entity (Libra)
• Fox Green: The Longest April (self-released) **
• Georgia: Seeking Thrills (Domino) **
• Julian Gerstin: Littoral Zone (self-released)
• Lafayette Gilchrist: Now (Lafayette Gilchrist Music, 2CD)
• Vincent Glanzmann/Gerry Hemingway: Composition O (Fundacja Sluchaj)
• GoGo Penguin: GoGo Penguin (Blue Note) **
• Vinny Golia/John Hanrahan/Henry Kaiser/Wayne Peet/Mike Watt: A Love Supreme Electric: A Salvo Inspired by John Coltrane: A Love Supreme & Meditations (Cuneiform, 2CD) **
• Wendy Gondeln/Mats Gustafsson/Wolfang Voigt: The Shithole Country & Boogie Band (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
• Alex Goodman: Impressions in Blue and Red (Outside In Music, 2CD)
• Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: Safar-e-Daroon (Songlines) **
• Jimmy Greene: While Looking Up (Mack Avenue) **
• Grimes: Miss Anthropocene (4AD) **
• Tee Grizzley: The Smartest (300 Entertainment) **
• Matthew Halsall: Salute to the Sun (Gondwana) **
• Halsey: Manic (Capitol) **
• Harrison²: Trout in Swimwear (self-released) *
• Joel Harrison + 18: America at War (Sunnyside) **
• Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (Ndeya) **
• Hegge: Feeling (Particular) **
• The Heliocentrics: Infinity of Now (Madlib Invazion) **
• Fred Hersch: Songs From Home (Palmetto)
• Anna Högberg Attack: Lena (Omlott) **
• Holy Fuck: Deleter (Last Gang) **
• Homeboy Sandman: Don't Feed the Monster (Mello Music Group) **
• François Houle 4: RECODER (Songlines) **
• Siul Hughes: Hueman (Fake Four) **
• Kelley Hurt/Chad Fowler/Christopher Parker/Bernard Santacruz/Anders Griffen: Nothing but Love: The Music of Frank Lowe (Mahakala Music) **
• Idles: Ultra Mono (Partisan) **
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered 9: East/West (Ill Considered) **
• John Pål Inderberg Trio: Radio Inderberg (AMP Music) **
• Christoph Irniger Trio: Open City (Intakt) **
• Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker/Julian Kirshner: So Glossy and So Thin (Astral Spirits) **
• Sarah Jarosz: World on the Ground (Rounder) **
• Russ Johnson/Dave Rempis/Joshua Abrams/Isaiah Spencer/Jeremy Cunningham: Harmattan (Aerophonic) **
• Edward "Kidd" Jordan/Joel Futterman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: A Tribute to Alvin Fielder: Live at Vision Festival XXIV (Mahakala Music) **
• Junk Magic: Compass Confusion (Pyroclastic)
• KA: Descendants of Cain (Iron Works) **
• Maria Kannegaard Trio: Sand I En Vik (Jazzland) **
• Kaze & Ikue Mori: Sand Storm (Libra)
• Jon-Erik Kellso: Sweet Fruits Salty Roots (Jazzology) **
• Eva Kess: Sternschnuppen: Falling Stars (Neuklang)
• Quin Kirchner: The Shadows and the Light (Astral Spirits) **
• Benjamin Koppel/Kenny Werner/Scott Colley/Jack DeJohnette: The Art of the Quartet (Cowbell Music/Unit, 2CD) **
• The Koreatown Oddity: Little Dominiques Nosebleed (Stones Throw)
• Diana Krall: This Dream of You (Verve) **
• Martin Küchen & Landaeus Trio: Mind the Gap of Silence (Clean Feed) **
• Takuya Kuroda: Fly Moon Die Soon (First Word) **
• Kuzu [Dave Rempis/Tashi Dorji/Tyler Damon]: Purple Dark Opal (Aerophonic)
• Lady Gaga: Chromatica (Interscope) **
• Bettye Lavette: Blackbirds (Verve) **
• John Law's Congregation: Configuration (Ubuntu Music) **
• Ute Lemper: Rendezvous With Marlene (Jazzhaus) **
• José Lencastre/Hernâni Faustino/Vasco Furtado: Vento (Phonogram Unit) **
• Dua Lipa & the Blessed Madonna: Club Future Nostalgia (Warner) **
• Hayoung Lyou: Metamorphosis (Endectomorph Music)
• Carla Marciano Quartet: Psychosis: Homage to Bernard Herrmann (Challenge)
• Marlowe [L'Orange & Solemn Brigham]: Marlowe 2 (Mello Music Group) **
• Mekons: Exquisite (self-released) **
• Meridian Brothers: Cumbia Siglo XXI (Bongo Joe) **
• Ela Minus: Acts of Rebellion (Domino) **
• Mdou Moctar: Mixtape Vol. 1 (self-released) **
• Helen Money: Atomic (Thrill Jockey) **
• Moodymann: Taken Away (Mahogani Music) **
• Michael Moore Fragile Quartet: Cretan Dialogues (Ramboy -19) **
• Simon Moullier: Spirit Song (Outside In Music)
• The Mountain Goats: Getting Into Knives (Merge) **
• Mr. Wrong: Create a Place (Water Wing, EP) **
• The NDR Bigband With Michael Moore: Sanctuary (Ramboy -19) **
• Willie Nelson: First Rose of Spring (Legacy) **
• New Orleans High Society: New Orleans High Society (1718/Slammin Media) **
• Guillaume Nouaux: Guillaume Nouaux & the Stride Piano Kings (self-released)
• Adam Nussbaum: Leadbelly Reimagined (Sunnyside) **
• Nutria: Meeting in Progress (Ears & Eyes)
• Oddisee: Odd Cure (Outer Note) **
• Old 97's: Twelfth (ATO) **
• OM [Urs Leimgruber/Christy Doran/Bobby Burri/Fredy Studer]: It's About Time (Intakt) **
• Onipa: We No Be Machine (Strut) **
• Optic Sink: Optic Sink (Goner) **
• Keith Oxman: Two Cigarettes in the Dark (Capri)
• Paris: Safe Space Invader (Guerilla Funk) **
• Waylon Payne: Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me (Carnival) **
• Ben Perowsky/John Medeski/Chris Speed: Upstream (El Destructo -19) **
• Pet Shop Boys: Hotspot (X2) **
• Ryan Porter & the West Coast Get Down: Live in Paris at New Morning (World Galaxy) **
• Pretenders: Hate for Sale (BMG) **
• Princess Nokia: Everything Is Beautiful (Platoon) **
• Quelle Chris & Chris Keys: Innocent Country 2 (Mello Music Group) **
• Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Round Again (Nonesuch) **
• Rempis/Rosaly Duo: Codes/Myths (Aerophonic, 2CD) **
• Rodney Rice: Same Shirt, Different Day (Moody Spring Music) **
• Stephen Riley: Friday the 13th (SteepleChase) **
• Rent Romus/Heikki Koskinen/Life's Blood Ensemble: Manala (Edgetone)
• Roots Magic: Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed) **
• Benny Rubin Jr. Quartet: Know Say or See (Benny Jr. Music) *
• Adam Rudolph/Ralph M. Jones/Hamid Drake: Imaginary Archipelago (Meta)
• Bree Runway: 2000and4Eva (Virgin EMI, EP) **
• Bobby Rush: Rawer Than Raw (Deep Rush) **
• Samo Salamon & Friends: Almost Alone Vol. 1 (Samo)
• The John Santos Sextet: Art of the Descarga (Smithsonian Folkways) **
• Sault: Untitled (Black Is) (Forever Living Originals) **
• Sault: Untitled (Rise) (Forever Living Originals) **
• Carl Saunders: Jazz Trumpet (Summit)
• Schapiro 17: New Shoes: Kind of Blue at 60 (Summit, 2CD)
• Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift (Leo) **
• Diane Schuur: Running on Faith (Jazzheads)
• Radam Schwartz Organ Big Band: Message From Groove and GW (Arabesque)
• John Scofield: Swallow Tales (ECM) **
• Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Axiom (Ropeadope) **
• Brandon Seabrook With Cooper-Moore & Gerald Cleaver: Exultations (Astral Spirits) **
• Mark Segger Sextet: Lift Off (18th Note)
• Serengeti: With Greg From Deerhoof (Joyful Noise) **
• Sestetto Internazionale: Live in Munich 2019 (Fundacja Sluchaj)
• Paul Shaw Quintet: Moment of Clarity (Summit)
• Archie Shepp/Raw Poetic/Damu the Fudgemunk: Ocean Bridges (Redefinition) **
• Viktor Skokic Sextett: Basement Music (Jazzland)
• Sløtface: Sorry for the Late Reply (Propeller) **
• Skurkar: Skjulte Motiver (Øra Fonogram) **
• Gary Smulyan: Our Contrafacts (SteepleChase) **
• Sneaks: Happy Birthday (Merge) **
• Jim Snidero: Project-K (Savant)
• Soccer Mommy: Color Theory (Loma Vista) **
• Martial Solal & Dave Liebman: Masters in Paris (Sunnyside) **
• Sonar With David Torn: Tranceportation (Volume 2) (RareNoise) **
• Speaker Music: Processing Intimacy (Planet Mu) **
• Sports Team: Deep Down Happy (Island) **
• Dayna Stephens Trio: Liberty (Contagious Music) **
• Dayna Stephens: Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard (Contagious Music, 2CD)
• Superposition: Superposition (We Jazz) **
• Taylor Swift: Folklore (Republic) **
• Taylor Swift: Evermore (Republic) **
• Craig Taborn/Dave King: The Tower Tapes #3 (Jazz Club Ferrara) **
• Ohad Talmor Newsreel: Long Forms (Intakt) **
• Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii/Ramon Lopez: Mantle (Not Two)
• Jorma Tapio & Kaski: Aliseen (577) **
• Thelonious Monster: Oh That Monster (Outliner) **
• Michael Thomas: Event Horizon (Giant Step Arts, 2CD)
• Richard Thompson: Bloody Noses (Beeswing, EP) **
• Charles Tolliver: Connect (Gearbox) **
• Fumi Tomita Featuring David Detweiler: Celebrating Bird/A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Next Level)
• Cat Toren's Human Kind: Scintillating Beauty (New Focus) **
• Peeter Uuskyla/Tellef Øgrim/Anders Berg/Per Anders Nilsson: Isn Hi Lagt Sae På Fjellvatna (Simlas) **
• Cristina Vane: Old Played New (Blue Tip) **
• Luke Vibert: Luke Vibert Presents Modern Rave (Hypercolour) **
• Alexander von Schlippenbach: Slow Pieces for Aki (Intakt) **
• Kelsey Waldon: They'll Never Keep Us Down (Oh Boy, EP) **
• Greg Ward/Jason Stein/Marcus Evans/Chad Taylor/Matt Lux: 85bears (2020, Ears & Eyes) **
• Becky Warren: The Sick Season (Becky Warren) **
• The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Soundpath (Composed by Muhal Richard Abrams) (Clean Feed) **
• Doug Webb: Apples & Oranges (Posi-Tone) **
