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EOY List Aggregate: 2016 New Music: Jazz

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Mary Halvorson Octet: Away With You (Firehouse 12) {66}: CM:4, JC:4, JG:10, Tx:9; blg:+, d_jc:+, db:+, fd:6, fj:1, jbs:2, jem:1, jgg:4, jha:+, jhm:12, jhs:+, jjc:2, jlre:2, jpa:8, jpm:1, jrj:1, jrn:10, jrs:+, jtb:5, jtc:6, jtd:3, la_b:5, nat:+, ny_ch:1, phw:20, pm_j:3, sc:+, sl_w:++ -- V:86-90-9, TH:***

BadBadNotGood: IV (Innovative Leisure) {61}: Bc:35, BM:15, Bq:50, CV:26, Dr:2, GC:29, Gf_N:37, Gw:9, Huh:14, HyB:20, KS:19, LQ:12, MHR:45, MN:11, Mu:17, Mw:35, Ni:17, OTR:33, Pc:16, Ph:60, PW:16, RT:75, Rum:8, SR:+, SS:59, St:25, Upr_h:9, VF:39, VMP:19, Wat:24; bb6:1, bum:15, db:++, ex_r:4, rc:+, rp:+ -- V:259-30-3, TH:B

Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks (Cuneiform -2CD) {58}: CM:3, JC:2, JG:+, PO:+, RSc:30; av:+, blg:+, d_jc:+, fd:+, fj:5, jad:+, jdm:1, jdt:1, jfk:6, jjs:2, jjsh:1, jjw:+, jmr:+, jms:+, jnn:+, jrb:1, jrj:6, jrs:++, jsf:2, jsg:3, jtc:5, jtd:9, ny_ch:9, psj:1, qt_j:1 -- V:333-25-2, TH:***

Jack DeJohnette: In Movement (ECM) {51}: FB:+, JB:31, JC:3, JG:+, JW:19, PO:+, RSc:68, TG:2; ab:+, d_jb:+, fd:+, jbs:4, jda:+, jhn:5, jhs:1, jjh:4, jmas:7, jrb:3, jrj:4, jtc:4, jtm:3, la_b:1, nyo_j:3, tr_j:3, ww:4 -- V:394-20-2, TH:A-

Esperanza Spalding: Emily's D+Evolution (Concord) {51}: BG:88, Cmp:41, DW:30, FB:+, IT:46, Gg:22, JC:45, MO:44, Nc:3, NPR:28, OTR:35, Pf:30, PM:39, RS:48, S:18, Thr:20, TL:9, Tr:39; am:+, cho:6, db:+, ex_r:12, jda:1, jhs:+, jjh:3, jmt:+, n_r:5, nyo_j:5, rs_a:2, sdu:5, ti:9, wsj:+ -- AY:26, V:36-226-21, RC:***, TH:B

Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi) {51}: FB:+, JC:1, PO:+; av:++, blg:+, db:+, fd:1, jda:+, jdb:6, jfk:1, jgg:7, jha:1, jhm:1, jjw:+, jmr:+, jnn:+, jpm:4, jrs:++, la_b:4, nyo_j:11, pm_j:1, psj:17, qt_j:2, sc:+, sc_z:+, tn:5 -- V:133-59-6, TH:A-

Michael Formanek/Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance (ECM) {49}: CM:12, FB:+, JB:14, JC:5, JG:5; bg_g:2, blg:+, d_jc:4, db:+++, fd:7, jda:9, jdb:4, jdm:3, jdme:10, jdt:+, jjw:+, jmr:+, jms:+, jrn:12, jsf:10, jtc:3, jtm:12, ph:1, pm_j:2, psj:13, sg_j:3 -- V:129-60-6, TH:***

Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM) {47}: JC:6, Pf:40, PO:20, S:44, TN:17; aqd:+, av:+, blg:+, ct_j:7, d_jb:+, db:++, fd:3, jap:8, jda:+, jhm:3, jhs:6, jja:+, jjc:1, jka:3, jmc:+, jpb:+, jtm:10, la_b:7, ph:+, psj:2, rs_a:6, sfj:+, sg_j:10, sl_w:+, tr_j:5, ww:3 -- V:90-84-9, TH:**

Steve Lehman: Selebeyone (Pi) {43}: Bc:37, CM:1, FB:67, JC:9, JG:7, Tx:3; blg:+, db:+, jbs:3, jda:+, jha:3, jhm:4, jjc:3, jjs:7, jka:5, jmc:6, jpm:7, la_b:10, pm_j:4, qt_j:5 -- V:140-57-5, TH:A-

Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings) (Impulse) {32}: JC:10, JG:+; db:+++, fd:2, jda:+, jhm:2, jja:+, jjs:1, jmr:+, jrj:8, jsf:1, la_b:11, qt_j:4 -- V:678-10-1, RC:***, TH:A-

Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi) {29}: CM:48, JC:16, MO:41; blg:+, fd:+, fj:4, jda:+, jdme:2, jdt:+, jmr:+, jmt:+, jnn:+, jpm:3, jrn:9, jtb:6, jtd:5, nat:+, psj:14, qt_j:7, sg_j:8 -- V:477-17-2, TH:***

Nels Cline: Lovers (Blue Note -2CD) {27}: JC:7, Nc:8, PM:66; bg_j:4, blg:+, jad:+, jda:8, jja:+, jjw:+, jmc:2, jmr:+, jms:+, la_b:17, ps:2, psj:15, ww:1 -- AY:109, V:211-39-5, TH:B-

Anna Hogberg: Attack (Omlott) {26}: CM:5, JC:+, JG:+, PO:16, So:24; av:+, fj:1, jeh:+, jem:6, jlre:1, jmsc:4, jpa:7, jpm:8 -- V:1389-5-1, TH:***

Greg Ward & 10 Tongues: Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf Music) {26}: BIW:20, CM:17, FB:83, JC:17, JG:+; ct_j:4, jadh:+, jha:6, jhm:9, jtm:1, la_b:6, ph:2, pm_j:2 -- V:213-39-4, TH:A-

Andrew Cyrille Quartet: The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM) {25}: JB:37, JC:19, JG:+; db:+, jda:+, jdt:+, jha:2, jhs:8, jja:+, jjc:6, jjs:9, jrb:7, jrj:5, jtm:4, la_b:13, ny_ch:5 -- V:308-26-3, TH:***

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: I Long to See You (Blue Note) {25}: JB:2, JC:12, JW:6, TG:46; bg_g:3, db:++, jdb:+, jja:+, jjh:17, jsf:5, ps:7, ww:5 -- V:317-25-3, TH:**

Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense: Moving Still (Pi) {24}: BIW:5, FB:+, JC:20; ab:+, av:+, jhm:8, ny_ch:7, jdb:+, jrs:+, jsf:6, jtm:5, la_b:3, pm_j:1 -- V:243-34-3, TH:**

Yussef Kamaal: Black Focus (Brownswood) {24}: Bc:22, Bq:68, Cl:24, CV:40, Hi:10, Ph:2, PW:20, TO:13; am:+, at:+, la_b:14, nyo_j:19, syf:+, tr_j:10, xlr:+ -- V:194-41-4, TH:*

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Real Enemies (New Amsterdam) {23}: JC:11, JG:+; ab:+, av:+, bg_g:1, db:+, jad:+, jadh:10, jda:4, jfk:2, jjs:5, jpm:10, nat:+, ph:7 -- V:113-67-6, TH:**

Murray Allen & Carrington Power Trio: Perfection (Motema) {23}: JC:14, JG:4, PO:+; db:++, jbs:1, jhm:10, jtc:2, ps:1 -- V:255-31-3, TH:A-

JD Allen: Americana: Musings on Blues and Jazz (Savant) {22}: JC:13, PO:11; fd:9, jdt:+, jmas:1, jpm:2, jtm:2, la_b:8, sg_j:1 -- V:333-25-2, TH:A-

Taylor Ho Bynum: Enter the Plustet (Firehouse) {22}: BIW:1, JC:48, JG:+; av:+, db:+, jha:+, jjc:7, jka:10, jrn:4, jtc:9, pm_j:3, psj:9 -- TH:A-

Jeff Parker: The New Breed (International Anthem) {21}: Bc:39, JC:49, JG:+; aqd:+, db:+, jadh:5, jjb:+, jpm:5, jrm:+, jtm:7, la_b:2, ny_ch:10, nyo_j:1, sfj:+, ub:9 -- V:77-96-9, TH:B

Norah Jones: Day Breaks (Blue Note) {20}: ABC:18, EW:25, Glm:16, JC:77, RS:46, RS_A:46, SE:8, TL:41; db:+, jcd:8, jmc:+, sf:4 -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Donny McCaslin: Beyond Now (Motema) {20}: JB:28, JC:33, JW:4; am:+, jad:+, jda:+, jjh:8, la_b:16, nyo_j:7, ph:6, sg_j:4, te:+, ww:2 -- V:171-46-6, TH:*

Jane Ira Bloom: Early Americans (Outline) {19}: CM:7, JC:15, JG:+; d_jc:+, db:+, jbs:8, jha:9, jjw:+, jrs:++, jtm:14 -- V:1389-5-1, TH:A-

GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object (Blue Note) {19}: FB:+, Flp:49, FPE:1, JC:+, JG:+, Pc:14, RM:46, TO:26; db:+, jgt:+, jpb:+ -- TH:***

Sonny Rollins: Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol 4 (1979-2012, Okeh) {19}: JC:22, JG:+, PO:+; db:++, fd:4, jdb:+, jhm:+, jkf:5, jma:4, jrs:++ -- TH:A-

Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family: Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto) {19}: JC:8; db:+++, jda:+, jfk:10, jjc:10, jkf:10, jmc:1, ph:3, ww:9 -- TH:***

Battle Trance: Blade of Love (New Amsterdam) {18}: JC:+; aqd:+, av:+, fj:6, jdme:9, jds:5, jem:3, jhs:+, jmas:4, rs_a:7, rsp:5, sg_j:9 -- V:333-25-2, TH:*

Shabaka and the Ancestors: Wisdom of Elders (Brownswood) {18}: Bc:5, FB:+, JB:41, Kp:19, OTR:42, RM:57, VF:14; jad:+, jjn:+, qt_j:6, tr_j:7 -- V:1389-5-1, TH:*

Kris Davis: Duopoly (Pyroclastic) {17}: JC:21; av:+, db:+, jgg:1, jjsh:6, jlre:8, jmt:+, la_b:12, ny_ch:8, nyo_j:6, ph:+, pm_j:8 -- TH:***

Dave Holland/Chris Potter/Lionel Loueke/Eric Harland: Aziza (Dare2) {17}: JC:18, JW:9; jdb:2, jjh:9, jkf:1, nyo_j:8 -- V:678-10-1+V:1276-8-1, TH:A-

Jaimeo Brown Transcendence: Work Songs (Motema) {16}: JC:31, JG:+, RM:45; db:++, jadh:2, jgg:10, jtm:6, nb:1 -- V:539-15-1+V:1246-9-1, TH:***

Melissa Aldana: Back Home (Wommusic) {15}: JC:38, TG:50; bg_g:5, ct_j:10, db:+, jja:+, jjh:23, jmb:3, ww:7 -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

Fred Hersch: Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto) {15}: JC:25, JG:+, TG:31; jfk:4, jjw:+, jmc:8, jmr:+, jrm:+, jrs:+, ph:15 -- TH:A-

Aly Keita/Jan Galega Bronnimann/Lucas Niggli: Kalo-Yele (Intakt) {15}: JC:+, JG:+; jds:9, jem:9, rsp:9, tw:6 -- V:355-24-2, RC:***, TH:A

Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch) {15}: JC:28, JW:5, TG:27; jfk:+5, jgt:+, jmr:+, la_b:9, ph:13, pm_j:10 -- TH:**

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace (ECM) {15}: JB:18, JC:43; db:+++, jgt:+, jmr:+, jms:+, nyo_j:12, ph:10, ww:6 -- V:502-15-2, TH:**

Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balasz Pandi: Strength & Power (Rare Noise) {15}: CM:8, JC:79, JG:+; av:+, db:+, jap:10, jcmb:+, jrs:+ -- V:1363-6-1, TH:A-

Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: We Be All Africans (Strut) {14}: FB:+, OTR:38, Qt:47, RM:70, VF:30, W:24; aqd:+, blg:+, tr_j:1 -- TH:***

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio: Desire & Freedom (Not Two) {14}: JC:+, RSc:96; av:++, fd:+, jap:7, jds:4, rsp:4 -- TH:A-

BassDrumBone: The Long Road (Auricle -2CD) {14}: JC:73; blg:+, db:+, jdt:4, jjs:8, jrb:4, jtc:1 -- TH:***

Anthony Braxton: Three Compositions (EEMHM) 2001 (Firehouse 12 -3CD) {14}: JC:42, PO:+; av:+++, blg:+, jbs:5, jhm:11, jrn:2 -- V:377-21-2, TH:**

Stephan Crump: Stephan Crump's Rhombal (Papillon) {14}: JC:58; db:+, jadh:1, jda:10, la_b:20, nb:6, pm_j:7 -- V:678-10-1, TH:A-

Gary Lucas: Fleischerei: Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons (Cuneiform) {14}: JC:+, Rx:26; blg:+, db:+, jy:33 -- V:370-22-2, RC:A-, TH:A-

Terrace Martin: Velvet Portraits (Ropeadope) {14}: Bc:12, PW:15; ab:+, bb_r:9, db:+, fl:+, go:+, lw:14, n_r:10, nb:10 -- AY:163, V:678-10-1, TH:B

Gregory Porter: Take Me to the Alley (Blue Note) {14}: Fp:67, JC:50, MN:27, TG:58; ct_j:5, jdb:+, jja:+, jkf:4, jnb:+, nb:10, pm_j:9 -- V:678-10-1, TH:B-

Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau: Nearness (Nonesuch) {14}: JC:35, JG:+, JW:13; jda:6, jma:10, jsf:3, ph:4, pm_j:8, te:+ -- TH:**

Logan Richardson: Shift (Blue Note) {14}: JB:44, JC:46, NPR:33; db:+, jadh:6, jda:+, jja:+, jjs:4, jmt:+, la_b:15, nb:6, nyo_j:20, ps:+ -- TH:*

Thumbscrew [Mary Halvorson/Michael Formanek/Tomas Fujiwara]: Convallaria (Cuneiform) {14}: JC:+; av:++, blg:+, d_jc:1, db:+, jdt:+, jjc:8 -- V:539-15-1, TH:***

Avishai Cohen: Into the Silence (ECM) {13}: JB:4, JC:47, JG:+; db:+, jad:+, jdt:6, jka:7 -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Cortex: Live in New York (Clean Feed) {13}: CM:37, JC:+; db:++, jmc:5, tn:1 -- TH:A-

Fire!: She Sleeps/She Sleeps (Rune Grammofon) {13}: JC:+, JG:+; fj:9, jcg:2, jmsc:1, jnn:+, tr_j:4 -- TH:**

Bill Frisell: When You Wish Upon a Star (Okeh) {13}: JB:5, JC:+, JW:16; db:+, jdb:+, jmr:+, pm_j:5 -- V:671-10-2, TH:B

Frank Kimbrough: Solstice (Pirouet) {13}: JC:36; jdb:8, jdm:12, jfk:3, jjw:+, jmr:+, jms:+, jrs:+, ph:17 -- V:1389-5-1, TH:**

Phronesis: Parallax (Edition) {13}: CV:11, JB:39, JC:61, JW:10; jadh:4, jnd:+ -- V:1363-6-1, TH:**

Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra: Les Deux Versants Se Regardent (Clean Feed) {13}: JC:+; fj:7, jds:7, jha:+, jlre:4, jpb:+, jtd:7, rsp:7 -- TH:A-

Black Bombaim/Peter Brotzmann: Black Bombaim & Peter Brotzmann (Clean Feed) {12}: FB:+, Hi:36, JC:+, JG:+; sg_j:2, tn:9 -- V:678-10-1, TH:A-

Claudia Quintet: Super Petite (Cuneiform) {12}: JC:+; av:+, blg:+, jrm:+, jtd:1, jtm:8, ph:21, ww:8 -- TH:**

Dinosaur [Laura Jurd's]: Together as One (Edition) {12}: JB:8, JW:3; jnd:+, ph:+, ps:8 -- TH:**

Macy Gray: Stripped (Chesky) {12}: PO:+, Rx:36; jja:+, jrj:10, jtc:+, jy:65 -- RC:A-, TH:**

