Music Year 2015

This is my year-end list for records released in 2015, frozen as of Jan. 31, 2016. The actual Music Year 2015 will continue to be updated to Dec. 31, 2016, after which updating becomes impractical.

For records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed. Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a "-NN" (e.g., -14 for 2014) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases, often hard to figure out official dates, but they were unknown (to me, at least) before the current year.

New Records

  1. Lyrics Born: Real People (Mobile Home) [**]
  2. Irène Schweizer/Han Bennink: Welcome Back (Intakt)

  3. Sleaford Mods: Key Markets (Harbinger Sound) [**]
  4. Blackalicious: Imani, Vol. 1 (OGM) [**]
  5. James McMurtry: Complicated Game (Complicated Game) [**]
  6. Henry Threadgill Zooid: In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi, 2CD)
  7. Laurie Anderson: Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch) [**]
  8. Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop Music) [**]
  9. Schlippenbach Trio: Features (Intakt) *
  10. Mike Reed's People Places & Things: A New Kind of Dance (482 Music)
  11. Paris: Pistol Politics (Guerrilla Funk, 2CD) [**]
  12. Joe Fiedler Trio: I'm In (Multiphonics Music)
  13. Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  14. Heems: Eat Pray Thug (Megaforce)
  15. Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: Manhattan (Rough Trade) **
  16. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope) [**]
  17. Charles McPherson: The Journey (Capri)
  18. Ezra Furman: Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union) **
  19. Rich Halley 4: Creating Structure (Pine Eagle)
  20. Rodrigo Amado: This Is Our Language (Not Two)
  21. Mort Weiss: Mort Weiss Is a Jazz Reality Show (SMS Jazz)
  22. Low Cut Connie: Hi Honey (Ardent Music/Contender) **
  23. Amir ElSaffar: Crisis (Pi)
  24. Steve Swell: Steve Swell's Kende Dreams: Hommage à Bartók (Silkheart)
  25. John O'Gallagher Trio: The Honeycomb (Fresh Sound New Talent) *
  26. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas: Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (Blue Note) **
  27. Liberty Ellman: Radiate (Pi)
  28. Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway: Table of Changes (Intakt)
  29. Gabriel Amargant: And Now for Something Completely Different (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
  30. Gwenno: Y Dydd Olaf (Heavenly) **
  31. Craig Finn: Faith in the Future (Partisan) **
  32. Ashley Monroe: The Blade (Warner Music) **
  33. Marty Grosz Meets the Fat Babies: Diga Diga Doo (Delmark)
  34. William Parker/Raining on the Moon: Great Spirit (AUM Fidelity) **
  35. New Order: Music Complete (Mute) **
  36. Nozinja: Nozinja Lodge (Warp) **
  37. Mikko Innanen: Song for a New Decade (TUM, 2CD)
  38. The Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble: Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland (Planet Arts)
  39. Old Time Musketry: Drifter (NCM East)
  40. Carly Rae Jepsen: E-MO-TION (Interscope/Schoolboy Silent) **
  41. Milford Graves & Bill Laswell: Space/Time · Redemption (TUM)
  42. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power (Glitterbeat) **
  43. Dr. Yen Lo: Days With Dr. Yen Lo (Pavlov Institute) **
  44. Food: This Is Not a Miracle (ECM) **
  45. Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl: We Are Not the First (RVNG Intl) **
  46. Ryan Truesdell: Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  47. Nat Birchall: Invocations (Jazzman) **
  48. Scott Hamilton: Scott Hamilton Plays Jule Styne (Blue Duchess)
  49. Chico Freeman/Heiri Känzig: The Arrival (Intakt)
  50. Boz Scaggs: A Fool to Care (429 Records) **
  51. Mdou Moctar: Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai [Original Soundtrack Recording] (Sahel Sounds) **
  52. Gard Nilssen's Acoustic Unity: Firehouse (Clean Feed)
  53. Halsey: Badlands (Astralwerks) **
  54. !Mayday!: Future/Vintage (Strange Music) **
  55. The Mountain Goats: Beat the Champ (Merge) **
  56. Sons of Kemet: Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do (Naim Jazz) **
  57. The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Cash and Carry (Aerophonic)
  58. Barry Altschul & 3Dom Factor: Tales of the Unforeseen (TUM)
  59. Nicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed: Artifacts (482 Music)
  60. Peaceful Solutions: Barter 7 (self-released) **
  61. Bully: Feels Like (Startime International/Columbia) **
  62. Tuxedo (Stones Throw) **
  63. Asleep at the Wheel: Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (Bismeaux) **
  64. 79rs Gang: Fire on the Bayou (Sinking City/Urban Unrest) **
  65. Ray Wylie Hubbard: The Ruffian's Misfortune (Bordello) **
  66. Michael Zerang & the Blue Lights: Songs From the Big Book of Love (Pink Palace) **
  67. BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah: Sour Soul (Lex) **
  68. Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: We Will Gather When We GAther (Constant Sorrow)
  69. Daniel Rosenboom: Astral Transference & Seven Dreams (Orenda, 2CD) **
  70. Harry Allen's All-Star Brazilian Band: Flying Over Rio (Arbors) **
  71. The Kandinsky Effect: Somnambulist (Cuneiform) **
  72. François Carrier/Michel Lambert/Rafal Mazur: Unknowable (Not Two)
  73. Tinariwen: Live in Paris (Anti-) **
  74. The Chills: Silver Bullets (Fire) **
  75. Svenska Kaputt: Suomi (Moserobie)
  76. Matthew Shipp: Matthew Shipp Plays the Music of Allen Lowe: I Alone: The Everlasting Beauty of Monotony (Constant Sorrow)
  77. Ernest Dawkins Live the Spirit Residency Big Band: Memory in the Center: An Afro Opera: Homage to Nelson Mandela (Dawk)
  78. The Ragpicker String Band (Yellow Dog) **
  79. Dmitry Baevsky: Over and Out (Jazz Family)
  80. Michael McNeill Trio: Flight (self-released)
  81. Joe McPhee/Jamie Saft/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Ticonderoga (Clean Feed)
  82. The Mowgli's: Kids in Love (Republic) **
  83. Laura Marling: Short Movie (Ribbon Music) **
  84. Omar Souleyman: Bahdeni Nami (Monkeytown) **
  85. Murs: Have a Nice Day (Strange Music) **
  86. François Carrier/Steve Beresford/John Edwards/Michel Lambert: Outgoing (FMR)
  87. Nate Wooley Quintet: (Dance to) the Early Music (Clean Feed)
  88. Jim Snidero: Main Street (Savant)
  89. Mbongwana Star: From Kinshasa (World Circuit) **
  90. Grimes: Art Angels (4AD) **
  91. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment: Surf (self-released) **
  92. Protoje: Ancient Future (Indiggnation Collective/Overstand) **
  93. Have Moicy 2: The Hoodoo Bash (Red Newt) **
  94. Tomas Fujiwara & the Hook Up: After All Is Said (482 Music) **
  95. Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble: The Otherworld Cycle (Edgetone)
  96. Matthew Shipp Trio: The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  97. James Brandon Lewis: Days of FreeMan (Okeh) **
  98. Veruca Salt: Ghost Notes (El Camino) **
  99. Shamir: Ratchet (XL) **
  100. Alaska Thunderfuck: Anus (Sidecar) **
  101. JD Allen: Graffiti (Savant)
  102. Downtown Boys: Full Communism (Don Giovanni) **
  103. Ulrich Gumpert Quartett: A New One (Intakt)
  104. Noah Preminger: Pivot: Live at the 55 Bar (self-released)
  105. Larry Ochs/Don Robinson Duo: The Throne (Not Two) **
  106. OZO: A Kind of Zo (Shhpuma/Clean Feed)
  107. Beegie Adair/Don Aliquo: Too Marvelous for Words (Adair Music Group)
  108. Songhoy Blues: Music in Exile (Atlantic) **
  109. Amy LaVere and Will Sexton: Hallelujah I'm a Dreamer (Archer) **
  110. Desaparecidos: Payola (Saddle Creek) **
  111. Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Callas (Leo, 2CD)
  112. Giorgio Moroder: Deja-Vu (RCA) **
  113. Martin Speicher/Peter Geisselbrecht/Jörg Fischer: Spicy Unit (Spore Print)
  114. John Moreland: High on Tulsa Heat (Old Omens) **
  115. Leonard Cohen: Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour (Columbia) **
  116. Alan Jackson: Angels and Alcohol (Capitol Nashville) **
  117. Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique: Love Is Free (Konichiwa/Cherrytree/Interscope, EP) **
  118. Battles: La Di Da Di (Warp) **
  119. Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard: Django and Jimmie (Legacy) **
  120. Erik Friedlander: Oscalypso: Tribute to Oscar Pettiford (Skipstone)
  121. Michael Gibbs & the NDR Bigband: Play a Bill Frisell Set List (Cuneiform) **
  122. Steve Hauschildt: Where All Is Fled (Kranky) **
  123. Christoph Irniger Trio: Octopus (Intakt)
  124. Ray Anderson's Organic Quartet: Being the Point (Intuition) **
  125. Andrew Jamieson: Heard the Voice (Edgetone)
  126. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup)
  127. Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey: Butterfly Whispers (Leo)
  128. Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Man With Guitar: Where's Robert Johnson? (Constant Sorrow)
  129. Aesoph Rock & Homeboy Sandman: Lice (Stones Throw, EP) **
  130. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: Ichigo Ichie (Libra)
  131. Max Richter: From Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon) **
  132. Future: DS2 (Epic) **
  133. Skylar Spence: Prom King (Carpark) **
  134. Erykah Badu: But You Caint Use My Phone (Control Freaq) **
  135. Archy Marshall: A New Place 2 Drown (True Panther Sounds) **
  136. Tomeka Reid Quartet (Thirsty Ear) **
  137. John Kruth: The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujevic (Smiling Fez) **
  138. Hieroglyphic Being: The Acid Documents (Soul Jazz) **
  139. Jerry Bergonzi: Rigamaroll (Savant)
  140. Metric: Pagans in Vegas (Metric) **
  141. Lil Dicky: Professional Rapper (self-released, 2CD) **
  142. Ochion Jewell Quartet: Volk (self-released)
  143. Elysia Crampton: American Drift (Blueberry) **
  144. Fabiano Do Nascimento: Dança Dos Tempos (Now-Again) **
  145. Josh Berman Trio: A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
  146. Colin Stetson/Sarah Neufeld: Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation) **
  147. Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Where a Cigarette Is Smoked by Ten Men (Constant Sorrow)
  148. Katie Thiroux: Introducing Katie Thiroux (BassKat)
  149. Oliver Lake/William Parker: To Roy (Intakt)
  150. Plastician: All the Right Moves (self-released) **

Pending:

Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded.