• The Westerlies: Wherein Lies the Good (Westerlies)
• WHO Trio: Strell: The Music of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington (Clean Feed) **
• Wire: Mind Hive (Pink Flag) **
• Charli XCX: How I'm Feeling Now (Asylum) **
• 3unshine: We Are 3unshine (Real Show) **
• 21 Savage & Metro Boomin: Savage Mode II (Slaughter Gang/Epic) **
• 75 Dollar Bill: Power Failures (self-released) **
• 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band: Roulette, March 27, 2017 (self-released) **
• The 81's: 2 Things & 118 Others (The 81's) **
• 100 Gecs: 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues (Dog Show) **
• Rez Abbasi: Django-shift (Whirlwind) [08-28]
• Ainon: Drought (We Jazz) **
• Ambrose Akinmusire: On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note) **
• Andre Akinyele: Uniglo Boy (Orange River) **
• Aksak Maboul: Figures (Crammed Discs) **
• Susan Alcorn Quintet: Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
• Harry Allen: The Bloody Happy Song (GAC) **
• Alma: Have U Seen Her? (PME) **
• American Aquarium: Lamentations (New West) **
• Sebastien Ammann: Resilience (Skirl) **
• Ammar 808: Global Control/Invisible Invasion (Glitterbeat) **
• Lila Ammons: Genealogy (self-released)
• John Anderson: Years (Easy Eye Sound) **
• Thomas Anderson: Analog Summer (Four-Tracks and Then Some) (Out There) **
• Annie: Dark Hearts (Annie Melody) **
• Arbor Labor Union: New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk) **
• Jon Armstrong Sextet: Reabsorb (Orenda) **
• Artemis: Artemis (Blue Note) **
• The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You (Island) **
• Bab L' Bluz: Nayda! (Real World) **
• Backxwash: God Had Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It (Grimalkin, EP) **
• Bad Bunny: YHLQMDLG (Rimas) **
• The Bad Plus: The Tower Tapes #4 (Jazz Club Ferrara) **
• John Bailey: Can You Imagine? (Freedom Road)
• J Balvin: Colores (Universal Latin) **
• Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Folk Songs (Sunnyside) **
• Mandy Barnett: A Nashville Songbook (BMG) **
• Conrad Bauer/Matthias Bauer/Dag Magnus Narvesen: The Gift (NoBusiness) *
• Bdrmm: Bedroom (Sonic Cathedral) **
• Beabadoobee: Fake It Flowers (Dirty Hit) **
• John Beasley: MONK'estra Plays John Beasley (Mack Avenue) **
• Benny Benack III: A Lot of Livin' to Do (LA Reserve)
• Benny the Butcher: Burden of Proof (Griselda) **
• Antoine Berjeaut: Moving Cities (I See Colors -19) **
• David Berkman: Plays Music by John Coltrane and Pete Seeger: Solo Piano (Without)
• Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Tower Tapes #1 (Jazz Club Ferrara) **
• Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Deceptive 4 (Intakt, 2CD) **
• Matt Berninger: Serpentine Prison (Book) **
• Max Bessesen: Trouble (Ropeadope)
• Scott H. Biram: Fever Dreams (Bloodshot) **
• Nat Birchall: Mysticism of Sound (Ancient Archive of Sound) **
• Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: 100 Years of Blues (Alligator) **
• Jeb Bishop: Centrifugal Trio (Astral Spirits) **
• Blaer: Yellow (Ronin Rhythm) **
• Ran Blake/Andrew Rathbun: Northern Noir (SteepleChase) **
• Urs Blöchlinger Revisited: Harry Doesn't Mind (Leo) **
• Blueface: Find the Beat (Cash Money) **
• Afel Bocoum: Lindé (World Circuit) **
• Body Count: Carnivore (Century Media) **
• Bonjintan: Dental Kafka (Trost) **
• Moses Boyd: Dark Matter (Exodus) **
• Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher (Dead Oceans) **
• Bright Eyes: Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was (Dead Oceans) **
• Alan Broadbent Trio: Trio in Motion (Savant) **
• Apollo Brown & Che' Noir: As God Intended (Mello Music Group) **
• Burna Boy: Twice as Tall (Atlantic) **
• Chris Byars: On the Shoulders of Giants (SteepleChase) **
• Calle Loiza Jazz Project: There Will Never Be Another You (self-released)
• Caitlin Cannon: The TrashCannon Album (Caitlin Cannon) **
• Caribou: Suddenly (Merge) **
• Hayes Carll: Alone Together Sessions (Dualtone) **
• Playboi Carti: Whole Lotta Red (AWGE/Interscope) **
• Caterpillar Quartet: Threads (ESP-Disk) *
• Ernesto Cervini: Tetrahedron (Anzic) **
• Marshall Chapman: Songs I Can't Live Without (Tall Girl) **
• Chromeo: Quarantine Casanova (Chromeo, EP) **
• Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers: Vodou Alé (Bongo Joe) **
• Gerald Clayton: Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) **
• Clem Snide: Forever Just Beyond (Ramseur) **
• Cliff Trio [Pandelis Karayorgis/Damon Smith/Eric Rosenthal]: Precipice (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Brent Cobb: Keep 'Em on They Toes (Ol' Buddy) **
• Chris Cogburn/Juan García/Ignaz Schick: Anáhuac (Astral Spirits)
• Avishai Cohen Big Vicious: Big Vicious (ECM) **
• Emmet Cohen Featuring Benny Golson & Albert "Tootie" Heath: Masters Legacy Series Volume 3 (self-released -19) **
• Shirley Collins: Heart's Ease (Domino) **
• Frank Colón: Latin Lounge (Technoprimal Music)
• Convergence: Convergence (Hammer) **
• Conway the Machine/The Alchemist: Lulu (Griselda/ALC, EP) **
• Cosmic Vibrations: Pathways & Passages (Spiritmuse) **
• Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Free Hoops (Intakt) **
• Brian Cullman: Winter Clothes (Sunnyside) **
• Jeremy Cunningham: The Weather Up There (Northern Spy) **
• Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual (New Focus) **
• Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts (RCA) **
• Dagny: Strangers/Lovers (Little Daggers, EP) **
• Dan Ex Machina: My Wife (self-released) **
• John Daversa Quintet: Cuarentena: With Family at Home (Tiger Turn) **
• Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood: Live (International Anthem) **
• Day Dream: Originals (Corner Store Jazz)
• Dean & Britta: Quarantine Tapes (Double Feature) **
• Dej Loaf: Sell Sole II (BMG) **
• Alabaster DePlume: To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (International Anthem) **
• Vito Dieterle/Joel Forrester: Status Sphere (Ride Symbol)
• Beatrice Dillon: Workaround (Pan) **
• John DiMartino: Passion Flower: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Sunnyside)
• Dinosaur: To the Earth (Edition) **
• Disclosure: Energy (Island) **
• DJ Python: Mas Amable (Incienso) **
• Dave Douglas: Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity (Greenleaf Music) **
• Dave Douglas: Overcome (Greenleaf Music) **
• Drakeo the Ruler: Thank You for Using GTL (Stinc Team) **
• Dutchavelli: Dutch From the 5th (Parlophone) **
• Open Mike Eagle: Anime, Trauma and Divorce (Auto Reverse) **
• Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals (L&H Production, 2CD)
• Kahil El'Zabar: Kahil El'Zabar's America the Beautiful (Spiritmuse) **
• Elzhi: Seven Times Down Eight Times Up (Fat Beats) **
• Joe Farnsworth: Time to Swing (Smoke Sessions) **
• Bill Fay: Countless Branches (Dead Oceans) **
• Joe Fiedler's Big Sackbut: Live in Graz (Multiphonics Music) **
• Endless Field: Alive in the Wilderness (Biophilia)
• Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: The Intangible Between (Smoke Sessions) **
• John Fedchock NY Sextet: Into the Shadows (Summit)
• André Fernandes: Kinetic (Clean Feed) **
• Fire! Orchestra: Actions (Rune Grammofon) **
• Paul Flaherty/Randall Colbourne/James Chumley Hunt/Mike Roberson: Borrowed From Children (577) **
• Frazey Ford: U Kin B the Sun (Arts & Crafts) **
• Jason Foureman and Stephen Anderson: Duo (Summit)
• Jean-Marc Foussat/Daunik Lazro/Evan Parker: Café Oto 2020 (Fou, 2CD)
• Chad Fowler/WC Anderson: Lacrimosa (Mahakala Music)
• Bill Frisell: Valentine (Blue Note) **
• Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura: Pentas: Tribute to Eric and Chris Stern (Not Two) **
• Asher Gamedze: Dialectic Soul (On the Corner) **
• Nubya Garcia: Source (Concord) **
• Gato Libre: Koneko (Libra)
• Naama Gheber: Dearly Beloved (Cellar Music)
• Ben Goldberg/Kenny Wollesen: Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour (BAG Production) **
• Selena Gomez: Rare (Interscope) **
• Frank Gratkowski/Simon Nabatov/Dominik Mahnig: Dance Hall Stories (Leo) **
• Devin Gray: Socialytics (Rataplan -EP) **
• Gordon Grdina/Matt Mitchel/Jim Black: Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio (Skirl)
• Guillermo Gregorio/Joe Fonda/Ramón López: Intersecting Lives (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Ricardo Grilli: 1962 (Tone Rogue)
• Grrrl Gang: Here to Stay (Damnably, EP) **
• Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/William Parker/Steve Swell: Tales From (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• David Guetta/Morten: New Rave (Parlophone, EP) **
• Mickey Guyton: Bridges (Capitol Nashville, EP) **
• Bartosz Hadala Group: Three Short Stories (Zecernia)
• The Haden Triplets: The Family Songbook (Trimeter) **
• Noah Haidu: Doctone (Sunnyside)
• Haim: Women in Music Pt. III (Columbia) **
• Luke Haines & Peter Buck: Beat Poetry for Survivalists (Omnivore) **