Barry Guy: The Blue Shroud (Intakt) {12}: JC:26; blg:+, d_jc:3, jdt:3, jjsh:9, psj:7 -- V:599-13-1, TH:***

Julian Lage: Arclight (Mack Avenue) {12}: JC:34, JG:+; ct_j:8, fd:10, jfm:+, jja:+, jmas:6, jmr:+, nyo_j:2 -- V:201-40-4, TH:*

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: Otis Was a Polar Bear (Royal Potato Family) {12}: BIW:12, CM:16, JC:44, JG:+; jjh:7, jtc:7, ps:3 -- TH:**

Aruan Ortiz Trio: Hidden Voices (Intakt) {12}: CM:24, JC:30, JG:+; bg_g:10, db:+, fd:5, jka:+ -- V:652-11-1, TH:***

Ken Peplowski: Enrapture (Capri) {12}: JC:80; db:++, jdb:9, jjl:+, jly:9, jrs:++ -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

Herlin Riley: New Direction (Mack Avenue) {12}: JB:9, JC:55; db:+, jhm:6, jja:+, jly:3, jmr:+, jrm:+ -- TH:*

Sao Paulo Underground: Cantos Invisiveis (Cuneiform) {12}: JC:+, JG:+; at:+, av:++, jbs:7, jdt:+, jms:+, jtc:+, jtd:+ -- TH:**

Anna Webber's Simple Trio: Binary (Skirl) {12}: JC:60; av:++, jjsh:+, jlre:5, jrn:18, jsf:7 -- V:1276-8-1, TH:***

Damana (Dag Magnus Narvesen Octet): Cornua Copiae (Clean Feed) {11}: CM:10, JC:+, JG:+; jjsh:+, tn:+ -- TH:A-

Mark Dresser Seven: Sedimental You (Clean Feed) {11}: JC:32, JG:+; av:+, blg:+, jdt:+, jjw:+, jrb:2 -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Tord Gustavsen: What Was Said (ECM) {11}: JB:1, JC:+; jad:+, jms:+, jtd:+ -- TH:**

Eric Hofbauer Quintet: Prehistoric Jazz - Volume 3: Three Places in New England (Creative Nation Music) {11}: BIW:3, JC:+; bg_g:7, db:+, jch:9 -- TH:***

Bobby Kapp/Matthew Shipp: Cactus (Northern Spy) {11}: JC:+, JG:+; av:+, jbs:10, jhs:+, nyo_j:16 -- V:360-23-2, TH:A-

Peter Kuhn Trio: The Other Shore (NoBusiness) {11}: JC:+; av:+, jdt:9, jrb:9, jrn:17, jpa:5 -- TH:A-

Branford Marsalis Quartet: Upward Spiral (Okeh) {11}: JC:78, JW:2; db:++, jjs:+, jma:9, jnb:+, ph:+ -- TH:B-

Noah Preminger: Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground (self-released) {11}: JC:52; av:+, bg_g:9, db:+, fd:+, jbk:+, jda:+, jkf:8, jmc:7, jrs:+ -- TH:*

John Raymond: John Raymond & Real Feels (Shifting Paradigm) {11}: JC:+; db:++, jmas:2, pj:8, sg_j:5 -- TH:***

Eric Revis Trio: Crowded Solitudes (Clean Feed) {11}: CM:26, JC:72, JG:+; jda:+, jgg:6, jsf:4 -- TH:A-

Catherine Russell: Harlem on My Mind (Jazz Village) {11}: JC:93, NPR:50; db:+, fd:+, jjl:+, jnb:+ -- V:394-20-2, TH:A-

John Scofield: Country for Old Men (Impulse!) {11}: JB:11, JC:23, JW:14; db:+, jjh:19, nyo_j:10, ps:9 -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Susana Santos Silva/Lotte Anker/Sten Sandell/Torbjorn Zetterberg/Jon Falt: Life and Other Transient Storms (Clean Feed) {11}: JC:+; fj:10, jap:3, jha:7, jlre:7, jnn:+, jtd:10 -- TH:***

Cuong Vu Trio: Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch) {11}: JC:58; db:+, jda:+, jjh:18, jmr:+, jms:+, jtc:8, pm_j:4 -- V:360-23-2, TH:*

Nik Bartsch's Mobile: Continuum (ECM) {10}: JC:76, TG:32; db:+, jgt:+, jja:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:A-

John Beasley: MONKestra Vol 1 (Mack Avenue) {10}: JC:+, PO:1; jcd:1, jja:+, jjl:+, jrj:3, jrm:+ -- TH:B-

Jakob Bro: Streams (ECM) {10}: JB:10, JC:100; db:++, jgt:+, jms:+, ww:10 -- V:678-10-1, TH:B

Marquis Hill: The Way We Play (Concord Jazz) {10}: JC:94; ct_j:6, db:+, jmas:5, la_b:18, nyo_j:18 -- TH:***

The Pedrito Martinez Group: Habana Dreams (Motema) {10}: JC:+, PO:+; afp:+, bg_m:3, jkf:+, jmb:4, jsf:+ -- V:394-20-2, TH:*

RED Trio/John Butcher: Summer Skyshift (Clean Feed) {10}: JC:86; jjsh:7, jpa:1, qt_j:8, sc_z:+ -- TH:***

Renee Rosnes: Written in the Rocks (Smoke Sessions) {10}: JC:90; ct_j:1, db:+, jda:+, jly:8, jnb:+, jtm:17, nat:+ -- TH:B

Ches Smith/Matt Maneri/Craig Taborn: The Bell (ECM) {10}: JC:54; bg_g:8, blg:+, db:+, fd:+, jgg:5, jrn:3 -- TH:*

Colin Stetson: Sorrow: A Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony (52Hz) {10}: ACL:7, Hi:31, MO:40, NN:54, PO:+; ub:+ -- AY:120, V:1276-8-1

Dan Weiss: Sixteen: Drummers Suite (Pi) {10}: BIW:11, JC:67, JG:+; av:+++, blg:+, jda:3 -- TH:B

Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Andando el Tiempo (ECM) {9}: JC:39, JG:+; db:+++, jtm:13 -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

George Coleman: A Master Speaks (Smoke Sessions) {9}: JC:29, TG:16; jbs:9, jma:7 -- TH:A-

The Cookers: The Call of the Wild & Peaceful Heart (Smoke Sessions) {9}: JC:40; db:+, jhs:+, jjh:1, pm_j:6 -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Theo Croker: Escape Velocity (Okeh) {9}: CV:16, JB:40, JC:+; db:+, jjh:15, nyo_j:13 -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Daniel Freedman: Imagine That (Anzic) {9}: JC:+; db:+++, jdb:10, jmr:+ -- TH:***

Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda: Duet (Long Song) {9}: JC:97; av:+, db:+, jjw:+, jrb:6, jsf:9 -- TH:***

Andy Gonzalez: Entre Colegas (Truth Revolution) {9}: JC:+; db:+, jly:7, jmb:1 -- V:678-10-1

Hearts & Minds: Hearts & Minds (Astral Spirits) {9}: JC:+; db:++, jbs:6, jem:8, jtb:8 -- TH:***

Julie Kjaer 3: Dobbeltgaenger (Clean Feed) {9}: CM:49, JC:+; av:+, jha:+, jlre:6 -- TH:A-

James Brandon Lewis: No Filter (BNS Sessions) {9}: CM:13, JC:+, JG:+; jgg:2, jmt:+ -- TH:**

Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: 2016: EPs (Hot Cup) {9}: JC:51; av:+, bg_g:5, db:+, jka:2, jmc:9, tn:3

Joe McPhee: Flowers (Cipsela) {9}: JC:+; at:+, jdt:5, jjsh:8, jtb:1 -- TH:*

Houston Person & Ron Carter: Chemistry (HighNote) {9}: JC:+, PO:+; db:+, jjl:+ -- V:599-13-1, TH:A

Roberta Piket: One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland (Thirteenth Note) {9}: JC:+; jkf:6, jly:12, jma:1, jrs:+ -- V:1318-7-1, TH:*

Kenny Barron Trio: Book of Intuition (Impulse) {8}: CM:53, JC:63, JG:+; db:+, jfk:9, jtm:9 -- TH:**

Brooklyn Blowhards [Jeff Lederer]: Brooklyn Blowhards (Little (i) Music) {8}: CM:54, JC:+; jjw:+, jmc:3 -- TH:***

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque: Oddara (Linus Entertainment) {8}: JC:+; db:+, jkf:+, jmb:2, jrs:+, ph:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:B

Barbara Dane with Tammy Hall: Throw It Away . . . (Dreadnaught Music) {8}: jrs:+ -- RC:***, TH:A-

Dave Douglas/Frank Woeste: Dada People (Greenleaf Music) {8}: JC:66, JG:+; jfk:7, jjh:14 -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

Fail Better!: Owt (NoBusiness) {8}: fj:8, jap:2, jem:7, jsg:6, rsp:14 -- TH:**

Generations Quartet [Michael Jefry Stevens]: Flow (Not Two) {8}: JC:85; jbk:+, jjsh:2 -- TH:A-

Scott Hamilton/Harry Allen: Live! (GAC) {8}: JC:87; jjl:+, jkf:2 -- TH:A-

Tom Harrell: Something Gold Something Blue (HighNotes) {8}: JC:24; db:++, jda:+, jdt:8, jjs:3, jsf:8

Charlie Hunter: Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth (Ground Up/Decca) {8}: JC:+; db:+, jcd:2, ps:6 -- TH:***

IPA: I Just Did Say Something (Cuneiform) {8}: CM:50, JC:53; av:+, jtd:4 -- V:581-14-1, TH:**

Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Azui Infinito (Greenleaf Music) {8}: JC:65; db:+, jda:+, jdb:7, ph:11 -- V:477-17-2, TH:**

Franklin Kiermyer: Closer to the Sun (Mobility Music) {8}: JC:+; av:+, db:+, jmc:10 -- TH:A-

Joelle Leandre: A Woman's Work (Not Two -8CD) {8}: fj:3, jap:6, jcg:4, jem:10, jsg:2

Joelle Leandre/Theo Ceccaldi: Elastic (Cipsela) {8}: jds:1, rsp:1 -- TH:**

Brian Lynch: Madera Latino (Hollistic MusicWorks) {8}: JC:+; jgg:+, jly:4 -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

Mat Walerian/Matthew Shipp/Hamid Drake: Jungle: Live at Okuden (ESP-Disk, 2CD) {8}: JC:+; av:+, jrn:11, jrs:++ -- TH:***

Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit: Ana (PNL) {8}: JC:+; jhs:10, jmsc:10, jnn:+ -- TH:A-

Jason Roebke Octet: Cinema Spiral (NoBusiness) {8}: CM:33, JC:+; av:+, db:+, jtc:10 -- TH:***

Snarky Puppy: Culcha Vulcha (Decca) {8}: JB:21; jjh:5, jmas:3, lfl:++ -- V:1318-7-1, TH:C+

Steve Swell Quintet: Soul Travelers (RogueArt) {8}: CM:11, JC:98; jjsh:10 -- TH:A-

Will Vinson: Perfectly Out of Place (5Passion) {8}: JC:+; db:++, jda:+, jdb:3, jmr:+, ph:18

Beekman: Vol 02 (Ropeadope) {7}: JC:+, JG:+; jmt:+, jrs:+ -- TH:***

Laura Cannell: Simultaneous Flight Movement (Brawl) {7}: Qt:12, TG:39, W:25; d_jb:+, jdme:5

The Ian Carey Quintet + 1: Interview Music (Kabocha) {7}: BIW:9, JC:+ -- TH:***

Alexis Cuadrado: Poetica (Sunnyside) {7}: BIW:17, JC:+; db:+, jda:+ -- TH:**

Tim Daisy's Celebration Sextet: The Halfway There Suite (Relay) {7}: av:+, jem:4, jtb:3 -- TH:**

Whit Dickey/Kirk Knuffke: Fierce Silence (Clean Feed) {7}: JG:+; fd:+, jdt:+, jrb:8, -- TH:***

Orrin Evans: #Knowingishalfthebattle (Smoke Sessions) {7}: JC:+; jda:+, jja:+, jjh:12, jrm:+ -- TH:**

The Fat Babies: Solid Gassuh (Delmark) {7}: JC:+; db:+++, jrs:+ -- TH:**

Anat Fort Trio/Gianluigi Trovesi: Birdwatching (ECM) {7}: JC:+; jrs:++, nyo_r:17 -- TH:***

Tim Garland: One (Edition) {7}: JB:26, JC:+, JW:1

Bob Gluck/Billy Hart/Eddie Henderson/Christopher Dean Sullivan: Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band (FMR) {7}: JC:+, JG:+; jjh:24, jka:8 -- TH:***

Ross Hammond and Sameer Gupta: Upward (Prescott) {7}: JC:+, TG:35; av:+, jgg:8 -- TH:***

I Am Three: Mingus Mingus Mingus (Leo) {7}: JC:+; db:+, jtd:2 -- TH:***

Ethan Iverson: The Purity of the Turf (Criss Cross) {7}: JC:+, JG:+; jda:+, jhs:3 -- TH:**

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: The Abyssinian Mass (Blue Engine -2CD) {7}: JC:59, TG:89; ct_J:2, pm_j:5 -- V:678-10-1+V:1389-5-1, TH:C-

Rene Marie: Sound of Red (Motema Music) {7}: JC:82, NPR:37; jly:2, jtm:18 -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Camila Meza: Traces (Sunnyside) {7}: JC:56; jdb:5, jgg:+, jjc:9, ph:+, pm_j:9 -- TH:B

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Black Stabat Mater (Rune Grammofon) {7}: FB:+; av:+, tx_r:1 -- V:464-18-2, TH:*

Tony Moreno Quintet: Short Stories (Mayimba Jazz, 2CD) {7}: JC:+; db:+, jcmb:+, jda:5 -- TH:**

Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain V (Pleasure of the Text) {7}: JC:+; blg:+, jka:1, sc_z:+ -- TH:*

Lina Nyberg: Aerials (Hoob Jazz, 2CD) {7}: Gf:30, JC:+; db:+++ -- TH:**

Matt Parker Trio: Present Time (BYNK) {7}: JC:+; db:++, jmc:4 -- TH:**

Alfredo Rodriguez: Tocororo (Mack Avenue/Qwest) {7}: JC:+; db:++, jja:+, jjs:+ -- TH:**

Rudy Royston Trio: RisEofOrion (Greenleaf Music) {7}: JC:+, JG:+; jha:5 -- TH:***

Dr Lonnie Smith: Evolution (Blue Note) {7}: JB:24, JC:+, PO:+; jja:+, jmr:+, tr_j:8 -- V:678-10-1, TH:B

Markus Stockhausen/Florian Weber: Alba (ECM) {7}: JB:32, JC:+, TG:23; ph:+ -- TH:***

The Stryker/Slagle Band Expanded: Routes (Strikezone) {7}: JC:+; db:++, jly:6 -- TH:***

Ben Wendel: What We Bring (Motema) {7}: JC:+; db:+, jad:+, jadh:8, nb:2, ph:20

Nate Wooley: Argonautica (Firehouse 12) {7}: JC:+; av:++, jmt:+, psj:16 -- TH:**

Denny Zeitlin: Early Wayne: Explorations of Classic Wayne Shorter Compositions (Sunnyside) {7}: JC:+, TG:67; db:++, jrm:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Rez Abbasi & Junction: Behind the Vibration (Cuneiform) {6}: JC:+; av:+, jda:7, ph:+ -- TH:**

Cyrille Aimee: Let's Get Lost (Mack Avenue) {6}: JC:+, TG:75; db:+, jdme:8, jhm:+ -- TH:*

Ralph Alessi: Quiver (ECM) {6}: JC:+; db:++ -- TH:***

Jon Armstrong: Burnt Hibiscus (Orenda) {6}: BIW:2, JC:+; av:+

Bobby Avey: Inhuman Wilderness (Inner Voice Jazz) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jdb:+ -- TH:***

The Bad Plus: It's Hard (Okeh) {6}: JC:83; db:+, jda:+, jrs;+ -- V:394-20-2, TH:*

Black Art Jazz Collective: Presented by the Side Door Jazz Club (Sunnyside) {6}: JC:+; db:++, jda:+ -- TH:**

Jim Black Trio: The Constant (Intakt) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jpm:6 -- TH:***

