Music Year 2018

This is my year-end list for records released in 2018. A frozen copy as of Jan. 31, 2019, is here. Post-freeze changes are marked in this color (except for re-orderings. These will be added up to Jan. 31, 2020, at which point enough will be enough -- the file may still be changed as ungraded records are belatedly graded, but no new records will be added.

For records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed, downloaded or streamed. Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a "-NN" (e.g., -17 for 2017) -- 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. The Ex: 27 Passports (Ex) [**]
2. Maria Muldaur: Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty, Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker (The Last Music Company) [**]
3. Bettye LaVette: Things Have Changed (Verve) [**]
4. Joakim Milder/Fredrik Ljungkvist/Mathias Landraeus/Filip Augustson/Fredrik Rundkvist: The Music of Anders Garstedt (Moserobie)
5. Assif Tsahar/William Parker/Hamid Drake: In Between the Tumbling a Stillness (Hopscotch) [**]
6. Peter Kuhn Trio: Intention (FMR)
7. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer (Bad Boy) [**]
8. Kira Kira: Bright Force (Libra)
9. Amy Rigby: The Old Guys (Southern Domestic) **
10. Rich Halley 3: The Literature (Pine Eagle)
11. John Prine: The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy) [**]
12. Shopping: The Official Body (FatCat) **
13. No Age: Snares Like a Haircut (Drag City) **
14. Rodrigo Amado: A History of Nothing (Trost)
15. James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor: Radiant Imprints (OFF) **
16. Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is a Reptile (Impulse!) **
17. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg: Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
18. Kevin Sun: Trio (Ectomorph Music)
19. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Awase (ECM) **
20. David Virelles: Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Groove) Vol I & II (Pi)
21. Riton & Kah-Lo: Foreign Ororo (Riton Time) **
22. Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! (Rough Trade) **
23. Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy (Atlantic) [**]
24. Adam Forkelid: Reminiscence (Moserobie)
25. Willie Nelson: Last Man Standing (Legacy) **
26. Lyrics Born: Quite a Life (Mobile Home) [**]
27. Benjamin Boone/Philip Levine: The Poetry of Jazz (Origin)
28. Arild Andersen: In-House Science (ECM) **
29. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris: Everything's Fine (Mello Music Group) **
30. Lori McKenna: The Tree (CN) **
31. Dave Holland: Uncharted Territories (Dare2, 2CD) *
32. Czarface/MF Doom: Czarface Meets Metal Face (Silver Age) **
33. Thumbscrew: Ours (Cuneiform)
34. Adrean Farrugia/Joel Frahm: Blues Dharma (GB)
35. Kali Uchis: Isolation (Virgin EMI) **
36. Daniel Carter/William Parker/Matthew Shipp: Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity)
37. François Carrier/Michel Lambert/John Edwards: Elements (FMR)
38. Thumbscrew: Theirs (Cuneiform)
39. Gregory Lewis: Organ Monk Blue (self-released)
40. Ceramic Dog: YRU Still Here? (Northern Spy) **
41. Henry Threadgill: Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (Pi)
42. Pistol Annies: Interstate Gospel (RCA Nashville) [**]
43. Becky Warren: Undesirable (self-released) **
44. No Fast Food: Settings for Three (Corner Store Jazz)
45. Tierra Whack: Whack World (UMGRI/Interscope, EP) **
46. Kate Nash: Yesterday Was Forever (Girl Gang) **
47. Mary Gauthier: Rifles & Rosary Beads (In the Black) **
48. Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Downey to Lubbock (Yep Roc) **
49. Rolling Blackouts C.F.: Hope Downs (Sub Pop) **
50. Laurie Anderson/Kronos Quartet: Landfall (Nonesuch) **
51. Confidence Man: Confident Music for Confident People (Heavenly) **
52. Angles 3: Parede (Clean Feed) **
53. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
54. Kresten Osgood: Kresten Osgood Quintet Plays Jazz (ILK, 2CD)
55. Alexander Von Schlippenbach/Globe Unity Orchestra: Globe Unity - 50 Years (Intakt)
56. Espen Eriksen Trio With Andy Sheppard: Perfectly Unhappy (Rune Grammofon) **
57. Art Hirahara: Sunward Bound (Posi-Tone) **
58. Anderson .Paak: Oxnard (Aftermath/12 Tone Music) **
59. Elza Soares: Deus É Mulher (Deckdisc) **
60. Coyote Poets of the Universe: Strange Lullaby (Square Shaped, 2CD)
61. Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar (Ninja Tune) **
62. Doctor Nativo: Guatemaya (Stonetree) **
63. Eric Church: Desperate Man (EMI Nashville) **
64. Makaya McCraven: Universal Beings (International Anthem) **
65. Blueprint: Two-Headed Monster (Weightless) **
66. Schnell [Pierre Borel/Antonio Borghini/Christian Lillinger]: Live at Sowieso (Clean Feed) **
67. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: Black Times (Strut) **
68. Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: After Caroline (Northern Spy) **
69. Harvey Sorgen/Joe Fonda/Marilyn Crispell: Dreamstruck (Not Two) **
70. Z-Country Paradise: Live in Lisbon (Leo) **
71. Jon Hassell: Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (Ndeya) **
72. Binker and Moses: Alive in the East? (Gearbox) **
73. LFU: Lisbon Freedom Unit: Praise of Our Folly (Clean Feed)
74. Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Music for David Mossman: Live at Vortex London (Intakt)
75. Peter McEachern Trio: Bone-Code (Clean Feed) **
76. The Jamie Saft Quartet: Blue Dream (RareNoise) *
77. The Goon Sax: We're Not Talking (Wichita) **
78. Kyle: Light of Mine (Atlantic) **
79. Josephine Davies' Satori: In the Corners of Clouds (Whirlwind) **
80. Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: Routes (Twelve/Eight) **
81. The Coup: Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack (UMGRI Interscope) **
82. VWCR [Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley/Sylvie Courvoisier/Tom Rainey]: Noise of Our Time (Intakt)
83. Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Polka (Whirlwind) **