• Connie Han: Iron Starlet (Mack Avenue) **
• Alexander Hawkins/Tomeka Reid: Shards and Constellations (Intakt) **
• Headie One: Edna (Relentless) **
• Kirby Heard: Mama's Biscuits (self-released -19) **
• Paul Heaton/Jacqui Abbott: Manchester Calling (Virgin EMI) **
• The Heliocentrics: Telemetric Sounds (Madlib Invazion) **
• Hemingway, Phillips & Moore: Slips (Ramboy -19) **
• Eddie Henderson: Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions) **
• Ian Hendrickson-Smith: The Lowdown (Cellar Live) **
• Jihee Heo: Are You Ready? (OA2)
• Daniel Hersog: Night Devoid of Stars (Cellar Live)
• HHY & the Macumbas: Camouflage Vector: Edits From Live Actions 2017-2019 (Nyege Nyege) **
• Lily Hiatt: Walking Proof (New West) **
• Tyler Higgins: Broken Blues (Shhpuma) **
• Lisa Hilton: Chalkboard Destiny (Ruby Slippers -19) **
• Rui Ho: Lov3 & L1ght (Planet Mu) **
• Christopher Hollyday & Telepathy: Dialogue (Jazzbeat Productions)
• JC Hopkins Biggish Band: New York Moment (Twee-Jazz)
The Howling Hex: Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum) **
• Ray Wylie Hubbard: Co-Starring (Big Machine) **
• Siul Hughes: Stoopkid (Fake Four -19) **
• Sierra Hull: 25 Trips (Rounder) **
• Human Feel: The Tower Tapes #5 (Jazz Club Ferrara) **
• J Hus: Big Conspiracy (Black Butter) **
• Kang Tae Hwan/Hang Hae Jin: Circle Point (Dancing Butterfly) **
• Johnny Iguana: Johnny Iguana's Chicago Spectacular (Delmark) **
• Jasmine Infiniti: Bxtch Släp (New World Dysorder) **
• International Teachers of Pop: Pop Gossip (Desolate Spools) **
• I.P.A.: Bashing Mushrooms (Cuneiform) **
• Ital Tek: Outland (Planet Mu) **
• Nicholas Jaar: Telas (Other People) **
• Jaga Jazzist: Pyramid (Brainfeeder) **
• Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert (ECM, 2CD) **
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Rock Chalk Suite (Blue Engine) **
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Christopher Crenshaw's the Fifties: A Prism (Blue Engine) **
• Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated Side B (School Boy) **
• Hermione Johnson: Tremble (Relative Pitch) **
• Jimmy Johnson: Every Day of Your Life (Delmark -19) **
• Karen Jonas: The Southwest Sky & Other Dreams (Yellow Brick) **
• Camden Joy: Updated Just Now (self-released, EP) **
• Camden Joy: American Love (self-released) **
• JPEGMafia: EP! (Universal Republic, EP) **
• Jubileum Quartet [Joëlle Léandre/Evan Parker/Agustí Fernández/Zlatko Kaucic]: A Uis? (Not Two) **
• Jyoti: Mama, You Can Bet! (SomeOthaShip) **
• K. Michelle: All Monsters Are Human (EOne) **
• Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams: Plastic Bouquet (New West) **
• KeiyaA: Forever, Ya Girl (Keiya) **
• Keleketia: Keleketia! (Ahead of Our Time) **
• Alicia Keys: Alicia (RCA) **
• Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon III: The Chosen (Republic) **
• Kirk Knuffke: Tight Like This (SteepleChase) **
• Adam Kolker: Lost (Sunnyside) **
• David Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg: Breath & Hammer (Table Pounding) **
• KRS-One: Between Da Protests (R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) **
• Nils Landgren & Jan Lundgren: Kristallen (ACT Music) **
• Last Dream of the Morning [John Butcher/John Edwards/Mark Sanders]: Crucial Anatomy (Trost) **
• Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis: Blood Moon (Intakt) **
• Gabe Lee: Honky Tonk Hell (Torrez Music Group) **
• Okkyung Lee: Yeo-Neun (Shelter Press) **
• Urs Leimgruber/Andreas Willers/Alvin Curran/Fabrizio Spera: Rome-ing (Leo -19) **
• Jinx Lennon: Border Schizzo Fffolk Songs for the Fuc**d (Septic Tiger) **
• Les Amazones D'Afrique: Amazones Power (RealWorld) **
• Allegra Levy: Lose My Number (SteepleChase)
• Lil Baby: My Turn (Quality Control) **
• Lil Wayne: Funeral (Young Money) **
• Fenne Lily: Breach (Dead Oceans) **
• Arto Lindsay/Joe McPhee/Ken Vandermark/Phil Sudderberg: Largest Afternoon (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
• Brian Lisik: Güdbye Stoopid Whirled (Cherokee Queen)
• Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note) **
• Fred Lonberg-Holm/Joe McPhee: No Time Left for Sadness (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
• David Lord: Forest Standards Vol. 2 (BIG EGO) **
• Lionel Loueke: HH (Edition) **
• Luka Productions & Kandiafa: Music From Saharan WhatsApp Volume 6 (Sahel Sounds, EP) **
• Corb Lund: Agricultural Tragic (New West) **
• Harold Mabern: Mabern Plays Mabern (Smoke Sessions) **
• Roberto Magris: Suite! (JMood, 2CD)
• Tkay Maidza: Last Year Was Weird (Vol. 2) (4AD, EP) **
• Majamisty Trio: Organic (Mistyland) **
• Major Lazer: Music Is the Weapon (Mad Decent) **
• Nduduzo Makhathini: Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds (Blue Note) **
• Denise Mangiardi: Brown Book (Alice's Loft Music)
• Jacám Manricks: Samadhi (Manricks Music)
• Roc Marciano: Marcielago (Marci) **
• Grégoire Maret/Romain Collin/Bill Frisell: Americana (ACT Music)
• Laura Marling: Song for Our Daughter (Chrysalis/Partisan) **
• Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Party (Troubadour Jass)
• Terrace Martin: Village Days (Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire, EP) **
• Sabir Mateen/Patrick Holmes/Federico Ughi: Survival Situation (577) **
• Christian McBride: The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue) **
• Christian McBride Big Band: For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver (Mack Avenue) **
• Ashley McBryde: Never Will (Warner Nashville) **
• Makaya McCraven: Universal Beings E&F Sides (International Anthem) **
• Thollem McDonas/William Parker/Nels Cline: Gowanus Sessions II (ESP-Disk) **
• Mike McGinnis/Elias Bailey/Vinnie Sperrazza: Time Is Thicker (Open Stream Music)
• John McLaughlin/Shankar Mahadevan/Zakir Hussain: Is That So? (Abstract Logix) **
• Joe McPhee/Dave Rempis/Tomeka Reid/Brandon Lopez/Paal Nilssen-Love: Of Things Beyond Thule Vol. 1 (Aerophonic) **
• Joe McPhee/Dave Rempis/Tomeka Reid/Brandon Lopez/Paal Nilssen-Love: Of Things Beyond Thule Vol. 2 (Aerophonic) **
• Charles McPherson: Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Mack Music) **
• Melenas: Dias Raros (Trouble in Mind) **
• Vic Mensa: V Tape (Roc Nation, EP) **
• Hailu Mergia: Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
• Ras Michael: Live by the Spirit (Hen House Studios) **
• The Microphones: Microphones in 2020 (PW Elverum & Sun) **
• Ron Miles: Rainbow Sign (Blue Note) **
• Kylie Minogue: Disco (BMG) **
• Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes: What Kinda Music (Beyond the Groove) **
• Victoria Monét: Jaguar (Tribe, EP) **
• Ted Moore Trio: The Natural Order of Things (Origin)
• Thurston Moore: By the Fire (Daydream Library) **
• John Moreland: LP5 (Old Omens) **
• Ikue Mori/Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus (Libra)
• Cahalen Morrison: Wealth of Sorrow (self-released) **
• The Mountain Goats: Songs for Pierre Chuvin (Merge) **
• Benjamin Moussay: Promontoire (ECM) **
• Róisin Murphy: Róisin Machine (Skint) **
• Rachel Musson: Shifa: Live in Oslo (577) **
• Rachel Musson: I Went This Way (577) **
• Mythic Sunship: Changing Shapes: Live at Roadburn (El Paraiso) **
• Tatsuya Nakatani/Shane Parish: Interactivity (Cuneiform) **
• Nas: King's Disease (Mass Appeal) **
• Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes: Heritage of the Invisible II (Internatioal Anthem) **
• The Necks: Three (Northern Spy) **
• Tami Neilson: Chicka Boom! (Outside) **
• Josh Nelson Trio: The Discovery Project: Live in Japan (Steel Bird)
• Keir Neuringer/Shayna Dulberger/Julius Masri: Dromedaries II (Relative Pitch) **
• Keir Neuringer & Rafal Mazur: The Continuum (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Farnell Newton: Rippin' & Rumblin' (Posi-Tone) **
• Johnny Nicholas: Mistaken Identity (Valcour) **
• Adam Niewood: Blue as a Whistle (SteepleChase) **
• Agnes Obel: Myopia (Blue Note) **
• Douglas Olsen: 2 Cents (self-released)
• The Michael O'Neill Quartet: And Then It Rained (Jazzmo) **
• Kelly Lee Owens: Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound) **
• Pa Salieu: Send Them to Coventry (Warner Music UK) **
• Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune (French Paradox)
• Christopher Parker & Kelly Hurt: No Tears Suite (Mahakala Music) **
• Jeff Parker: Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem) **
• Aaron Parks: Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope) **
• Theo Parrish: Wuddaji (Sound Signature) **
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson: Imagine Growing Up (We Jazz) **
• Esmé Patterson: There Will Come Soft Rains (BMG) **
• Pere Ubu: By Order of Mayor Pawlicki: Live in Jarocin (Cherry Red) **
• Ivo Perelman & Arcado String Trio: Deep Resonance (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Amalgam (Mahakala Music) **
• Vanessa Perica Orchestra: Love Is a Temporary Madness (self-released) **
• Malin Pettersen: Wildhorse (Die With Your Boots On) **