Michael Blake: Fulfillment (Songlines) {6}: BIW:4, JC:+ -- TH:*

Bushman's Revenge: Jazz Fritt Etter Hukommelsen (Rune Grammophon) {6}: JC:+; jch:5, jds:10, rsp:10 -- V:678-10-1

Jonas Cambien Trio: A Zoology of the Future (Clean Feed) {6}: JC:+; jjsh:3 -- TH:***

Bill Charlap Trio: Notes From New York (Impulse) {6}: JC:41, TG:38; db:+++ -- TH:*

Richie Cole: Plays Ballads & Love Songs (Mark Perna Music) {6}: JC:+; jrs:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble: Havana Blue (3Sixteen) {6}: JC:+; db:+, fd:+, jmb:8 -- TH:**

The DKV Thing Trio: Collider (Not Two) {6}: JC:+; blg:+, tn:2 -- TH:**

Dave Douglas: Dark Territory (Greenleaf Music) {6}: JC:+; db:++, ph:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Fresh Cut Orchestra: Mind Behind Closed Eyes (Ropeadope) {6}: JC:+; av:+, jda:+ -- TH:***

Tomas Fujiwara/Ben Goldberg/Mary Halvorson: The Out Louds (Relative Pitch) {6}: av:++, blg:+, jpa:10, jrn:13, sc:+

Robert Glasper Experiment: ArtScience (Blue Note) {6}: JC:88; db:+, jadh:+, nyo_j:9 -- V:491-16-2, TH:*

Benny Golson: Horizon Ahead (HighNote) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jjl:+, jrs:++ -- V:678-10-1

Rich Halley 5: The Outlier (Pine Eagle) {6}: JC:+; av:+ -- TH:A-

Nancy Harms: Ellington at Night (Gazelle) {6}: JC:+; db:+, fd:+, ph:+ -- TH:**

Craig Hartley: Books on Tape Vol II: Standard Edition (self-released) {6}: JC:75, TG:36; nyo_j:15 -- TH:***

Billy Hart & the WDR Big Band: The Broader Picture (Enja/Yellowbird) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jdb:+ -- TH:***

Alexander Hawkins/Evan Parker: Leaps in Leicester (Clean Feed) {6}: JG:+; sc:+ -- TH:A-

Louis Heriveaux: Triadic Episode (Hot Shoe) {6}: JC:+; db:++, jdb:+ -- TH:**

Jasper Hoiby: Fellow Creatures (Edition) {6}: BIW:13, JB:7; jpb:+

Honey Ear Trio: Swivel (Little (i) Music) {6}: av:+, db:+ -- TH:A-

Impossible Gentlemen: Let's Get Deluxe (Basho) {6}: JB:6, JW:8

Guillermo Klein: Los Guachos V (Sunnyside) {6}: JC:+; db:++, jbk:+, jda:+ -- V:678-10-1

Krakauer's Ancestral Groove: Checkpoint (Table Pounding) {6}: JC:+, JG:+; jfk:8 -- TH:***

Takuya Kuroda: Zigzagger (Concord) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jrj:7, nb:2 -- V:678-10-1

Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines (Intakt) {6}: JC:+; blg:+, db:+, jha:13, rsp:15 -- TH:*

Harold Lopez-Nussa: El Viaje (Mack Avenue) {6}: JC:+, PO:+; afp:+, db:+, jja:+, jmb:10

Made to Break: Dispatch to the Sea (Audiographic) {6}: jap:4 -- TH:A-

Tony Malaby Paloma Recio: Incantations (Clean Feed) {6}: db:+, fd:+, sc:+ -- TH:***

Pat Metheny: The Unity Sessions (Nonesuch -2CD) {6}: JC:+; jadh:+, jda:+, jja:+, jjh:6, ps:+ -- TH:B

Moonbow: When the Sleeping Fish Turn Red and the Skies Start to Sing in C Major I Will Follow You to the End (ILK) {6}: BIW:7, JC:+ -- TH:**

Jeremy Pelt: #Jiveculture (HighNote) {6}: JC:+, JW:15; jadh:+, jda:+, sg_j:7

Adam Pieronczyk: Monte Alban (Regent) {6}: jdm:2 -- TH:A-

Richard Poole/Marilyn Crispell/Gary Peacock: In Motion (Intakt) {6}: CM:40, JC:62, JG:+ -- TH:***

Psychic Temple: Plays Music for Airports (Joyful Noise) {6}: BIW:8, JC:+; jadh:+ -- V:289-29-3

Dave Rempis/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra + Jim Baker: Periheleon (Aerophonic -2CD) {6}: JC:+; jcg:6 -- TH:A-

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: I Want That Sound! (Innova) {6}: JC:+, TG:99 -- TH:A-

Little Johnny Rivero: Music in Me (Truth Revolution) {6}: JC:+; jcah:+, jmb:6 -- TH:***

Edward Simon: Latin American Songbook (Sunnyside) {6}: BIW:21, JC:95; db:+, ph:9 -- TH:**

Omar Sosa/Joo Kraus/Gustavo Ovalle: JOG -15 (Ota) {6}: db:++ -- TH:A-

Tim Stine: Tim Stine Trio (Astral Spirits) {6}: JC:+; jch:3, jpa:3, jpm:9

Stirrup: Cut (Clean Feed) {6}: JC:+; jdt:7 -- TH:A-

Dave Stryker: Eight Track II (Strikezone) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jcah:+ -- TH:***

Supersilent: 13 (Smalltown Supersound) {6}: Bw:78, FF:18, JC:+; db:+ -- V:678-10-1

Tierney Sutton Band: The Sting Variations (BFM Jazz) {6}: JC:+; db:+, jkf:3, jrj:9, jtm:19

Craig Taborn/Christian McBride/Tyshawn Sorey: Flaga: The Book of Angels Vol 27 (Tzadik) {6}: JC:71; jdm:8, jmr:+, jtd:6, jtm:11, tn:6

Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Musings (Sunnyside) {6}: av:+, db:+, jdb:+, jrs:+ -- TH:**

Greg Abate & Phil Woods with the Tim Ray Trio: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's (Whaling City Sound, 2CD) {5}: JC:+; db:+, jkf:7 -- TH:**

Alyssa Allgood: Out of the Blue (Jeru Jazz) {5}: JC:+; jcmb:+, jmr:+, jms:+, jrm:+

Ehud Asherie: Shuffle Along (Blue Heron) {5}: fd:+, jjl:+ -- TH:***

Lucian Ban Elevation: Songs From Afar (Sunnyside) {5}: db:+++, jbk:+ -- TH:*

Nat Birchall: Creation (Sound Soul & Spirit) {5}: jnd:+, jpb:+ -- TH:***

Seamus Blake/Chris Cheek: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Criss Cross) {5}: JB:33; db:+, ph:14 -- TH:**

Burning Ghosts: Burning Ghosts (Orenda) {5}: JC:+; av:++ -- TH:**

George Cables: The George Cables Songbook (HighNote) {5}: JB:25, JC:+ -- TH:***

Judy Carmichael and Harry Allen: Can You Love Once More (GAC) {5}: jjl:+ -- TH:A-

Etienne Charles: San Jose Suite (Culture Shock) {5}: JC:84; jjh:2 -- TH:**

Marc Copland: Zenith (Innervoice -15) {5}: JC:+; db:+, jbk:+, jrm:+, ph:5

Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Ikue Mori/Evan Parker: Miller's Tale (Intakt) {5}: JC:+; blg:+ -- TH:***

Dwiki Dharmawan: Pasar Klewer (Moonjune) {5}: JC:+; db:+++, jrs:+

The Diva Jazz Orchestra: Special Kay! (self-released) {5}: JC:+; jrs:++ -- TH:**

Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon: Both Will Escape (Family Vineyard) {5}: d_jc:+, jem:5, jtb:2

Harris Eisenstadt: Old Growth Forest (Clean Feed) {5}: JG:+; db:+ -- TH:***

Peter Eldridge: Disappearing Day (Sunnyside) {5}: JC:+; db:+, jdb:1

ELEW: And to the Republic (Sunnyside) {5}: JC:+ -- V:1318-7-1, TH:***

Marty Elkins: Walkin' by the River (Nagel Heyer) {5}: JC:+; jjl:+ -- TH:***

Moppa Elliott: Still Up in the Air (Hot Cup) {5}: JC:+; av:+, db:+ -- TH:**

Empirical: Connection (Cuneiform) {5}: JC:+; av:+ -- TH:***

Ellery Eskelin: Trio Willisau Live (Hatology) {5}: JC:+; blg:+, db:+, jdt:10, sc:+

Festen: Festen (Clean Feed) {5}: jha:8 -- TH:A-

Friends & Neighbors: What's Wrong? (Clean Feed) {5}: JC:+; jjs:10 -- TH:***

Robert Glasper: Everything's Beautiful (Columbia/Legacy) {5}: jmas:10, lfl:+ -- V:394-20-2, TH:**

Danny Green Trio: Altered Narratives (OA2) {5}: jdm:10, jtr:+ -- TH:***

Gunwale: Polynya (Aerophonic) {5}: JC:+; db:+ -- TH:***

Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Deep Memory (Intakt) {5}: JC:70; jdt:+ -- TH:***

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmospheres (ECM) {5}: JB:23, JC:+; db:+, jja:+, jng:+

The Heliocentrics: From the Deep (Now-Again) {5}: JG:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:***

Freddie Hendrix: Jersey Cat (Sunnyside) {5}: JC:+; db:+, sg_j:6 -- TH:**

Laurence Hobgood: Honor Thy Fathers (self-released) {5}: JC:+; ct_j:3, db:+ -- V:1318-7-1

Jerome Jennings: The Beast (Iola) {5}: db:+jcah:+, ph:+ -- TH:**

Amirtha Kidambi/Elder Ones: Holy Science (Northern Spy) {5}: JC:+; av:+jjc:4 -- V:499-16-1, TH:*

Masabumi Kikuchi: Black Orpheus (ECM) {5}: JC:99; jdm:6, jhs:5 -- TH:*

Corey King: Lashes (Ropeadope) {5}: JC:+; db:+, jadh:7, nb:4

Yoni Kretzmer: Yoni Kretzmer Five (OutNow) {5}: JC:69; jjsh:5, jpa:2

Marilyn Lerner/Ken Filiano/Lou Grassi: Live at Edgefest (NoBusiness) {5}: jcg:5 -- TH:***

Jasmine Lovell-Smith's Towering Poppies: Yellow Red Blue (Paint Box) {5}: CM:27, JC:+; jhs:7 -- TH:**

Andreas Loven: District Six (Losen) {5}: JB:15; jgt:+, jmr:+, jms:+

LUME: Xabregas 10 (Clean Feed) {5}: JC:+; tn:4 -- TH:**

Made to Break: Before the Code: Live (Audiographic) {5}: JC:+; jpa:9, tn:7 -- TH:**

Made to Break: N N N (Audiographic) {5}: jeh:+ -- TH:A-

MAST: Love and War (Alpha Pup) {5}: JC:+; jadh:9, nyo_j:4 -- TH:*

Sabir Mateen/Conny Bauer/Mark Tokar/Klaus Kugel: Collective Four (ForTune) {5}: jcg:8 -- TH:A-

Rob Mazurek & Emmett Kelly: Alien Flower Sutra (International Anthem) {5}: JC:+; av:+, jka:+, psj:8, ub:+ -- TH:C

Michael Spiro/Wayne Wallace/La Orquesta Sinfonietta: Canto America (Patois) {5}: JC:+; am:+, jjn:+, jmb:5 -- TH:B-

Jason Moran: The Armory Concert (Yes) {5}: JC:27; jhs:2, ny_ch:3

Mike Moreno: Lotus (World Culture Music) {5}: JC:+; db:+, jda:2, jjh:22

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: (Live) (ForTune) {5}: JC:+; tn:10 -- TH:***

Naftule's Dream: Blood (self-released) {5}: FB:+, JC:+ -- TH:***

Ted Nash Big Band: Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (Motema -2CD) {5}: JC:+; jly:1 -- V:678-10-1, TH:B

New Zion w Cyro [Jamie Saft]: Sunshine Seas (Rare Noise) {5}: JC:+; db:+, te:+ -- TH:**

Angelika Niescier/Florian Weber: NYC Five (Intakt) {5}: JC:+; jtd:8 -- TH:***

Pauline Oliveros/Roscoe Mitchell/John Tilbury/Wadada Leo Smith: Nessuno (Angelica) {5}: jdme:4, jnn:+sc:+, sc_k:+

Evan Parker: As the Wind (Psi) {5}: JC:+; jdt:2, rsp:17, sc_z:+

Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Eastern Smiles (Odin) {5}: CM:55 -- TH:A-

Ivo Perelman: Soul (Leo) {5}: blg:+ -- TH:A-

Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 6 (Leo) {5}: db:+ -- TH:A-

Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris: Blue (Leo) {5}: jch:8 -- TH:A-

Ralph Peterson/Zaccai Curtis/Luques Curtis: Triangular III (Truth Revolution/Onyx Music) {5}: JG:+; db:+, jcah:+ -- TH:**

Madeleine Peyroux: Secular Hymns (Impulse!) {5}: db:+++, jcd:3

Tomeka Reid: Quartet (Thirsty Ear -15) {5}: JC:+, Tx:10 -- V:678-10-1, [TH:A-]

Marc Ribot/The Young Philadelphians: Live in Tokyo (Yellowbird) {5}: JC:92, PO:+; db:+ -- TH:**

Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble: Rising Colossus (Edgetone) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Jim Rotondi: Dark Blue (Smoke Sessions) {5}: JC:+, JG:+; db:+, jcah:+ -- TH:*

ROVA Channeling Coltrane: Electric Ascension: Live at the 2012 Guelph Festival (RogueArt) {5}: av:+, jsg:1, sc_z:+

Roswell Rudd & Heather Masse: August Love Song (Red House) {5}: jcmb:+ -- TH:A-

Richard Sears Sextet: Altadena (Ropeadope) {5}: db:+, jhs:+, jmt:+ -- TH:**

Slavic Soul Party: Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (Ropeadope) {5}: jjh:25 -- TH:A-

Sonic Liberation 8: Bombogenic (High Two) {5}: phw:17 -- TH:A-

Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life: Nihil Novi (Blue Note) {5}: JB:47, JC:+; jda:+, jja:+, ps:10 -- TH:B-

Steve Swell/Gebhard Ullmann/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang: The Chicago Plan (Clean Feed) {5}: JG:+; blg:+ -- TH:***

Steve Swell's Kende Dreams: Hommage a Bartok (Silkheart -15) {5}: JC:+; db:++, fd:+, sc:+ -- [TH:A-]

Trio Da Paz: 30 (Zoho Music) {5}: JG:+; jdb:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Harvey Valdes Trio: Point Counterpoint (self-released) {5}: av:++ -- TH:***

David Virelles: Antenna (ECM) {5}: JC:+, JG:+; db:+++

Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Jazz Now! (Live at Theater Gutersloh) (Intuition) {5}: db:++ -- TH:***

Brahja Waldman: Wisdomatic (Fast Speaking Music) {5}: JC:+ -- TH:A-

Yellowjackets: Cohearence (Mack Avenue) {5}: JB:30, JC:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Antonio Adolfo: Tropical Infinito (AAM) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Harry Allen's All Star New York Saxophone Band: The Candy Men (Arbors) {4}: JC:+; jjl:+, jrs:+ -- TH:*

Dave Anderson: Blue Innuendo (Label 1) {4}: db:++, jrm:+ -- TH:*

Lori Bell Quartet: Brooklyn Dreaming (self-released) {4}: JC:+; db:+, jrm:+, jtm:16

Mili Bermejo/Dan Greenspan: Arte Del Duo (Ediciones Pentagrama) {4}: bg_g:+ -- TH:***

Eraldo Bernocchi/Prakash Sontakke: Invisible Strings (RareNoise) {4}: av:+ -- TH:***

Sarah Bernstein: Still/Free (Leo) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Brain Tentacles: Brain Tentacles (Relapse) {4}: FB:+; nyo_j:14, tr_j:2

Anthony Branker & Imagine: Beauty Within (Origin) {4}: JC:+; jjh:10 -- TH:**

Joshua Breakstone/The Cello Quartet: 88 (Capri) {4}: JC:+; jrs:+ -- TH:**

Brian Bromberg: Full Circle (Artistry Music) {4}: JC:+; db:+++ -- TH:B

Peter Brotzmann/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Song Sentimentale (Otorku) {4}: CM:25; blg:+, jmsc:3