84. Frank Kimbrough: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside, 6CD) **
85. Noname: Room 25 (self-released) **
86. Ill Considered: Ill Considered 3 (Ill Considered Music) **
87. Robbie Fulks/Linda Gail Lewis: Wild! Wild! Wild! (Bloodshot) **
88. K.A.A.N.: Subtle Meditation (Redefinition) **
89. Dave Rempis/Matt Piet/Tim Daisy: Throw Tomatoes (Astral Spirits) **
90. On the Levee Jazz Band: Swinging New Orleans Jazz (Big Al) **
91. Gift of Gab: Rejoice! Rappers Are Rapping Again! (Giftstribution Unlimited, EP) **
92. Fred Frith Trio: Closer to the Ground (Intakt)
93. Eva Novoa's Ditmas Quartet: Live at IBeam (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
94. Flavio Zanuttini Opacipapa: Born Baby Born (Clean Feed) **
95. Matt Penman: Good Question (Sunnyside) **
96. Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger: Punkt. Vrt. Plastik (Intakt)
97. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Kikoeru: Tribute to Masaya Kimura (Libra)
98. Endangered Blood: Don't Freak Out (Skirl) **
99. Walter Smith III: Twio (Whirlwind) **
100. The Thing: Again (Trost)
101. Dessa: Chime (Doomtree) **
102. John Kruth & La Società dei Musici: Forever Ago (Ars Spoletium) **
103. Chromeo: Head Over Heels (Big Beat/WEA) **
104. Ry Cooder: The Prodigal Son (Fantasy) **
105. Mdou Moctar/Elite Beat: Mdou Moctar Meets Elite Beat in a Budget Dancehall (Boomarm Nation) **
106. Bali Baby: Baylor Swift (TWIN, EP) **
107. Thiago Nassif: Três (Foom) **
108. Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman (Ninja Tune) **
109. Barry Guy: Barry Guy @ 70: Blue Horizon: Live at Ad Libitum ()Fundacja Sluchaj, 3CD) **
110. Dmitry Baevsky/Jeb Patton: We Two (Jazz & People) **
111. The Mekons 77: It Is Twice Blessed (Slow Things) **
112. Mandy Barnett: Strange Conversation (Dame Productions/Thirty Tigers) **
113. Simon Nabatov/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway: Luminous (NoBusiness)
114. Jason Kao Hwang Burning Bridge: Blood (True Sound)
115. Lupe Fiasco: Drogas Wave (1st & 15th) **
116. Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt (Fat Possum) **
117. Aceyalone & DJ Fatjack: 43rd & Excellence (That Kind of Music) **
118. Lily Allen: No Shame (Parlophone) **
119. Dave Sewelson: Music for a Free World (FMR)
120. Hal Galper Quartet: Cubist (Origin)
121. Future: Beast Mode 2 (Epic/Freebandz) **
122. Jonathan Finlayson: 3 Times Round (Pi)
123. Bjørn Marius Hegge Trio: Assosiasjoner (Particular) **
124. Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvaer Feat Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay: Nordub (Okeh) **
125. Jeffrey Lewis: Works by Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) (Don Giovanni) **
126. Kris Davis & Craig Taborn: Octopus (Pyroclastic)

Pending:

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

Also Noted:

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

• 6lack: East Atlanta Love Letter (LoveRenaissance/Interscope) **
• A.A.L. (Against All Logic): 2012-2017 (Other People) **
• Tom Abbs & Frequency Response: Hawthorne (Engine Studios) **
• Abhi the Nomad: Marbled (Tommy Boy) **
• Stefan Aeby Trio: The London Concert (Intakt)
• David Ake: Humanities (Posi-Tone) **
• Erlend Olderskog Albertsen: Rodssal Neen Glassdor (Dugnad Rec) **
• Alchemy Sound Project: Adventures in Time and Space (ARC)
• Ben Allison/Steve Cardenas/Ted Nash: Quiet Revolution (Sonic Camera) **
• American Aquarium: Things Change (New West) **
• Bill Anschell: Shifting Standards (Origin)
• Aphex Twin: Collapse EP (Warp, EP) **
• Ethan Ardelli: The Island of Form (self-released)
• Bad Luck: Four (Origin)
• Baloji: 137 Avenue Kaniama (Bella Union) **
• Simon Barker/Henry Kaiser/Bill Laswell/Rudresh Mahanthappa: Mudang Rock (Fractal Music)
• MC Paul Barman: (((Echo Chamber))) (Mello Music Group) **
• Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom + Pop Music) **
• Beans on Toast: A Bird in the Hand (Beans on Toast Music) **
• Nat Birchall: Cosmic Language (Jazzman) **
• Dan Block: Block Party: A Saint Louis Connection (Miles High)
• Bombino: Deran (Partisan) **
• Moses Boyd Exodus: Displaced Diaspora (Exodus) **
• Bobby Bradford/Hafez Modirzadeh: Live at the Blue Whale (NoBusiness) *
• Randy Brecker & Mats Holmquist: Together (Summit)
• Peter Brotzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm: Ouroboros (Astral Spirits) **
• Jarod Bufe: New Spaces (OA2)
• Don Byron/Aruán Ortiz: Random Dances and (A)tonalities (Impakt)
• Jonas Cambien Trio: We Must Mustn't We (Clean Feed) **
• Camp Cope: How to Socialise & Make Friends (Run for Cover) **
• Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy (Matador) **
• François Carrier/Michel Lambert/Rafal Mazur: Beyond Dimensions (FMR)
• The Carters: Everything Is Love (Parkwood/Roc Nation) **
• Rosanne Cash: She Remembers Everything (Blue Note) **
• Brian Charette/George Coleman: Groovin' With Big G (SteepleChase) **
• Neneh Cherry: Broken Politics (Smalltown Supersound) **
• Chicago Edge Ensemble: Insidious Anthem (Trost) **
• Freddy Cole: My Mood Is You (HighNote) **
• Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. I (The Embedded Sets) (Pi, 2CD)
• Sean Conly: Hard Knocks (Clean Feed) **
• Frankie Cosmos: Vessel (Sub Pop) **
• Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: D'Agala (Intakt)
• CupcakKe: Ephorize (self-released) **
• CupcakKe: Eden (self-released) **
• Denzel Curry: TA1300 (Loma Vista) **
• Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba (ECM) **
• Chuck D as Mistachuck: Celebration of Ignorance (SpitSLAM) **
• DaBaby: Blank Blank (South Coast Music Group, EP) **
• Tim Daisy's Fulcrum Ensemble: Animation (Relay) **
• Michael Dessen Trio: Somewhere in the Upstream (Clean Feed) **
• Olegario Diaz: I Remember Chet (SteepleChase) **
• John Dikeman/George Hadow/Dirk Serries/Martina Verhoeven/Luis Vicente: Ideal Principle (Raw Tonk)
• Pierre Dørge: Soundscapes (SteepleChase) **
• Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart: Live at Jazz Standard: Saturday (Greenleaf Music, 2CD) **