• Lido Pimienta: Miss Colombia (Anti-) **
• Pink Siifu/Yungmorpheus: Bag Talk (Field Left -19) **
• Polo G: The Goat (Columbia) **
• Tineke Postma: Freya (Edition) **
• PRAED Orchestra: Live in Sharjah (Morphine) **
• Noah Preminger: Contemptment (SteepleChase) **
• Margo Price: Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman (Loma Vista) **
• Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Transparency (Dafnison Music) **
• Princess Nokia: Everything Sucks (Platoon, EP) **
• Protoje: In Search of Lost Time (RCA) **
• Protomartyr: Ultimate Success Today (Domino) **
• Jure Pukl: Broken Circles (Whirlwind) **
• Purna Loka Ensemble: Metaraga (Origin)
• Abbey Rader/John McMinn: Duo From the Heart (Abray) **
• RaeLynn: Baytown (Round Here, EP) **
• Tom Rainey/Ingrid Laubrock: Stir Crazy (self-released) **
• Dave Rempis/Terrie Ex/Tim Daisy: Sugar Shack (Aerophonic) **
• Dave Rempis/Elisabeth Harnik/Michael Zerang: Triple Tube (Not Two) **
• Gloria Reuben & Marty Ashby: For All We Know (MCG Jazz)
• Jessie Reyez: Before Love Came to Kill Us (Island) **
• Jenny Reynolds: Any Kind of Angel (Pretty Okay Music) **
• Steph Richards: Supersense (Northern Spy) **
• The Ridiculous Trio: The Ridiculous Trio Plays the Stooges (Modern Harmonic) **
• Jose Rizo's Mongorama: Mariposas Cantan (Saungu)
• Matana Roberts & Pat Thomas: The Truth (Otoroku) **
• Jason Robinson & Eric Hofbauer: Two Hours Early, Ten Minutes Late: Duo Music of Ken Aldcroft (Accretions)
• Hans-Joachim Roedelius: Selbstportrait: Wahre Liebe (Bureau B) **
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Sideways to New Italy (Sub Pop) **
• Christian Ronn/Aram Shelton: Multiring (Astral Spirits) **
• ROPE [Frank Paul Schubert/Uwe Oberg/Paul Rogers/Mark Sanders]: Open Ends (Trouble in the East) **
• Whitney Rose: We Still Go to Rodeos (MCG) **
• Dan Rosenboom: Absurd in the Anthropocene (Gearbox) **
• Dan Rosenboom: Points on an Infinite Line (Orenda) **
• Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio: Angels Around (Heartcore) **
• Joel Ross: Who Are You (Blue Note) **
• Michael Rother: Dreamimg (Groenland) **
• Royce Da 5'9": The Allegory (EOne) **
• Andreas Røysum Ensemble: Andreas Røysum Ensemble (Motvind) **
• Chanda Rule + Sweet Emma Band: Hold On (Blujazz/PAO)
• Charles Rumback: June Holiday (Astral Spirits)
• Rumer: Nashville Tears: The Songs of Hugh Prestwood (Cooking Vinyl) **
• Ray Russell: Fluid Architecture (Cuneiform) **
• Saint Jhn: While the World Was Burning (Hitco) **
• Samo Salamon/Igor Matkovic/Kristijan Krajncan: Rare Ebb (Sazas)
• Christian Sands: Be Water (Mack Avenue) **
• Oumou Sangaré: Acoustic (No Format) **
• Sa-Roc: The Sharecropper's Daughter (Rhymesayers) **
• Scenes: Trapeze (Origin)
• Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords (ArtistShare, 2CD)
• J. Peter Schwalm/Arve Henriksen: Neuzeit (RareNoise) *
• Ray Scott: Nowhere Near Done (Jethropolitan, EP) **
• Gil Scott-Heron: We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven (XL) **
• Serengeti: Ajai (Cohn) **
• Sara Serpa: Recognition (Biophilia)
• Sevdaliza: Shabrang (Twisted Elegance) **
• SFJazz Collective: Live: SFJazz Center 2019: 50th Anniversary: Miles Davis In a Silent Way and Sly & the Family Stone Stand! (SFJazz) **
• Shabazz Palaces: The Don of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop) **
• Nadine Shah: Kitchen Sink (Infectious Music) **
• Andy Shauf: The Neon Skyline (Anti-) **
• Lawrence Sieberth Quartet: An Evening in Paris (Musik Blöc)
• Øyvind Skarbø/Fredrik Ljungkvist/Kris Davis/Ole Morten Vågan: Inland Empire (Clean Feed) **
• Skepta, Chip & Young Adz: Insomnia (SKC M29) **
• Matthew Shipp: The Piano Equation (Tao Forms) **
• Bette Smith: The Good, the Bad and the Bette (Ruf) **
• Torben Snekkestad/Agustí Fernández/Barry Guy: The Swiftest Traveler (Trost) **
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Born Deadly (Fontana North, EP) **
• James Solace: Mind Music (Hot Creations, EP) **
• James Solace: Setting Sun/The Light (Four Thirty Two, EP) **
• Alan Sondheim & Azure Carter: Plaguesong (ESP-Disk)
• Songhoy Blues: Optimisme (Transgressive/Fat Possum) **
• Sorry: 925 (Domino) **
• South Florida Jazz Orchestra: Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza (Summit)
• Speaker Music: Of Desire, Longing (Planet Mu -19) **
• Speaker Music: Percussive Therapy (Planet Mu -EP) **
• The Bobby Spellman Nonet: Revenge of the Cool (Sunnyside) **
• Stephane Spira/Giovanni Mirabassi: Improkofiev (Jazzmax)
• Bruce Springsteen: Letter to You (Columbia) **
• Grant Stewart Quartet: Rise and Shine (Cellar Live) **
• Chris Stapleton: Starting Over (Mercury Nashville) **
• Tim Stine Trio: Fresh Demons (Astral Spirits) **
• Stormzy: Heavy Is the Head (Merky/Atlantic -19) **
• The Streets: None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive (Island) **
• STRFKR: Future Past Life (Polyvinyl) **
• Ray Suhy & Lewis Porter Quartet: Transcendent (Sunnyside) **
• Swamp Dogg: Sorry You Couldn't Make It (Joyful Noise) **
• Sylvan Esso: Free Love (Loma Vista) **
• Talibam! With Silke Eberhard and Nikolaus Neuser: This Week Is in Two Weeks (ESP-Disk) **
• Tamikrest: Tamotaït (Glitterbeat) **
• Tell No Lies: Anasyrma (Aut) **
• Henri Texier: Chance (Label Bleu) **
• Micah Thomas: Tide (self-released) **
• Azu Tiwaline: Draw Me a Silence Part 1 (IOT, EP) **
• Touché Amoré: Lament (Epitaph) **
• Tenille Townes: The Lemonade Stand (Columbia Nashville) **
• Laura Toxvaerd: Tidens Strøm (ILK, EP -19) **
• Laura Toxvaerd: Drapery (ILK -19) **
• Yves Tumor: Heaven to a Tortured Mind (Warp) **
• Josh Turner: Country State of Mind (MCA Nashville) **
• Jeff Tweedy: Love Is the King (dBpm) **
• Two Weeks Notice: A Calm, Measured Response (Fake Four, EP) **
• Oded Tzur: Here Be Dragons (ECM) **
• Etuk Ubong: Africa Today (Night Dreamer) **
• Matt Ulery: Pollinator (Woolgathering) **
• Diego Urcola Quartet Featuring Paquito D'Rivera: El Duelo (Sunnyside) **
• Cristina Vane: The Magnolia Sessions (Anti-Corp) **
• Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours: Chapter 10: Breaking Cover (Picaro) **
• Gary Versace: All for Now (SteepleChase) **
• Luke Vibert: Luke Vibert Presents Amen Andrews (Hypercolour) **
• Luke Vibert: Luke Vibert Presents Rave Hop (Hypercolour) **
• Luís Vicente: Maré (Cipsela)
• Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk: We've Had Enough! (ESP-Disk) **
• Lou Volpe: Before & After (Jazz Guitar)
• Loudon Wainwright III With Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks: I'd Rather Lead a Band (Search Party) **
• Anne Waldman: Sciamachy (Fast Speaking Music) **
• Marcin Wasilewski Trio/Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff (ECM) **
• The Trevor Watts Quartet: The Real Intention (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Rod Wave: Pray 4 Love (Alamo) **
• Webber/Morris Big Band: Both Are True (Greenleaf Music) **
• Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone (Acony) **
• Hailey Whitters: The Dream (Pigasus) **
• Tessy Lou Williams: Tessy Lou Williams (Tessy Lou Williams) **
• Larry Willis: I Fall in Love Too Easily (HighNote) **
• Matt Wilson Quartet: Hug! (Palmetto)
• Working Men's Club: Working Men's Club (Heavenly) **
• Miki Yamanaka: Human Dust Suite (Outside In Music) **
• Yonic South: Wild Cobs (La Tempesta, EP -19) **
• Yonic South: Twix and Dive (La Tempesta, EP) **
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 002: Roy Ayers (Jazz Is Dead, EP) **
• Denny Zeitlin: Live at Mezzrow (Sunnyside) **
• Waclaw Zimpel: Massive Oscillations (Ongehoord) **
• 6lack: 6pc Hot EP (Interscope, EP) **
• 070 Shake: Modus Vivendi (GOOD Music/Def Jam) **
• Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Faces of Souls (Leo) **
• Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on Her Eyelashes (Jazzland) **
• Actress: Karma & Desire (Ninja Tune) **
• Riz Ahmed: The Long Goodbye (Mongrel, EP) **
• Jessi Alexander: Decatur County Red (Lost Creek Music) **
• Lina Allemano: Glimmer Glammer (Lumo) **
• Robby Ameen: Diluvio (Origin)
• Anáhuac: Ascua (Astral Spirits) **
• Brian Andres Trio Latino: Mayan Suite (Bacalao)
• Courtney Marie Andrews: Old Flowers (Fat Possum) **
• Anteloper: Tour Beats Vol. 1 (International Anthem, EP) **
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• Arca: @@@@@ (XL) **
• Arca: Kick I (XL) **
• Roo Arcus: Tumbleweed (Social Family) **
• Harrison Argatoff: Toronto Streets Tour (self-released)
• Steve Arrington: Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions (Stones Throw) **
• AuB: AuB (Edition) **
• Autechre: Plus (Warp) **
• Omer Avital Qantar: New York Paradox (Jazz & People) **
• Jeich Ould Badou: Music From Saharan WhatsApp 03 (Sahel Sounds, EP) **
• Bad Bunny: El Último Tour Del Mundo (Rimas) **
• Kelsea Ballerini: Kelsea (Black River) **
• Ballrogg: Rolling Ball (Clean Feed) **
• Bananagun: The True Story of Bananagun (Full Time Hobby) **
