Music Year 2020
Of course, it's too early for a year-end list. But as the proto-fascist
organization of my youth insisted, one should always be prepared. For
records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed
or streamed (**? means I wasn't able to hear all of it).
Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a
"-NN" (e.g., -19 for 2019) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases,
often hard to figure out official dates, but they were unknown (to me,
at least) before the current year.
I keep adding to the 2019
until the end of calendar 2020, especially where the record was known
to exist in 2019 and I'm just getting around to it.
New Records
- Mark Lomax, II & the Urban Art Ensemble: 400 Years Suite (CFG Multimedia) [**]
- Run the Jewels: RTJ4 (Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG) [**]
- Steve Swell Quintet Soul Travelers With Leena Conquest: Astonishments (RogueArt)
- Rich Halley/Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio/Newman Taylor Baker: The Shape of Things (Pine Eagle)
- Drive-By Truckers: The Unraveling (ATO) **
- Shopping: All or Nothing (FatCat) **
- Ross Hammond/Oliver Lake/Mike Pride: Our Place on the Wheel (Prescott) **
- Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia (Warner) **
- Dave Rempis/Jeff Parker/Ingebrigt Hĺker Flaten/Jeremy Cunningham: Stringers and Struts (Aerophonic) [12-04]
- Aly Keďta/Jan Galega Brönnimann/Lucas Niggli: Kalan Teban (Intakt) **
- Chicago Farmer: Flyover Country (Chicago Farmer) **
- Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse!) **
- Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20) [**]
- Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension (Asthmatic Kitty) **
- Evan Parker/Paul Lytton: Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee) (Intakt) **
- Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
- Kenny Barron/Dave Holland Trio Featuring Johnathan Blake: Without Deception (Dare2)
- Dream Wife: So When You Gonna . . . (Lucky Number) **
- Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic) [**]
- Cornershop: England Is a Garden (Ample Play) **
- Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours (Odin) **
- Hamell on Trial: The Pandemic Songs (Saustex) **
- Broken Shadows: The Tower Tapes #2 (Jazz Club Ferrara) **
- Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? (International Anthem) **
- Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Artificial Happiness Button (Ropeadope)
- Jeb Bishop Flex Quartet: Re-Collect (Not Two -19) **
- Jasper Hřiby: Planet B (Edition) **
- James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor: Live in Willisau (Intakt) **
- Chad Taylor Trio: The Daily Biological (Cuneiform) **
- Tani Tabbal Trio: Now Then (Tao Forms) **
- Lori McKenna: The Balladeer (CN) [**]
- Al Gold: Al Gold's Paradise (self-released)
- Brandy Clark: Your Life Is a Record (Warner) **
- Schlippenbach/Narvesen Duo: Liminal Field (Not Two -19) **
- Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud (Merge) **
- Aluna: Renaissance (Mad Decent) **
- Hinds: The Prettiest Curse (Mom + Pop) **
- Kate NV: Room for the Moon (RVNG Intl) **
- Billy Nomates: Billy Nomates (Invada) **
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Molecular (Intakt) **
- The Third Mind: The Third Mind (Yep Roc) **
- Kahil El'Zabar: Kahil El'Zabar's Spirit Groove (Spiritmuse) **
- Enemy Radio: Loud Is Not Enough (SpitSLAM) **
- Jason Kao Hwang: Human Rites Trio (True Sound)
- Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia) **
- Dave Glasser: Hypocrisy Democracy (Here Tiz) [**]
- Thumbscrew: The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform) **
- Kevin Sun: (Un)seaworthy (Endectomorph Music) **
- Jim Black Trio: Reckon (Intakt) **
- Jerry Bergonzi: Nearly Blue (Savant)
- Megan Thee Stallion: Good News (300 Entertainment) **
- Joe McPhee/John Edwards/Klaus Kugel: A Night in Alchemia (Not Two) **
- Dave Sewelson: More Music for a Free World (Mahakala Music) **
- Brad Mehldau: Suite: April 2020 (Nonesuch) **
- Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1: Racing a Butterfly (Bjurecords) **
- Whit Dickey Trio: Expanding Light (Tao Forms) **
- Felt: Felt 4 U (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
- Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: Shaman! (Strut) **
- Samo Salamon/Igor Matkovic/Kristijan Krajncan: Common Flow (Sazas)
- No Age: Goons Be Gone (Drag City) **
- Thank Your Lucky Stars: Girl in Her 29s (Sounds Deevine)
- Thiago Nassif: Mente (Gearbox) **