• Hamid Drake/Joe McPhee: Keep Going (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
• Dream Wife: Dream Wife (Lucky Number) **
• Mia Dyberg Trio: Ticket! (Clean Feed) **
• Jason Eady: I Travel On (Old Guitar) **
• Open Mike Eagle: What Happens When I Try to Relax (Auto Reverse, EP) **
• Mr Eazi: Life Is Eazi, Vol. 2: Lagos to London (2018, Banku Music)
• Yelena Eckemoff: Desert (L&H Production)
• Marty Ehrlich: Trio Exaltation (Clean Feed) **
• The Equity & Social Justice Quartet: Argle-Bargle or Foofaraw (Edgetone)
• Marianne Faithfull: Negative Capability (BMG) **
• Flatbush Zombies: Vacation in Hell (Glorious Dead) **
• Sue Foley: The Ice Queen (Stony Plain) **
• Danny Fox Trio: The Great Nostalgist (Hot Cup)
• David Friesen: My Faith, My Life (Origin, 2CD)
• Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda: Mizu (Long Song) **
• Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda/Gianni Mimmo: Triad (Long Song)
• Full Blast: Rio (Trost) **
• Sergio Galvao/Lupa Santiago/Clement Landais/Franck Enouf: 2X2 (Origin)
• Brad Garton/Dave Soldier: The Brainwave Music Project (Mulatta)
• Dave Gisler Trio: Rabbits on the Run (Intakt)
• The Vinny Golia Sextet: Trajectory (Orenda/Nine Winds, 2CD) **
• Benito Gonzalez/Gerry Gibbs/Essiet Okon Essiet: Passion Reverence Transcendence: The Music of McCoy Tyner (Whaling City Sound)
• Devin Gray: Dirigo Rataplan II (Rataplan)
• Gordon Grdina's the Marrow: Ejdeha (Songlines) **
• Guillermo Gregorio/Rafal Mazur/Ramón López: Wandering the Sounds (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Grupo Mono Blanco: ¡Fandango! Sones Jaroches de Veracruz (Smithsonian Folkways) **
• Hamar Trio: Yesterday Is Here (Clean Feed) **
• Ross Hammond & Sameer Gupta: Mystery Well (Prescott) **
• Helena Hauff: Qualm (Ninja Tune) **
• The Heavyweights Brass Band: This City (Lulaworld)
• Eddie Henderson: Be Cool (Smoke Sessions) **
• Carlos Henriquez: Dizzy Con Clave: Live From Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (RodBros Music) **
• Hieroglyphic Being: The Red Notes (Soul Jazz) **
• Hinds: I Don't Run (Mom + Pop) **
• Hofbauer/Rosenthal Quartet: Human Resources (Creative Nation Music)
• Christopher Hollyday: Telepathy (Jazzbeat Productions)
• William Hooker Trio: Remembering (Astral Spirits) **
• Jon Hopkins: Singularity (Domino) **
• François Houle/Alexander Hawkins/Harris Eisenstadt: You Have Options (Songlines) **
• Rocco John Iacovone/Jack DeSalvo/Mark Hagan/Phil Sirois/Tom Cabrera: Connoisseurs of Chaos IV (Woodshedd) **
• Idles: Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan) **
• Ill Considered: Live at Total Refreshment Centre (Ill Considered Music) **
• Ill Considered: Live in Nantes (Ill Considered Music) **
• Imarhan: Temet (City Slang) **
• Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra: Down a Rabbit Hole (Summit)
• The Internet: Hive Mind (Columbia) **
• Ingrid Jensen/Steve Treseler: Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler (Whirlwind) **
• JLin: Autobiography [Music From Wayne McGregor's Autobiography] (Planet Mu) **
• Phillip Johnston & the Coolerators: Diggin' Bones (Asynchronous) **
• Russ Johnson: Headlands (Woolgathering) **
• Mike Jones/Penn Jillette: The Show Before the Show: Live at the Penn & Teller Theater (Capri)
• Jones Jones [Larry Ochs/Mark Dresser/Vladimir Tarasov]: A Jones in Time Saves Nine (NoBusiness) *
• Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra: Rats Live on No Evil Star (JCA)
• Kaze: Atody Man (Libra)
• Roy Kinsey: Blackie: A Story by Roy Kinsey (Not Normal) **
• Quin Kirchner: The Other Side of Time (Astral Spirits) **
• Rich Krueger: NOWThen (Rockin'K Music) **
• Peter Kuhn: Dependent Origination (FMR -17)
• Kuzu: Hiljaisuus (Astral Spirits) **
• Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices: Two Works for Orchestra With Soloists (Intakt)
• Daniel Levin/Chris Pitsiokos/Brandon Seabrook: Stomiidae (Dark Tree)
• Carol Liebowitz/Birgitta Flick: Malita-Malika (Leo)
• Lil Baby & Gunna: Drip Harder (Quality Control) **
• Johan Lindström Septett: Music for Empty Halls (Moserobie)
• Lithics: Mating Surfaces (Kill Rock Stars) **
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• Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams: Vanished Gardens (Blue Note) **
• Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas: Sound Prints: Scandal (Greenleaf Music)
• Igor Lumpert & Innertextures: Eleven (Clean Feed) **
• Roberto Magris: World Gardens (JMood)
• Roc Marciano: RR2: The Bitter Dose (Marci) **
• Marlowe: Marlowe (Mello Music Group) **
• MAST: Thelonious Sphere Monk (World Galaxy) **
• Masta Ace & Marco Polo: A Breukelen Story (Fat Beats) **
• Lonnie McFadden: Live at the Green Lady Lounge (Jazz Daddy)
• Bill McHenry Trio: Ben Entrada La Nit (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
• Joe McPhee/John Edwards/Klaus Kugel: Journey to Parazzar (Not Two) **
• Meek Mill: Championships (Maybach Music Group/Atlantic) **
• Shawn Mendes: Shawn Mendes (Island) **
• Hailu Mergia: Lala Belu (Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
• Metric: Art of Doubt (Metric/BMG) **
• Nicki Minaj: Queen (Young Money/Cash Money) **
• Miss Red: K.O. (Pressure) **
• Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud (FPE)
• Molly Tigre: Molly Tigre (Very Special) **
• François Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo: Interplay (Dot Time) **
• Murs: A Strange Journey Into the Unimaginable (Strange Music) **
• Patricia Nicholson/William Parker: Hope Cries for Justice (Centering)
• Angelika Niescier Trio: The Berlin Concert (Intakt)
• Fredrik Nordström: Needs (Clean Feed) **
• Miles Okazaki: Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonios Monk (self-released, 6CD) **
• Onyx Collective: Lower East Suite Part Three (Big Dada) **
• Orquesta Akokán (Daptone) **
• Aruán Ortiz Trio: Live in Zürich (Intakt)
• Caterina Palazzi/Sudoku Killer: Asperger (Clean Feed) **
• Eddie Palmieri: Full Circle (Ropeadope) **