• William Basinski: Lamentations (Temporary Residence) **
• Beach Bunny: Honeymoon (Mom + Pop) **
• Beauty Pill: Please Advise (Northern Spy, EP) **
• Majid Bekkas: Magic Spirit Quartet (ACT Music) **
• Lakecia Benjamin: Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope) **
• Steve Beresford & John Butcher: Old Paradise Airs (Iluso) **
• Jehnny Beth: To Love Is to Live (Caroline) **
• The Beths: Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark) **
• Andy Bianco: NYC Stories (Next Level) **
• The Big Bad Bones Featuring Scott Whitfield: Emergency Vehicle Blues (Summit)
• David Binney/Kenny Wollesen: Basu (Mythology) **
• Nat Birchall Sextet: Exaltation: Live in Athens Vol 1 (Parafono) **
• Jeb Bishop/Jaap Blonk/Weasel Walter/Damon Smith: JeJaWeDa: Poineer Works Vol. 1 (Balance Point Acoustics -19) **
• Clint Black: Out of Same (Black Top) **
• Black Art Jazz Collective: Ascension (HighNote) **
• Noah Bless: New York Strong: Latin Jazz! (Zoho)
• #Bloomerangs: Moments and Fragments (Instru Dash Mental)
• Christiane Bopp/Jean-Marc Foussat/Emmanuelle Parrenin: Nature Still (Fou)
• Brandy: B7 (Brand Nu/Entertainment One) **
• Alan Braufman: The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search) **
• Phoebe Bridgers: Copycat Killer (Dead Oceans, EP) **
• Brad Brooks: God Save the City (Brad Brooks)
• Brothers Osborne: Skeletons (Spinefarm) **
• Peter Brötzmann/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Memories of a Tunicate (Relative Pitch) **
• Paul Bryan: Cri$el Gems (self-released) **
• BTS: Map of the Soul: 7 (Big Hit) **
• BTS: BE (Big Hit) **
• The Bug: In Blue (Hyperdub) **
• Bully: Sugaregg (Sub Pop) **
• Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart (Ropeadope) **
• The Cadillac Three: Tabasco & Sweet Tea (Big Machine) **
• Lisa Cameron/Tom Carter/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Tau Ceti (Astral Spirits) **
• Jenna Camille: The Time is NOW (self-released) **
• César Cardoso: Dice of Tenors (self-released) **
• The Ian Carey Quintet + 1: Fire in My Head: The Anxiety Suite (Slow & Steady)
• Carne Doce: Interior (Tratore) **
• Daniel Carter/Brad Farberman/Billy Martin: Just Don't Die (Ropeadope -19) **
• Regina Carter Freedom Band: Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Tiger Turn) **
• Valentin Ceccaldi: Ossos (Cipsela)
• The Chats: High Risk Behaviour (Bargain Bin) **
• Chloe x Halle: Ungodly Hour (Columbia) **
• Chrome Hill: This Is Chrome Hill (Clean Feed) **
• Chubby and the Gang: Speed Kills (Static Shock) **
• Jay Clayton/Jerry Granelli: Alone Together (Sunnyside) **
• The Nels Cline Singers: Share the Wealth (Blue Note) **
• The Coachella Valley Trio: Mid Century Modern (DMAC)
• Collocutor: Continuation (On the Corner) **
• Shemekia Copeland: Uncivil War (Alligator) **
• Chick Corea: Plays (Concord, 2CD) **
• Coriky: Coriky (Dischord) **
• Crack Cloud: Pain Olympics (Meat Machine) **
• Crazy Doberman: Illusory Expansion (Astral Spirits) **
• The Croaks: One of the Best Bears! (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Charley Crockett: Welcome to Hard Times (Son of Davy) **
• Alex Cunningham & Claire Rousay: Specifically the Water (Astral Spirits)
• Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats: Unlocked (PH/Loma Vista, EP) **
• Ward Davis: Black Cats and Crows (Ward Davis Music) **
• Sam Decker: Shrove (Sunnyside) **
• Dehd: Flower of Devotion (Fire Talk) **
• Helena Deland: Someone New (Luminelle) **
• Vladislav Delay: Rakka (Warp) **
• Vladislav Delay/Sly Dunbar/Robbie Shakespeare: 500-Push-Up (Sub Rosa) **
• Destroyer: Have We Met (Merge) **
• Robert Dick & Adam Caine: The Damn Think (Chant -19) **
• Aaron Diehl: The Vagabond (Mack Avenue) **
• Chris Dingman: Embrace (Inner Arts Initiative) **
• Dion: Blues With Friends (Keeping the Blues Alive) **
• Tashi Dorji: Stateless (Drag City) **
• The Dream Syndicate: The Universe Inside (Anti-) **
• Gregory Dudzienski Quartet: Beautiful Moments (OA2)
• Baxter Dury: The Night Chancers (Heavenly) **
• Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters: Rise Up (Stony Plain) **
• Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony (Roc Nation) **
• Joe Ely: Love in the Midst of Mayhem (Rack 'Em) **
• Hazel English: Wake Up! (Polyvinyl) **
• Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours (Deutsche Grammophon) **
• Wayne Escoffery: The Humble Warrior (Smoke Sessions) **
• Falkner Evans: Marbles (CAP)
• Expansions: The Dave Liebman Group: Earth (Whaling City Sound) **
• Extra Soul Perception: New Tangents in Kampala, London & Nairobi Vol. 1 (Extra Soul Perception, EP) **
• Nir Felder: II (Ropeadope) **
• Field Music: Making a New World (Memphis Industries) **
• Nick Finzer: Cast of Characters (Outside In Music)
• The Flaming Lips: American Head (Warner/Bella Union) **
• John Fogerty: Fogerty's Factory (BMG) **
• Fontaines DC: A Hero's Death (Partisan) **
• Four Tet: Sixteen Oceans (Text) **
• Funk Shui NYC: Shark NATO on a Plane (Zoho) **
• Andy Fusco: Remembrance (SteepleChase) **
• Joel Futterman: Intervals (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Future Islands: As Long as You Are (4AD) **
• Future/Lil Uzi Vert: Pluto x Baby Pluto (Atlantic) **
• Elliot Galvin: Live in Paris at Fondation Louis Vuitton (Edition) **
• Jacob Garchik: Clear Line (Yestereve) **
• Arna Georgia: Yes Girl (Arna Georgia) **
• Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo (ESGN/ALC/Empire) **
• Gilfema: Three (Sounderscore)
• A Girl Called Eddy: Been Around (Elefant) **
• Dave Gisler Trio With Jaimie Branch: Zurich Concert (Intakt) **
• Bob Gluck: Early Morning Star (FMR)
• GoGo Penguin: Live From Studio 2 (Decca) **
• Robert Gordon: Rockabilly for Life (Cleopatra) **
• Gorillaz: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Parlophone) **
• Ariana Grande: Positions (Republic) **
• Jerry Granelli: The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison (RareNoise) **
• Devin Gray/Gerald Cleaver: 27 Licks (Rataplan) **
• Gordon Grdina Septet: Resist (Irabbagast)
• Charlotte Greve/Vinnie Sperrazza/Chris Tordini: The Choir Invisible (Intakt) **
• Tom Guarna: Spirit Science (Destiny)
• GuiltyBeatz: Different E.P (Banku Music, EP) **
• Haiku Hands: Haiku Hands (Mad Decent) **
• Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within (Nonesuch) **
• Jeff Hamilton Trio: Catch Me If You Can (Capri)
• Elisabeth Harnik & Steve Swell: Tonotopic Organizations (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Clay Harper: Dirt Yard Street (Casino Music) **
• Hazar: Reincarnated (IAN Productions)
• Headie One X Fred Again: Gang (Relentless, EP) **
• Jimmy Heath: Love Letter (Verve) **
• Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Horace Silver (Savant) **
• Monika Herzig: Eternal Dance (Savant)
• Theo Hill: Reality Check (Posi-Tone) **
• Art Hirahara: Balance Point (Posi-Tone) **
• Sigurd Hole: Lys/Mørke (Eivesang, 2CD) **
• Home Counties: Redevelopment (Alcopop!, EP) **
• Horse Lords: The Common Task< (Northern Spy) **
• Sam Hunt: Southside (MCA Nashville) **
• Hwyl Nofio: Isolate (Hwyl) **
• I Think You're Awesome: Suite to Be You and Me (Jaegar Community) **
• Idle Hands: Solid Moments (Posi-Tone) **
• Illuminati Hotties: Free I.H.: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For (self-released) **
• Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: Reunions (Southeastern) **
• Nicholas Jaar: Cenizas (Other People) **
• Jahari Masamba Unit: Pardon My French (Madlib Invazion) **
• Sunny Jain: Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways) **
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Sherman Irby's Inferno (Blue Engine) **
• Jealous of the Birds: Peninsula (Atlantic) **
• Josh Johnson: Freedom Exercise (Northern Spy) **
• Norah Jones: Pick Me Up Off the Floor (Blue Note) **
• Jumpstarted Plowhards: Round One (Recess, EP -19) **
• Junglepussy: JP4 (Jagjaguwar) **
• Vic Juris: Let's Cool One (SteepleChase) **
• Kesha: High Road (Kemosabe) **
• Khruangbin: Mordechai (Dead Oceans) **
• Sukyung Kim: Lilac Hill (self-released, EP)
• Kirk Knuffke: Brightness: Live in Amsterdam (Royal Potato Family) **
• Benjamin Koppel/Tine Rehling/Henrik Dam Thomsen: Les Mobiles (Cowbell Music) **
• Kenny Kotwitz & the LA Jazz Quintet: When Lights Are Low (PMRecords)
• Lianne La Havas: Lianne La Havas (Nonesuch) **
• La Pingo's Orquesta & Todd Clouser: Midwest/Bajio (Ropeadope Sur) **
• Sonny Landreth: Blacktop Run (Provogue) **
• Brian Landrus/Fred Hersch/Drew Gress/Billy Hart: For Now (BlueLand)
• Jessy Lanza: All the Time (Hyperdub) **
• Mary Lattimore: Silver Ladders (Ghostly International) **
• Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (Intakt, 2CD) **
• Adrianne Lenker: Songs (4AD) **
• Les Sangliers: Miniscules (Aerophonic) **
• Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake (Atlantic) **
• Little Simz: Drop 6 (Age 101, EP) **
• Liv.e: Couldn't Wait to Tell You . . . (In Real Life) **