  • Beauty School: Residual Ugly (Humbler)
  • Blue Muse: Blue Muse Live (Dolphinium)
  • Cowboys & Frenchmen: Rodeo (Outside In Music) *
  • Kansas: Miracles Out of Nowhere (Epic/Legacy)
  • Urs Leimgruber/Alex Huber: Lightnings (Wide Ear)

Also Noted:

Records in hand, graded B+ or below, in alphabetical order within grade slots:

  • Juhani Aaltonen & Iro Haarla: Kirkastus (TUM)
  • Tony Adamo: Tony Adamo & the New York Crew (Urban Zone)
  • The Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet: 10 (Zoho)
  • All Included: Satan in Plain Clothes (Clean Feed)
  • Harry Allen: For George, Cole and Duke (Blue Heron) **
  • Harry Allen: Something About Jobim (Stunt) **
  • Gregg Allman: Gregg Allman Live: Back to Macon, GA (Rounder) **
  • Gonçalo Almeida/Martin van Duynhoven/Tobias Klein: Vibrate in Sympathy (Clean Feed)
  • Julian Argüelles: Let It Be Told (Basho) **
  • Julian Argüelles: Tetra (Whirlwind) **
  • Atomic: Lucidity (Jazzland)
  • Ab Baars Trio: Slate Blue (Wig)
  • Babyface: Return of the Tender Lover (Def Jam) **
  • Joey Bada$$: B4.DA.$$ (Cinematic Music Group) **
  • Ballister: Worse for the Wear (Aerophonic)
  • Bobby Bare Jr.: Don't Follow Me (I'm Lost) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Bloodshot) **
  • Stefano Battaglia Trio: In the Morning: Music of Alec Wilder (ECM) **
  • Michael Bates: Northern Spy (Stereoscopic) **
  • Beach House: Thank Your Lucky Stars (Sub Pop) **
  • Louie Belogenis: Blue Buddha (Tzadik) *
  • Tim Berne's Snakeoil: You've Been Watching Me (ECM) **
  • Andrew Bishop: De Profundis (Envoi)
  • Raoul Björkenheim Ecstasy: Out of the Blue (Cuneiform) **
  • Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh (Sacred Bones) **
  • Bomba Estéreo: Amanecer (Sony Music Latin) **
  • The Bottle Rockets: South Broadway Athletic Club (Bloodshot) **
  • Boytoy: Grackle (Papercup Music) **
  • Action Bronson: Mr. Wonderful (Atlantic/Vice) **
  • Peter Brötzmann/Steve Swell/Paal Nilssen-Love: Krakow Nights (Not Two)
  • The Dan Brubeck Quartet: Celebrating the Music and Lyrics of Dave & Iola Brubeck (Blue Forest, 2CD)
  • Sarah Buechi: Shadow Garden (Intakt)
  • The Katie Bull Group Project: All Hot Bodies Radiate (Ashokan Indie)
  • João Camões/Jean-Marc Foussat/Claude Parle: Bien Mental (Fou)
  • Cannibal Ox: Blade of the Ronin (iHipHop) **
  • François Carrier/Michel Lambert: Io (FMR)
  • Carter Tutti Void: f(x) (Industrial) **
  • Joan Chamorro & Andrea Motis: Feeling Good (Whaling City Sound)
  • Childbirth: Women's Rights (Suicide Squeeze) **
  • Ciara: Jackie (Epic) **
  • Anat Cohen: Luminosa (Anzic)
  • Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance: Synovial Joints (Pi)
  • The Coneheads: L.P. 1 (Erste Theke Tonträger, EP) **
  • Damily: Very Aomby (Helico) **
  • Caroline Davis Quartet: Doors: Chicago Storylines (Ears & Eyes)
  • Deerhunter: Fading Frontier (4AD) **
  • Michael Dees: The Dream I Dreamed (Jazzed Media)
  • Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon (Interscope) **
  • Benoit Delbecq/Miles Perkin/Emile Biayenda: Ink (Clean Feed)
  • Giovanni Di Domenico/Peter Jacquemyn/Chris Corsano: A Little Off the Top (NoBusiness) *
  • Jorrit Dijkstra: Neither Odd nor Even (Driff)
  • John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Live at La Resistenza (El Negocito)
  • Disappears: Irreal (Kranky) **
  • Akua Dixon: Akua Dixon (Akua's Music)
  • Doomtree: All Hands (Doomtree) **
  • DRKWAV: The Purge (Royal Potato Family) **
  • Elina Duni Quartet: Dallëndyshe (ECM) **
  • Harris Eisenstadt: Golden State II (Songlines)
  • Paul Elwood: Nice Folks (Innova)
  • Expansions: The Dave Liebman Group: The Puzzle (Whaling City Sound)
  • The Fall: Sub-Lingual Tablet (Cherry Red) **
  • John Fedchock Quartet: Live: Fluidity (Summit)
  • Lorenzo Feliciati: Koi (Rare Noise) *
  • Garrison Fewell: Invisible Resonance Trio (Creative Nation Music) **
  • Floating Points: Elaenia (Luaka Bop) **
  • The Foxymorons: Fake Yoga (Foxyphoton) **
  • Free Nelson Mandoomjazz: Awakening of a Capital (RareNoise) *
  • David Friesen & Glen Moore: Bactrian (Origin)
  • Oleg Frish: Duets With My American Idols (Time Out Media)
  • Satoko Fujii Tobira: Yamiyo Ni Karasu (Libra)
  • Chantale Gagné: The Left Side of the Moon (self-relased)
  • Laszlo Gardony: Life in Real Time (Sunnyside)
  • Ghost Train Orchestra: Hot Town (Accurate)
  • GLOSS: Demo (self-released, EP) **
  • Ben Goldberg: Orphic Machine (BAG) **
  • Jerry Granelli Trio + 3: What I Hear Now (Addo)
  • Devin Gray: RelativE ResonancE (Skirl)
  • Rich Halley 4: Eleven (Pine Eagle)
  • Mary Halvorson: Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  • Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live in Bern (Capri)
  • Helena Hauff: Discreet Desires (Ninja Tune/Werkdiscs) **
  • Stephen Haynes: Pomegranate (New Atlantis) **
  • Angel Haze: Back to the Woods (self-released) **
  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott: Wisdom, Laughter and Lines (Virgin EMI) **
  • Mark Helias Open Loose: The Signal Maker (Intakt) *
  • Heroes Are Gang Leaders: The Avant Age Garde I AMs of the Gal Luxury (Flat Langton's Arkeyes)
  • Wayne Horvitz: Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines) **
  • Hu Vibrational: Presents the Epic Botanical Beat Suite (MOD Technologies)
  • Paul Hubweber/Frank Paul Schubert/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Clayton Thomas/Willi Kellers: Intricacies (NoBusiness, 2CD)
  • Lord Huron: Strange Trails (Iamsound) **
  • Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet: 2 (Trouble in Mind) **
  • Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff (ECM) **
  • Guus Janssen: Meeting Points (Bimhuis)
  • Jlin: Dark Energy (Planet Mu) **
  • JME: Integrity (Boy Better Know) **
  • Max Johnson Trio: Something Familiar (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
  • Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell: The Celestial Squid (Cuneiform) **
  • Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Désarroi (Staubgold) **
  • Kaze: Uminari (Circum-Libra)
  • Stefan Keune/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Fractions (NoBusiness) *
  • Becky Kilgore/Nicki Parrott: Two Songbirds of a Feather (Arbors) **
  • Kneebody + Daedelus: Keedelus (Brainfeeder) **
  • Kirk Knuffke: Arms & Hands (Royal Potato Family) **
  • Ted Kooshian: Clowns Will Be Arriving (Summit)
  • The Susan Krebs Chamber Band: Simple Gifts (GreenGig Music)
  • Ernie Krivda: Requiem for a Jazz Lady (Capri)
  • Martin Küchen/Johan Berthling/Steve Noble: Night in Europe (NoBusiness)
  • Martin Küchen/Jon Rune Strøm/Tollef Østvang: Melted Snow (NoBusiness) *
  • Brian Landrus Trio: The Deep Below (BlueLand/Palmetto)
  • Nancy Lane: Let Me Love You (self-released)
  • Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House: Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt)
  • Lifted: 1 (PAN) **
  • Lnrdcroy: Much Less Normal (Firecracker) **
  • Joe Locke: Love Is a Pendulum (Motéma Music)
  • LoneLady: Hinterland (Warp) **
  • Allen Lowe/Matthew Shipp/Kevin Ray/Jake Millett: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Ballad for Albert (Constant Sorrow)
  • Old Man Luedecke: Domestic Eccentric (True North) **
  • Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord: Jeremiah (Hot Cup)
  • Madonna: Rebel Heart (Interscope) **
  • Melanie Martinez: Cry Baby (Atlantic) **
  • Nick Mazzarella Trio: Ultraviolet (International Anthem)
  • Makaya McCraven: In the Moment (International Anthem) [**]
  • Myra Melford: Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  • Merzbow/Balasz Pandi/Mats Gustafsson/Thurston Moore: Cuts of Guilt/Cuts Deeper (Rare Noise, 2CD) *
  • Marco Mezquida Mateos: Live in Terrassa (UnderPool)
  • Miguel: Wildheart (RCA) **
  • Møster!: When You Cut Into the Present (Hubro) **
  • Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Hannover (Jazzwerkstatt) **
  • Kacey Musgraves: Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville) **
  • Simon Nabatov/Mark Dresser: Projections (Clean Feed)
  • Hailey Niswanger: PDX Soul (Calmit Productions)
  • Niyaz: Fourth Light (Six Degrees) **
  • Noonday Underground: Body Parts for Modern Art (Stubbie) **
  • Larry Novak: Invitation (Delmark)
  • Curtis Nowosad: Dialectics (Cellar Live)
  • Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Cuba: The Conversation Continues (Motema Music, 2CD) **
  • Michael Oien: And Now (Fresh Sound New Talent) *
  • Open Field + Burton Greene: Flower Stalk (Cipsela)
  • Lindi Ortega: Faded Gloryville (Last Gang) **
  • Kresten Osgood, Masabumi Kikuchi, Ben Street & Thomas Morgan: Kikuchi/Street/Morgan/Osgood (ILK Music) **
  • The Paranoid Style: Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall (Worldwide Battle, EP) **
  • Evan Parker/Peter Jacquemyn: Marsyas Suite (El Negocito) **
  • Mario Pavone: Blue Dialect (Clean Feed)
  • Gary Peacock Trio: Now This (ECM) **
  • Ivo Perelman/Whit Dickey: Tenorhood (Leo)
  • Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Complementary Colors (Leo)
  • Rod Picott: Fortune (Welding Rod) **
  • Chris Pitsiokos Trio: Gordian Twine (New Atlantis) **
  • A Place to Bury Strangers: Transfixiation (Dead Oceans) **
  • Pusha T: King Push Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude (Def Jam) **
  • The Resonance Ensemble: Double Arc (Not Two) **
  • Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen: Hold My Beer, Vol. 1 (Lil' Buddy Toons) **
  • Charles Rumback: In the New Year (Ears & Eyes)
  • Robert Sabin: Humanity Part II (Ranula Music)
  • John Scofield: Past Present (Impulse!) **
  • Jill Scott: Woman (Atlantic) **
  • Richard Sears Trio: Skyline (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Aram Shelton/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Frank Rosaly: Resounder (Singlespeed Music)
  • Rae Sremmurd: Sremm Life (Eardrum/Interscope) **
  • Denia Ridley & the Marc Devine Trio: Afterglow (ITI Music)
  • Claire Ritter: Soho Solo (Zoning)
  • RJD2/STS: STS X RJD2 (RJ's Electrical Connections) **
  • Roots Magic: Hoodoo Blues & Roots Magic (Clean Feed)
  • Nisse Sandström Quintet: Live at Crescendo (Moserobie)
  • Elliott Sharp: Octal: Book Three (Clean Feed)
  • Alex Sipiagin: Balance 38-58 (Criss Cross) **
  • Skrillex/Diplo: Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü (Mad Decent/OWSLA) **
  • Skydive Trio: Sun Moee (Hubro) **
  • Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg: Celestial Weather (TUM)
  • Snarky Puppy/Metropole Orkest: Sylva (Impulse!) **
  • The Sonics: This Is the Sonics (Revox) **
  • Spin Marvel: Infolding (RareNoise) *
  • Mavis Staples: Your Good Fortune (Anti, EP) **
  • Vince Staples: Summertime '06 (Def Jam, 2CD) **
  • Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty) **
  • John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Live Beauty (Origin)
  • Dave Stryker: Messin' With Mister T (Strikezone)
  • Jazmine Sullivan: Reality Show (RCA) **
  • Sun Kil Moon: Universal Themes (Caldo Verde) **
  • Survival Unit III: Straylight (Pink Palace) **
  • Steve Swell: Kanreki: Reflection & Renewal (Not Two, 2CD)
  • Steve Swell: The Loneliness of the Long Distasnce Improviser (Swell)
  • Tanya Tagaq: Animism (Six Shooter) **
  • Aki Takase/Ayumi Paul: Hotel Zauberberg (Intakt)
  • Tal National: Zoy Zoy (Fat Cat) **
  • Terakaft: Alone (Ténéré) (Out Here) **
  • The Thing: Shake (Thing) **
  • Pat Thomas: Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Strut) **
  • Richard Thompson: Still (Fantasy) **
  • Tiny People Having a Meeting (Fast Speaking Music)
  • Samba Touré: Gandadiko (Glitterbeat) **
  • Meghan Trainor: Title (Epic) **
  • Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research: Hat and Shoes (Between the Lines)
  • Universal Indians w/Joe McPhee: Skullduggery (Clean Feed)
  • The Warren Vaché Quintet Remembers Benny Carter (Arbors) **
  • Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love: The Lions Have Eaten One of the Guards (Audiographic) **
  • Javier Vercher: Wish You Were Here (Musikoz)
  • Eli Wallace/Jon Arkin/Karl Evangelista: Cabbages, Captain, & King (Edgetone)
  • Johannes Wallmann: The Town Musicians (Fresh Sounds New Talent) *
  • Leo Welch: I Don't Prefer No Blues (Big Legal Mess) **
  • Wilco: Star Wars (dBpm) **
  • Bradley Williams: Investigation (21st Century Entertainment, 2CD)
  • Mark Winkler: Jazz and Other Four Letter Words (Cafe Pacific)
  • Wolff & Clark: Expedition 2 (Random Act) *
  • Wreckless Eric: America (Fire) **
  • X__X: Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto (Smog Veil, EP) **
  • Jamie XX: In Colour (XL/Young Turks) **
  • John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument: Flip-Flop (See Tao)
  • Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There (Matador) **
  • Young Guv: Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland) **
  • Michael Zerang & the Blue Lights: Hash Eaters and Peacekeepers (Pink Palace, EP) **