• William Parker: Lake of Light: Compositions for AquaSonics (Gotta Let It Out)
• Aaron Parks: Little Big (Ropeadope)
• Ivo Perelman/Rudi Mahall: Kindred Spirits (Leo, 2CD)
• Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Mark Feldman/Jason Hwang: Strings 1 (Leo)
• Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Oneness (Leo, 3CD)
• Peripheral Vision: More Songs About Error and Shame (self-released)
• Houston Person & Ron Carter: Remember Love (HighNote) **
• Barre Phillips: End to End (ECM) **
• Dan Phillips/Hamid Drake: Trail of Inevitability (Lizard Breath) **
• Matt Piet & His Disorganization: Rummage Out (Clean Feed) **
• Alberto Pinton Trio: Röd (Clear Now) **
• Charlie Porter: Charlie Porter (Porter House) **
• Dafnis Prieto Big Band: Back to the Sunset (Dafnison) **
• Pusha T: Daytona (GOOD/Def Jam, EP) **
• Joshua Redman/Ron Miles/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Still Dreaming (Nonesuch) **
• Dave Rempis/Jasper Stadhouders/Frank Rosaly: Icoci (Aerophponic)
• Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (Epitaph) **
• Kristo Rodzevski: The Rabbit and the Fallen Sycamore (Much Prefer)
• Rolo Tomassi: Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (Holy Roar) **
• Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble: Rogue Star (Edgetone)
• Saba: Care for Me (Saba Pivot) **
• Jamie Saft: Solo a Genova (RareNoise) *
• Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi With Masahiko Satoh: Proton Pump (Family Vineyard) **
• Samo Salamon/Howard Levy: Peaks of Light (Sazas)
• Samo Salamon/Tony Malaby/Roberto Dani: Traveling Moving Breathing (Clean Feed)
• Hama Sankare: Ballébé: Calling All Africans (Clermont Music) **
• Trygve Seim: Helsinki Songs (ECM) **
• Senyawa: Sujud (Sublime Frequencies) **
• Serengeti: Dennis 6e (People) **
• Elliott Sharp Carbon: Transmigration at the Solar Max (Intakt) **
• Shannon Shaw: Shannon in Nashville (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch) **
• Amanda Shires: To the Sunset (Silver Knife) **
• Skee Mask: Compro (Ilian Tape) **
• Steve Slagle: Dedication (Panorama)
• Gary Smulyan: Alternative Contrafacts (SteepleChase) **
• Martial Solal: My One and Only Love: Live at Theater Gutersloh (Intuition) **
• Günter Baby Sommer: Baby's Party [Guest: Till Brönner] (Intakt)
• Sonar With David Torn: Vortex (RareNoise) *
• Sophie: Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (MSMSMSM/Future Classic) **
• Stéphane Spira: New Playground (Jazzmax)
• Edgar Steinitz: Roots Unknown (OA2)
• Subtle Degrees: A Dance That Empties (New Amsterdam) **
• Tal National: Tantabara (Fat Cat) **
• Tallawit Timbouctou: Hali Diallo (Sahel Sounds) **
• Trio Heinz Herbert: Yes (Intakt)
• Trio HLK: Standard Time (Ubuntu Music) **
• Chucho Valdés: Jazz Batá 2 (Mack Avenue) **
• Ken Vandermark/Klaus Kugel/Mark Tokar: No-Exit Corner (Not Two) **
• Piet Verbist: Suite Réunion (Origin)
• Jay T. Vonada: United (Summit)
• Walking Distance: Freebird by Walking Distance feat. Jason Moran (Sunnyside) **
• David S. Ware Trio: The Balance (Vision Festival XV+) (AUM Fidelity) **
• Kamasi Washington: Heaven and Earth (Young Turks, 2CD) **
• Salim Washington: Dogon Revisited (Passin' Thru) **
• Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live (ECM) **
• Jeff "Tain" Watts: Travel Band: Detained in Amsterdam (Dark Key) **
• Trevor Watts & RGG: RAFA (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Sheck Wes: Mudboy (Cactus Jack/GOOD Music/Interscope) **
• Barrence Whitfield & the Savages: Soul Flowers of Titan (Bloodshot) **
• Håvard Wiik Trio: This Is Not a Waltz (Moserobie)
• Jeff Williams: Lifelike (Whirlwind) **
• Florian Wittenburg: Four Waves (NurNichtNur)
• Aida Bird Wolfe: Birdie (self-released)
• Wreckless Eric: Construction Time & Demolition (Southern Domestic) **
• Wussy: What Heaven Is Like (Shake It) **
• Miguel Zenón: Yo Soy La Tradición (Miel Music)
• 3hattrio: Lord of the Desert (Okehdokee) **
• 10^32K: The Law of Vibration (self-released) **
• 700 Bliss: Spa 700 (Halcyon Veil/Don Giovanni, EP) **
• Juhani Aaltonen/Raoul Björkenheim: Awakening (Eclipse) **
• Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: An Angel Fell (Strut) **
• Sophie Agnel/John Edwards/Steve Noble: Aqisseq (ONJazz) **
• Aguankó: Pattern Recognition (Aguankó)
• Cyrille Aimée: Live (Mack Avenue) **
• Joey Alexander: Eclipse (Motéma) **
• Christopher Ali Solidarity Quartet: To Those Who Walked Before Us (Jazz Och Solidaritet) **
• JD Allen: Love Stone (Savant) **
• Jakob Anderskov: Mysteries (ILK) **
• Anguish: Anguish (RareNoise) *
• Lotte Anker/Pat Thomas/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Ståle Liavik Solberg: His Flight's at Ten (Iluso) **
• Tucker Antell: Grime Scene (OA2)
• Anteloper: Kudu (International Anthem) **
• Archivist & Fugal: Undertow (BleeD, EP) **
• Julian Argüelles: Tonadas (Edition) **
• Armand Hammer: Paraffin (Backwoodz Studioz) **
• Art Brut: Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out (Alcopop!) **
• Atmosphere: Mi Vida Local (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
• August Greene: August Greene (Fat Beats) **
• Baco Exu Do Blues: Bluesman (self-released) **
• John Bailey: In Real Time (Summit)
• Bali Baby: Resurrection (Twin, EP) **
• Dave Ballou & BeepHonk: The Windup (Clean Feed) **
• Balto!: Taco Cat Poops (self-released, EP) **
• J Balvin: Vibras (Universal Latino) **
• Andrew Barker/Daniel Carter: Polyhedron (Astral Spirits) **
• Joey Baron/Robyn Schulkowsky: Now You Hear Me (Intakt) **
• Kenny Barron Quintet: Concentric Circles (Blue Note) **
• Bruce Barth: Sunday (Blau) **
• Beach House: 7 (Sub Pop) **
• Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here to Stay (Verve/Columbia) **
• Bhad Bhabie: 15 (BHAD Music) **
• Rafiq Bhatia: Breaking English (Anti-) **
• Nick Biello: Vagabond Soul (Blujazz)
• Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner: Sounds Almighty (Tradition Disc) **
• Andy Biskin: 16 Tons: Songs From the Alan Lomax Collection (Andorfin)
• Blood Orange: Negro Swan (Domino) **