Augustin Brousseloux/Jean-Marc Foussat/Quentin Rollet: Qui A Vu Ce Mystere (Improvising Beings) {4}: jds:2, rsp:2

George Burton: The Truth of What I Am > The Narcissist (Inner Circle) {4}: JC:+; jrs:+, nb:10 -- V:1246-9-1

John Butcher/Thomas Lehn/Matthew Shipp: Tangle (Fataka) {4}: JC:+; at:+, av:++

Rhys Chatham: Pythagorean Dream (Foom) {4}: av:+ -- TH:***

Freddy Cole: He Was the King (HighNote) {4}: JC:+; db:+, jjl:+ -- V:539-15-1

The Core Trio: Live Featuring Matthew Shipp (Evil Rabbit) {4}: JC:+; jka:6 -- TH:**

Jeremy Cunningham Quartet: Re: Dawn (From Far) (Ears & Eyes) {4}: BIW:28; jjb:+, la_b:19 -- TH:*

Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji: Ffansïon/Fancies (Another Timbre) {4}: jdme:1, jsg:7

Eli Degibri: Cliff Hangin' (Blujazz) {4}: db"+++ -- TH:*

Stijn Demuynck: Pouance (self-released) {4}: BIW:10, JC:+

Earprint: Earprint (Endectomorph Music) {4}: JC:+, JG:+ -- TH:**

Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon (ECM) {4}: db:+ -- TH:***

EST Symphony: EST Symphony (ACT) {4}: JC:+, JW:7

Peter Evans: Genesis (More Is More) {4}: JC:+; db:+, jhs:4

Kali Z Fasteau: Intuit (Flying Note) {4}: jrs:+ -- TH:***

David Fiuczynski: Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian MicroJam (Rare Noise) {4}: JC:+; db:+++ -- TH:B

Chico Freeman: Spoken Into Existence (Jive Music) {4}: JC:+, TG:65; jja:+, jma:8

Free Nelson Mandoomjazz: The Organ Grinder (RareNoise) {4}: JG:+; av:++ -- TH:*

Erik Friedlander: Rings (Skipstone) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Fred Frith Trio: Another Day in Fucking Paradise (Intakt) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Clay Giberson: Pastures (Origin) {4}: jdm:11 -- TH:***

Brian Groder Trio: R Train on the D Line (Latham) {4}: JG:+; jdt:+ -- TH:**

Giovanni Guidi: Ida Lupino (ECM) {4}: BIW:23, JC:+; jha:4

Allan Harris: Nobody's Gonna Love You Better (Love Productions) {4}: db:+, jcd:5, jnb:+

Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Highest Engines Near/Near Higher Engineers (Flat Langton's Arkeyes) {4}: blg:+ -- TH:***

The Hot Sardines: French Fries + Champagne (Decca) {4}: JC:+; db:+, jcd:9 -- TH:*

Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Big Wheel Live (Intakt) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Keefe Jackson/Jason Adasiewicz: Rows and Rows (Delmark) {4}: JC:81; jdt:+, jtb:7 -- TH:*

Jason Palmer/Cedric Hanriot: City of Poets (Whirlwind) {4}: JC:+; jmt:+ -- TH:**

Judson Trio [Joelle Leandre/Mat Maneri/Gerald Cleaver]: An Air of Unreality (RogueArt) {4}: jds:3, rsp:3

Stacey Kent: Tenderly (Okeh) {4}: db:+ -- TH:***

Dave King Trucking Company: Surrounded by the Night (Sunnyside) {4}: db:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Krokofant: Krokofant II (Rune Grammofon -15) {4}: YW:6 -- V:456-19-2, [TH:*]

Peter Kuhn/Dave Sewelson/Gerald Cleaver/Larry Roland: Our Earth/Our World (PfMentum) {4}: av:+ -- TH:***

Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay: Amalgam (Northern Spy) {4}: JG:+; at:++, av:+, jlre:10

John Lindberg Raptor Trio: Western Edges (Clean Feed) {4}: jrb:5 -- TH:**

Lotto: Elite Feline (Instant Classic) {4}: Scr:12; jds:6, rsp:6

Steven Lugerner: Jacknife: The Music of Jackie McLean (Primary) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Merzbow/Keiji Haino/Balasz Pandi: An Untroublesome Defencelessness (RareNoise) {4}: av:++ -- TH:**

Hendrik Meurkens: Harmonicus Rex (Height Advantage) {4}: JC:+; db:+, jrs:+ -- TH:*

Sei Miguel: (Five) Stories Untold (Clean Feed) {4}: jsg:4 -- TH:**

Joel Miller With Sienna Dahlen: Dream Cassette (Origin) {4}: ph:+ -- TH:***

Nick Millevoi: Desertion (Shhpuma) {4}: JG:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:**

Moker: Ladder (El Negocito) {4}: BIW:14, JC:+ -- TH:*

Jane Monheit: The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald (Emerald City) {4}: db:+, jcmb:+, jrs:+ -- TH:*

Simon Nabatov/Mark Dresser/Dominik Mahnig: Equal Poise (Leo) {4}: sc_k:+ -- TH:***

Quinsin Nachoff: Flux (Mythology) {4}: JC:+; ph:+ -- TH:**

Marius Neset: Snowmelt (ACT) {4}: JB:13, JC:+; jnd:+

The Phil Norman Tentet: Then & Now: Classic Sounds & Variations of 12 Jazz Legends (MAMA) {4}: jjl:+ -- TH:***

Uwe Oberg & Silke Eberhard: Turns (Leo) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Adam O'Farrill: Stranger Days (Sunnyside) {4}: JC:+; jda:+, pm_j:7 -- TH:**

Arturo O'Farrill Sextet: Boss Level (Zoho) {4}: JC:+; db:++ -- TH:*

One for All: The Third Decade (Smoke Sessions) {4}: JC:+; db:+, jcah:+, jnb:+

William Parker: Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind (Centering/AUM Fidelity) {4}: jjb:+, qt_j:9 -- TH:**

Ivo Perelman: Breaking Point (Leo) {4}: blg:+ -- TH:***

Ivo Perelman/Karl Berger/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 1 (Leo) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Corpo (Leo) {4}: jap:5, jcg:7 -- TH:*

Leslie Pintchik: True North (Pintch Hard) {4}: jdb:+ -- TH:***

Bobby Previte: Mass (RareNoise) {4}: av:+++, jcmb:+ -- TH:C+

Protean Reality: Protean Reality (Clean Feed) {4}: jtb:4 -- TH:***

Punkt 3: Ordnung Herrscht (Clean Feed) {4}: JG:+ -- TH:***

Abbey Rader Quartet with Kidd Jordan: Reunion (Abray) {4}: JC:+; jpa:4, tn:8

Renegades of Jazz: Moyo Wangu (Agogo) {4}: JG:+ -- TH:***

Renku: Live in Greenwich Village (Clean Feed) {4}: JC:+ -- TH:***

Rhythm Future Quartet: Travels (Magic Fiddle Music) {4}: JG:+; jms:+, jrm:+ -- TH:*

Laurent Rochelle Okidoki Quartet: Si Tu Regardes (Linoleum) {4}: BIW:6, JC:+

Rent Romus/Teddy Rankin-Parker/Daniel Pearce: LiR: Live at Vamp Vintage Art Music (Edgetone) {4}: av:+ -- TH:***

Ronnings Jazzmaskin: Jazzmaskin (Losen) {4}: CM:51 -- TH:***

Jerome Sabbagh/Simon Jermyn/Allison Miller: Lean (Music Wizards) {4}: JC:+; av:+ -- TH:**

Schlippenbach Trio: Warsaw Concert (Intakt) {4}: blg:+ -- TH:***

Elliott Sharp Aggregat: Dialectrical (Clean Feed) {4}: db:+ -- TH:***

Warren Wolf: Convergence (Mack Avenue) {4}: JC:+; jja:+, jjh:11, jrm:+

Eri Yamamoto Trio: Life (AUM Fidelity) {4}: JG:+; jjb:+ -- TH:**

Brandee Younger: Wax & Wane (Revive, EP) {4}: BIW:26, JC:+ -- V:489-17-1, TH:*

Dhafer Youssef: Diwan of Beauty and Odd (OKeh!) {4}: JW:17; jad:+, ph:23 -- TH:B

Waclaw Zimpel: Lines (Instant Classic) {4}: Qt:66, Scr:9

Eric Alexander: Second Impression (HighNote) {3}: JC:+; db:++

Kris Allen: Beloved (Truth Revolution) {3}: db:+ -- TH:**

Amendola vs Blades: Greatest Hits (Sazi) {3}: av:+ -- TH:**

Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel: This Could Be That (Bacalao) {3}: db:+, jkf:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:*

Jay Azzolina/Dino Govoni/Adam Nussbaum/Dave Zinno: Chance Meeting (Whaling City Sound) {3}: jrm:+ -- TH:**

Aram Bajakian: Dolphy Variations () {3}: PO:37; av:++

Cyro Baptista: BlueFly (Tzadik) {3}: BIW:16; jmc:+

Peter Bernstein: Let Loose (Smoke Sessions) {3}: JC:+; ph:19 -- TH:*

Michael Bisio & Kirk Knuffke: Row for William O (Relative Pitch) {3}: JC:+; fd:8, jdt:+

Richard Bona & Mandekan Cubano: Heritage (Qwest/Membran) {3}: JB:20; afp:+

Bobby Bradford/Hafez Modirzadeh: Live at the Open Gate (NoBusiness) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Ian Brighton: Now and Then (Confront) {3}: jch:4, sc_k:+

Peter Brotzmann & ICI Ensemble: Beautiful Lies (Neos Jazz) {3}: blg:+, psj:6 -- TH:*

Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: Basically Baker Vol. 2: The Big Band Music of David Baker (Patois, 2CD) {3}: JC:+; db:+ -- TH:*

Lou Caputo Not So Big Band: Uh Oh! (JazzCat 47) {3}: JC:+; jmb:7 -- TH:*

Brian Charette: Once & Future (Posi-Tone) {3}: JC:+; jgg:3

Chat Noir: Nine Thoughts for One Word (Rare Noise) {3}: JC:+; av:+ -- TH:*

John Chin: Fifth (Jinsy) {3}: jrm:+ -- TH:**

Corey Christensen: Factory Girl (Origin) {3}: jmr:+ -- TH:**

Jacob Collier: In My Room (Membrain) {3}: jrj:2 -- V:678-10-1

Mary Foster Conklin: Photographs (MockTurtle Music) {3}: jjl:+ -- TH:**

Patrick Cornelius: While We're Still Young (Whirlwind) {3}: JC:+; ph:8 -- TH:*

Roxy Coss: Restless Idealism (Origin) {3}: jrs:+ -- TH:**

Tim Daisy: October Music Vol 2: 7 Compositions for Duet (Relay) {3}: db:+ -- TH:**

Joseph Daley/Warren Smith/Scott Robinson: The Tuba Trio Chronicles (JoDa Locust Street Music) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Daniele D'Agaro-Giovanni Maier-Zlatko Kaucic: Disorder at the Border Plays Ornette (Not Two) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Jack DeJohnette: Return (Newvelle) {3}: JC:+; jka:9, jrs:+

Olegario Diaz: Aleph in Chromatic (SteepleChase) {3}: JG:+ -- TH:**

The Dominican Jazz Project: The Dominican Jazz Project (Summit) {3}: jkf:+, jms:+ -- TH:*

ERGO: As Subtle as Tomorrow (Cunneiform) {3}: JC:+; av:+, psj:10

Peter Evans: Lifeblood (More Is More) {3}: JC:+; psj:11, sc_z:+

Dominick Farinacci: Short Stories (Mack Avenue) {3}: JC:+; db:+, jnb:+

Fire! Orchestra: Ritual (Rune Grammofon) {3}: JC:+; jeh:+, jmsc:7

Fond of Tigers: Uninhabit (Offsesson/Drip Audio) {3}: av:++, ?:+ -- TH:C+

Roberto Fonseca: ABUC (Impulse) {3}: JC:+; db:++

Nick Fraser: Starer (self-released) {3}: CM:46 -- TH:**

Mike Freeman ZonaVibe: Blue Tjade (VOF) {3}: jms:+ -- TH:**

Paolo Fresu & Omar Sosa: Eros (Ota) {3}: db:++ -- TH:*

Paolo Fresu/Richard Gallliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum II (ACT Music) {3}: db:+ -- TH:**

Fred Frith/Darren Johnston: Everybody Is Somebody Is Nobody (Clean Feed) {3}: jch:10 -- TH:**

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace (Libra -17) {3}: jha:12, jmr:+, jnn:+ -- [TH:A-]

Elliot Galvin Trio: Punch (Edition) {3}: jnd:+, ps:5

Kenny Garrett: Do Your Dance! (Mack Avenue) {3}: JC:+; jja:+ -- TH:*

Gaudi: EP (RareNoise -EP) {3}: av:+ -- TH:**

Sara Gazarek/Josh Nelson: Dream in the Blue (Steel Bird) {3}: TG:69; ph:+ -- V:539-15-1, TH:B

Ricardo Grilli: 1954 (Tone Rogue) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Barry Guy & Ken Vandermark: Occasional Poems (Not Two -2CD -15) {3}: jcg:1 -- [TH:***]

Vasil Hadzimanov: Alive (MoonJune) {3}: JC:+; db:+, jng:+

Bret Higgins: Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt (Tzadik) {3}: JC:+; db:++

Dre Hocevar: Collective Effervescence (Clean Feed) {3}: jrn:20 -- TH:**

Derrick Hodge: The Second (Blue Note) {3}: JC:+; db:+, nb:6

Jack o' the Clock: Repetitions of the Old City: I () {3}: av:++, blg:+

Ingrid & Christine Jensen: Infinitude (Whirlwind) {3}: JB:27, JC:+; ph:+

Mimi Jones: Feet in the Mud (Hot Tone Music) {3}: db:+, jrs:+ -- TH:*

Mike Jones Trio: Roaring (Capri) {3}: jjl:+ -- TH:**

Konstrukt & Alexander Hawkins: 10.08.15 (Otoroku) {3}: jcg:3, jmsc:6

Joachim Kuhn New Trio: Beauty & Truth (ACT) {3}: jnd:+ -- TH:**

Sinikka Langeland: The Magical Forest (ECM) {3}: JB:45 -- TH:**

Mike LeDonne & the Groover Quartet: That Feelin' (Savant) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Dave Liebman Group: Expansions Live (Whaling City Sound) {3}: JC:+; db:+, jrs:+

John Lindberg BC3: Born in an Urban Ruin (Clean Feed) {3}: db:+ -- TH:**

Roberto Magris: Need to Bring Out Love (JMood) {3}: jrs:+ -- TH:**

Raphael Malfliet: Noumenon (Ruweh) {3}: JC:+; jka:4

Gregoire Maret: Wanted (Sunnyside) {3}: JC:+; jadh:3 -- TH:B-

Delfeayo Marsalis/Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Make America Great Again! (Troubadour Jass) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Anais Maviel: Houle (Gold Bolus) {3}: JC:+; jrn:5

Rafal Mazur-Keir Neuringer Duo: Diachronic Paths (Relative Pitch) {3}: JC:+; av:+, jrn:7

Myra Melford + Ben Goldberg: Dialogue (BAG) {3}: JC:+; db:+, jmt:+ -- TH:B

Billy Mintz: Ugly Beautiful (Thirteenth Note) {3}: JC:+; jhs:9 -- V:678-10-1

Jemeel Moondoc & Hilliard Greene: Cosmic Nickelodeon (Relative Pitch) {3}: PO:27; av:+, sc:+

Moskus: Ulv Ulv (Hubro) {3}: CM:47 -- TH:**

Naima: Bye (Cuneiform) {3}: av:++ -- TH:*

Pascal Le 7eme Continent Niggenkemper: Talking Trash (Clean Feed) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Ray Obiedo: Latin Jazz Project Vol 1 (Rhythmus) {3}: jrs:+ -- TH:**

Nils Okland Band: Kjolvatn (ECM) {3}: jms:+ -- TH:**

Ed Palermo Big Band: One Child Left Behind (Cuneiform) {3}: JC:+; av:+, db:+

Jason Palmer: Beauty 'N' Numbers: The Sudoku Suite (SteepleChase) {3}: db:+ -- TH:**