  • John Adams/San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas: Absolute Jest/Grand Pianola Music (SFS) **
  • Aguankö: Invisible (Aguankö Music)
  • Albare: Only Human (Alfi)
  • Alessio Alberghini/Garrison Fewell: Inverso (Floating Forest)
  • Jovan Alexandre: Collective Consciousness (Xippi)
  • Aimée Allen: Matter of Time (Azuline)
  • Stephen Anderson/360° Jazz Initiative: Distracted Society (Summit)
  • Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments, Pt. 2 (Warp, EP) **
  • Gene Argel: Luminescent (Origin)
  • Takeshi Asai: French Trio Vol. 2 (De Trois Cités)
  • ASAP Rocky: At.Long.Last.ASAP (Polo Grounds/RCA) **
  • The Bad Plus/Joshua Redman: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (Nonesuch) **
  • Priscilla Badhwar: Mademoiselle (self-released, EP)
  • Aram Bajakian: Music Inspired by the Color of Pomegranates (Sanasar) **
  • Juan Pablo Balcazar: Reversible (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
  • Dan Ballou: Solo Trumpet (Clean Feed)
  • Bathysphere (Driff)
  • Karl Berger/Kirk Knuffke: Moon (NoBusiness, 2CD)
  • David Berkman: Old Friends and New Friends (Palmetto)
  • Bilal: In Another Life (E1) **
  • Bizingas: Eggs Up High (NCM East)
  • Terence Blanchard: Breathless (Blue Note) **
  • Samuel Blaser: Spring Rain (Whirlwind) **
  • Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers: Loved Wild Lost (Little Sur) **
  • Blur: The Magic Whip (Parlophone) **
  • Geof Bradfield Quintet: Our Roots (Origin)
  • Bobby Bradford-Frode Gjerstad Quartet: The Delaware River (NoBusiness) *
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dee Dee's Feathers (Okeh) **
  • Jakob Bro: Gefion (ECM) **
  • Peter Brötzmann/Peeter Uuskyla: Red Cloud on Silver (Omlott) **
  • Maureen Budway: Sweet Candor (MCG Jazz)
  • Art "Turk" Burton and Congo Square: Spirits: Then & Now (ATB)
  • Will Butler: Policy (Merge) **
  • Joey Calderazzo: Going Home (Sunnyside)
  • Cam: Untamed (Arista Nashville) **
  • João Camões/Rodrigo Pinheiro/Miguel Mira: Earnear (Tour de Bras)
  • Cécile & Jean-Luc Cappozzo: Soul Eyes (Fou)
  • Kenny Carr: Idle Talk (self-released)
  • Hugo Carvalhais: Grand Valis (Clean Feed)
  • Ernesto Cervini: Turboprop (Anzic)
  • The Chemical Brothers: Born in the Echoes (Virgin EMI) **
  • Chicago Reed Quartet: Western Automatic (Aerophonic)
  • Christine and the Queens: Saint Claude (Neon Gold, EP) **
  • Eric Church: Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville) **
  • Chvrches: Every Open Eye (Glassnote) **
  • Scott Clark 4tet: Bury My Heart (Clean Feed)
  • Clem Snide: Girls Come First (Zaphwee) **
  • George Colligan & Theoretical Planets: Risky Notion (Origin)
  • Romain Collin: Press Enter (ACT)
  • Agedoke Steve Colson: Tones for Harriet Tubman/Sojourner Truth/Frederick Douglass (Silver Sphinx, 2CD)
  • Dani Comas: Epokhé (UnderPool)
  • Container: LP (Spectrum Spools) **
  • The Convergence Quartet: Owl Jacket (NoBusiness) *
  • Stephan Crump/Mary Halvorson: Secret Keeper: Emerge (Intakt) *
  • Adrian Cunningham: Ain't That Right! The Music of Neal Hefti (Arbors) **
  • Linda Dachtyl: A Late One (Chicken Coup/Summit)
  • Isaac Darche: Team & Variations (Challenge)
  • Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath (Clean Feed) **
  • De Beren Gieren: One Mirrors Many (Clean Feed)
  • Bram De Looze: Septych (Clean Feed)
  • Deux Maisons: For Sale (Clean Feed)
  • Andrew Diehl: Space Time Continuum (Mack Avenue) **
  • Jorrit Dijkstra/Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Curt Newton: Matchbox (Driff)
  • Dilly Dally: Sore (Partisan) **
  • Andrew Diruzza Quintet: Shapes and Analogies (self-released)
  • Dahi Divine: The Element (Right Direction)
  • DJ Paypal: Sold Out (Brainfeeder) **
  • Marcelo Dos Reis/Luis Vicente/Théo Ceccaldi/Valentin Ceccaldi: Chamber 4 (FMR)
  • Dave Douglas: High Risk (Greenleaf Music)
  • Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart (Greenleaf Music)
  • Open Mike Eagle: A Special Episode Of (Mello Music Group, EP) **
  • Steve Earle & the Dukes: Terraplane (New West) **
  • Mathias Eick: Midwest (ECM) **
  • Joe Ely: Panhandle Rambler (Rack 'Em) **
  • Ellery Eskelin: Solo Live at Snugs (Hatology) **
  • Eskmo: SOL (Apollo) **
  • Duane Eubanks Quintet: Things of That Particular Nature (Sunnyside) **
  • The Eye: The Future Will Be Repeated (Ba Da Bing) **
  • Carlos Falanga: Gran Coral (UnderPool)
  • John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is (MAMA)
  • Hugo Fernandez: Cosmogram (Origin)
  • Field Music: Music for Drifters (Memphis Industries) **
  • The Fireworks: Switch Me On (Shelflife) **
  • Flako: Natureboy (Five Easy Pieces) **
  • Brandon Flowers: The Desired Effect (Virgin EMI) **
  • Föllakzoid: III (Sacred Bones) **
  • Robert Forster: Songs to Play (Tapete) **
  • Daniel Fortin: Brinks (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Nils Frahm: Solo (Erased Tapes) **
  • Nick Fraser: Too Many Continents (Clean Feed)
  • Kinky Friedman: The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (Avenue A) **
  • Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde (Yestereve)
  • Maxfield Gast: Ogo Pogo (Militia Hill)
  • Georgia (Domino) **
  • Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge: Twelve Reasons to Die II (Linear Labs) **
  • Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live in Studio (Whaling City Sound)
  • Clark Gibson + Orchestra: Bird With Strings: The Lost Arrangements (BluJazz)
  • Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch) **
  • Girl Band: Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade) **
  • Girlpool: Before the World Was Big (Wichita) **
  • Robert Glasper: Covered: The Robert Glasper Trio Recorded Live at Capitol Studios (Blue Note) **
  • Otzir Godot: In- (Epatto)
  • Patty Griffin: Servant of Love (PGM) **
  • Giovanni Guidi Trio: This Is the Day (ECM) **
  • Hamilton [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Atlantic, 2CD) **
  • Ross Hammond: Flight (Prescott) *
  • Brian Harnetty: Rawhead & Bloodybones (Dust-to-Digital) **
  • Harth/Fischer/Daemgen: Confucius Tarif Reduit (Spore Point)
  • Miho Hazama: Time River (Sunnyside)
  • Albert "Tootie" Heath/Ethan Iverson/Ben Street: Philadelphia Beat (Sunnyside) **
  • Amy Helm: Didn't It Rain (E1) **
  • Eddie Henderson: Collective Portrait (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Lauren Henderson: A La Madrugada (self-released)
  • Carlos Henriquez: The Bronx Pyramid (Blue Engine) **
  • Holly Herndon: Platform (4AD) **
  • Joe Hertenstein/Pascal Niggenkemper/Thomas Heberer: HNH2 (Clean Feed)
  • Bret Higgins: Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt (Tzadik) *
  • Dre Hocevar Trio: Coding of Evidentiality (Clean Feed)
  • The H2 Big Band: It Could Happen (Origin)
  • Lafayette Harris, Jr. Trio: Bend to the Light (Airmen)
  • Mike Holober: Balancing Act (Palmetto)
  • Holychild: The Shape of Brat Pop to Come (Glassnote) **
  • Charlie Hunter Trio: Let the Bells Ring On (CHT Publishing) **
  • Hypercolor (Tzadik) *
  • I Love Makonnen: Drink More Water 5 (OVO Sound) **
  • I Never Meta Guitar Three (Clean Feed)
  • Innerroute: Fourmation (self-released)
  • The Internet: Ego Death (Odd Future/Columbia) **
  • Jon Irabagon: Behind the Sky (Irabbagast)
  • Keith Jarrett: Creation (ECM) **
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Live in Cuba (Blue Engine, 2CD) **
  • Tobias Jesso, Jr.: Goon (True Panther Sounds) **
  • Per Texas Johansson: De Långa Rulltrapporna I Flemingsberg (Moserobie)
  • Steve Johns: Family (Strikezone)
  • Darius Jones Quartet: Le Bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) (AUM Fidelity) **
  • Joyfultalk: Muuixx (Drip Audio)
  • Tyler Kaneshiro & the Highlands: Amber of the Moment (self-released)
  • Manu Katché: Live in Concert (ACT)