• Martin Blume/Tobias Delius/Achim Kaufmann/Dieter Manderscheid: Frames & Terrains (NoBusiness) *
• Martin Blume/Wilbert De Joode/John Butcher: Low Yellow (Jazzwerkstatt) **
• Geof Bradfield: Yes, and . . . Music for Nine Improvisers (Delmark) **
• Craig Brann: Lineage (SteepleChase) **
• Toni Braxton: Sex & Cigarettes (Def Jam) **
• Jakob Bro: Bay of Rainbows (ECM) **
• Brockhampton: Iridescence (RCA) **
• Brom: Sunstroke (Trost) **
• Magnus Broo Trio: Rules (Moserobie)
• Bruce: Sonder Somatic (Hessle Audio) **
• Greg Burk: The Detroit Songbook (SteepleChase) **
• Chris Byars: New York City Jazz (SteepleChase) **
• Camila Cabello: Camila (Syco/Epic) **
• Francesco Cafiso: We Play for Tips (EFLAT/Incipit) **
• Dustin Carlson: Air Ceremony (Out of Your Head)
• Cavern of Anti-Matter: Hormone Lemonade (Duophonic) **
• Guillermo Celano/Jachim Badenhorst/Marcos Baggiani: Lili & Marleen (Clean Feed) **
• Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop: Abundance (Anzic)
• The Chills: Snow Bound (Fire) **
• Chloe x Halle: The Kids Are Alright (Parkwood/Columbia) **
• Christine and the Queens: Chris (Because Music) **
• Mike Clark & Delbert Bump: Retro Report (Ropeadope) **
• Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning (Carpark) **
• The Coathangers: Live (Suicide Squeeze) **
• Brent Cobb: Providence Canyon (Low Country Sound/Elektra) **
• J. Cole: KOD (Roc Nation) **
• Richie Cole: Cannonball (RCP)
• Marco Colonna/Agustí Fernandez/Zlatko Kaucic: Agrakal (Not Two) **
• Mário Costa: Oxy Patina (Clean Feed) **
• Cypress Hill: Elephants on Acid (BMG) **
• Tim Daisy: Configurations (Relay) **
• Maria Da Rocha: Beetroot & Other Stories (Shhpuma) **
• Caroline Davis: Heart Tonic (Sunnyside) **
• Kris Davis/Matt Mitchell/Aruán Ortiz/Matthew Shipp: New American Songbooks: Volume 2 (Sound American) **
• Michael Dease: Bonafide (Posi-Tone) **
• Benoît Delbecq 4: Spots on Stripes (Clean Feed) **
• Christopher Dell/Johannes Brecht/Christian Lillinger/Jonas Westergaard: Boulez Materialism: Live in Concert (Plaist) **
• Julien Desprez/Luís Lopes: Boa Tarde (Shhpuma) *
• Fatoumata Diawara: Fenfo: Something to Say (Shanachie) **
• Sam Dillon: Out in the Open (Cellar Live) **
• District Five: Decoy (Intakt)
• Dogwood: Hecate's Hounds (Nusica.org)
• Roberta Donnay & the Prohibition Mob Band: My Heart Belongs to Satchmo (Blujazz)
• Yelena Eckemoff: Better Than Gold and Silver (L&H Production, 2CD)
• Colin Edwin & Lorenzo Feliciati: Twinscapes Vol. 2: A Modern Approach to the Dancefloor (RareNoise) *
• Eminem: Kamikaze (Aftermath/Shady/Interscope) **
• Enemy: Enemy (Edition) **
• Epic Beard Men: Season 1 (Strange Famous) **
• Peter Evans/Agusti Fernandez/Barry Guy: Free Radicals at DOM (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• FAVX: Welfare (Miel de Moscas/Burger, EP) **
• Bryan Ferry and His Orchestra: Bitter-Sweet (BMG) **
• Fickle Friends: You Are Someone Else (Polydor) **
• Nick Finzer's Hear & Now: Live in New York City (Outside In) **
• Fire!: The Hands (Rune Grammofon) **
• George FitzGerald: All That Must Be (Double Six) **
• Birgitta Flick Quartet: Color Studies (Double Moon) **
• Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet: Time Like This (Intakt)
• Nils Frahm: All Melody (Erased Tapes) **
• Erik Friedlander: Artemisia (Skipstone) **
• Gabriela Friedli Trio: Areas (Leo) **
• Bill Frisell: Music IS (Okeh) **
• Satoko Fujii: Solo (Libra)
• Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: Ninety-Nine Years (Libra)
• Ezra Furman: Transangelic Exodus (Bella Union) **
• Ben LaMar Gay: Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (International Anthem) **
• Freddie Gibbs: Freddie (ESGN/Empire, EP) **
• Ginkgoa: One Time (self-released, EP) **
• Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell: Bop Stop (Clean Feed) **
• The Go! Team: Semi-Circle (Memphis Industries) **
• Aaron Goldberg: At the Edge of the World (Sunnyside)
• Vinny Golia/Henry Kaiser/Bob Moses/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter: Astral Plane Crash (Balance Point Acoustics) **
• Victor Gould: Earthlings (Criss Cross) **
• Johan Graden: Olägenheter (Moserobie)
• Maria Grand: Magdalena (Biophilia) **
• Justin Gray & Synthesis: New Horizons (self-released)
• Danny Green Trio Plus Strings: One Day It Will (OA2)
• Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Other Side (ECM) **
• Gwenno: Le Kov (Heavenly) **
• Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live From San Pedro (Capri)
• Scott Hamilton: Moon Mist (Blau) **
• Scott Hamilton Trio: Live at Pyatt Hall (Cellar Live) **
• The Heat Death: The Glenn Miller Sessions (Clean Feed, 3CD) **
• Here's to Us: Animals, Wild and Tame (Hoob Jazz) **
• Fred Hersch Trio: Live in Europe (Palmetto)
• Haley Heynderickx: I Need to Start a Garden (Mama Bird) **
• Will Hoge: My American Dream (Thirty Tigers/EDLO, EP) **
• Homeboy Sandman & Edan: Humble Pi (Stones Throw, EP) **
• Adam Hopkins: Crickets (Out of Your Head)
• Charlotte Hug & Lucas Niggli: Fulguratio: Live at Ad Libitum 2016 (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• ICP Orchestra: Live at the Royal Room: Second Set: 6 May 2015 (ICP) **
• Ill Considered: Live in Camden Town (Ill Considered Music) **
• Jon Irabagon Quartet: Dr. Quixotic's Traveling Exotics (Irabbagast)
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Una Noche Con Rubén Blades (Blue Engine)
• Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History (Blue Schist)
• Park Jiha: Communion (Tak:til) **
• Thomas Johansson: Home Alone (Tammtz)
• Wilko Johnson: Blow Your Mind (Chess) **
• Vic Juris: Eye Contact (SteepleChase) **
• Ryan Keberle/Frank Woeste: Reverso: Suite Ravel (Phonoart)
• Roger Kellaway Trio: New Jazz Standards Vol. 3 (Summit)
• Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Flyin' Through Florida (Summit)
• Kids See Ghosts [Kanye West/Kid Cudi]: Kids See Ghosts (GOOD/Def Jam, EP) **
• Gayle Kolb: Getting Sentimental (JeruJazz)
• Simone Kopmajer: Spotlight on Jazz (Lucky Mojo)