• Lupe Fiasco/Kaelin Ellis: House (1st and 15th Too, EP) **
• Lera Lynn: On My Own (Ruby Range) **
• Paul Lytton/Nate Wooley: Known/Unknown (Fundacja Sluchaj)
• The Magnetic Fields: Quickies (Nonesuch) **
• Mako Sica/Hamid Drake: Balancing Tear (Astral Spirits) **
• Stephen T. Malkmus: Traditional Techniques (Matador) **
• Alain Mallet: Mutt Slang II: A Wake of Sorrows Engulfed in Rage (Origin)
• Roc Marciano: Mt. Marci (Marci) **
• Gia Margaret: Mia Gargaret (Orindal) **
• Thomas Marriott: Trumpet Ship (Origin)
• Terrace Martin/Robert Glasper/9th Wonder/Kamasi Washington: Dinner Party (Sounds of Crenshaw, EP) **
• Terrace Martin/Robert Glasper/9th Wonder/Kamasi Washington: Dinner Party: Dessert (Sounds of Crenshaw, EP) **
• Zara McFarlane: Songs of an Unknown Tongue (Brownswood) **
• Anna McClellan: I Saw First Light (Father/Daughter) **
• Gayelynn McKinney and McKinney Zone: Zoot Suit Funk (Beatstix)
• Paulette McWilliams: A Woman's Story (Blujazz)
• Medhane: Cold Water (TBHG) **
• Joachim Mencel: Brooklyn Eye (Origin)
• Merzbow/Mats Gustafsson/Balász Pándi: Cuts Open (RareNoise, 2CD) *
• Pat Metheny: From This Place (Nonesuch) **
• Mike: Weight of the World (10k) **
• Flo Milli: Ho, Why Is You Here? (RCA) **
• Roscoe Mitchell With Ostravska Banda: Performing Distant Radio Transmission Also Nonaah Trio, Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet and 8.8.88 (Wide Hive)
• Moor Mother: Circuit City (Don Giovanni) **
• Kevin Morby: Sundowner (Dead Oceans) **
• Bob Mould: Blue Hearts (Merge) **
• Tobin Mueller: What Survives: Radio Edits (Artsforge)
• Vee Mukarati: Vital Signs (Primrose, EP) **
• Simon Nabatov: Plain (Clean Feed) **
• Quinsin Nachoff: Pivotal Arc (Whirlwind)
• Tatsuya Nakatani/Shane Parish/Zach Rowden: Live at Static Age Records (Astral Spirits) **
• Never Weather: Blissonance (Ridgeway)
• Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: Chicago Waves (International Anthem) **
• Kyle Nix: Lightning on the Mountain (self-released) **
• No Joy: Motherhood (Joyful Noise) **
• Eva Novoa: Satellite Quartet (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
• Michael Olatuja: Lagos Pepper Soup (Whirlwind) **
• Oneohtrix Point Never: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp) **
• Kassa Overall: I Think I'm Good (Brownswood) **
• Grant Peeples: Bad Wife (Rootball) **
• Jeremy Pelt: The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 (HighNote) **
• Vanderlei Pereira and Blindfold Test: Vision for Rhythm (Jazzheads)
• Perfume Genius: Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador) **
• Zach Phillips: The Wine of Youth (self-released)
• Pinegrove: Marigold (Rough Trade) **
• Chris Pitsiokos: Speak in Tongues and Hope for the Gift of Interpretation (Relative Pitch) **
• Mikkel Ploug: Balcony Lullabies (Stunt) **
• Chris Poland: Resistance (Ropeadope)
• Pop Smoke: Meet the Woo 2 (Victor Victor/Republic) **
• Pop Smoke: Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (Victor Victor/Republic) **
• Poppy: I Disagree (Sumerian) **
• Porridge Radio: Every Bad (Secretly Canadian) **
• Gregory Porter: All Rise (Blue Note) **
• Bobby Previte/Jamie Saft/Nels Cline: Music From the Early 21st Century (RareNoise) **
• Margo Price: That's How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista) **
• Katie Pruitt: Expectations (Rounder) **
• Psychedelic Furs: Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl) **
• PUP: This Place Sucks Ass (BMG, EP) **
• Francis Quinlan: Likewise (Saddle Creek) **
• Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree: Names of North End Women (Mute) **
• Eric Reed: For a Time Such as This (Smoke Sessions) **
• Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Ingebright Håker Flaten/Avreeayl Ra: Millenniums (Aerophonic) **
• Andrew Renfroe: Dark Grey EP (self-released, EP)
• Reverso [Frank Woeste/Vincent Courtois/Ryan Keberle]: The Melodic Line (Out Note)
• Soho Rezanejad: Honesty Without Compassion Is Brutality (Volume 1) (Silicone -19) **
• Soho Rezanejad: Honesty Without Compassion Is Brutality (Volume 2) (Silicone) **
• Jorge Roeder: El Suelo Mio (T-Town) **
• Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen: Hold My Beer, Vol. 2 (Lil' Buddy Toons) **
• Rose City Band: Summerlong (Thrill Jockey) **
• Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project: Kites and Strings (One Trick Dog) [10-16]
• Ana Roxanne: Because of a Flower (Kranky) **
• Markus Rutz: Blueprints: Figure Two: New Designs (OA2)
• Terje Rypdal: Conspiracy (ECM) **
• Sad13: Haunted Painting (Wax Nine) **
• Dua Saleh: Rosetta (Against Giants, EP) **
• Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble: The New Immigrant Experience: Music Inspired by Conversations With Dreamers (Tapestry, 2CD)
• Tiwa Savage: Celia (Universal) **
• Alvin Schwaar/Bänz Oester/Noé Franklé: Travellin' Light (Leo) **
• Darrell Scott: Jaroso (Full Light) **
• The Secret Sisters: Saturn Return (New West) **
• Tim Shaghoian: Gentle Beacons (Origin)
• Walter Smith III/Matthew Stevens/Micah Thomas/Linda May Han Oh/Nate Smith: In Common 2 (Whirlwind) **
• Soft Machine: Live at the Baked Potato (Moonjune)
• The Soft Pink Truth: Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (Thrill Jockey) **
• Dave Soldier: Zajal (Mulatta)
• Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper (Salon Africana, 2CD)
• SPAZA: Uprize! (Mushroom Hour Half Hour) **
• Alister Spence: Whirlpool: Solo Piano (Alister Spence Music, 2CD)
• Greg Spero + Spirit Fingers: Peace (Ropeadope) **
• Spillage Village: Spilligion (Dreamville/SinceThe80s/Interscope) **
• Squarepusher: Be Up a Hello (Warp) **
• Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams: Aporia (Asthmatic Kitty) **
• Stillefelt: Stillefelt (Stoney Lane) **
• Bartees Strange: Live Forever (Memory Music) **
• The Strokes: The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA) **
• Nora Jane Struthers: Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words (Blue Pig Music) **
• Dave Stryker With Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band: Blue Soul (Strikezone)
• Tame Impala: The Slow Rush (Interscope) **
• Alexa Tarantino: Charity (Posi-Tone) **
• Sophie Tassignon: Mysteries Unfold (RareNoise) *
• Thaba: Eyes Rest Their Feet (Soundway) **
• Throttle Elevator Music: Emergency Exit (Wide Hive) **
• Throwing Muses: Sun Racket (Fire) **
• Pam Tillis: Looking for a Feeling (Stellar Cat) **
• Duval Timothy: Help (Carrying Colour) **
• Azu Tiwaline: Draw Me a Silence Part II (IOT, EP) **
• The TNEK Jazz Quintet: Plays the Music of Sam Jones (TNEK Jazz)
• Toots & the Maytals: Got to Be Tough (BMG) **
• Torres: Silver Tongue (Merge) **
• Trees Speak: Ohms (Soul Jazz) **
• Tricky: Fall to Pieces (False Idols) **
• Trio Linguale [Kevin Woods/John Stowell/Miles Black]: Signals (Origin)
• Tropos: Axioms // 75 AB (Biophilia) **
• Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (Del Amor Y Otros Demonios) (Interscope) **
• Ugly Beauty: Ugly Beauty (self-released) **
• Wako: Wako (Øra Fonogram) **
• Jim Waller Big Band: Bucket List (self-released)
• Amber Weekes: Pure Imagination (Amber Inn Productions)
• Kate Westbrook & the Granite Band: Earth Felt the Wound (Westbrook) **
• Westside Gunn: Pray for Paris (Griselda) **
• Westside Gunn: Flygod Is an Awesome God II (Griselda) **
• What Happens in a Year: Cérémonie/Musique (FiP)
• Hayley Williams: Petals for Armor (Atlantic) **
• Kamaal Williams: Wu Hen (Black Focus) **
• Wire: 10:20 (Pink Flag) **
• Michael Wolff: Bounce (Sunnyside) **
• Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
• Jaime Wyatt: Neon Cross (New West) **
• X: Alphabetland (Fat Possum) **
• Yaeji: What We Drew (XL) **
• Yelle: L'Ère Du Verseau (Recreation Center) **
• Otomo Yoshihide/Chris Pitsiokos: Live in Florence (Astral Spirits) **
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 001 (Jazz Is Dead, EP) **
• Glenn Zaleski: The Question (Sunnyside) **
• AC/DC: Power Up (Columbia) **
• Angel-Ho: Alla Prima (Hyperdub, EP) **
• Autechre: Sign (Warp) **
• Juliana Barwick: Healing Is a Miracle (Ninja Tune) **
• Gerald Beckett: Mood (Pear Orchard)
• Will Bernard: Freelance Subversives (Ropeadope) **
• Jon Balke: Discourses (ECM) **
• Biffy Clyro: A Celebration of Endings (14th Floor) **
• The Big Moon: Walking Like We Do (Fiction) **
• The Blam Blams: Opening Night (LunaSea Media) **
• Boogat: El Gato Y Los Rumberos (Ray-On, EP) **
• Bombay Bicycle Club: Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (Island) **
• Bonny Light Horseman: Bonny Light Horseman (37d03d) **
• Benjamin Boone With the Ghana Jazz Collective: Joy (Origin)
• Bill Callahan: Gold Record (Drag City) **
• Carla Campopiano: Chicago/Buenos Aires Connections, Vol. II (self-released)
• Steve Cardenas: Blue Has a Range (Sunnyside) **
• Lynn Cassiers: Yun (Clean Feed) **
• Childish Gambino: 3.15.20 (RCA) **
• Gerald Cleaver: Signs (577) **
• Code Orange: Underneath (Roadrunner) **
• Joachim Cooder: Over That Road I'm Bound (Nonesuch) **