  • Justin Kauflin: Dedication (Qwest/Jazz Village)
  • Keith Kelly Ask Not: A Grand Apparatus, Discarded (Edgetone)
  • Bill Kirchner: An Evening of Indigos (Jazzheads, 2CD)
  • Kode9: Nothing (Hyperdub) **
  • Deborah Latz: Sur L'Instant (June Moon)
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba (Firehouse 12)
  • Left Exit Mr K: Featuring Michael Duch & Klaus Holm (Clean Feed)
  • Martin Leiton: Poetry of Sound (UnderPool)
  • Gaetano Letizia/Mike Clark/Wilbur Krebs: Froggy & the Toads (self-released)
  • Oded Lev-Ari: Threading (Anzic)
  • Daniel Levin/Mat Maneri: The Transcendent Function (Clean Feed)
  • The Liberation Music Collective: Siglo XXI (self-released)
  • Lightning Bolt: Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey) **
  • John Lindberg/Anil Eraslan: Juggling Kukla (NoBusiness) *
  • Lions: Lions EP (self-released, EP) **
  • Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance (Blue Note) **
  • Frantz Loriot/Manuel Perovic Notebook Large Ensemble: Urban Furrow (Clean Feed)
  • Los Lobos: Gates of Gold (429/Savoy Jazz) **
  • Russ Lossing: Eclipse (Aqua Piazza)
  • Lionel Loueke: Gaia (Blue Note) **
  • Roberto Magris: Enigmatix (JMood)
  • Jenna Mammina & Rolf Sturm: Spark (Water Street Music)
  • The Mavericks: Mono (Valory) **
  • Roy McGrath Quartet: Martha (JL Music)
  • J.D. McPherson: Let the Good Times Roll (New Rounder) **
  • Tobias Meinhart: Natural Perception (Enja/Yellowbird)
  • Bob Merrill: Cheerin' Up the Universe (Accurate)
  • Metallic Taste of Blood: Doctoring the Dead (Rare Noise) *
  • Mika: No Place in Heaven (Casablanca) **
  • Rhett Miller: The Traveler (ATO) **
  • Milo: So the Flies Don't Come (Ruby Yacht) **
  • Billy Mintz: The 2 Bass Band . . . Live (Thirteenth Note)
  • Matt Mitchell: Vista Accumulation (Pi, 2CD)
  • Danny Mixon: Pass It On (self-released)
  • Modest Mouse: Strangers to Ourselves (Columbia) **
  • Allison Moorer: Down to Believing (E1) **
  • Gurf Morlix: Eatin' at Me (Rootball) **
  • Gunnar Mossblad & Cross Currents: R.S.V.P. (Summit)
  • Tisziji Muñoz & Marilyn Crispell: The Paradox of Independence (MRI) **
  • Róisin Murphy: Hairless Toys (PIAS) **
  • New York Gypsy All Stars: Dromomania (self-released) **
  • Pascal Niggenkemper: Look With Thine Ears: Solo (Clean Feed)
  • Noertker's Moxie: Simultaneous Windows (Edgetone)
  • The Nu Band: The Cosmological Constant (Not Two) **
  • Caili O'Doherty: Padme (Odo)
  • Olavi Trio: Oh, La Vie! (TUM)
  • Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete (Warp) **
  • César Orozco & Kamarata Jazz: No Limits for Tumbao (Alfi)
  • Evan Parker/Joe Morris/Nate Wooley: Ninth Square (Clean Feed)
  • Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe: I Declare Nothing ('a' Records) **
  • Parquet Courts: Monastic Living (Rough Trade, EP) **
  • Charlie Parr: Stumpjumper (Red House) **
  • Lisa Parrott: Round Tripper (Serious Niceness)
  • Nicki Parrott: Sentimental Journey (Venus) **
  • Renaud Penant Trio: Want to Be Happy (ITI Music)
  • Luis Perdomo & Controlling Ear Unit: Twenty-Two (Hot Tone Music)
  • Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Tanya Kalmanovitch: Villa Lobos Suite (Leo)
  • Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Joe Morris: Counterpoint (Leo)
  • Oscar Perez: Prepare a Place for Me (Myna)
  • Kate Pierson: Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow Music) **
  • Lucas Pino: No Net Nonet (Origin)
  • Potsa Lotsa Plus: Plays Love Suite by Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt) **
  • Chris Potter Underground Orchestra: Imaginary Cities (ECM) **
  • Prism Quartet: Heritage/Evolution, Volume 1 (Innova, 2CD) **
  • Protomartyr: The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art) **
  • Rabit: Communion (Tri Angle) **
  • Enrico Rava Quartet/Gianluca Petrella: Wild Dance (ECM) **
  • Tom Rainey Trio: Motel Grief (Intakt)
  • John Raymond: Foreign Territory (Fresh Sound New Talent) *
  • Gloria Reuben: Perchance to Dream (MCG Jazz)
  • Rival Consoles: Howl (Erased Tapes) **
  • Jason Roebke: Every Sunday (Clean Feed)
  • Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra: Turning Towards the Light (Cuneiform) **
  • Samo Salamon Bassless Trio: Little River (Sazas)
  • Marta Sánchez Quintet: Partenika (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Michael Sarian & the Chabones: The Escape Suite (self-released)
  • Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  • Schnellertollermeier: X (Cuneiform) **
  • Benny Sharoni: Slant Signature (Papaya)
  • Andy Sheppard: Surrounded by Sea (ECM) **
  • Shlohmo: Dark Red (True Panther Sounds) **
  • Susana Santos Silva/Torbjörn Zetterberg/Hampus Lindwall: If Nothing Else (Clean Feed)
  • Skyzoo: Music for My Friends (First Generation Rich) **
  • Slobber Pup: Pole Axe (Rare Noise) *
  • Slutever: Almost Famous (self-released, EP) **
  • Snik: Metasediment Rock (Clean Feed)
  • Bjørn Solli: Aglow: The Lyngør Project Vol. 1 (Lyngør)
  • Spinifex: Veiled (Trytone)
  • The Spook School: Try to Be Hopeful (Fortuna Pop) **
  • Terell Stafford: Brotherlee Love: Celebrating Lee Morgan (Capri) **
  • Pops Staples: Don't Lose This (1999, dBpm) **
  • Ben Stapp & the Zozimos: Myrrha's Red Book: Act 1 (Evolver)
  • Statik Selektah: Lucky 7 (Showoff/Duck Down Music) **
  • Sophie: Product (Numbers, EP) **
  • Mike Sopko/Bill Laswell/Thomas Pridgen: Sopko Laswell Pridgen (self-released)
  • Grant Stewart: Trio (Cellar Live) **
  • Sult: Svimmelhed (Humbler/Conrad Sound -14)
  • Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon Live (In+Out) **
  • Curt Sydnor: Materials and Their Destiny (Ears & Eyes)
  • Tamikrest: Taksera (Glitterbeat) **
  • Taraf de Haïdouks: Of Lovers, Gamblers and Parachute Skirts (Crammed Discs) **
  • Jacky Terrasson: Take That (Impulse) **
  • Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder (Shade Street)
  • David Torn: Only Sky (ECM) **
  • Boubacar Traoré: Mbalimaou (Lusafrica) **
  • Steve Turre: Spiritman (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Manuel Valera & Groove Square: Urban Landscape (Destiny)
  • Jacob Varmus Septet: Aegean: For Three Generations of Jazz Lovers (Crows' Kin)
  • Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo: Swing Zing! (FV)
  • Eyal Vilner Big Band: Almost Sunrise (Gut String)
  • Lou Volpe: Tremembering Ol' Blue Eyes (Songs of Sinatra) (Jazz Guitar)
  • Waco Brothers: Cabaret Showtime (Bloodshot) **
  • Mark Wade Trio: Event Horizon (self-released)
  • Ryley Walker: Primrose Green (Dead Oceans) **
  • Kamasi Washington: The Epic (Brainfeeder, 3CD) **
  • Dale Watson: Call Me Insane (Red House) **
  • Waxahatchee: Ivy Tripp (Wichita) **
  • Katharina Weber/Fred Frith/Fredy Studer: It Rolls (Intakt)
  • Daniel Weltlinger: Koblenz (Rectify)
  • Kenny Werner: The Melody (Pirouet)
  • White Out With Nels Cline: Accidental Sky (Northern Spy) **
  • Carrie Wicks: Maybe (OA2)
  • Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth by Day (Legacy) **
  • Tony Wilson 6Tet: A Day's Life (Drip Audio)
  • Ben Winkelman Trio: The Knife (OA2)
  • John Wojciechowski: Focus (Origin)
  • Juli Wood Quartet: Synnkä Metsä (Dark Forest) (OA2)
  • Nate Wooley/Dave Rempis/Pascal Niggenkemper/Chris Corsano: From Wolves to Whales (Aerophonic)
  • Nate Wooley/Ken Vandermark: East by Northwest (Audiographic) **
  • Wussy: Public Domain, Volume 1 (Shake It, EP) **
  • Savina Yannatou/Primavera en Salonico: Songs of Thessaloniki (ECM) **
  • Young Fathers: White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada) **
  • Young Thug: Barter 6 (300/Atlantic) **
  • Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågan: Om Liv Död (Moserobie)
  • Carlos "Zíngaro": Live at Mosteiro de Santa Clara a Velha (Cipsela)
  • Zomba Prison Project: I Have No Everything Here (Six Degrees) **
  • Zs: XE (Northern Spy) **

  • Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet [RAAQ]: Intents and Purposes (Enja) **
  • Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color (ATO)
  • Bob Albanese: Time Remembered (Mayimba)
  • Béatrice Alunni/Marc Peillon: Dance With Me (ITI)
  • Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin: Lost Time (Yep Roc) **
  • Scott Amendola: Fade to Orange (Sazi) **
  • Lotte Anker/Fred Frith: Edge of the Light (Intakt) **
  • Christian Artmann: Fields of Pannonia (self-released)
  • Julien Baker: Sprained Ankle (6131 Record) **
  • Baltazanis: End of Seas (self-released)
  • Dave Bass: NYC Sessions (Whaling City Sound)
  • Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (Matador) **
  • Daniel Bennett Group: The Mystery at Clown Castle (Manhattan Daylight)
  • Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap: The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (Columbia) **
  • Steven Bernstein/Paolo Fresu/Gianluca Petrella/Marcus Rojas: Brass Bang! (Bonsaï Music) **
  • Best Coast: California Nights (Harvest) **
  • Pat Bianchi Trio: A Higher Standard (21-H)
  • Big Boi + Phantogram: Big Grams (Epic, EP) **
  • Big K.R.I.T.: It's Better This Way (self-released) **
  • Luciano Biondini: Senza Fine (Intakt)
  • June Bisantz: It's Always You: June Bisantz Sings Chet Baker Vol. 2 (self-released)
  • Michael Blum/Jim Stinnett: Commitment (self-released)
  • Don Braden: Luminosity (Creative Perspective Music)
  • Breakfast in Fur: Flyaway Garden (Bar/None) **
  • Joshua Breakstone: 2nd Avenue (Capri)
  • Leon Bridges: Coming Home (Columbia) **
  • Andy Brown: Soloist (Delmark)
  • A Bu Trio: 88 Tones of Black and White (Blujazz, CD+DVD)
  • Dewa Budjana: Hasta Karma (Moonjune)
  • Built to Spill: Untethered Moon (Warner Brothers) **
  • Marnix Busstra: Firm Fragile Fun (Buzz Music)
  • Mike Campbell: Close Enough for Love (ITI)
  • Kenny Carr: Exit Moon (Zoozazz Music)
  • Chamber 3: Grassroots (OA2)
  • Chaise Lounge: A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas (Modern Songbook)
  • Brian Charette/Will Bernard/Rudy Royston: Alphabet City (Posi-Tone) **
  • Chastity Belt: Time to Go Home (Hardly Art) **
  • Tom Collier: Across the Bridge (Origin)
  • Colours Jazz Orchestra: Home Away From Home: Plays the Music of Ayn Inserto (Neu Klang)
  • Gaz Coombes: Matador (Hot Fruit) **
  • Stanley Cowell: Juneteenth (Vision Fugitive) **
  • Crack Ignaz: Kirsch (Melting Pot) **
  • Cuir: Chez Ackenbush (Fou)
  • Darts & Arrows: Altamira (Ears & Eyes)
  • Guy Davis: Kokomo Kidd (M.C.) **
  • Steve Davis: Say When (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Dan Deacon: Gliss Rifter (Domino) **
  • Dead Sara: Pleasure to Meet You (Pocket Kid) **
  • Deafheaven: New Bermuda (Anti) **
  • Death Grips: The Powers That B (Electro Magnetic/Harvest, 2CD) **
  • Charlie Dennard: 5 O'Clock Charlie (self-released)
  • Jeff Denson/Lee Konitz: Jeff Denson Trio + Lee Konitz (Ridgeway)
  • Jason Derulo: Everything Is 4 (Warner Brothers) **
  • Destroyer: Poison Season (Merge) **
  • Chris Dingman: The Subliminal & the Sublime (Inner Arts Initiative)
  • Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band: Bathtub Gin (Motéma Music) **
  • Marcelo Dos Reis/Angélica V. Salvi: Concentric Rinds (Cipsela)
  • Lila Downs: Balas y Chocolate (RCA) **
  • Drake/Future: What a Time to Be Alive (Cash Money) **
  • Kaja Draksler/Susana Santos Silva: This Love (Clean Feed)
  • Benjamin Duboc/Jean-Luc Petit: Double-Basse: This Is Not Art (Clean Feed)
  • Justin Townes Earle: Absent Fathers (Vagrant) **
  • Kirsten Edkins: Art & Soul (self-released)
  • Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: Cheap Rent (OA2)
  • Elephant9 with Reine Fiske: Silver Mountain (Rune Grammofon) **
  • Eliane Elias: Made in Brazil (Concord) **
  • Emika: Klavirni (Emika) **
  • Empress Of: Me (Terrible/XL) **
  • Robin Eubanks Mass Line Big Band: More Than Meets the Ear (ArtistShare)
  • Sergi Felipe: Whisper Songs (UnderPool -11)
  • Sergi Felipe/Whisper Songs: Bombú Es Libre En El Espacio (UnderPool -13)
  • Nick Finzer: The Chase (Origin)
  • Clare Fischer: Out of the Blue (Clavo)
  • The Greg Foat Group: The Dancers at the Edge of Time (Jazzman) **
  • Four Tet: Morning/Evening (Text) **
  • Janice Friedman Trio: Live at Kitano (CAP)
  • Future: 56 Nights (Freebandz, EP) **
  • Michael Gallant Trio: Live Plus One (Gallant Music)
  • Gang of Four: What Happens Next (Metropolis) **
  • Giant Sand: Heartbreak Pass (New West) **
  • Polly Gibbons: Many Faces of Love (Resonance)
  • Clay Giberson: Minga Minga (Origin)
  • Aaron Goldberg: The Now (Sunnyside)
  • Chris Golinski/Tim McNally/Boaz Roberts: Rodeo (Edgetone)
  • John Grant: Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (Partisan) **
  • Cee Lo Green: Heart Blanche (Atlantic) **
  • Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell: The Traveling Kind (Nonesuch) **
  • Health: Death Magic (Loma Vista) **
  • Ted Hearne: The Source (New Amsterdam) **
  • John Hébert: Rambling Confessions (Sunnyside) **
  • Helen: The Original Faces (Kranky) **
  • Mette Henriette (ECM, 2CD) **
  • Vince Herring: Night and Day (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Will Herrington: Solace (self-released)
  • Scott Hesse Trio: The Stillness of Motion (Origin)
  • Keigo Hirakawa: And Then There Were Three (self-released)
  • Hommage à Eberhard Weber (ECM) **
  • Hop Along: Painted Shut (Saddle Creek) **
  • Jenny Hval: Apocalypse, Girl (Sacred Bones) **
  • I Love Makonnen: I Love Makonnen 2 (OVO Sound, EP) **
  • Aaron Irwin Quartet: A Room Forever (self-released)
  • Jason Isbell: Something More Than Free (Southeastern) **
  • Janet Jackson: Unbreakable (Rhythm Nation) **
  • Ahmad Jamal: Live in Marciac: August 5th 2014 (Jazz Village) **
  • José James: Yesterday I Had the Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday (Blue Note) **
  • Jeff Jenkins Organization: The Arrival (OA2)
  • Joanna Gruesome: Peanut Butter (Slumberland) **
  • Anders Jormin/Lena Willemark/Karin Nakagawa: Trees of Light (ECM) **
  • Kanaku y El Tigre: Quema Quema Quema (Strut/Tigers Milk) **
  • Kelela: Hallucinogen (Warp/Cherry Coffee, EP) **
  • Robert Kennedy Trio: Big Shoes (self-released)
  • Elle King: Love Stuff (RCA) **
  • Knxwledge: Hud Dreams (Stones Throw) **
  • Michael Kocour: Wherever You Go, There You Are (OA2)
  • Frank Kohl Quartet: Invisible Man (Pony Boy)
  • Heikki Koskinen/Teppo Hauta-Aho/Mikko Innanen: Kellari Trio (Edgetone)
  • Lona Kozik/Chris Golinski: Spelaeology (Edgetone)
  • Julian Lage: World's Fair (Modern Lore) **
  • Lama + Joachim Badenhorst: The Elephant's Journey (Clean Feed)
  • Adam Larson: Selective Amnesia (Inner Circle Music)
  • Sam Lee & Friends: The Fade in Time (The Nest Collective) **
  • Daniel Levin/Rob Brown: Divergent Paths (Cipsela)
  • The Libertines: Anthems for Doomed Youth (Virgin EMI) **
  • Lil Wayne: The Free Weezy Album (Young Money/Republic) **
  • Lizzo: Big Grrrl Small World (BGSW) **
  • Mundell Lowe/Lloyd Wells/Jim Ferguson: Poor Butterfly (Two Helpins' of Collards)
  • Hans Luchs: Time Never Pauses (OA2)
  • Lupe Fiasco: Tetsuo & Youth (Atlantic) **
  • Doug MacDonald: Solo Plus (BluJazz)
  • Maddie & Tae: Start Here (Dot) **
  • Shai Maestro Trio: Untold Stories (Motema)
  • The Magic Words: The Day We Ran Away (Magic Words Demos) (self-released)
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls (ACT) *
  • Major Lazer: Peace Is the Mission (Mad Decent) **
  • Whitney Marchelle: Dig Dis (Blujazz)
  • Marina and the Diamonds: Froot (Atlantic) **
  • Nilson Matta: East Side Rio Drive (World Blue)
  • Phil Maturano: At Home Everywhere (self-released)
  • Meek Mill: Dreams Worth More Than Money (Atlantic/MMG) **
  • Pete McCann: Range (Whirlwind) **
  • Donny McCaslin: Fast Future (Greenleaf Music) **
  • Barney McClure: Show Me! (OA2)
  • Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters: Abstract Quantities (Origin)
  • Dave McDonnell Group: The Time Inside a Year (Delmark)
  • Nellie McKay: My Weekly Reader (429) **
  • Terrence McManus and John Hébert: Saints and Sinners (Rowhouse Music) **
  • Chris McNulty: Eternal (Palmetto)
  • Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs (ECM) **
  • Marcus Miller: Afrodeezia (Blue Note) **
  • Mark Christian Miller: Crazy Moon (Sliding Jazz Door Productions)
  • Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up! (MCG Jazz)
  • Monster Rally & Jay Stone: Foreign Pedestrians (Gold Robot) **
  • Àlvar Montfort/Lucas Martinez/Jordi Matas/Abel Boquera/Pep Mula: Underpool 4 (UnderPool)
  • Van Morrison: Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue (RCA) **
  • Brad Myers: Prime Numbers (Colloquy)
  • Kyle Nasser: Restive Soul (AISA)
  • The Necks: Vertigo (Northern Spy) **
  • Richard Nelson/Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Deep River (Heliotrope)
  • Neon Indian: Vega Intl. Night School (Mom + Pop Music) **
  • Larry Newcomb Quartet: Live Intentionally! (Essential Messenger)
  • The Nightingales: Mind Over Matter (Louder Than War) **
  • Obnox: Know America (Ever/Never) **
  • Oddisee: The Good Fight (Mello Music Group) **
  • Eric Olsen ReVision Quartet: Sea Changes (BluJazz)
  • Ought: Sun Coming Down (Constellation) **
  • Matt Panayides: Conduits (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Sarah Partridge: I Never Thought I'd Be Here (Origin)
  • Ben Patterson: For Once in My Life (Origin)
  • Peach Kelli Pop: Peach Kelli Pop III (Burger, EP) **
  • Gretchen Peters: Blackbirds (Scarlet Letter) **
  • John Petrucelli Quintet: The Way (self-released)
  • Roberta Piket: Emanation (Solo: Volume 2) (Thirteenth Note)
  • Plunge: In for the Out (Immersion)
  • The Pop Group: Citizen Zombie (Freaks R Us)
  • Natalie Prass (Spacebomb) **
  • Reggie Quinerly: Invictus (Redefinition Music)
  • R5: Sometime Last Night (Hollywood) **
  • Billie Rainbird: Deep Blue (Phantom)
  • Fred Randolph: Song Without Singing (Creative Spirit)
  • Nathaniel Rateliff: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (Stax) **
  • Raury: All We Need (Columbia) **
  • Dave Rawlings Machine: Nashville Obsolete (Acony) **
  • Mason Razavi/Bennett Roth-Newell: After You (First Orbit Sounds Music)
  • Jeff Richman: Hotwire (Nefer)
  • RMaster: New Anime Nation, Vol. 10 (Anime) **
  • Rocket From the Tombs: Black Record (Fire) **
  • Daniel Romano: If I've Only One Time Askin' (New West) **
  • Royal Headache: High (What's Your Rupture?) **
  • Harvie S/Sheryl Bailey: Plucky Strum (Whaling City Sound)
  • Cecile McLorin Salvant: For One to Love (Mack Avenue) **
  • Alejandro Sanz: Sirope (Universal) **
  • Christian Scott: Stretch Music (Ropeadope) **
  • Scottish National Jazz Orchestra/Makoto Ozone: Jeunehomme: Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 K-271 (Spartacus) *
  • Marc Seales: American Songs Volume 3: Place & Time (Origin)
  • Joan Shelley: Over and Even (No Quarter) **
  • Rotem Sivan Trio: A New Dance (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Troye Sivan: Blue Neighbourhood (Capitol) **
  • Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love (Sub Pop) **
  • Steve Smith and Vital Information NYC Edition: Viewpoint (BFM Jazz)
  • Spanglish Fly: New York Boogaloo (Caco World Music) **
  • Speedy Ortiz: Foil Deer (Carpark) **
  • Chris Stapleton: Traveller (Mercury Nashville) **
  • Dexter Story: Wondem (Soundway) **
  • Susanne Sundfør: Ten Love Songs (Sonnet Sound) **
  • Swamp Dogg: The White Man Made Me Do It (SDEG) **
  • Earl Sweatshirt: I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside (Columbia/Tan Cressida) **
  • Tame Impala: Currents (Caroline) **
  • Tenement: Predatory Headlights (Don Giovanni) **
  • They Might Be Giants: Glean (Idlewild) **
  • Brianna Thomas: You Must Believe in Love (Sound on Purpose)
  • Toro y Moi: What For? (Carpark) **
  • Torres: Sprinter (Partisan) **
  • Total Babes: Heydays (Wichita) **
  • The Dan Trudell Trio: Dan Trudell Plays the Piano (self-released)
  • Tyler, the Creator: Cherry Bomb (Odd Future) **
  • Helen Tzatzimakis: Soulfully (Cobalt Music)
  • Voicehandler: Song Cycle (Humbler)
  • Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: Intercambio (Patois)
  • Joanna Wallfisch with Dan Tepfer: The Origin of Adjustable Things (Sunnyside)
  • Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra: Mercy Mercy Mercy (Blujazz)
  • Juan Wauters: Who Me? (Captured Tracks) **
  • Anna Webber's Percussive Mechanics: Refraction (Pirouet) **
  • The Weeknd: Beauty Behind the Madness (Republic) **
  • Barrence Whitfield & the Savages: Under the Savage Sky (Bloodshot) **
  • Webb Wilder: Mississippi Moderne (Landslide) **
  • Brad Allen Williams: Lamar (Sojourn)
  • Patrick Williams: Home Suite Home (BFM)
  • Brian Wilson: No Pier Pressure (Capitol) **
  • Dave Wilson Quartet: There Was Never (Zoho)
  • Florian Wittenburg: Aleatoric Inspiration (NurNichtNur)
  • Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool (Dirty Hit/RCA) **
  • Chelsea Wolfe: Abyss (Sargent House) **
  • Omri Ziegele Billiger Bauer: So Viel Schon Hin: 15 Herbstlieder (Intakt)
  • Zun Zun Egui: Shackles' Gift (Bella Union) **