Aaron Parks/Thomas Fonnesbaek/Karsten Bagge: Groovements (Stunt) {3}: JG:+ -- TH:**

Luis Perdomo: Spirits and Warriors (Criss Cross) {3}: JG:+ -- TH:**

Ralph Peterson's Aggregate Prime: Dream Deferred (Onyx) {3}: JC:64; ph:22, pm_j:6

ResAUnance: Migration (FMR) {3}: jbk:+ -- TH:**

Ned Rothenberg/Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier: In Cahoots (Clean Feed) {3}: blg:+ -- TH:**

Samo Salamon/Stefano Battaglia: Winds (Sazas/Klopotec) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Daniel Schlaeppi/Marc Copland: More Essentials (Catwalk) {3}: jbk:+, jdm:5

Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink: Welcome Back (Intakt -15) {3}: JC:+; jjsh:4 -- [TH:A]

Ian Shaw: The Theory of Joy (Jazz Village) {3}: db:++, jmas:8

Matthew Shipp & Michael Bisio: Live in Seattle (Arena) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Catherine Sikora: Jersey (Relative Pitch) {3}: JC:+; jha:11, jlre:9

Nana Simopoulos: Skins (Na) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Ron Stabinsky: Free for One (Hot Cup) {3}: db:+, fd:+ -- TH:*

Richard Sussman: The Evolution Suite (Zoho) {3}: JC:+; db:+, jdm:9 -- TH:B

Lew Tabackin Trio: Soundscapes (self-released) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Throttle Elevator Music: IV (Wide Hive) {3}: jja:+ -- TH:**

Tillery [Gretchen Parlato/Becca Stevens/Rebecca Martin]: Tillery (Larrecca Music) {3}: JC:+; db:++

Steve Turre: Colors for the Masters (Smoke Sessions) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Matt Ulery's Loom/Large: Festival (Woolgathering) {3}: db:+, jrm:+, nb:6

Glauco Venier: Miniatures Music for Piano and Percussion (ECM) {3}: YW:74 -- TH:**

Marlene VerPlanck: The Mood I'm In (Audiophile -15)) {3}: db:+++ -- [TH:***]

Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report (ECM) {3}: JC:+ -- TH:**

Miroslav Vitous: Ziljabu Nights (Intuition) {3}: db:+++

The Wee Trio: Wee+3 (Bionic) {3}: db:+, jjh:21, jmr:+

The Westerlies: The Westerlies (Songlines) {3}: Tx:25; jrs:+ -- V:678-10-1

Anthony Wilson: Frogtown (Goat Hill) {3}: db:+, jja:+ -- TH:*

John Zorn: 49 Acts of Unspeakable Depravity in the Abominable Life and Times of Gilles de Rais (Tzadik) {3}: blg:+, db:++

Chris Abrahams: Fluid to the Influence (Room40) {2}: sc_k:+, sfj:+

AfroFree: Carpathia (ForTune) {2}: BIW:19

Alchemy Sound Project: Further Explorations (ARC) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Joey Alexander: Countdown (Motema) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Rene Aquarius: Blight () {2}: av:++

Arashi: Semikujira (Trost) {2}: jap:9, jnn:+

Allison Au Quartet: Forest Grove (self-released) {2}: jrs:+ -- TH:*

Duck Baker: Outside (Emanem) {2}: JC:+; jch:7

Dave Ball/Jon Savage: Photosynthesis () {2}: av:++

Barnes/O'Higgins & the Sax Section: Oh Gee! (Woodville) {2}: JW:18

Bathysphere: Bathysphere (Driff -15) {2}: psj:4 -- [TH:**]

Nicholas Bearde: Invitation (Right Groove) {2}: jrs:+ -- TH:*

Aaron Bennett/Darren Johnston/Lisa Mezzacappa/Tim Rosaly: Shipwreck 4 (NoBusiness) {2}: CM:45 -- TH:*

Josh Berman Trio: A Dance and a Hop (Delmark -15) {2}: JC:+; db:+ -- [TH:A-]

Camille Bertault: En Vie (Sunnyside) {2}: JC:+; te:+

Birmingham Jazz Orchestra: Rough Boundaries (Jacky Naylor) {2}: JB:19

Seamus Blake: Superconductor (5passion) {2}: db:+, ph:+ -- TH:B-

The Michael Blum Quartet: Chasin' Oscar: A Tribute to Oscar Peterson (self-released) {2}: jrs:+ -- TH:*

Boulevards: Groove! (Captured Tracks) {2}: db:++

Anthony Braxton: 10+1tet (Knoxville) 2016 () {2}: av:++

Anthony Braxton: Quintet (Tristano) 2014 (Braxton House) {2}: JC:+; av:+

Anthony Braxton: Trio (Knoxville) 2016 () {2}: av:++

Horace Bray: Dreamstate (self-produced) {2}: JC:+; jkf:9

Renato Braz: Saudade (Living Music) {2}: JB:17 -- TH:C

Peter Brendler: Message in Motion (Posi-Tone) {2}: JC:+; jdt:+

Peter Brotzmann/Heather Leigh: Ears Are Filled With Wonder (Not Two) {2}: blg:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:B

Brownout: Brownout Presents Black Sabbath Vol II () {2}: av:++

Andy Brown Quartet: Direct Call (Delmark) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Will Calhoun: Celebrating Elvin Jones (Motema) {2}: JC:+, JG:+ -- TH:B

Frank Catalano/Jimmy Chamberlin: Bye Bye Blackbird (Ropeadope) {2}: JC:+; jrm:+

Joe Chambers: Landscapes (Savant) {2}: JC:+; db:+

Sebastian Chames: Pick Up the Phone (Youkali) {2}: jma:2

James Chance and the Contortions: The Flesh Is Weak (True Groove) {2}: db:+ -- V:678-10-1

Chris Cheek: Saturday Songs (Sunnyside) {2}: db:+, jjb:+ -- TH:B

Ed Cherry: Soul Tree (Posi-Tone) {2}: JC:+; jtm:15

Rob Clearfield: Islands (Ears & Eyes) {2}: BIW:25 -- TH:*

Billy Cobham & Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Broad Horizon (Creative Multimedia Concepts) {2}: jma:5

Tom Collier: Impulsive Illuminations (Origin) {2}: jdm:4 -- TH:B

Natalie Cressman and Mike Bono: Etchings in Amber (Cressman Music) {2}: jrs:+, jtr:+

Andrew Cyrille & Bill McHenry: Proximity (Sunnyside) {2}: JC:+; jdt:+

Eyolf Dale: Wolf Valley (Edition) {2}: JB:22, JC:+

Laurie Dapice: Parting the Veil (self-released -14) {2}: db:+, jrs:+

DC Improvisers Collective: Ministry of Spontaneous Composition () {2}: av:++

George DeLancey: George DeLancey (self-released) {2}: JC:+; db:+

The Delegation: Evergreen (Canceled World) (ESP-Disk -2CD) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Jeff Denson Quartet: Concentric Circles (Ridgeway) {2}: JC:+; db:+ -- TH:B-

Dena DeRose: United (HighNote) {2}: jcah:+, jnb:+

Julien Desprez/Benjamin Duboc/Julien Loutelier: Tournesol (Dark Tree) {2}: jds:8, rsp:8

Robert Dick: Our Cells Know (Tzadik) {2}: JC:+; jhm:7

The Dining Rooms: Do Hipsters Love Sun (Ra)? (Schema -15) {2}: db:++ -- [TH:**]

Massimo Discepoli/Daniel Barbiero: An Eclipse of Images () {2}: av:++

dMu: Synaptic Self () {2}: av:++

Bill Dobbins: Composers Series Vol 1 (Sons of Sound) {2}: db:++

Bill Dobbins: Composers Series Vol 2 (Sons of Sound) {2}: db:++

Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra: Ubi Zaa (SteepleChase) {2}: JC:+, JG:+ -- TH:B

Kit Downes & Tom Challenger: Vyamanikal (Slip) {2}: JW:11

Mark Dresser/Nicole Mitchell/Myra Melford/Michael Dessen: Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series () {2}: av:++

Scott Dubois: Winter Light (ACT -15) {2}: db:+, jdb:+

Earth Tongues: Ohio (Neither/Nor -2CD) {2}: JC:+; rsp:13 -- TH:B

Echoes of Swing: Dancing (ACT Music) {2}: jrs:+ -- TH:*

Yelena Eckemoff Quartet: Leaving Everything Behind (L&H Production) {2}: JB:29; db:+

Michel Edelin's Flute Fever Orchestra: Kalamania (RogueArt -2CD) {2}: blg:+, sc_z:+

Eighth Blackbird: Hand Eye (Cedille) {2}: av:+ -- V:581-14-1

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: Cheap Rent (OA2 -15) {2}: db:++ -- [TH:*]

Darren English: Imagine Nation (Hot Shoe) {2}: jrm:+ -- TH:*

John Escreet: The Unknown (Sunnyside) {2}: JC:+; v_m:+

Gabriel Espinosa: Songs of Bacharach and Manzanero (Zoho) {2}: JC:+; jkf:+

Robin Eubanks Mass Line Big Band: More Than Meets the Ear (ArtistShare -15) {2}: JC:+; jgg:9 -- [TH:*]

Bill Evans: Rise Above (Vansman) {2}: db:++

Cassio Figueiredo: Presença () {2}: av:++

Lesley Flanigan: Hedera (Physical Editions) {2}: av:+, v_m:+

David Friesen Circle 3 Trio: Triple Exposure (Origin) {2}: db: -- TH:*

David Gilmore: Energies of Change (Evolutionary Music) {2}: db:++

Victor Gould: Clockwork (Fresh Sound New Talent) {2}: db:+, ph:+

Devin Gray: Devin Gray's Fashionable Pop Music () {2}: av:++

Mats Gustafsson: This Is From the Mouth (-EP)) {2}: av:++

Ross Hammond/Vinny Golia: Ross Hammond and Vinny Golia () {2}: av:++

Happy Place: Northfield () {2}: av:++

Pablo Held Trio: Recondita Armonia (Pirouet) {2}: db:++

Mette Henriette: Mette Henriette (ECM -15) {2}: JC:+; jja:+ -- [TH:*]

Cory Henry: The Revival (Ground Up) {2}: JC:+; db:+ -- TH:B-

Conrad Herwig/Igor Butman: Reflections (Criss Cross) {2}: jma:3

Dre Hocevar: Transcendental Within the Sphere of Indivisible Remainder (Clean Feed) {2}: JG:+ -- TH:*

Christopher Hoffman: Silver Cord Quintet () {2}: av:++

Mike Holober: Balancing Act (Palmetto -15) {2}: JC:+; db:+ -- [TH:**]

Matt Hopper: First Love (self-released) {2}: JC:+; ps:+

Horselover Fats: Liberty Ashes () {2}: av:++

Nathan Hubbard/Skeleton Key Orchestra: Furiously Dreaming () {2}: av:++

Jason Kao Hwang: Voice (Innova) {2}: Tx:38 -- TH:*

Clara Iannotta: A Failed Entertainment Works 2009-2014 (Edition Rz) {2}: FF:23; sc_k:+

Icepick [Nate Wooley/Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten/Chris Corsano]: Amaranth (Astral Spirits) {2}: JC:+; sc_z:+

In Slaughter Natives: Ventre () {2}: av:++

Instant Composers Pool: Restless in Pieces (ICP) {2}: JC:91; db:+

International Contemporary Ensemble: On the Nature of Thingness () {2}: TG:64; av:+

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Live in Cuba (Blue Engine -2CD -15) {2}: JW:12 -- [TH:**]

Ochion Jewell Quartet: Volk (Mythology -15) {2}: db:++ -- [TH:A-]

Reid Karris: Oscines Et Ensifera () {2}: av:++

Manu Katche: Unstatic (Anteprima) {2}: jja:+ -- TH:*

Darrell Katz and OddSong: Jailhouse Doc With Holes in Her Socks (JCA) {2}: JC:+; jjw:+ -- TH:B

The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Storming Through the South (Summit) {2}: jjl:+ -- TH:*

Kneebody & Daedelus: Kneedelus -15 (Brainfeeder) {2}: Dr:29; db:+ -- [TH:***]

Kirk Knuffke/Jesse Stacken: Satie (Steeplechase) {2}: JG:+; jdt:+ -- TH:B

Hans Koller: Retrospection (Stoney Lane Vinyl) {2}: JB:12

Julian Lage: Live in Los Angeles (Mack Avenue) {2}: db:++

LAM: LAM (Instant Classic) {2}: FB:+; tr_j:6

Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Buoyancy (Relative Pitch) {2}: jdt:+, sc:+

Bill Laurance: Aftersun (Universal) {2}: jja:+ -- V:1389-5-1

Ben Lee Quintet: In the Tree (Stoney Lane) {2}: JB:16

Jockel Leiss: Fluid Variations () {2}: av:++

Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Man With Guitar: Where's Robert Johnson? (Constant Sorrow -15) {2}: JC:+; jjs:6 -- [TH:A-]

Isabella Lundgren: Somehow Life Got in the Way (Ladybird -15) {2}: db:++

Russell Malone: All About Melody (HighNote) {2}: JC:+; jnb:+

Hector Martignon Banda Grande: The Big Band Theory (Zoho) {2}: db:++

Matt Mayhall: Tropes (Skirl) {2}: jsf:+ -- TH:*

Pete McCann: Range (Whirlwind -15) {2}: db:++ -- [TH:*]

Joe McPhee/Paal Nilssen-Love: Candy (PNL -7CD -15) {2}: PO:17 -- [TH:***]

Ava Mendoza's Unnatural Ways: We Aliens (Tzadik) {2}: JC:+; jrn:8

Metalwwood: Twenty (Cellar Live) {2}: jjh:13, ph:+

Rale Micic/John Abercrombie/Peter Bernstein/Lage Lund: Inspired (ArtistShare) {2}: JC:+; db:+

Bob Mintzer: All LA Band (Fuzzy Music) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble & Ensemble Laborintus: Moments of Fatherhood (RogueArt) {2}: JC:+; blg:+

Nicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed: Artifacts (482 Music -15) {2}: JC:+; db:+ -- [TH:A-]

Mondo Flockard: Spirals (-EP) {2}: av:++

Joe Morris: Shock Axis (Relative Pitch) {2}: sc:+ -- V:617-12-1

Moutin Factory Quintet: Deep (Blujazz) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Amina Claudine Myers: Sama Rou () {2}: ps:4

Naked Truth: Avian Thug (Rare Noise) {2}: av:+ -- TH:*

Qasim Naqvi: Chronology (New Amsterdam) {2}: sfj:+ -- V:678-10-1, TH:B

Luca Nasciuti: Morpheus () {2}: av:++

Roy Nathanson: The Nearness of You (Clean Feed) {2}: JG:+ -- TH:*

Mike Neer: Steelonious (self-released) {2}: ab:+, jcmb:+

Alexander Noice: Music Made With Voices () {2}: av:++

Nolatet: Dogs (Royal Potato Family) {2}: JC:+; db:+

Nuova Camerata: Chant (Improvising Beings) {2}: jnn:+, rsp:12

Bill O'Connell/The Latin Jazz All-Stars: Heart Beat (Savant) {2}: JC:+; db:+

Cristina Pato Quartet: Latina (Sunnyside -15) {2}: db:++

Perhaps Contraption: Mud Belief () {2}: av:++

Enrico Pieranunzi: New Spring: Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz) {2}: db:++

Enrico Pieranunzi: Proximity (CAM Jazz -15) {2}: db:++ -- [TH:**]

Richard Pinhas/B Cleveland/M Manring, Alberti: Mu () {2}: av:++

Richard Pinhas/Tatsuya Yoshida/Merzbow: Process and Reality () {2}: av:++

Ana Popovic: Trilogy (ArtisteXclusive) {2}: db:+, jrs:+

Gerard Presencer & Danish Radio Big Band: Groove Travels (Edition) {2}: JB:48, JC:+

Tom Rainey Trio: Motel Grief (Intakt -15) {2}: db:+, jrn:6 -- [TH:**]

Hal Rammel: The Amplified Palette: A History in Pictures (Penumbra) {2}: sc_k:+, sc_z:+

Iiro Rantala/Lars Danielsson/Peter Erskine: How Long Is Now? (ACT) {2}: db:++

Xavi Reija: Live at RZZ Barcelona () {2}: av:++

Dave Rempis/Joe Morris/Tomeka Reid/Jim Baker: Nettles (Aeroponic) {2}: jdme:7 -- TH:*