- Public Enemy: What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? (Def Jam) **
- Mac Miller: Circles (Warner) **
- Adam Caine Quartet: Transmissions (NoBusiness)
- Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open (Matador) **
- Jarv Is: Beyond the Pale (Rough Trade) **
- Whit Dickey: Morph (ESP-Disk, 2CD)
- Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Fragan: Are You Happy (Moserobie)
- Elizabeth Cook: Aftermath (Agent Love) **
- Luís Lopes Humanization 4tet: Believe, Believe (Clean Feed)
- Luke Stewart: Exposure Quintet (Astral Spirits) **
- Larry Ochs/Aram Shelton Quartet: Continental Drift (Clean Feed) **
- Aminé: Limbo (Republic) **
- Matthew Shipp Trio: The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
- Large Unit/Fendika: EthioBraz (PNL -19) **
- Megan Thee Stallion: Suga (300 Entertainment, EP) **
- Baby Queen: Medicine (Polydor, EP) **
- Hedvig Mollestad: Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon) **
- Okuden Quartet [Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Hamid Drake]: Every Dog Has His Day but It Doesn't Matter Because Fat Cat Is Getting Fatter (ESP-Disk, 2CD)
- JD Allen: Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant) **
- Potsa Lotsa XL: Silk Songs for Space Dogs (Leo) **
- Peter Brötzmann/Maâlem Moukhtar Gania/Hamid Drake: The Catch of a Ghost (I Dischi Di Angelica) **
- Charles McPherson Quartet: Live at San Sebastián Jazz Festival (Quadrant) **
- Ballister: Znachki Stilyag (Aerophonic) **
- Aruán Ortiz With Andrew Cyrille and Mauricio Herrera: Inside Rhythmic Falls (Intakt) **
- Black Thought: Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel (Republic) **
- Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell: How to Turn the Moon (Pyroclastic)
- Lyrics Born & Cutso: Lyrics Born & Cutso Present Rapp Nite (self-released, EP -19) **
- Lennie Tristano Centennial Quartet: Live @ Berklee (Altered Music Productions) **
- Speaker Music: Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (Planet Mu) **
- Amaarae: The Angel You Don't Know (Golden Child Entertainment) **
- Keir Neuringer/Ensemble Klang: Elegies & Litanies (Ensemble Klang) **
- Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem) **
- 75 Dollar Bill: Live at Cafe Oto Dec. 19, 2019 (self-released) **
- City Girls: City on Lock (Quality Control/Motown) **
- Juhani Aaltonen/Jonas Kullhammar/Christian Meaas Svendsen/Ilmari Heikinheimo: The Father, the Sons & the Junnu (Moserobie)
- Bruno Rĺberg/Jason Robinson/Bob Weiner: The Urgency of Now (Creative Nation Music)
- Blu & Exile: Miles (Fat Beats) **
- Lithics: Tower of Age (Trouble in Mind) **
- Moor Jewelry: True Opera (Don Giovanni) **
- Zephaniah OHora: Listening to the Music (Last Roundup) **
- Threadbare [Jason Stein/Ben Cruz/Emerson Hunton]: Silver Dollar (NoBusiness)
- Cortex: Legal Tender (Clean Feed) **
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola: Viento Y Tiempo: Live at the Blue Note Tokyo (Top Stop Music) **
- Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling (Strut) **
- Keys & Screws [Thomas Borgmann/Jan Roder/Willi Kellers]: Some More Jazz (NoBusiness) *
- Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
- Muriel Grossmann: Reverence (RR Gems -19) **
- Luís Vicente/John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Goes Without Saying, but It's Got to Be Said (JACC) **
- Mário Laginha/Julian Argüelles/Helge Andreas Norbakken: Atlântico (Edition) **
- The Mark Lomax Trio: The Last Concert: Ankh & the Tree of Life (CFG Multimedia) **
- José Lencastre/Jorge Nuno/Felipe Zenícola/Joăo Valinho: Anthropic Neglect (Clean Feed) **
- Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris: Shamanism (Mahakala Music) **
- Sturgill Simpson: Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions) (High Top Mountain) **
- Jessie Ware: What's Your Pleasure? (Interscope) **
- Jason Palmer: The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella (Giant Steps Arts, 2CD) **
- R.A.P. Ferreira: Purple Moonlight Pages (Ruby Yacht) **
- Baba Zula: Hayvan Gibi (Night Dreamer/Gulbara) **
- Will Kimbrough: Spring Break (Daphne)
- Jason Robinson: Harmonic Constituent (Playscape) **
- Immanuel Wilkins: Omega (Blue Note) **
- Rico Nasty: Nightmare Vacation (Sugar Trap/Atlantic) **
- Tim Barry: Live 2018 (Chunkasah) **
- Sturgill Simpson: Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions) (High Top Mountain) **
- BbyMutha: Muthaland (The Muthaboard) **
- Dramarama: Color TV (Pasadena) **
- Muriel Grossmann: Quiet Earth (RR Gems) **
- Sunny Sweeney: Recorded Live at the Machine Shop Recording Studio (Aunt Daddy) **