  • Algiers (Matador) **
  • American Wrestlers (Fat Possum) **
  • Animation: Machine Language (Rare Noise) *
  • The Arcs: Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch) **
  • Tiffany Austin: Nothing but Soul (Con Alma)
  • Ab Baars Trio & NY Guests: Invisible Blow (Wig)
  • John Basile: Penny Lane (StringTime Jazz)
  • Bastet: Eye of Ra (self-released)
  • Beach House: Depression Cherry (Sub Pop) **
  • Beach Slang: The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (Polyvinyl) **
  • Beat Funktion: Olympus (DO Music)
  • Beauty Pill: Beauty Pill Describes Things as They Are (Butterscotch) **
  • Perry Beekman: S'Wonderful: Perry Beekman Sings and Plays Gershwin (self-released)
  • The Bellfuries: Workingman's Bellfuries (Hi-Style) **
  • Randy Bernsen: Grace Notes (Jericho Jams)
  • Justin Bieber: Purpose (Def Jam) **
  • Randy Brecker/Bobby Shew/Jan Hasenöhrl: Trumpet Summit Prague (Summit)
  • Randy Brecker: Randy Pop: Live (Piloo)
  • Cam: Welcome to Cam Country (Arista Nashville, EP) **
  • Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Style (Matador) **
  • Harley Card: Hedgerow (self-released)
  • Brett Carson: Quattuor Elephantis (Edgetone)
  • Casa: Futuro (Clean Feed)
  • Kasey Chambers: Bittersweet (Sugar Hill) **
  • The Claudettes: No Hotel (Yellow Dog) **
  • Lorin Cohen: Home (Origin)
  • Tom Collier: Alone in the Studio (Origin)
  • Lainie Cooke: The Music Is the Magic (Onyx Music)
  • Easton Corbin: About to Get Real (Mercury Nashville) **
  • Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Two (Concord, 2CD) **
  • Cornershop: Hold On It's Easy (Ample Play) **
  • Jamie Cullum: Interlude (Blue Note) **
  • Dâm-Funk: Invite the Light (Stones Throw) **
  • Dej Loaf: #AndSeeThatsTheThing (Columbia, EP) **
  • Deradoorian: The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon) **
  • The Deslondes (New West) **
  • Kristin Diable: Create Your Own Mythology (Speakeasy) **
  • Drake: If You're Reading This It's Too Late (Cash Money/Motown) **
  • Andrew Drury: Content Provider (Soup & Sound)
  • Dungen: Allas Sak (Mexican Summer) **
  • Dyke Drama: Tender Resignation (Salinas, EP) **
  • Charles Evans: On Beauty (More Is More)
  • EZTV: Calling Out (Captured Tracks) **
  • Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop) **
  • Lorraine Feather: Flirting With Disaster (Jazzed Media) **
  • Amina Figarova: Blue Whisper (In + Out)
  • Florence + the Machine: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Island/Republic) **
  • Foals: What Went Down (Warner Brothers) **
  • Jean-Marc Foussat & Jean-Luc Petit: . . . D'Où Vient La Lumière! (Fou)
  • Vance Gilbert: Nearness of You (Disismye Music)
  • The Go! Team: The Scene Between (Memphis Industries) **
  • Richie Goods & Nuclear Fusion: Three Rivers (Richman)
  • Colleen Green: I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art) **
  • Dale Head: Swing Straight Up (Blujazz)
  • John Hollenbeck: Songs We Like a Lot (Sunnyside) **
  • Julia Holter: Have You in My Wilderness (Domino) **
  • Abdullah Ibrahim: The Song Is My Story (Sunnyside) **
  • Hot Jazz Jumpers: The Very Next Thing (On the Bol)
  • The Ted Howe Jazz Orchestra: Pinnacle (Hot Stove)
  • Sam Hunt: Between the Pines: Acoustic Mixtape (MCA Nashville) **
  • Ibeyi (XL) **
  • Jon Irabagon: Inaction Is an Action (Irabbagast)
  • Ivan & Alyosha: It's All Just Pretend (Dualtone) **
  • Eugenie Jones: Come Out Swingin' (Openmic)
  • Toby Keith: 35 MPH Town (Show Dog Nashville) **
  • Kenosha Kid: Inside Voices (self-released)
  • Emma Larsson: Sing to the Sky (Origin)
  • Urs Leimgruber/Jacques Demierre/Barre Phillips: 1 - 3 - 2 - 1 (Jazzwerkstatt) **
  • Daniel Levin Quartet: Friction (Clean Feed)
  • Amy London/Darmon Meader/Dylan Pramuk/Holli Ross: Royal Bopsters Project (Motéma) **
  • Low: Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop) **
  • Shelby Lynne: I Can't Imagine (New Rounder) **
  • Harold Mabern: Afro Blue (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Marsa Fouty: Concerts (Fou)
  • Josh Maxey: Celebration of Soul (Miles High)
  • Levon Mikaelian: United Shades of Artistry (self-released)
  • Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen: Kind of New (Whaling City Sound)
  • Kristine Mills: Bossa Too (InkWell Publishing)
  • Hudson Mohawke: Lantern (Warp) **
  • Ben Monder: Amorphae (ECM) **
  • The Montgomery Hermann Quinlan Sextet: Hear, Here (Summit)
  • Nero: Between II Worlds (Cherrytree/Interscope) **
  • Opus: Definition (BluJazz)
  • Panda Bear: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (Domino) **
  • John Patitucci Electric Guitar Quartet: Brooklyn (Three Faces) **
  • Kim Pensyl: Foreign Love Affair (Summit)
  • Jack Perla: Enormous Changes (Origin)
  • Simon Phillips: Protocol III (Phantom)
  • Bucky Pizzarelli: Renaissance: A Journey From Classical to Jazz (Arbors) **
  • Powertrio: Di Lontan (Clean Feed)
  • Dawn Richard: Blackheart (Our Dawn) **
  • Keith Richards: Crosseyed Heart (Mindless/Virgin) **
  • Eve Risser: Des Pas Sur La Neige (Clean Feed)
  • Roots Manuva: Bleeds (Big Dada) **
  • Sachal: Slow Motion Miracles (Okeh) *
  • Adam Shulman Sextet: Here/There (OA2)
  • Herb Silverstein: Younger Next Year (self-released)
  • Daniel Smith: Jazz Suite for Bassoon (Summit)
  • Enoch Smith Jr.: Misfits II: Pop (Misfitme Music)
  • Songsmith Collective (Blujazz)
  • The Spanish Donkey: Raoul (Rare Noise) *
  • Ben Stapp & the Zozimos: Myrrha's Red Book: Act II (Evolver)
  • Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line: Wake (Blue Pig Music) **
  • Swervedriver: I Wasn't Born to Lose You (Cobraside) **
  • Davide Tammaro: Ghosts (self-released)
  • Thundercat: The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam (Brainfeeder, EP) **
  • Tin/Bag: The Stars Would Be Different (Epigraph, EP) **
  • Titus Andronicus: The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge) **
  • Unhinged Sextet: Clarity (OA2)
  • U.S. Girls: Half Free (4AD) **
  • Ramana Vieira: Fado Da Vida (Fate of Life)
  • Kurt Vile: B'lieve I'm Goin Down . . . (Matador) **
  • The Michael Waldrop Big Band: Time Within Itself (Origin)
  • Bastian Weinhold: Cityscape (Frame Music)
  • Mark Wingfield: Proof of Light (Moonjune)
  • Dwight Yoakam: Second Hand Heart (Warner Brothers)