Daniel Rosenboom: Book of Storms () {2}: av:++

Carol Saboya: Carolina (AAM) {2}: jms:+ -- TH:*

Nicole Saphos: Tiptoe (self-released) {2}: JC:+; jjw:+

Ken Schaphorst Big Band: How to Say Goodbye (JCA) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Sara Serpa/Andre Matos: All the Dreams (Sunnyside) {2}: db:+, jrb:10, ph:+

Seven Impale: Contrapasso (Karisma) {2}: FB:+; av:+

SFJazz Collective: The Music of Michael Jackson and Original Compositions (SFJazz) {2}: JC:+; jjh:20

Kendra Shank and Geoffrey Keezer: Half Moon: Live in New York (Ride Symbol) {2}: ph:+ -- V:1389-5-1

Linda Sharrock/(In) The Abyssity of the Grounds: GODS (Golden Lab) {2}: qt_j:3

The Linda Sharrock Network: They Begin to Speak ((Improvising Beings -2CD) {2}: blg:+, sc_k:+

Julian Shore: Which Way Now (Tone Rogue) {2}: BIW:22; pm:16 -- TH:B

Shrine: Ordeal 26 04 86 () {2}: av:++

Deborah Shulman: My Heart's in the Wind (Summit) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Naomi Moon Siegel: Shoebox View (self-released) {2}: jtd:+ -- TH:*

Sirius Quartet: Paths Become Lines (Autentico) {2}: av:++

Skadedyr: Culturen (Hubro) {2}: BIW:18

SLM (Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver: Source (Liminal) {2}: psj:5

Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg: Celestial Weather (TUM -15) {2}: JC:+; db:+ -- [TH:***]

Snarky Puppy: Family Dinner Volume Two (Decca) {2}: JC:+; jja:+ -- TH:B-

Mark Solborg & Herb Robertson: Tuesday Prayers (ILK) {2}: jsg:5 -- TH:B

Kandace Springs: Soul Eyes (Blue Note) {2}: JC:+ -- V:1389-5-1, TH:B

Starlite Motel: Awosting Falls (Clean Feed) {2}: JC:+ -- TH:*

Bill Stewart: Space Squid (Pirouet) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Natsuko Sugao Group: La Danza De Una Luz (Underpool) {2}: BIW:15

Sun Ra/Merzbow: Strange City () {2}: JG:+; av:+

Justin Swadling feat Patti Quartet: Place to Be (33 Jazz) {2}: db:++

Switchback: Live in Ukraine (MultiKulti) {2}: jmsc:5

Gavin Templeton: Ballast () {2}: jjc:5

Keith Tippett: The Nine Dances of Patrick O'Gonogon (Discus) {2}: JC:+; blg:+

Scott Tixier: Cosmic Adventure (Sunnyside) {2}: db:++

Tri-Centric Orchestra: Music of Blake, Bynum & Laubrock: Agora/Questions of Transfiguration/Vogelfrei () {2}: av:++

Luong Hue Trinh: Illusions () {2}: av:++

Troum: Acouasme () {2}: av:++

Twin Talk: Twin Talk (Ears & Eyes) {2}: jmt:+ -- TH:*

Lisa Ullen-Nina de Heney Duo With Charlotte Hug: Quarrtsiluni () {2}: jlre:3

Gregorio Uribe: Cumbia Universal (Zoho) {2}: JC:+; jmb:9

Ken Vandermark: Site Specific (Audiographic -15) {2}: psj:3 -- [TH:**]

Vaults of Zin: Kadath () {2}: av:++

Carlos Vega: Bird's Ticket (Origin) {2}: db:+ -- TH:*

Arthur Vint & Associates: Through the Badlands () {2}: BIW:27; jrm:+

Hristo Vitchev: In Search of Wonders (First Orbit) {2}: JC:+; jtr:+

Vortex: Moloch () {2}: av:++

Randy Weston: The African Nubian Suite (African Rhythms -17) {2}: JC:68; jrs:+ -- [TH:A-]

Michael Wollny Trio: Klangspuren (ACT) {2}: JW:20

Phil Woods: Live at the Deer Head Inn (Deer Head) {2}: db:+, jly:11

ZAKS: Live at 5e (ILK) {2}: JC:+; jjb:+

John Zorn: Commedia Dell'arte (Tzadik) {2}: blg:+ -- V:678-10-1

John Zorn: The Painted Bird (Tzadik) {2}: db:++

156: Memento Mori () {1}: av:+

Juhani Aaltonen & Iro Haarla: Kirkastus (TUM -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:***]

Terry Adams: Talk Thelonious (Clang!) {1}: JC:+

Afro-Horn/Francisco Mora Catlett: At the Edge of the Spiral (AACE) {1}: blg:+

Raul Agraz: Between Brothers (OA2) {1}: db:+ -- TH:B

Alchymie & Gregg Skloff: The Kuiper Belt () {1}: av:+

Rahim Alhaj/Amjad Ali Khan: Infinite Hope (UR Music -15) {1}: db:+

Harry Allen: For George, Cole and Duke (Blue Heron -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:***]

Ben Allison: Quiet Revolution (Newvelle) {1}: db:+

Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor: Tales of the Unforeseen (TUM -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:A-]

Robby Ameen: Days in the Night (Two and Four -15) {1}: db:+

Jacob Anderskov: Resonance (Stunt) {1}: jjb:+

Miguel Angelo: A Vida De X (Carimbo Porta-Jazz) {1}: jpb:+

The Apophonics [Butcher/Edwards/Robair]: In Situ () {1}: av:+

Harry Appelman: Freehand (self-released) {1}: jrs;+

Ron Aprea: Plays Tribute to John Lennon & the Beatles (Early Autumn -15) {1}: db:+

Jorge Arana Trio: Mammoth () {1}: ps:+

Martin Archer: Story Tellers () {1}: psj:12

Susie Arioli: Spring (Spectra) {1}: jjl:+

Takeshi Asai: Solo: Live in New York () {1}: jtr:+

Atlantis Jazz Ensemble: Oceanic Suite (Marlow) {1}: JG:+

"A" Trio + Alan Bishop: Burj al Imam (Unrock) {1}: sc_k:+

Eivind Austed: Moving (Ozella) {1}: JC:+

Avataar: Petal (Sundar Sond) {1}: JC:+

Bafus/Brewer: Tangled Tones (@ Loppen, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark) () {1}: av:+

Mike Baggetta: Spectre (Fresh Sound New Talent) {1}: jmt:+

Aram Bajakian: Music Inspired by the Color of Pomegranates (Sanasar -15) {1}: PO:31 -- [TH:**]

Aidan Baker: Dualism () {1}: av:+

Aidan Baker/N/Dirk Serries: Enomeni () {1}: av:+

Daniel Barbiero/Ken Moore: Frequency Drift () {1}: av:+

Eden Bareket: Choice (Fresh Sound New Talent) {1}: jdt:+

Marc Baron: Un Salon Au Fond D'un Lac (Potlatch) {1}: sc_z:+

BBB Featuring Bernie Dresel: Live 'n Bernin' (Monster Music) {1}: jjl:+

Grimm BC: Orbis Obscura () {1}: av:+

Fini Bearman: Burn the Boat (Two Rivers) {1}: JB:50

Francesco Bearzatti Tinissima 4Tet: This Machine Kills Fascists (CAM Jazz -15) {1}: db:+

Ben Bennett: Trap (Astral Spirits) {1}: sc_z:+

Wayne Bergeron: Full Circle (Summit) {1}: jjl:+

Joakim Berghall: Dialogues II (Eclipse Music) {1}: BIW:24

Will Bernard: Out & About (Posi-Tone) {1}: jjh:16

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Angus Oleum (Screwgun) {1}: jmsc:9

Andrew Bernstein: The Great Outdoors () {1}: av:+

Beyond Sensory Experience: The End of It All () {1}: av:+

Birken: Monstera () {1}: av:+

Andrew Bishop and Ellen Rowe: Chisel and Stone (PKO) {1}: jly:10

Black Spring/Miles Cooper Seaton: West of Will & Cvrst Patience/Adige (for Luigi Lineri) () {1}: av:+

Ran Blake: Ghost Tones (A-Side -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:***]

Michel Blanc: Le Miroir des Ondes (Ayler) {1}: sc_z:+

Michael Blanco: Spirit Forward () {1}: jrm:+

Ellen Bodtker & Jan Erik: Vold Sommeren (Der Ute Losen) {1}: JC:+

Stefano Bollani: Napoli Trip (Decca) {1}: JB:43

Matthew Bourne: Moogmemory (Leaf) {1}: jnd:+

Andrea Brachfield: Lotus Blossom (Jazzheads -15) {1}: db:+

Geof Bradfield Quintet: Our Roots (Origin -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Tim Brady: Instruments of Happiness () {1}: av:+

Cristina Braga & Brandenburger Symphoniker: Whisper (Enja) {1}: jrs:+ -- TH:B-

David Braid: Flow (Steinway & Sons) {1}: ph:+

Erica Bramham: Twelve Moons (self-released) {1}: jpb:+

Anthony Braxton Quartet: Au Vivo Jazz Na Fabri Ca (Selo Sesc) {1}: blg:+

Wolfert Brederode: Black Ice (ECM) {1}: JC:+

Lucas Brode & Grant Calvin Weston: Spiritual Branches Sleepless Burial () {1}: av:+

Peter Brotzmann/Full Blast: Risc (Trost) {1}: av:+

Derek Brown: Beatbox Sax (self-released) {1}: JC:+

Miles Brown: Middle Game (Miles Brown Music) {1}: jly:13

Burial Hex: ThroneEnglish: Taylor Ho Bynum, Moers Festival 2007 () {1}: av:+

Kenny Burrell: Unlimited 1 (HighNote) {1}: db:+

Cafezz: Sol Boricua (Talismusic) {1}: jjn:+

Jackie Cage: Siren Songs () {1}: jtr:+

Lou Caimano/Eric Olsen: Dyad Plays Jazz Arias (self-released) {1}: jjl:+ -- TH:B

George Caldwell/Bobby LaVell: Accord (American Showplace Music) {1}: db:+

California Guitar Trio: Komorebi (self-released) {1}: jgt:+

Michel Camilo and Tomatito: Spain Forever (Verve) {1}: jja:+

Pablo Martín Caminero: Salto Al Vacío (Lost Espacio Creativo) {1}: jma:6

Yilian Canizares: Invocacion (Naive) {1}: JB:42

Canto Generàl & Louis Moholo-Moholo: Rebel Flames (Ogun) {1}: JC:+

Gaetano Cappella: Maiella () {1}: av:+

CARL: Moon Pools and Petroleum Play () {1}: av:+

Ryan Carraher: Vocturnal (self-released) {1}: jbk:+

Carrera Quinta: Big Band () {1}: jtr:+

Francois Carrier/Steve Beresford/Michel Lambert/John Edwards: Outgoing (FMR -15) {1}: av:+ -- [TH:A-]

Kent Carter: Oratorios & Songs (Emanem) {1}: jdt:+

Chippendale/Gustafsson/Pupillo: Melt () {1}: rs_a:17

Eugenia Choe: Magic Light (SteepleChase) {1}: jdm:7

Evan Christopher: Bayou Chant (STR Digital) {1}: JC:+

Circuit [Dunmall/Taylor/Gibbs]: Electro Acoustic Ensemble (FMR) {1}: sc_k:+

Nels Cline/Henry Kaiser/Jim Thomas/Allen Whitman/Weasel Walter: Jazz Free (Fractal Music) {1}: blg:+

Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro: Alegria Da Casa (Anzic) {1}: tn:+

Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Perihelion () {1}: av:+

Joseph M Colombo & the Living Earth Show: I Watch the Fire as the Days Echo Away () {1}: av:+

Colossloth: Outstretch Your Hand () {1}: av:+

Common Eider King Eider: Extinction () {1}: av:+

Luis Conde/Fabiana Galante/Frode Gjerstad: Give and Take (FMR) {1}: JC:+

Joanna Connor: Six String Stories (MC) {1}: jrs:+

Chembo Corniel Quintet: Land of the Descendants () {1}: jtr:+

Christine Corvisier: First Takes (Unit) {1}: jha:+

Dan Costa: Suite Tres Rios (self-released) {1}: db:+

Santi Costanzo: Deeprint () {1}: av:+

Philippe Cote: Lungta (Mythology) {1}: ph:+

Sylvie Courvoisier/Nate Wooley/Chris Corsano: Salt Task (Relative Pitch) {1}: blg:+

Francois Couture: Spam Me () {1}: av:+

Stanley Cowell: Reminiscent (Steeplechase -15) {1}: db:+

Tom Csatari: Outro Waltz (Tiny Montgomery -15) {1}: JC:+

Cyanotype: Two Silent Schnauzers () {1}: av:+

Jeremiah Cymerman: Badlands (5049) {1}: db:+

Tomasz Dabrowski: S-O-L-O: 30th Birthday/30 Concerts/30 Cities (Barefoot) {1}: jjb:+

Sienna Dahlen: Ice Age Paradise (self-released) {1}: ph:+

Tim Daisy: Relucent: Music for Marimba, Radios and Turntables (Relay) {1}: av:+ -- TH:B

Dal Niente & Deerhoof: Balter/Saunier () {1}: av:+

Giuliano D'Angiolini: Cantilena (Another Timbre) {1}: sc_k:+

DarkMatterHalo: Cataclysmic Beauty () {1}: av:+

Billie Davies: Hand in Hand in the Hand of the Moon (Cobra Basement) {1}: jbk:+

Caroline Davis: Doors Chicago Storylines (Ears & Eyes -15) {1}: jrs:+ -- [TH:***]

Gareth Davis/Merzbow: Atsusaku () {1}: av:+

Thornetta Davis: Honest Woman (Self-Release) {1}: jja:+

DE3 [Duane Eubanks-Eric McPherson-Dezron Douglas]: Live at Maxwell's (Sunnyside) {1}: JC:+

Michael Dease: Father Figure (Posi-Tone) {1}: JC:+

Lorenzo De Finti: We Live Here (Losen) {1}: JC:+

Jon Deitemyer: Tall Tales (Ears&Eyes) {1}: FB:+

Catina Deluna: Latin B Brazilian Project (self-released) {1}: db:+

Maryanne De Prophetis: Tell a Star (Enna) {1}: jhm:+

Tony DeSare: Christmas Home (AJD Entertainment -15) {1}: db:+

Deus Ex Machina: Devoto () {1}: av:+

Emil De Waal: Old News (DME) {1}: JC:+

Pablo Diaz: Destemporizador (NendoDango) {1}: JC:+

Mike Dillon: Functioning Broke () {1}: ps:+

Francesco Diodati: Yellow Squeeds: Flow, Home (Auand) {1}: JC:+

Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: Belle Epoque (Between the Lines) {1}: JC:+

Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart (Greenleaf Music -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Andrew Downing: Otterville (self-released) {1}: jdm:13 -- TH:B

Andrew Downing/Petr Cancura/Roddy Ellias: Trekan (self-released) {1}: ph:+

Marc Ducret Trio + 3: Metatonal (Ayler -15) {1}: jch:6 -- [TH:**]

Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel: 10 () {1}: av:+

Rebecca DuMaine and the Dave Miller Trio With Friends: Happy Madness (Summit) {1}: jjl:+ -- TH:B-

Iancu Dumitrescu: Live in New York w/Either/Or (Edition Modern) {1}: sc_k:+

Paul Dunmall/Liam Noble/John Edwards/Mark Sanders: Chords of Connections (FMR) {1}: blg:+

Paul Dunmall/Philip Gibbs/Ashley John Young: Now Has No Dimension (FMR) {1}: blg:+

Timothy Dunne: Metaphrase () {1}: av:+

Bokani Dyer: World Music (self-released) {1}: jdb:+

John Eckhardt/Forresta: Bass Space & Time () {1}: av:+

Donald Edwards: Prelude to Real Life (Criss Cross) {1}: db:+

Sinne Eeg/Thomas Fonnesbaek: Eeg Fonnesbaek (Stunt -15) {1}: db:+

Electric Bird Noise: Nighttime Tides () {1}: av:+

Kurt Elling: The Beautiful Day (Okeh) {1}: jdb:+

John Ellis: Evolution: Seeds & Streams (Gondwana) {1}: jpb:+

Tommy Emmanuel: Christmas Memories (CGP Sounds) {1}: db:+

Ensemble Phoenix Basel & Jerome Noetinger: Les Voix De L'Invisible (Bocian) {1}: sc_k:+