• Sarathy Korwar and Upaj Collective: My East Is Your West (Gearbox) **
• Fredrik Kronkvist: Kronicles (Connective) **
• Rich Krueger: Life Ain't That Long (Rockink) **
• Joachim Kühn New Trio: Love & Peace (ACT) **
• Rolf Kühn: Yellow + Blue (Edel/MPS) **
• Andrew Lamb Trio: The Casbah of Love (Birdwatcher) **
• Lana Trio: Lana Trio With Sofia Jernberg (Clean Feed) **
• Azar Lawrence: Elementals (HighNote) **
• Pablo Ledesma/Pepa Angelillo/Mono Hurtado/Carlo Brandan: Gato Barbieri Revisitado (Discos ICM) **
• Bongwool Lee: My Singing Fingers (Origin)
• Robbie Lee & Mary Halvorson: Seed Triangular (New Amsterdam) **
• Leikeli47: Acrylic (Hardcover/RCA) **
• José Lencastre Nau Quartet: Eudaimonia (FMR) **
• Allegra Levy: Looking at the Moon (SteepleChase) **
• Lil Baby: Harder Than Ever (Quality Control) **
• Lil Wayne: Tha Carter V (Young Money/Republic) **
• Jon Lipscomb Quartet: Fodder (self-released) **
• Living Fossil: Never Die! (self-released)
• Loretta Lynn: Wouldn't It Be Great (Legacy) **
• Mad Crush: Mad Crush (Upon This Rock, EP) **
• Ahmoudou Madassane: Zerzura (Sahel Sounds) **
• Joe Magnarelli: Magic Trick (SteepleChase) **
• Mahobin: Live at Big Apple in Kobe (Libra)
• Debra Mann: Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell (Whaling City Sound)
• Amber Mark: Conexão (Virgin EMI, EP) **
• Ben Markley Quartet: Basic Economy (OA2)
• Thomas Marriott: Romance Language (Origin)
• Nicolas Masson: Travelers (ECM) **
• Muncie Girls: Fixed Ideals (Buzz) **
• Master Oogway: The Concert Koan (Clean Feed) **
• Christian McBride: Christian McBride's New Jawn (Mack Avenue) **
• Ashley McBryde: Girl Going Nowhere (Warner Nashville) **
• Brian McCarthy: Codex (self-released)
• Solon McDade: Murals (self-released)
• Erin McDougald: Outside the Soirée (Miles High)
• Kate McGarry/Keith Ganz/Gary Versace: The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown)
• Nellie McKay: Sister Orchid (Palmetto) **
• Dave McMurray: Music Is Life (Blue Note) **
• Migos: Culture II (Quality Control/Motown/Capitol, 2CD) **
• Rhett Miller: The Messenger (ATO) **
• Lello Molinari: Lello's Italian Job Volume 2 (Fata Morgana Music)
• Michael Morreale: MilesSong: The Music of Miles Davis (Summit, 2CD)
• Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco: You're Driving Me Crazy (Legacy) **
• Van Morrison: The Prophet Speaks (Exile) **
• Moskus: Mirakler (Hubro) **
• Michael Moss/Accidental Orchestra: Helix (4th Stream)
• John Moulder: Decade: Memoirs (Origin)
• Mr. Fingers: Cerebral Hemispheres (Aleviated) **
• Al Muirhead's Canadian Quintet: Undertones (Chronograph)
• David Murray feat. Saul Williams: Blues for Memo (Motéma) **
• Wolfgang Muthspiel: Where the River Goes (ECM) **
• Nas: Nasir (Mass Appeal/Def Jam, EP) **
• Rico Nasty: Nasty (Sugar Trap) **
• The Necks: Body (Northern Spy) **
• Tami Neilson: Sassafrass! (Outside Music) **
• Peter Nelson: Ash, Dust, and the Chalkboard Cinema (Outside In Music)
• Willie Nelson: My Way (Legacy) **
• Adam Nussbaum: The Lead Belly Project (Sunnyside) **
• Objekt: Cocoon Crush (PAN) **
• Ohmme: Parts (Joyful Noise) **
• Jeff Parker/Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Devin Gray: The Diagonal Filter (Not Two) **
• William Parker: Flower in a Stained-Glass Window/The Blinking of the Ear (Centering/AUM Fidelity, 2CD) **
• Chris Pasin: Ornettiquette (Planet Arts)
• Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Magnus Broo: Daughter of the Sun (Odin) **
• Grant Peeples & the Peeples Republik: Settling Scores Vol. II (Gatorbone) **
• Jeremy Pelt: Noir En Rouge: Live in Paris (HighNote) **
• Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Hank Roberts/Ned Rothenberg: Strings 2 (Leo)
• Dan Phillips Trio: Divergent Flow (Lizard Breath) **
• Phonte: No News Is Good News (Foreign Exchange) **
• Leslie Pintchik: You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl! (Pintch Hard)
• Alberto Pinton Noi Siamo: Opus Facere (Clean Feed) **
• Chris Pitsiokos CP Unit: Silver Bullet in the Autumn of Your Years (Clean Feed) **
• Mikkel Ploug/Mark Turner: Faroe (Sunnyside) **
• Pocket Aces: Cull the Heard (Creative Nation Music)
• Verneri Pohjola/Maciej Garbowski/Krzysztof Gradziuk: Gemstones (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Popcaan: Forever (Mixpak) **
• Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble: From Maxville to Vanport (PJCE)
• Post Malone: Beerbongs & Bentleys (Republic) **
• Noah Preminger: Genuinity (Criss Cross) **
• Proc Fiskal: Insula (Hyperdub) **
• Jure Pukl: Doubtless (Whirlwind)
• Joey Purp: Quarterthing (self-released) **
• Quoan [Brian Walsh/Daniel Rosenboom/Sam Minaie/Mark Ferber]: Fine Dining (Orenda) **
• Nikita Rafaelov: Spirit of Gaia (Gotta Let It Out)
• Antonio Raia: Asylum (Clean Feed) **
• Kristjan Randalu: Absence (ECM) **
• Mette Rasmussen & Chris Corsano: A View of the Moon (From the Sun) (Clean Feed) **
• Andrew Rathbun: Character Study (SteepleChase) **
• John Raymond & Real Feels: Joy Ride (Sunnyside) **
• Rejoicer: Energy Dreams (Stones Throw) **
• Dave Rempis/Tomeka Reid/Joshua Abrams: Ithra (Aerophonic)
• Margo Rey: The Roots of Rey/Despacito Margo (Origin)
• The Rempis/Daisy Duo & Guests: Dodecahedron (Aerophonic, 2CD) **
• RGG/Verneri Pohjola/Samuel Blaser: City of Gardens (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Stephanie Richards: Fullmoon (Relative Pitch) **
• Robyn: Honey (Konichawa/Interscope) **
• Ernesto Rodrigues/Guilherme Rodrigues/Bruno Parrinha/Luís Lopes/Vasco Trillo: Lithos (Creative Sources)
• Jay Rodriguez: Your Sound: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (Whaling City Sound)
• Rich Rosenthal/Jack DeSalvo/Tom Cabrera: Connoisseurs of Chaos (Woodshedd) **
• Renee Rosnes: Beloved of the Sky (Smoke Sessions) **
• Ross From Friends: Family Portrait (Brainfeeder) **
• Rudy Royston: Flatbed Buggy (Greenleaf Music) **
• Dori Rubbicco: Stage Door Live! (Whaling City Sound)
• Jacob Sacks: Fishes (Clean Feed) **
• Akira Sakata/Simon Nabatov/Takashi Seo/Darren Moore: Not Seeing Is a Flower (Leo) **