• Demae: Life Works Out . . . Usually (Touching Bass, EP) **
• Hermine Deurloo: Riverbeast (Zennes -19) **
• Dorian Electra: My Agenda (self-released) **
• Duma: Duma (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
• Beth Duncan: I'm All Yours (Saccat)
• Kathleen Edwards: Total Freedom (Dualtone) **
• Sarah Elgeti Quartet With Friends: Dawn Comes Quietly (Gateway Music)
• John Ellis and Andy Bragen: The Ice Siren (Parade Light)
• Erasure: The Neon (Mute) **
• Amina Figarova Edition 113: Persistence (AmFi)
• John Finbury: Quatro (Green Flash Music)
• Fleet Foxes: Shore (Anti-) **
• Fra Fra: Funeral Songs (Glitterbeat) **
• David Friesen With Orchestra and Quartet: Testimony (Origin)
• The Full Salon: The Full Salon (self-released) **
• Melody Gardot: Sunset in the Blue (Bravado) **
• Sam Gendel: Satin Doll (Nonesuch) **
• Sam Gendel: DRM (Nonesuch) **
• Sue Anne Gershenzon: You Must Believe in Spring (self-released)
• Osvaldo Golijov/The Silkroad Ensemble: Falling Out of Time (In a Circle)
• Joyce Grant: Surrounded by Blue (Craftedair/Blujazz)
• Gordon Grdina: Prior Street (self-released) **
• Benny Green: Benny's Crib (Sunnyside) **
• CeeLo Green: CeeLo Green Is Thomas Callaway (Easy Eye Sound) **
• Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Tango (ACT Music) **
• Mary Halvorson's Code Girl: Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
• Honey Harper: Starmaker (ATO) **
• Dylan Hayes Electric Band: Songs for Rooms and People (Blujazz)
• Marquis Hill: Soul Sign (Black Unlimited Music Group) **
• Derrick Hodge: Color of Noize (Blue Note) **
• Hum: Inlet (Earth Analog) **
• Christopher Icasiano: Provinces (Origin)
• Loraine James: Nothing (Hyperdub, EP) **
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Black Brown & Beige (Blue Engine)
• The JCA Orchestra: Live at the BPC (JCA)
• Jockstrap: Wicked City (Warp, EP) **
• Juice WRLD: Legends Never Die (Grade A/Interscope) **
• The Killers: Imploding the Mirage (Island) **
• King Krule: Man Alive! (True Pather) **
• Knxwledge: 1988 (Stones Throw) **
• Simone Kopmajer: Christmas (Lucky Mojo)
• Juliet Kurtzman/Pete Malinverni: Candlelight: Love in the Time of Cholera (Saranac)
• La Lucha: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Arbors) **
• Harald Lassen: Human Sampling (Jazzland) **
• Low Cut Connie: Private Lives (Contender) **
• LP and the Vinyl: Heard and Seen (OA2)
• Rob Luft: Life Is the Dancer (Edition) **
• Madre Vaca: Winterreise (Madre Vaca)
• Luca T. Mai: Heavenly Guide (Trost) **
• Brian Marsella: Gatos Do Sul (Tzadik) **
• Masma Dream World: Play at Night (Northern Spy) **
• Arlo McKinley: Die Midwestern (Oh Boy) **
• Medhane: Full Circle (TBHG, EP) **
• Metz: Atlas Vending (Sub Pop) **
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• Nicole Mitchell/Moor Mother: Offering: Live at Le Guess Who (Don Giovanni) **
• Noshir Mody: An Idealist's Handbook: Identity, Love and Hope in America 2020 (self-released)
• Todd Mosby: Aerial Views (MMG)
• Simon Nabatov: Time Labyrinth (Leo) **
• Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Four Questions (Zoho)
• Shunzo Ohno: Runner (Pulsebeats)
• Angel Olsen: Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar) **
• Pearl Jam: Gigaton (Monkeywrench/Republic) **
• Tivon Pennicott: Spirit Garden (New Phrase) **
• Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Viscerals (Rocket) **
• Charles Pillow Ensemble: Chamber Jazz (Summit) **
• Pink Siifu: Negro (Field-Left) **
• Valery Ponomarev Big Band: Live! Our Father Who Art Blakey: The Centennial (Summit)
• PVRIS: Use Me (Warner) **
• Dan Reeder: Every Which Way (Oh Boy) **
• RJ & the Assignment: Hybrid Harmony (self-released)
• Caroline Rose: Superstar (New West) **
• Jeff Rosenstock: No Dream (Polyvinyl) **
• Suzanna Ross: Is Bewitched* . . . *Not Bothered, Not Bewildered (self-released)
• Claire Rousay: A Heavenly Touch (Already Dead) **
• Scott Routenberg: Inside (Summit)
• Shelly Rudolph: The Way We Love (OA2)
• Sara Schoenbeck/Wayne Horvitz: Cell Walk (Songlines) **
• Darrell Scott: Sings the Blues of Hank Williams (Full Light) **
• Jeannie Seely: An American Classic (Curb) **
• Lori Sims/Andrew Rathbun/Jeremy Siskind: Impressions of Debussy (Centaur) **
• Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me (Blue Note) **
• Moses Sumney: Grae: Part 1 (Jagjaguwar) **
• Sunwatchers: Oh Yeah? (Trouble in Mind) **
• Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost) **
• The Tender Things: How You Make a Fool (Spaceflight) **
• Thundercat: It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder) **
• Andreas Tschopp Bubaran: Tumbuk (Enja/Yellowbird) **
• Kali Uchis: To Feel Alive (Virgin EMI/Interscope, EP) **
• The United States Air Force Band: Jazz Heritage Series: 2019 Highlights (self-released)
• Stein Urheim: Downhill Uplift (Hubro) **
• Village of the Sun Feat. Binker & Moses: Village of the Sun/Ted (Gearbox, EP) **
• Ulf Wakenius: Taste of Honey (ACT Music) **
• Summer Walker: Life on Earth (LVRN/Interscope, EP) **
• Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra: Smile (Planet Arts/43 Street)
• Bobby Watson: Keepin' It Real (Smoke Sessions) **
• Amber Weekes: The Gathering (Amber Inn Productions)
• The Weeknd: After Hours (Republic) **
• Paul Weller: On Sunset (Polydor) **
• Ben Wendel: High Heart (Edition) **
• Walter White: BB XL (Walter White Music)
• Why?: Ten Voices (Synesthesia Media, EP) **
• Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Monk Project (Belle Avenue)
• Wood River: More Than I Can See (Enja/Yellowbird) **
• Savina Yannatou & Joana Sá: Ways of Notseeing (Clean Feed) **
• Yo La Tengo: We Have Amnesia Sometimes (Matador) **
• Carol Albert: Stronger Now (Cahara)
• Pedro Melo Alves: In Igma (Clean Feed) **
• Babe, Terror: Horizogon (Glue Moon) **
• Elvis Costello: Hey Clockface (Concord) **
• Elysia Crampton: Orcorara 2010 (Pan) **
• Creeper: Sex, Death & the Infinite Void (Roadrunner) **
• Kaja Draksler Octet: Out for Stars (Clean Feed) **
• Duotrio: In the Bright and Deep (Blujazz)
• Ellen Edwards: A New York Session (Stonefire Music, EP)
• Kurt Elling: Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition) **
• John Hollenbeck: Songs You Like a Lot (Flexatonic)
• Jon Irabagon: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3: Anatomical Snuffbox (Irabbagast) **
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: The Music of Wayne Shorter (Blue Engine, 2CD) **
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: The Ever Fonky Lowdown (Blue Engine, 2CD) **
• Aubrey Johnson: Unraveled (Outside In Music) **
• Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra: The Planets: Reimagined (OA2) [07-17]
• Machine Girl: U-Void Synthesizer (1818199 DK2) **
• Dawn Oberg: 2020 Revision (self-released, EP)
• Painted Faces: Tales From the Skinny Apartment (ESP-Disk -19) **
• Bruno Parrinha/Abdul Moimeme/Carlos Santos: A Silent Play in the Shadow of Power (Creative Sources) **
• Chris Potter: There Is a Tide (Edition) **
• Rina Sawayama: Sawayama (Dirty Hit) **
• Cory Smythe: Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic)
• Leni Stern: 4 (LSR) **
• Curt Sydnor: Deep End Shallow (Out of Your Head)
• The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: Air Power! (self-released)
• U.S. Girls: Heavy Light (4AD) **
• Rufus Wainwright: Unfollow the Rules (BMG) **
• Chip Wickham: Blue to Red (Lovemonk)**
• Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman: Whoadie (577) **
• Deftones: Ohms (Reprise) **
• John Finbury: American Nocturnes (Green Flash Music)
• Sparks: A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG)
• WorldService Project: Hiding in Plain Sight (RareNoise) *
• The End: Allt Är Intet (RareNoise) *
• Nicole Mitchell/Lisa E. Harris: Earthseed (FPE) **

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

• Tim Berne/Nasheet Waits: The Coanda Effect (Screwgun) +
• Tim Berne: Sacred Vowels (Screwgun) +
• Peter Evans/Joel Ross/Nick Jozwiak/Savannah Harris: Being & Becoming (2019 [2020], More Is More) ++
• Peter Evans Ensemble: Horizons (2018 [2020], More Is More) +
• Peter Evans: Standards (2020, More Is More) +
• Mark Helias/Tim Berne: Blood From a Stone (2020, Radiolegs) +
• The Human Hearts: Day of the Tiles (2020, self-released, EP) -
• Emi Makabe: Anniversary (Greenleaf Music) -
• Lisa Mezzacappa Six: Cosmicomics (2020, Queen Bee) ++
• Chris Speed/Dave King/Reid Anderson/Tim Berne: Broken Shadows Live (Screwgun) ++
• Raf Vertessen Quartet: LOI (El Negocito) +

Reissues/Compilations/Vault Music:

In previous years I tried to separate reissues from compilations, including newly released vault items in the latter. This made sense when I was reviewing a lot of Recycled Goods material, but led to other problems with year-end lists, so as of 2013 anything containing any previously released material is collected here, and anything that is wholly previously unreleased is treated as new, above.