Ilhan Ersahin: Istanbul Underground () {1}: jtr:+

Ellery Eskelin/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: Sensations of Tone (Intakt -17) {1}: jrs:+

Aireene Espiritu: Back Where I Belong ((Little Village Foundation) {1}: jjn:+

Oran Etkin: What's New: Reimagining Benny Goodman (Motema -15) {1}: jda:+ -- [TH:***]

Peter Evans & Alfred Vogel: Il Piccolo Incidente (Boomslang) {1}: JC:+

Expansions: The Dave Liebman Group: The Puzzle (Whaling City Sound -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:***]

Extended Pianos [Fox/Griswold/Pateras]: Switch on a Dime (Immediata) {1}: sc_k:+

Georgie Fame: Swan Songs (Three Line Whip) {1}: JC:+

Forrest Fang: The Sleepwalker's Ocean () {1}: av:+

Cason Fentress & the Euphonious Express: Clear Cool () {1}: TG:60

Alan Ferber Nonet: Roots & Transitions (Sunnyside) {1}: db:+ -- TH:B

Alvin Fielder/Damon Smith: Song for Chico () {1}: av:+

Anna Figarova: Blue Whisper (In + Out -15) {1}: db:+ -- TH:B

Cassio Figueiredo: Expurgo () {1}: av:+

Robert Finley: Age Doesn't Mean a Thing (Big Legal Mess) {1}: db:+

Greg Fishman: New Journey (self-released) {1}: db:+

Tucker Flythe Quartet: The New Gilded Age () {1}: av:+

Paul Fonfara & the Ipsifendus Orchestra: Seven Secrets of Snow (Ipsifendus) {1}: db:+

Daniel Foose: Of Water and Ghosts (BJU) {1}: JC:+

Forebrace: Steeped (Relative Pitch) {1}: JC:+

Sullivan Fortner: Aria (Impulse! -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:***]

Michael Foster's the Ghost: There's a First Time for Everything (self-released) {1}: jrn:16

Four Letter Words: Blow (Amalgam Music) {1}: jbk:+

Ryan Fourt: Big Slick (Dazzle) {1}: JC:+

Ken Fowser: Standing Tall (Posi-Tone) {1}: JC:+

Mark Fox Quartet: Three Octaves Above the Sun (Cherry Sound) {1}: jjn:+

Tomas Fraga: Influencias (Acqua) {1}: JC:+

France Jobin: Singulum (Line) {1}: rsp:20

George Freeman & Chico Freeman: All in the Family (Southport) {1}: JC:+

Don Friedman: Remembering Attila Zoller (Edition Longplay) {1}: JC:+

Don Friedman: Strength and Sanity (Newvelle) {1}: JC:74

Champian Fulton: After Dark (CDBaby) {1}: jmb:11

Andy Fusco: Whirlwind (SteepleChase) {1}: JC:+

Letizia Gambi: Blue Monday (ArtistShare) {1}: jrs:+

Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra: Back Home (Summit) {1}: jkf:+ -- TH:B

Charles Gayle/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Live at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz (Jazzwerkstatt -15) {1}: blg:+ -- [TH:***]

Matt Geraghty Project: Trade Winds: Cuba (self-released) {1}: jkf:+ -- )

Ghost Flute & Dice: Melody Is God () {1}: av:+

Behn Gillece: Dare to Be (Posi-Tone) {1}: jcah:+

Josh Green & the Cyborg Orchestra: Telepathy & Bop () {1}: av:+

Gresnsco Open Collective: Derenge/Dawn (Slam/Hunnia) {1}: JC:+

Stephen Grew/Trevor Watts: Con Fluent () {1}: av:+

Steve Grover: Variations (Red Piano) {1}: jsf:+

Grupo Fantasma: Problemas (Blue Corn) {1}: db:+

Sylvain Guerineau/Kent Carter/Itaru Oki/Makoto Sato: D'Une Rive A L'Autre (Improvising Beings) {1}: jnn:+

Morgan Guerin: The Saga () {1}: jrm:+

Mats Gustafsson and Friends: MG 50: Peace & Fire (Trost -4CD) {1}: sc_z:+

Gutbucket: Dance (Gut) {1}: CM:41 -- TH:**

Jeff Guthery: Black Paintings (self-released) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B-

Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band: Tensecrity (Not Two) {1}: blg:+

Iro Haarla: Ante Lucem (ECM) {1}: JC:+

Hackney Colliery Band: Sharpener (self-released) {1}: jnd:+

Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi: I Wonder if You Noticed "I'm Sorry" Is Such a Lovely Sound It Keeps Things From Getting Worse (Black Truffle) {1}: jnn:+

Tigran Hamasyan: Mockroot (Nonesuch) {1}: JC:+

Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live in Bern (Capri -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:***]

Matty Harris: Double Septet () {1}: av:+

Bryn Harrison: Receiving the Approaching Memory (Another Timbre) {1}: sc_k:+

Alfred Harth 23/Wolfgang Seidel: Five Eyes (Moloko) {1}: sc_z:+

Matthew Hartnett: Southern Comfort (D2LAL) {1}: db:+

Haunted Me: The Pale Ones () {1}: av:+

Havre de Grace: The Black Sea Part II () {1}: av:+

Alexander Hawkins: Trio (Alexander Hawkins Music -15) {1}: JC:+

Chris Hazelton's Boogaloo Seven: Soul Jazz Fridays () {1}: ps:+

Heads of State: Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions -15) {1}: JC:96 -- [TH:**]

Dave Helbock: Into the Mystic (ACT) {1}: jnd:+

Erwin Helfer: Last Call (The Sirens) {1}: db:+

Paul Hemmings: Blues and the Abstract Uke (Leading Tone) {1}: db:+

Jake Hertzog: Well Lit Shadow (That's Out) {1}: JC:+

High Definition Quartet: Bukoliki (ForTune -15) {1}: jnn:+

Keiko Higuchi: Between Dream and Haze (Improvising Beings) {1}: rsp:19

HMZ [Hubsch/Martel/Zoubek]: Drought (Tour de Bras) {1}: sc_k:+

Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers: Rehab Reunion (429) {1}: jgt:+

Hot Jazz Jumpers: The Very Next Thing (On the Bol -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:B]

Marika Hughes: New York Nostalgia (self-released) {1}: jrs:+

George Hurd: Navigation Without Numbers () {1}: av:+

Zakir Hussain: Distant Kin (Moment) {1}: db:+

Hyper + Amir ElSaffar: Saadif () {1}: av:+

Ikarus: Chronosome (Ronin Rhythm) {1}: jbk:+

Illegal Crowns: Illegal Crowns (RogueArt) {1}: JC:+

Im Wald: Orion (Wide Ear) {1}: jsg:8

Kamran Ince: Passion and Dreams () {1}: av:+

The International Nothing: The Power of Negative Thinking (Monotype) {1}: sc_z:+

Konstantin Ionenko: Noema (Fancy Music) {1}: jms:+

Robert Irving III Generations: Space in Time (Sonice Portraits Jazz) {1}: db:+

Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra: Garden of Delights (Dot Time) {1}: db:+

Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker/Julian Kirshner: The Noisy Miner (Astral Spirits) {1}: sc_k:+

Braeyden Jae: Fog Mirror () {1}: av:+

Andy Jaffe Nonet + 4: Arc (Playscale) {1}: db:+

Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps: Bonafide (Jesi-Lu) {1}: db:+

Guus Janssen: Meeting Points (Bimhuis) {1}: jeh:+

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic V: Lost Hero - Tears for Esbjorn (ACT) {1}: JC:+

Pauline Jean: Nwayo (self-released) {1}: jjn:+

The Jimmys: Hot Dish (Brown Cow) {1}: db:+

Per Oddvar Johansen: Let's Dance (Edition) {1}: JC:+

Thomas Johansson/Øyvind Storesund/Paal Nilssen-Love: Revolution Before Lunch (Tammtz) {1}: jnn:+

Dean Johnson: Triology (self-released) {1}: JC:+

Jessica Jones: Moxie (New Artists) {1}: JC:+

John Jorgensen: Divertuoso/From the Crow's Nest (Cleopatra) {1}: db:+

Laurence Juber Trio: Holidays & Hollynights (Hologram) {1}: db:+

Kaada/Patton: Bacteria Cult () {1}: av:+

Henry Kaiser/Alexei Pliousnine: Indestructible Fantasy (Fractal) {1}: blg:+

Henry Kaiser/Steve Parker/Chris Cogburn/Damon Smith: Nearly Extinct (Balance Point Acoustics) {1}: jcg:9

Karavika: Of Earth and Sky (self-released) {1}: jdm:14

Reid Karris: Lacrimis de ex Arborum () {1}: av:+

Kaia Kater: Nine Pin (Kingswood) {1}: jrs:+

Seckou Keita: 22 Strings/Cordes (ARC) {1}: db:+

Chris Kelsey & Lewis Porter: Plays Ornette Vol 2: Rejoicing (self-released) {1}: JC:+

Jon-Erik Kelso: Jon-Erik Kelso & the Ear Regulars (GHB) {1}: JC:+

Stan Kenton/The BYU Synthesis Big Band: A Kenton Celebration (Tantara) {1}: jjl:+

Khompa: The Shape of Drums to Come () {1}: av:+

Rebecca Kilgore: Moonshadow Dance (Cherry Pie Music) {1}: jjl:+

Paraskevas Kitsos: Polemos (self-released) {1}: BIW:30

Rune Klakegg & Scheen Jazzorkester: Fjon (Losen) {1}: jjb:+

Katharina Klement/Martin Siewert: Hoverload (Chmafu Nocords) {1}: jeh:+

Knuckleball [Levine/Hannaford/Gray]: Knuckleball () {1}: av:+

Hans Koch/Thomas Peter: Wucherungen (Herbal International) {1}: sc_z:+

Konstrukt feat Graham Massey & David McLean: Live at Islington Mill (Astral Spirits) {1}: qt_j:10

Boris Kozlov: Conversations at the Well (Criss Cross) {1}: jda:+

Sergio Krakowski Trio: Passaros: The Foundation of the Island (Ruweh) {1}: db:+

Briggan Krauss: Art of the Saxopohone, Vol 1: The Tunnel Recordings (self-released) {1}: JC:+

Ernie Krivda: Requiem for a Jazz Lady (Capri -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:***]

Rolf Kuhn: Spotlights (Edel/MPS) {1}: JC_r:+ -- TH:**

Steve Kuhn: At This Time . . . (Sunnyside) {1}: JC:+

Taeko Kunishima: Iridescent Clouds (33 Jazz) {1}: jjn:+

Robert Landfermann: Night Will Fall (Pirouet) {1}: db:+

La Resistencia: Etorno Retorno (Discos Pendiente) {1}: JC:+

Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba (Firehouse 12 -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Joelle Leandre: Can You Hear Me? (Ayler) {1}: jha:+

Le Boeuf Brothers + Jack Quartet: Imaginist (Panoramic/New Focus) {1}: jrm:+ -- TH:B-

Okkyung Lee and Bill Orcutt: Live at Cafe Oto (Otoroku) {1}: jdme:6

Olivier Le Goas: Reciprocity (Neuklang) {1}: db;+

Lois Le Van: So Much More (Hehvetia) {1}: JB:46

Daphna Levy and Lew Tabackin: Late Night Journey (self-released) {1}: jrs:+

James Brandon Lewis: Days of FreeMan (Okeh -15) {1}: blg:+ -- [TH:A-]

George Lewis & Splitter Orchester: Creative Construction Set (Mikroton) {1}: JC:+

Sebastian Lexer/Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch () {1}: av:+

Carol Liebowitz: First Set (Line Art) {1}: jha:+

Jockel Liess: Bordun Chorus () {1}: av:+

Christian Lillinger: Grund (Pirouet) {1}: JC:+

Limited Liability Sounds: Surrounding Countryside () {1}: av:+

Linus Lindblom: Skarkali (HOOB) {1}: jbk:+

Rolf Lislevand: La Mascarade () {1}: TG:45

Little Charlie & Organ Grinder Swing: Skronky Tonk (Eller Soul) {1}: db:+

Fredrik Ljungkvist/Mattias Risberg: And Now the Queen: A Tribute to Carla Bley (Lilao) {1}: jeh:+

Lone Echo [Devin Sarno]: Noize () {1}: av:+

Frantz Loriot's Systematic Distortion Orchestra: The Assembly (Out Now) {1}: jrn:15

Lionel Loueke: Gaia (Blue Note -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Down and Out Down East (Constant Sorrow) {1}: PO:+

Madeleine & Salomon: A Woman's Journey (Tzig'art/Promise Land) {1}: jad:+

Magnetic Ear: Aliens of Extraordinary Ability (self-released) {1}: JC:+

Mike "Max" Maher: Idealist (Ground Up/Verve) {1}: db:+

Svetlana Maras/Bodies Under the Waterfall: Angry Ambient Artists Vol 2 () {1}: av:+

Lasse Marhaug & Ken Vandermark: Close Up (For Abbas Kiarostami) (Audiographic) {1}: jtb:10 -- TH:B

Maroney/Ilgenfritz/Niescier/Drury: Mind Games () {1}: av:+

Gabriela Martina: No White Shoes (self-released) {1}: db:+ -- TH:B

Miya Masaoka: Triangle of Resistance () {1}: av:+

Per Mathisen: Sounds of 3 (Losen) {1}: jgt:+

Etienne Mbappe & the Prophets: How Near How Far (Abstract Logix) {1}: db:+

Christian McBride Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:**]

Beth McDonald: Cold Weather Birding () {1}: av:+

Sylvia McNair: Subject to Change! (Harbinger) {1}: db:+

Brad Mehldau: 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch -15) {1}: JC:+

Meridian Arts Ensemble: Seven Kings () {1}: av:+

Daniel Meron: Sky Begins (Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit) {1}: JB:35 -- TH:B

Alex Merritt: Annatta (F-ire) {1}: jbk:+

Jason Miles: To Grover With Love/Live in Japan (Whaling City Sound) {1}: jjh:26

Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (Pi, 2CD -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Roscoe Mitchell: Sustain and Run (Selo) {1}: jmsc:8

Cameron Mizell: Negative Spaces (Destiny) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

MMM Quartet: Oakland/Lisboa (RogueArt) {1}: JC:+

Mn'Jam Experiment: Live With a Boom (Sena) {1}: JC:+

Moksha: The Beauty of an Arbitrary Moment (Jazzland) {1}: JG:+ -- TH:*

Lars Moller: ReWrite of Spring (Da Capo) {1}: db:+

Marc Mommaas/Nikolaj Hess: Ballads and Standards (Sunnyside) {1}: jbk:+

Ben Monder: Amorphae (ECM -15) {1}: jng:+ -- [TH:B]

Mondo Flockard: Mondo Flockard () {1}: av:+

Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle: Kings & Queens () {1}: ps:+

Fidel Morales: Omío (Omío Music World) {1}: jjn:+

Joyce Moreno-Kenny Werner: Poesia (Pirouet) {1}: jrs:+

Morgen Wurde: Brach Auf () {1}: av:+

Mossenek: Paranoia Plague Shrine 1 () {1}: av:+

Luis Munoz: Voz (Pelin Music) {1}: db:+

Tisziji Munoz: Alpha Nebula Expanded: The Monster Peace (Anami Music -15) {1}: blg:+

Tisziji Munoz: Tathagata Guitar: Whisperings of Peace (Anami Music) {1}: blg:+

Mike Murley Trio: Ship Without a Sail (Cornerstone) {1}: ph:+

Mark Murphy: Live in Athens Greece (Harbinger) {1}: jjl:+

Musica Elettronica Viva: Symphony No 106 (Victo) {1}: blg:+

Simon Nabatov: Monk 'N' More (Leo) {1}: JC:+

Tatsuya Nakatani: Confirmation (Taiga) {1}: jnn:+

Johannes Nastesjo & Vasco Trilla: Gingko (Creative Sources) {1}: jsg:9

Kim Nazarian: Some Morning (Kimj Music) {1}: db:+

Roberto Negro Trio: Luna Di Wuxi (Tricollectif) {1}: jrs:+

Ed Neumeister: Suite Ellington () {1}: jtr:+

New Standard Jazz Orchestra: Waltz About Nothing (OA2) {1}: db:+ -- TH:B-

Nhung Ngyuen/Cinchel: The Movement of an Old Soul () {1}: av:+

Michael Nicolas: Transitions () {1}: av:+

Paal Nilssen-Love: News From the Junkyard (PNL -15) {1}: sc_z:+

Russ Nolan: Sanctuary From the Ordinary: Live at Firehouse 12 (Rhinoceros Music) {1}: db:+