  • Dennis Angel: On Track (Timeless Grooves)
  • Laurie Antonioli & Richie Beirach: Varuna (Origin)
  • Kevin Bachelder/Jason Lee Bruns: Cherry Avenue (Panout Music Group)
  • Björk: Vulnicura (One Little Indian) **
  • Ann Hampton Callaway: The Hope of Christmas (MCG Jazz)
  • Dheepa Chari: Patchwork (self-released)
  • Dr. Dre: Compton (Aftermath/Interscope) **
  • Andrew Drury: The Drum (Soup & Sound)
  • C Duncan: Architect (Fat Cat) **
  • East West Quintet: Anthem (self-released)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation) **
  • Tigran Hamasyan: Luys I Luso (ECM) **
  • Hiatus Kaiyote: Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha) **
  • Kehlani: You Should Be Here (self-released) **
  • Diana Krall: Wallflower (Verve) **
  • Ku-Umba Frank Lacy & Mingus Big Band: Mingus Sings (Sunnyside) **
  • Luis Lopes/Jean-Luc Guionnet: Live at Culturgest (Clean Feed)
  • John Mills: Invisible Designs (Fable)
  • Mount Eerie: Sauna (PW Elverum & Sun) **
  • Matana Roberts: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation) **
  • Todd Rundgren/Emil Nikolaisen/Hans-Peter Lindstrøm: Runddans (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi)
  • Judy Silvano with Michael Abene: My Dance (JSL)
  • Ike Sturm + Evergreen: Shelter of Trees (Kilde)
  • John Tropea: Gotcha Rhythm Right Here (STP)
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Fetty Wap (RGF 300/Atlantic) **
  • Galen Weston: Plugged In (Blujazz)
  • Doug Webb: Triple Play (Posi-Tone) **
  • Ben Williams: Coming of Age (Concord Jazz) **