1. Peter Stampfel & the Bottlecaps: Demo '84 (Don Giovanni) **
2. Johnny Thunders: Live From Zürich 1985 (Johnny Thunders Archive) **
3. Hanging Tree Guitars (Music Maker Relief Foundation) **
4. Nkem Njoku & Ozzobia Brothers: Ozobia Special (1980s, BBE) **
5. Borah Bergman/Perry Robinson/Steve Swell/Ray Sage: Quartets Trios Duos (2007, Mahakala Music)
6. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)
7. Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil (Mais Um Discos) **
8. Victor Chukwu: Akalaka/The Power (1977-79, BBE) **
9. Kalie Shorr: Open Book: Unabridged (Tmwrk) **
10. Waco Brothers: Resist! (1995-2005, Bloodshot) **
11. Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol. 2 (1970s, Disques Debs/Strut) **
12. Tony Allen/Hugh Masekela: Rejoice (2010, World Circuit) **
13. Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical: Limited Dance Edition (Analog Africa) **
14. Sharhabil Ahmed: The King of Sudanese Jazz (Habibi Funk) **
15. George Coleman Quintet: In Baltimore (1971, Reel to Real) **
16. Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto (Impulse) **
17. Neil Young/Crazy Horse: Return to Greendale (2003, Warner) **
18. The Good Life: The Animals Took Over (2009, self-released) **
19. Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Ow! Live at the Penthouse (1962, Reel to Real -19)
20. Sonny Rollins: Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance, 2CD)
21. Cool Cats Invasion (Highlife, Juju & Palm-Wine) (1950s-60s, Moochin' About) **
22. Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe/Four Men Only: Complete Recordings (1968-73, NoBusiness -3CD)
23. Charles Mingus: @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside) **

Pending:

Also Noted:

• Dave Alvin: From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (Yep Roc) **
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note) **
• Willem Breuker/Han Bennink: New Acoustic Swing Duo (1967-68, Corbett vs. Dempsey -2CD -19) **
• Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time OutTakes (1959, Brubeck Editions) **
• Abraham Burton: Live at Visiones, NYC 1993 (self-released, EP) **
• Nat King Cole: Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Best of Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (Resonance) **
• Erotique New Beat (1989, Mental Groove) **
• Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott's (1968, Resonance, 2CD) **
• The Mark Harvey Group: A Rite for All Souls (1971, Americas Musicworks, 2CD)
• Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui (1970, Experience Hendrix/Legacy, 2CD) **
• The Heshoo Beshoo Group: Armitage Road (1970, We Are Busy Bodies) **
• Hank Jones Trio: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter Vol. 2 (1983, Storyville) **
• Kaleidoscope: New Spirits Known & Unknonwn (Soul Jazz, 2CD) **
• Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80: Perambulator (1983, Knitting Factory) **
• Wolfgang Lackerschmid/Chet Baker: Quintet Sessions 1979 (Dot Time) **
• John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes (1969-84, Universal, 2CD) **
• Léve Léve: Sao Tome & Principe Sounds '70s-'80s (Bongo Joe) **
• London Is the Place for Me 8: Lord Kitchener in England 1948-1962 (Honest Jon's -19) **
• The MacroQuarktet: The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC (2007, Out of Your Head, 2CD) **
• Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (2013, Smithsonian Folkways) **
• Michael Moore/Simon Nabatov: Ancient Sorrow (1998, Ramboy) **
• New Stories: Speakin' Out (1999, Origin)
• Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris: Live in Bergamo (2008, Nublu) **
• On the Road: A Tribute to John Hartford (LoHi) **
• Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy: The Coalescence (2007, ESP-Disk)
• Dudu Pukwana: Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears" (1968-69, Matsuli Music) **
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Unity: Live at Storyville, New York, October 1977 (Enterplanetary Koncepts) **
• Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical: Stay Safe and Sound Ranil Selection!! (Analog Africa) **
• Sam Rivers: Ricochet [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 3] (1978, NoBusiness)
• Gene Russell: New Direction (1971, Real Gone Music) **
• Shirley Scott: One for Me (1974, Arc) **
• Edward Simon: 25 Years (1995-2018, Ridgeway, 2CD)
• Sleaford Mods: All That Glue (Rough Trade) **
• Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993 (Strut) **
• Neil Swainson Quintet: 49th Parallel (1987, Reel to Real) **
• Horace Tapscott/Michael Session: Live in Avignon, France 1989 (The Village) **
• Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: Being Astral and All Registers/Power of Two: Live at the Ulrichsberg Festival, May 10th 2002 (Discus Music) **
• Ebo Taylor: Palaver (1980, BBE -19) **
• René Thomas: Remembering Rene Thomas: Rare and Unreleased (1955-62, Fresh Sound, 2CD) **
• Wussy: Ghosts (2006-19, self-released) **
• Yabby You: King Tubby's Prophecies of Dub (1976, Pressure Sounds) **
• African Head Charge: Churchical Chant of the Iyabinghi (1991-94, On-U Sound) **
• Ambiance: Into a New Journey (1982, BBE) **
• Available Jelly: Missolonghi: More From 2004 (Ramboy) **
• BBQ With Fred Frith: Free Postmodernism/USA 1982 (SÅJ) **
• Harry Beckett: Joy Unlimited (1974, Cadillac) **
• Alan Braufman & Cooper-Moore: Live at WKCR May 22, 1972 (1972, Valley of Search, EP -19) **
• Jay Clayton/Fritz Pauer/Ed Neumeister: 3 for the Road (2001-02, Meistero Music) **
• The Claire Daly Band: Rah! Rah! (2008, Ride Symbol)
• DUX Orchestra: Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results) (1994, NoBusiness) *
• Duke Ellington: Uppsala 1971 (Storyville -19) **
• Bryan Ferry: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 (BMG) **
• Ella Fitzgerald: Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (Verve, 2CD) **
• Full Blast [Peter Brötzmann/Marino Pliakas/Michael Wertmüller]: Farewell Tonic (2007, Trost) **
• Future/Zaytoven: Beast Mode (2015, Epic/Freebandz) **
• Dennis González: Forever the Falling of Stars (1995, Daagnim) **
• Joe Harriott Quintet: Jazz for Moderns (1962, Gearbox, EP) **
• Joe Harriott Quintet: Swings High (1967, Cadillac) **
• Noah Howard: Live in Europe Vol. 1 (1975, Sconsolato) **
• Bob James: Once Upon a Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions (1965, Resonance)
• Brent Jensen: The Sound of a Dry Martini: Remembering Paul Desmond (2002, Origin)
• Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Get in Union (1959-66, Global Jukebox) **
• La Locura de Machuca 1975-1980 (1975-80, Analog Africa) **
• George Lewis: Rainbow Family (1984, Carrier) **
• London Is the Place for Me 7: Calypso, Palm-Wine, Mento, Joropo, Steel & Stringband (Honest Jon's -19) **
• Maghreb K7 Club: Synth Raï, Chaoui & Staifi (1985-1997) (Bongo Joe) **
• Misha Mengelberg: Rituals of Transition (2002-10, I Dischi Di Agelica) **
• Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris: Live in Paris (2010, Nublu) **
• Oneness of Juju: African Rhythms 1970-1982 (Black Fire, 2CD) **
• Charlie Parker: The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection (1944-48, Craft) **
• Evan Parker/Agustí Fernandez: Tempranillo (1995, Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Pharoah Sanders: Live in Paris 1975 (Transversales Disque) **
• Prince Buster: Roll on Charles Street (Rock A Shacka) **
• Prince Buster: Let's Go to the Dance: Rock Steady Selection (Rock A Shacka) **
• Hideto Sasaki-Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet Plus 1: Stop Over (1976, BBE) **
• Bobby Shew/Bill Mays: Telepathy (1978, Fresh Sound -19) **
• Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings (1982, Verve) **
• Peter Stampfel/The Dysfunctionells: Not in Our Wildest Dreams (1994-96, Don Giovanni) **
• Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987 (Light in the Attic) **
• Cecil Taylor: At Angelica 2000 Bologna (I Dischi Di Angelica) **
• TEST/Roy Campbell: TEST and Roy Campbell (1999, 577) **
• Triage: Live at the Velvet Lounge (2005, Aerophonic) **
• Lennie Tristano: The Duo Sessions (1968, Dot Time) **
• Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984) (Uzelli) **
• John Vanore: Primary Colors (1984-85, Acoustical Concepts)
• Neil Young: Homegrown (1974-75, Reprise) **
• Rashied Ali Quintet: First Time Out: Live at Slugs 1967 (Survival) **
• Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70 (Soul Jazz) **
• Grayson Capps: South Front Street: A Retrospective 1997-2019 (The Royal Potato Family) **
• Vincent Chancey/Wilber Morris/Warren Smith: The Spell: The Vincent Chancey Trio Live 1987 (NoBusiness) *
• Don Cherry: Om Santi Om (1976, Black Sweat) **
• Emperor X: Nineteen Live Recordings (2005-13, Dreams of Field) **
• Brian Eno: Film Music 1976-2020 (Astralwerks) **
• Mort Garson: Didn't You Hear? (1970, Sacred Bones) **
• Mort Garson: Music From Patch Cord Productions (1968-74, Sacred Bones) **
• Frode Gjerstad/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Minneapolis Vol 1 (2000, Circulasione Totale) **
• Wanda Jackson: The Capitol Singles 1971-1973 (EMI Music Nashville) **
• Jamaican All Stars [Studio One] (1970-74, Studio One) **
• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) (Daptone) **
• Antoinette Konan: Antoinette Konan (1986, Awesome Tapes From Africa -19) **
• London Jazz Composers Orchestra: That Time (1972-80, Not Two) **
• Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris: Live in Sao Paulo (2008, Nublu) **
• The Outskirts: You Deserve to Dance (2009, Aerophonic) **
• Space Funk: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84 (Soul Jazz -19) **
• Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 (Captured Tracks) **
• Sun Ra: Celestial Love (1982, Modern Harmonic) **
• Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: Axis/Another Revolvable Thing (1975, Blank Forms Editions) **
• The John Tchicai Quartet: Live at the Stone (2007, Minus Zero) **
• Luiz Carlos Vinhas: O Som Psicodélico de L.C.V. (1968, Mad About) **
• Gillian Welch: Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs Vol. 1 (2002, Acony) **
• Jack Wright/Michael Taylor: Kryptischgasse (2001, Right Brain, EP) **
• Zam Groove: Music From Zambia (SWP) **
• 16-17: Phantom Limb (1995-2018, Trost) **
• Blue Note Re:imagined 2020 (Blue Note) **
• Frode Gjerstad/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Minneapolis Vol 2 (2000, Circulasione Totale) **
• Doug Hammond/David Durrah/Charles Burnham: Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen (1975, Tribe) **
• Rich Krueger: The Troth Sessions (2002, Rockin'K Music) **
• The Stooges: Live at Goose Lake, August 8, 1970 (Third Man) **
• Allman Brothers Band: The Final Note: Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills, MD 10-17-71 (Allman Brothers) **
• Etta Jones: A Soulful Sunday: Live at the Left Bank (1972, Cellar Live) **