- Mino Cinelu/Nils Petter Molvaer: SulaMadiana (Modern) **
- Frank Paul Schubert/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Martin Blume: Forge (Relative Pitch) **
- Virtual Company: Virtual Company (Confront) **
- Rempis Percussion Quartet: The Long Haul (Aerophonic) **
- Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley: Birdland, Neuburg 2011 (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
- Kehlani: It Was Good Until It Wasn't (Atlantic) **
- Bktherula: Nirvana (Warner) **
- Chad Matheny: United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobics (Dreams of Field, EP) **
- Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: When Angels Fall (WMQ/Agora Muzyka -19) **
- Al Bilali Soudan: Tombouctou (Clermont Music) **
- Eminem: Music to Be Murdered By (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope/Goliath) **
Pending:
Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded.
Also Noted:
Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in alphabetical order within grade
slots:
- 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 (Řra 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 Hĺker Flaten/Tollef Řstvang: 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) **
- Harrison˛: 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 Pĺl 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)
- Slřtface: Sorry for the Late Reply (Propeller) **
- Skurkar: Skjulte Motiver (Řra 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 Řgrim/Anders Berg/Per Anders Nilsson: Isn Hi Lagt Sae Pĺ 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 Ĺngströmers: 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 Rřysum Ensemble: Andreas Rřysum 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)
- Řyvind Skarbř/Fredrik Ljungkvist/Kris Davis/Ole Morten Vĺgan: 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: Tamotaďt (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 Strřm (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 Hĺker 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/Mřrke (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 Nińo & 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 Hĺker 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 (Řra 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'Čre 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.
- Peter Stampfel & the Bottlecaps: Demo '84 (Don Giovanni) **
- Johnny Thunders: Live From Zürich 1985 (Johnny Thunders Archive) **
- Hanging Tree Guitars (Music Maker Relief Foundation) **
- Nkem Njoku & Ozzobia Brothers: Ozobia Special (1980s, BBE) **
- Borah Bergman/Perry Robinson/Steve Swell/Ray Sage: Quartets Trios Duos (2007, Mahakala Music)
- Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)
- Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil (Mais Um Discos) **
- Victor Chukwu: Akalaka/The Power (1977-79, BBE) **
- Kalie Shorr: Open Book: Unabridged (Tmwrk) **
- Waco Brothers: Resist! (1995-2005, Bloodshot) **
- Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol. 2 (1970s, Disques Debs/Strut) **
- Tony Allen/Hugh Masekela: Rejoice (2010, World Circuit) **
- Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical: Limited Dance Edition (Analog Africa) **
- Sharhabil Ahmed: The King of Sudanese Jazz (Habibi Funk) **
- George Coleman Quintet: In Baltimore (1971, Reel to Real) **
- Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto (Impulse) **
- Neil Young/Crazy Horse: Return to Greendale (2003, Warner) **
- The Good Life: The Animals Took Over (2009, self-released) **
- Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Ow! Live at the Penthouse (1962, Reel to Real -19)
- Sonny Rollins: Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance, 2CD)
- Cool Cats Invasion (Highlife, Juju & Palm-Wine) (1950s-60s, Moochin' About) **
- Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe/Four Men Only: Complete Recordings (1968-73, NoBusiness -3CD)
- 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 (SĹJ) **
- 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 Raď, 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) **
Records I played parts of, but not enough to grade: -- means
no interest, - not bad but not a prospect, + some chance, ++ could
be a prospect.
- Tim Berne: 7 Adobe Probe (2009, Screwgun) ++
- Matt Mitchell/Tim Berne: 1 (2010, Screwgun) +
- Sun of Goldfinger [David Torn/Ches Smith/Tim Berne]: Congratulations to You (2010, Screwgun) +
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