• Christian Sands: Reach Further EP (Mack Avenue) **
• Christian Sands: Facing Dragons (Mack Avenue) **
• John Scofield: Combo 66 (Verve) **
• Travis Scott: Astroworld (Epic/Grand Hustle) **
• Lauren Sevian: Bliss (Posi-Tone) **
• Matthew Shipp Quartet: Sonic Fiction (ESP-Disk) **
• Sibarg Ensemble: Cipher (self-released)
• Julian Siegel Quartet: Vista (Whirlwind) **
• Susana Santos Silva: All the Rivers: Live at Panteão Nacional (Clean Feed) **
• Jared Sims: The New York Sessions (Ropeadope)
• Josh Sinton's Predicate Trio: Making Bones, Taking Draughts, Bearing Unstable Millstones Pridefully, Idiotically, Prosaically (Iluso) **
• SLUGish Ensemble: An Eight Out of Nine (Slow & Steady) **
• Jorja Smith: Lost & Found (FAMM) **
• Walter Smith III/Matthew Stevens/Joel Ross/Harish Raghavan/Marcus Gilmore: In Commmon (Whirlwind) **
• Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt: Jubilation! Celebrating Cannonball Adderley (Savant) *
• Soccer Mommy: Clean (Fat Possum) **
• Il Sogno: Birthday (Gotta Let It Out -17)
• Tyshaw Sorey: Pillars (Firehouse 12, 3CD)
• Mark Soskin: Upper West Side Stories (SteepleChase) **
• Luciana Souza: The Book of Longing (Sunnyside) **
• Spectral [Dave Rempis/Darren Johnston/Larry Ochs]: Empty Castles (Aerophonic) **
• Alister Spence/Satoko Fujii: Intelset (Alister Spence Music)
• Spin Cycle [Scott Neumann/Tom Christensen]: Assorted Colors (Sound Footing)
• Vince Staples: FM! (Def Jam, EP) **
• Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen on Broadway (Columbia, 2CD) **
• Mike Steinel Quintet: Song and Dance (OA2)
• Bobo Stenson Trio: Contra La Indecisión (ECM) **
• Michael Jefry Stevens Quartet: Red's Blues (ARC) **
• Jon Rune Strøm Quintet: Fragments (Clean Feed) **
• Yuhan Su: City Animals (Sunnyside) **
• James Suggs: You're Gonna Hear From Me (Arbors) **
• Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive (Merge) **
• Superorganism: Superorganism (Domino) **
• John Surman: Invisible Threads (ECM) **
• Anders Svanoe: 747 Queen of the Skies: State of the Baritone Volume 3 (Irabbagast) **
• Ebo Taylor: Yen Ara (Mr. Bongo) **
• Thiefs: Graft (Le Greffe) (Jazz & People)
• This Is It! [Satoko Fujii]: 1538 (Libra)
• Tracey Thorn: Record (Merge) **
• Tirzah: Devotion (Domino) **
• Rafael Toral/Hugo Antunes/João Pais Filipe/Ricardo Webbens: Space Quartet (Clean Feed) **
• Ricardo Toscano: Quartet (Clean Feed) **
• Sidi Touré: Toubalbero (Thrill Jockey) **
• Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan: Happy Endings (Odin) **
• Tropical Fuck Storm: A Laughing Death in Meatspace (Tropical Fuck Storm/Mistletone) **
• Mark Turner/Ethan Iverson: Temporary Kings (ECM) **
• Turning Jewels Into Water: Which Way Is Home? (FPE, EP) **
• Jeff Tweedy: Warm (dBpm) **
• Steve Tyrell: A Song for You (New Design)
• Underworld & Iggy Pop: Teatime Dub Encounters (Caroline, EP) **
• U.S. Girls: In a Poem Unlimited (4AD) **
• Valee: GOOD Job, You Found Me (GOOD Music, EP) **
• Mike Vax & Ron Romm: Collaboration (Summit)
• Harry Vetro: Northern Ranger (T.Sound)
• Andrés Vial: Andrés Vial Plays Thelonious Monk: Sphereology Volume One (Chromatic Audio)
• Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK: Wet Robots (ESP-Disk) **
• Will Vinson: It's Alright With Three (Criss Cross) **
• Jerry Vivino: Coast to Coast (Blujazz)
• Cuong Vu 4Tet: Change in the Air (RareNoise) **
• Leon Vynehall: Nothing Is Still (Ninja Tune) **
• Mark Wade Trio: Moving Day (self-released)
• Colter Wall: Songs of the Plains (Young Mary's) **
• Kobie Watkins Grouptet: Movement (Origin)
• Ernie Watts Quartet: Home Light (Flying Dolphin)
• Way North: Fearless and Kind (self-released)
• Doug Webb: Fast Friends (Posi-Tone) **
• Weird Beard [Florian Egli/Dave Gisler/Martina Berther/Rico Bauman]: Orientation (Intakt)
• Walt Weiskopf: European Quartet (Orenda) **
• Bugge Wesseltoft/Prins Thomas: Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas (Smalltown Supersound) **
• Dee White: Southern Gentleman (Easy Eye Sound/Warner Music Nashville) **
• Dr. Michael White: Tricentennial Rag (Basin Street) **
• Brad Whiteley: Presence (Destiny)
• Kamaal Williams: The Return (Black Focus) **
• Mars Williams: Mars Williams Presents an Ayler Xmas: Volume 2 (Soul What) **
• Jamie Lin Wilson: Jumping Over Rocks (self-released) **
• WoodWired: In the Loop (UT Arlington)
• Yoko Yamaoka: Diary 2005-2015: Yuko Yamaoka Plays the Music of Satoko Fujii (Libra, 2CD)
• YoshimiO/Susie Ibarra/Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe: Flower of Sulphur (Thrill Jockey) **
• Peter Zak Quartet Featuring Marcos Varela: One Mind (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
• Denny Zeitlin/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Wishing on the Moon (Sunnyside) **
• Patrick Zimmerli Quartet: Clockworks (Songlines) **
• Ambrose Akinmusire: Origami Harvest (Blue Note) **
• Amen Dunes: Freedom (Sacred Bones) **
• Amnesia Scanner: Another Life (Pan) **
• Amu: Weave (Libra)
• Dave Anderson: Melting Pot (Label1)
• Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain (Fat Possum/Mama Bird) **
• Lynne Arriale Trio: Give Us These Days (Challenge) **
• Asleep at the Wheel: New Routes (Bismeaux) **
• Tiffany Austin: Unbroken (Con Alma)
• Daniel Avery: Song for Alpha (Phantasy Sound/Mute) **
• Danny Bacher: Still Happy (Whaling City Sound)
• Bad Bunny: X 100PRE (Rimas Entertainment) **
• Alice Bag: Blueprint (Don Giovanni) **
• Bob Baldori/Arthur Migliazza: The Boogie Kings: Disturbing the Peace (Blujazz)
• Marcia Ball: Shine Bright (Alligator) **
• Barker Trio: Avert Your I (Astral Spirits) **
• Jon Batiste: Hollywood Africans (Verve) **
• Jamie Baum Septet+: Bridges (Sunnyside) **
• BCUC: Emakhosini (Buda Musique) **
• Beak>: >>> (Temporary Residence) **
• Ben Bennett/Zach Darrup/Jack Wright: Never (Palliative) **
• Eraldo Bernocchi: Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It (RareNoise) *
• The Beths: Future Me Hates Me (Carpark) **