  • Thomas Bergeron: Sacred Feast (self-released)
  • FKA Twigs: M3LL155X (Young Turks, EP) **
  • James Taylor: Before This World (Concord) **
  • Zubatto Syndicate: Zubatto Syndicate 2 (Boscology) *

  • Bob Dylan: Shadows in the Night (Columbia) **
  • Kurt Elling: Passion World (Concord) **
  • Ira Hill: Tomorrow (self-released)
  • Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra: Joyful Jazz (MCG Jazz)

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Big Band Holidays (Blue Engine)
  • Liturgy: The Ark Work (Thrill Jockey) **

Reissues/Historic Music:

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

  1. Anthony Braxton: Trio and Duet (1974, Delmark/Sackville)
  2. Ata Kak: Obaa Sima (1994, Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
  3. Wild Bill Davison: The Jazz Giants (1968, Delmark/Sackville)
  4. Savant: Artificial Dance (1981-83, RVNG Intl) **
  5. Willem Breuker Kollektief: Angoulême 18 Mai 1980 (Fou, 2CD)
  6. Red Garland Trio: Swingin' on the Korner (1977, Elemental Music, 2CD)
  7. Erroll Garner: The Complete Concert by the Sea (1955, Columbia/Legacy, 3CD)
  8. Mike Osborne: Dawn (1966-70, Cuneiform) **
  9. Bob Marley & the Wailers: Easy Skanking in Boston '78 (Island/Tuff Gong) **
  10. Punk 45: Extermination Nights in the Sixth City: Cleveland, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-82 (Soul Jazz) **
  11. Dead Moon: Live at Satyricon (1993, Voodoo Doughnut) **
  12. Miles Davis: Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4] (Columbia/Legacy, 4CD) **
  13. Lost in Mali: Off the Beaten Track From Bamako to Timbuktu (Riverboat) **
  14. Patrick Cowley: Muscle Up (1973-81, Dark Entries) **
  15. George Lewis: The George Lewis Solo Trombone Album (1976, Delmark/Sackville)
  16. Youssou N'Dour Et Le Super Etoile De Dakar: Fatteliku: Live in Athens (Real World) **
  17. Peter Brötzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler/Michael Zerang: Tales Out of Time (2002, Hatology) **
  18. Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages (1991, MOD Technologies)
  19. Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83 (Soul Jazz) **
  20. Bobby Bradford & John Carter Quintet: No U Turn: Live in Pasadena 1975 (Dark Tree)
  21. Bobby Rush: Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush (1964-2014, Omnivore, 4CD) **
  22. Next Stop Soweto, Vol. 4: Zulu Rock, Afro-Disco and Mbaqanga 1975-1985 (Strut) **

Pending:

Also Noted:

  • David Borden: Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments (1981, Spectrum Spools) **
  • John Carter/Bobby Bradford: Self Determination Music (1970, Flying Dutchman/BGP) **
  • James Clay: The Kid From Dallas: Tenorman (1956-57, Fresh Sound) **
  • Hamid Drake/Michael Zerang: For Ed Blackwell (1995, Pink Palace) **
  • Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden: Frictions/Frictions Now (1969-71, NoBusiness)
  • The Stan Getz Quartet: The Steamer (1956, Classic Standard) **
  • Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings From London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway, 2CD) **
  • Billie Holiday: Banned From New York City: Live 1948-1957 (Uptown, 2CD) **
  • Kenny Knight: Crossroads (1980, Paradise of Bachelors) **
  • Humphrey Lyttelton: Humphrey Lyttelton in Canada (1983, Sackville/Delmark)
  • Nu Yorica! Culture Clash in New York City: Experiments in Latin Music 1970-77 (1970-77 [2015], Soul Jazz, 2CD) **
  • Ork Records: New York, New York (1975-79, Numero Group, 2CD) **
  • Punk 45: Burn Rubber City, Burn! Akron, Ohio: Punk and the Decline of the Mid-West 1975-80 (Soul Jazz) **
  • The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Samba (2009-14, World Music Network) **
  • Idrissa Soumaoro: Djitoumou (2010, Lusafrica) **
  • Sun Ra and His Arkestra: To Those of Earth . . . and Other Worlds (1956-83, Strut, 2CD) **
  • Amara Touré: 1973-1980 (1973-80, Analog Africa) **
  • The Velvet Underground: The Complete Matrix Tapes (1969, Polydor, 4CD) **
  • David S. Ware/Apogee: Birth of a Being (1977, AUM Fidelity, 2CD) **
  • Dale Watson: Truckin' Sessions, Vol. 3 (Red River) **
  • Yabby You: Dread Prophecy: The Strange and Wonderful Story of Yabby You (1972-85, Shanachie, 3CD) **

  • John Carter: Echoes From Rudolph's (1976-77, NoBusiness, 2CD)
  • Alex Chilton: Ocean Club '77 (Norton) **
  • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: Live in San Francisco 1971 (Sundazed) **
  • Connie Converse: How Sad, How Lovely (1954, Squirrel Thing) **
  • Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness (1989-98, Strut) **
  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: The Conny Plank Session (1970, Grönland, EP) **
  • Tubby Hayes Quartet: The Syndicate: Live at the Hopbine 1968 Vol. 1 (Gearbox) **
  • Trevor Jackson Presents: Science Fiction Dancehall Classics (1981-87, On-U Sound, 2CD) **
  • Manu Katché: Touchstone for Manu (2004-12, ECM) **
  • The Kingbees (1980, Omnivore) **
  • Karin Krog: Don't Just Sing: An Anthology: 1963-1999 (Light in the Attic) **
  • Steve Lacy: Shots (1977, Hatology) **
  • Mariah: Utakata No Hibi (1983, Shan-Shan) **
  • PC Music Volume 1 (2013-15, PC Music) **
  • Percussions: 2011 Until 2014 (2011-14, Text) **
  • The Rough Guide to African Rare Groove: Volume 1 (World Music Network) **
  • The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa (World Music Network) **
  • Arthur Russell: Corn (1982-83, Audika) **
  • Schlippenbach Trio: First Recordings (1972, Trost) **
  • Sherwood at the Controls, Volume 1: 1979-1984 (On-U Sound) **
  • Sonny Simmons: Reincarnation (1991, Arhoolie) **
  • J.B. Smith: No More Good Time in the World for Me (1965-66, Dust-to-Digital, 2CD) **
  • Sun Ra: The Magic City (1965, Enterplanetary Koncepts) **

  • Tad Britton: Cicada (1992-93, Origin)
  • The Continental Drifters: Drifted: In the Beginning & Beyond (1992-2001 [2015], Omnivore, 2CD) **
  • Charlie Haden/Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Tokyo Adagio (2005, Impulse) **
  • Phil Haynes: Sanctuary (1999, Corner Store Jazz)
  • The Red Line Comp: A DCHC Compilation (self-released) **
  • Ed Sanders: Yiddish-Speaking Socialists of the Lower East Side (2006, Okraina, EP) **
  • Ty Segall: Ty-Rex (2011-13, Goner, EP) **
  • The Staple Singers: Freedom Highway Complete: Recorded Live at Chicago's New Nazareth Church (1965, Epic/Legacy) **
  • Gloria Ann Taylor: Love Is a Hurtin' Thing (1971-77, Luv N' Haight) **

  • Buena Vista Social Club: Lost and Found (1996-2000, World Circuit) **
  • Dion: Recorded Live at the Bitter End August 1971 (Omnivore) **

  • Keith Jarrett: Barber/Bartók (1984-85, ECM New Series) **

  • LeAnn Rimes: All-Time Greatest Hits (1996-2007, Curb) **

DVDs

I don't review DVDs. I don't watch DVDs. I don't record them in my database -- well, almost never, anyhow. Part of this is that I don't have the time, the eyes, or at the moment even the equipment. I never request DVDs. Still, some publicists insist on sending them anyway. Here's a list. They're all pending, and will probably remain that way until hell freezes over.

Songs

I always come up empty for song lists at year-end poll time. So I thought I'd start here.