Caecilie Norby and Lars Danielsson: Just the Two of Us (ACT) {1}: db:+

Kristin Nordeval-Ida Heidel-Nusch Werchowska: Parrhésie (Losen) {1}: JC:+

Norris Trio: Tonadoda (Enonane) {1}: JC:+

Luca Nostro Quintet: Are You OK? (Via Veneto Jazz/Jando Music) {1}: db:+

Larry Novak: Invitation (Delmark -15) {1}: db:+ -- TH:***

Eva Novoa: Butterflies and Zebras by Ditmas Quartet (Fresh Sound New Talent) {1}: db:+

Tomonari Nozaki: Concession (-EP) {1}: av:+

Tomonari Nozaki: Credence () {1}: av:+

Ferit Oddman: Dameronia With Strings (Equinox) {1}: db:+

Leslie Odom Jr: Leslie Odom Jr (S-Curve) {1}: db:+

Michala Oestergaard-Nielsen: More Stories From the Village (Boogie Post) {1}: jha:+

Offthesky: Silent Went to the Sea () {1}: av:+

Ryoko Ono & Rogier Smal: Wood Moon (Jvtlandt-Toztizokzoundz) {1}: jnn:+

Eleonore Oppenheim: Home () {1}: av:+

Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule: Colonial Donuts (Palilalia) {1}: jtb:9

Kresten Osgood Trio: Live in Gothenburg () {1}: av:+

Ostergaard Art Quartet: More Stories From the Village (Boggiepost) {1}: jeh:+

Igor Osypov: Dream Delivery (ForTune) {1}: JC:+

Matt Otto: Soliloquy () {1}: ps:+

Ark Ovrutski: Intersection (Origin) {1}: jdb:+

Anne Paceo: Circles (Laborie Jazz) {1}: jad:+

Diana Panton: I Believe in Little Things (eOne) {1}: db:+

Pappenheim: Bekkenjordet () {1}: av:+

Shane Parish/Frank Rosaly: Labrys (Cabin Floor Esoterica) {1}: db:+

Émile Parisien: Sfumato (ACT) {1}: jad:+

Han-earl Park/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders/Caroline Pugh: Sirene 1009 (self-released -17) {1}: av:+

Evan Parker/Pat Thomas/John Russell/John Edwards/Alex Ward/Alison Blunt/Benedict Taylor/David Leahy/Kay Grant: Mopomoso Tour 2013/Making Rooms (Weekertoft -4CD) {1}: blg:+

Evan Parker/Pat Thomas/John Russell/John Edwards/Alex Ward/Alison Blunt/Benedict Taylor/David Leahy/Kay Grant: Mopomoso Tour 2013: Making Rooms (Weekertoft -4CD) {1}: sc_z:+

William Parker Quartet: Ao Vivo Na Fabrica (Selo Sesc) {1}: blg:+

Evan Parker/Seymour Wright: Tie the Stone to the Wheel () {1}: av:+

Ben Paterson: For Once in My Life (Origin -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:*]

The Paul Swest: Wizard Talk () {1}: av:+

Jessica Pavone: Silent Spills (Relative Pitch) {1}: jha:10

Nicholas Payton: Textures (Paytone) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B-

Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior: We Two (Jimmy G's House of Sound) {1}: JC:+

Dida Pelled: A Missing Shade of Blue (Red) {1}: jcmb:+

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp: Callas (Leo -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:A-]

Danilo Perez/John Patitucci/Brian Blade: Children of the Light (Mack Avenue -15) {1}: -- V:1318-7-1, [TH:**]

Planet D Nonet: A Salute to Strayhorn (Detroit Music Factory) {1}: jja:+

The Pololaniks: The Suspicious Slumber Party () {1}: av:+

Julien Pontvianne: Abhra (Auand) {1}: JC:+

Peter Ponzol/Abbey Rader: It's Time () {1}: av:+

Poppy Nogood: Music for Mourning () {1}: av:+

Gregory Porter: Live in Berlin (Eagle Rock) {1}: db:+

Post Haste Reed: Duo Under a Canopy of Angels . . . a River of Stars () {1}: av:+

Jonathan Powell & Nu Sangha: Beacons of Light (Truth Revolution) {1}: db:+

Victor Prieto: The Three Voices (self-released) {1}: db:+

PRISM Quartet: The Curtis Project: Music for Saxophones From the Curtis Institute () {1}: TG:95

Gregory Privat: Family Tree (ACT) {1}: JC:+

Project Grand Slam: The Queen's Carnival (Cakewalk) {1}: JC:+

Jure Pukl Quartet: Live at Thelonious (Discos Pendiente) {1}: JC:+

Tom Rainey Trio: Hotel Grief (Intakt -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:**]

Shez Raja: Gurutopia (Dot Time Records) {1}: jjn:+

Rantama Trio: Catching the Mystery Train (Eclipse Music) {1}: jnd:+

Ratatet: Arctic (Ridgeway) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Tim Ray: Windows (Whaling City Sound) {1}: JC:+

Reconnaissance Fly: Off by One () {1}: av:+

Bob Reddy: Bechet: Our Contemporary (Reddy Music) {1}: db:+

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Portraits and Places (Origin) {1}: jjl:+ -- TH:B-

Dave Rempis/Darren Johnston/Larry Ochs: Neutral Nation (Aerophonic) {1}: jpa:6 -- TH:B

Victor Rendon & Bronx Conexion Latin-Jazz Big Band: True Flight (Tortilla Flat) {1}: JC:+

The Research Institute: Music for Prepared Guitars () {1}: av:+

David Restivo: The Waves (Modica Music) {1}: ph:+

Rhyton: Navigating by Starlight () {1}: av:+

The Rite of Trio: Getting All the Evil of the Piston Collar (Carimba Porta Jazz) {1}: jbk:+

Rivener: Svengali Gaze (EP) () {1}: av:+

Steve Roach: Shadow of Time (Expanded) () {1}: av:+

Bryn Roberts/Lage Lund: Nightsongs (Impulse) {1}: ph:+

Ricky Rodriguez Group: Looking Beyond (Destiny) {1}: jja:+

Wallace Roney: A Place in Time (HighNote) {1}: JC:+

Jorge Rossy: Stay There (Pirouet) {1}: db:+

ROVA Orkestrova: No Favorites! For Lawrence "Butch" Morris (New World) {1}: jrs:+

Jochen Rueckert: Charm Offensive (Pirouet) {1}: ph:12

Charles Ruggiero: As Heard on TV (Rondette) {1}: JC:+

Charles Rumback: In the New Year (Ears & Eyes) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:***]

Teresa Salgueiro: O Horizonte (Lemon) {1}: jng:+

Kenneth Salters Haven: Enter to Exit (Destiny) {1}: db:+

Antonio Sanchez: The Meridian Suite (CAM Jazz -15) {1}: JC:+

Nick Sanders & Logan Strosahl: Janus (Sunnyside) {1}: db:+

Marco Sanguinetti: Como Desaparecer Completamente (self-released) {1}: jgt:+

Sawa: Sawa (Two Rivers) {1}: BIW:29

Daniela Schachter: Vanheusenism: A Tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen (self-released) {1}: jms:+

Wolfgang Schalk: From Here to There (Frame Up Music) {1}: jrs:+

Scheerling/Thaumaturgist: Vertoeven LVI/Mysteries van de Droom Var () {1}: av:+

Mighty Mike Schermer: Blues in Good Hands (Destiny) {1}: db:+

Andy Schumm & Enrico Tomasso: When Louis Met Bix (Lake) {1}: JC:+

Adam Scone: I Scream Scone! (Rondette) {1}: db:+

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Stretch Music (Ropeadope -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:*]

Jimmy Scott: I Go Back Home (Eden River -17) {1}: jdb:+ -- [TH:**]

John Scott (Stereocilia): The Road to the Unconscious Past () {1}: av:+

Scrapbook: Scrapbook (Spark) {1}: jnd:+

Segal: Musique du Nuit (Six Degrees) {1}: db:+

Sevenism: Saline Celestial/Fluid Pulse Echo Rise and/Release Now I Float () {1}: av:+

Paul Shinn Trio: Into That Good Night () {1}: ps;+

Darren Sigesmund New Quintet: Jigtok (self-released) {1}: ph:+

Yotam Silberstein: The Village (Jazz & People)) {1}: jrs;+

Jonathan Silk: Fragment (Stoney Lane) {1}: JB:36

Rotem Sivan Trio: A New Dance (Fresh Sound New Talent -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:*]

Bria Skonberg: Bria (Masterworks/Okeh) {1}: jjl:+

Ingi Bjarni Skulason: Skarkali (self-released) {1}: jbk:+

Sloth Racket: Triptych () {1}: av:+

Nate Smith: Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere (Ropeadope) {1}: db:+

Tommy Smith: Modern Jacobite (Spartacus) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B-

David Smooke: Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death () {1}: av:+

Some Some Unicorn: Unicornucopia () {1}: av:+

Sons of Kemet: Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do (Naim -15) {1}: JC:+ -- [TH:A-]

Sophia: Unclean () {1}: av:+

Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Thomas Pridgen: Sopko/Laswell/Pridgen (self-released) {1}: blg:+

Sound Etiquette: Sound Etiquette () {1}: av:+

Spires That In The Sunset Rise: With Michael Zerang Kata Physin () {1}: av:+

Rossano Sportiello/Nicki Parrott/Ed Metz: Strictly Confidential (Arbors) {1}: jjl:+

Squier Squier: OverSleep () {1}: av:+

Norbert Stein & Pata Messengers: Friends & Dragons (Pata Music) {1}: jrs:+

Amory Stephenson: First Autumn () {1}: av:+

Steps Ahead & WDR Big Band Cologne: Steppin' Out (Jazzline) {1}: JB:38

Keith Stone: The Prodigal Returns (self-released) {1}: db:+

Karolina Strassmayer: Of Mystery and Beauty (Lilypad Music) {1}: jrs:+

Logan Strosahl: Up Go We (Sunnyside) {1}: jbk:+

Rolf Sturm: Young (Water Street Music) {1}: JC:+

Subterraneanact & Machinefabriek: Persistent Objects () {1}: av:+

Joe Sullivan Big Band: Unfamiliar Surroundings (Perry Lake) {1}: ph:+

Yuhan Su: A Room of One's Own (Inner Circle Music) {1}: db:+

Laurin Talese: Gorgeous Chaos (Bassic Black Entertainment) {1}: ct_j:9

Tom Tallitsch: Gratitude (Posi-Tone) {1}: JC:+

Ayumi Tanaka/Johan Lindvall/Christian Wallumrod: 3 Pianos (Nakama) {1}: db:+

Tangents: Stateless (Temporary Residence) {1}: tr_j:9

Jorma Tapio & Kaski: Ghatika (Karkia Mistika) {1}: JC:+

Gregory Tardy: Chasing After the Wind (SteepleChase) {1}: db:+ -- TH:B

John Tchicai and Evan Parker: Clapham Duos (Treader) {1}: blg:+

Ten: Yukon Youth () {1}: av:+

Leon Foster Thomas: Metamorphosis (Ropeadope) {1}: jjn:+

Three Reeds Quintet: Across Two Centuries (To Be Jazz) {1}: db:+

Three's Company: We'll Be Together Again (Chesky) {1}: db:+

Tierra Mestiza [Angelica Sanchez/Omar Tamez]: Floresta (Nonjazz) {1}: JC:+

Keith Tippett: Mujician Solo IV: Live in Piacenza (Dark Companion) {1}: blg:+

Toc [Ternoy/Cruz/Orins] & The Compulsive Brass: Air Bump () {1}: av:+

Amanda Tosoff: Words (Oceans Beyond) {1}: ph:+

Totenbaum Trager: Ouverture Du Cadavre De Sade (Tour De Bras) {1}: jsg:11

Toxydoll: Bullsheep () {1}: av:+

TriAngular Bent: TriAngular Bent () {1}: av:+

Trio Corrente: Vol. 3 (self-released) {1}: JC:+

Allison Adams Tucker: Wanderlust (Origin) {1}: db:+

Tunnels of Ah: Surgical Fires () {1}: av:+

Roger Turner/Satoh Masahiko/Otomo Yoshihide: Live at Hall Egg Farm (Doubtmusic) {1}: sc:+

Twinesuns: The Empire Never Ended () {1}: av:+

Umlaut Big Band: Euro Swing Vol. 2 (Umlaut) {1}: JC:+

The US Army Blues: Live at Blues Alley (self-released) {1}: db:+ -- TH:C

Chucho Valdes: Tribute to Irakere (Live in Marciac) (Jazz Village -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Manuel Valera & Groove Square: Urban Landscape (Destiny -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:**]

Flin Van Hemmen: Drums of Days (Neither/Nor) {1}: jrn:19

Marcos Varela: San Ygnacio (Origin) {1}: JC:+ -- TH:B

Yago Vazquez/Scott Lee/Jeff Hirshfield: Stream (Fresh Sound New Talent) {1}: jbk:+

Gabriel Vicens: Days (Inner Circle Music) {1}: db:+

Luis Vicente/Onno Govaert/Kristjan Martinsson/Marcelo dos Reis: In Layers (FMR) {1}: rsp:11

Jason Vivone & the Billy Bats: The Avenue (self-released) {1}: db:+

Michael Vlatkovich: Mortality () {1}: av:+

Paul Vornhagen: Trust Your Heart (PKO) {1}: jly:14

Joanna Wallfisch: Gardens in My Mind (Sunnyside) {1}: db:+

Weasel Walter Large Ensemble: Igneity: After the Fall of Civilization ((self-released) {1}: jrn:14

Warped Dreamer: Lomahongva (Rat) {1}: jeh:+

Kamasi Washington: The Epic (Brainfeeder -15) {1}: -- V:678-10-1, [TH:**]

Cory Weeds Quintet: It's Easy to Remember (Cellar Live) {1}: jtm:20

Joel Weiskopf: Where Angels Fear to Tread (SteepleChase) {1}: db:+

Walt Weiskopf: The Way You Say It (Posi-Tone) {1}: JC:+

Mike Weis: Sound Practice () {1}: av:+

Jerry Weldon: On the Move (Doodlin') {1}: JC:+

Carol Welsman: Alone Together (Welcar Music) {1}: db:+

Andre White: El Toro (self-released) {1}: ph:+

Lauren White: Out of the Past: Jazz and Noir (Cafe Pacific) {1}: jjl:+

Lori Williams: Behind the Smiles (Pacific Coast Jazz) {1}: JC:+

Spike Wilner: Koan (Posi-Tone) {1}: db:+

Erik Wøllo: Star's End 2015: Silent Currents 4 () {1}: av:+

Michael Wollny & Vincent Peirani: Tandem (ACT) {1}: JB:34

Nate Wooley/Hugo Antunes/Jorge Queijo/Mario Costa/Chris Corsano: Purple Patio (NoBusiness) {1}: sc_z:+ -- TH:B

Nate Wooley: Polychoral (Mnoad) {1}: jsg:10

Nate Wooley Quintet: (Dance to) the Early Music (Clean Feed -15) {1}: db:+ -- [TH:A-]

WorldService Project: For King and Country (Rare Noise) {1}: av:+ -- TH:D+

Nancy Wright: Play Date! (Direct Hit/VizzTone) {1}: db:+

Megumi Yonezawa: A Result of the Colors () {1}: jtr:+

Young Pilgrims: Little Things (Stoney Lane) {1}: JB:49

David Zakarian: 11 () {1}: av:+

Z'ev: Eleven Mirrors to the Light () {1}: av:+

John Zorn: For Six Female Voices Madrigals (Tzadik) {1}: blg:+

John Zorn: The Classic Guide to Strategy Vol 4 (Tzadik) {1}: blg:+

John Zorn: The Mockingbird () {1}: TG:73

John Zorn: The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons (Tzadik) {1}: db:+

Nick Zoulek: Rushing Past Willow () {1}: av:+

Vinnie Zummo: The Coyote (Vaz Music) {1}: jms:+

Notes

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