• Carlos Bica & Azul: Azul in Ljubljana (Clean Feed) **
• Big Bold Back Bone: Emerge (Wide Ear)
• Terence Blanchard: Live (Blue Note) **
• Samuel Blaser With Marc Ducret/Peter Bruun: Taktlos Zurich 2017 (Hatology) **
• Samuel Blaser: Early in the Mornin' (Out Note) **
• The Bottle Rockets: Bit Logic (Bloodshot) **
• Boy Azooga: (One) (Two) (Kung Fu!) (Heavenly) **
• Andrea Brachfeld: If Not Now, When? (Jazzheads)
• The Breeders: All Nerve (4AD) **
• Leon Bridges: Good Thing (Columbia) **
• Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh: Sparrow Nights (Trost) **
• Sheldon Brown Group: Blood of the Air (Edgetone)
• Sarah Buechi: Contradiction of Happiness (Intakt)
• Burna Boy: Outside (Atlantic) **
• R.L. Boyce: Rattlesnake Boogie (Waxploitation) **
• Butcher Brown: Camden Session (Gearbox) **
• Harley Card: The Greatest Invention (self-released)
• Dillon Carmichael: Hell on an Angel (Riser House) **
• Playboi Carti: Die Lit (AWGE/Interscope) **
• Neko Case: Hell-On (Anti-) **
• Lynn Cassiers: Imaginary Band (Clean Feed) **
• Dan Cavanaugh/Dave Hagedorn: 20 Years (UT Arlington)
• Chamber 3: Transatlantic (OA2)
• Lando Chill: Black Ego (Mello Music Group) **
• Chrome Hill: The Explorer (Clean Feed) **
• Chvrches: Love Is Dead (Glassnote) **
• Scott Clark: ToNow (Clean Feed) **
• Zack Clarke: Mesophase (Clean Feed) **
• Jon Cleary: Dyna-Mite (FHQ) **
• Dawn Clement: Tandem (Origin)
• The Nels Cline 4: Currents Constellations (Blue Note) **
• Anat Cohen/Fred Hersch: Live in Healdsburg (Anzic) **
• George Colligan: Nation Divided (Whirlwind) **
• The Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band: Chinese Butterfly (Stretch/Concord, 2CD) **
• George Cotsirilos Quartet: Mostly in Blue (OA2)
• Elysia Crampton (Break World, EP) **
• Marilyn Crispell/Tanya Kalmanovitch/Richard Teitelbaum: Dream Libretto (Leo) **
• Rodney Crowell: Acoustic Classics (RC1) **
• Ronnie Cuber: Ronnie's Trio (SteepleChase) **
• Francesco Cusa & the Assassins Meets Duccio Bertini: Black Poker (Clean Feed) **
• Tomasz Dabrowski Ad Hoc: Ninjazz (ForTune) **
• Lucy Dacus: Historian (Matador) **
• Dennis Llewellyn Day: Bossa, Blues and Ballads (DDay Media Group)
• Detroit Bop Quintet: Two Birds (TQM, EP)
• Robert Diack: Lost Villages (self-released)
• Dos Santos: Logos (International Anthem) **
• Drone Trio [Evelyn Davis/Fred Frith/Phillip Greenlief]: Lantskap Logic (Clean Feed) **
• Drums & Tuba: Triumph! (Ropeadope) **
• Elina Duni: Partir (ECM) **
• Dystil: Dystil (Clean Feed) **
• Kat Edmonson: Old Fashioned Gal (MRI) **
• Jake Ehrenreich: A Treasury of Jewish Christmas Songs (self-released)
• Emmeluth's Amoeba: Polyp (Øra Fonogram) **
• Erin Rae: Putting on Airs (Single Lock) **
• John Escreet: Learn to Live (Blue Room) **
• The Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures Monday Nights: Volume One (Bopper Spock Suns Music)
• Fred Farell: Distant Song (Whaling City Sound)
• Fat Tony: 10,000 Hours (self-released) **
• Román Filiú: Quarteria (Sunnyside) **
• Florence + the Machine: High as Hope (Virgin EMI) **
• Michael Foster/Katherine Young/Michael Zerang: Bind the Hand(s) That Feed (Relative Pitch)
• Kinky Friedman: Circus of Life (Echo Hill) **
• Tia Fuller: Diamond Cut (Mack Avenue) **
• Gaika: Basic Volume (Warp) **
• Fernando Garcia: Guasabara Puerto Rico (Zoho) **
• Billy F Gibbons: The Big Bad Blues (Concord) **
• GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star (Blue Note) **
• Vinny Golia/Steph Richards/Bert Turetzky: Trio Music (PfMentum) **
• Diana Gordon: Pure (self-released, EP) **
• Randy Halberstadt: Open Heart (Origin)
• James Hall: Lattice (Outside In Music)
• Mary Halvorson: Code Girl (Firehouse 12)
• Hamell on Trial: The Night Guy at the Apocalypse: Profiles of a Rushing Midnight (Saustex) **
• Eric Harland: 13th Floor (13th Floor) **
• Clay Harper: Bleak Beauty (self-released) **
• Phil Haynes & Free Country: 60/69: My Favorite Things (Corner Store Jazz, 2CD)
• Shay Hazan: Good Morning Universe (NoBusiness, EP) *
• David Hazeltine: The Time Is Now (Smoke Sessions) **
• Gerry Hemingway/Samuel Blaser: Oostum (NoBusiness) *
• Lauren Henderson: Ármame (Brontosaurus)
• G Herbo & Southside: Swervo (Machine/Epic/Cinematic/150 Dream Team/808 Mafia) **
• Monika Herzig: Sheroes (Whaling City Sound)
• Hieroglyphic Being: The Replicant Dream Sequence (Moog Recordings Library) **
• Tyler Higgins: Blue Mood (Shhpuma) **
• Steve Hobbs: Tribute to Bobby (Challenge)
• Amos Hoffman/Noam Lemish: Pardes (self-released)
• Claus Højensgård/Emanuele Mariscalco/Nelide Bendello: Høbama (Gotta Let It Out)
• Honest John w/ Ab Baars: Treem (Clean Feed) **
• Hookworms: Microshift (Domino) **
• Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Saddle Creek) **
• Carl Ludwig Hübsch/Pierre-Yves Martel/Philip Zoubek: Otherwise (Insub) **
• Nipsey Hussle: Victory Lap (All Money In/Atlantic) **
• Juan Ibarra Quinteto: NauMay (self-released) **
• ICP Orchestra: Live at the Royal Room: First Set: 6 May 2015 (ICP) **
• Gene Jackson Trio NuYorx: Power of Love (Whirlwind)
• Tomo Jacobson/Maria Laurette Friis/Emanuele Maniscalco + Karlis Auzixs: Split : Body (Getta Let It Out) *
• José James: Lean on Me (Blue Note) **
• Janczarski & McCraven Quintet: Liberator (ForTune) **
• Mick Jenkins: Pieces of a Man (Cinematic) **
• J.I.D: DiCaprio 2 (Dreamville/Interscope) **
• Cody Jinks: Lifers (Rounder) **
• Phillip Johnston: The Adventuers of Prince Achmed (Asychronous) **
• Anthony Joseph: People of the Sun (Heavenly Sweetness) **
• Juice WRLD: Goodbye & Good Riddance (self-released) **
• Mark Kavuma: Kavuma (Ubuntu Music) **
• Khalid: Suncity (RCA, EP) **
• Khruangbin: Con Todo El Mundo (Dead Oceans) **
• Hayley Kiyoko: Expectations (Empire/Atlantic) **
• Knalpot: Dierendag (Shhpuma) **
• Adam Kolker & Russ Lossing: Whispers and Secrets (Fresh Sound) **
• Martin Küchen/Rafal Mazur: Baza (NoBusiness) *
• Kukuruz Quartet: Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations (Intakt) **
• Femi Kuti: One People One World (Knitting Factory) **
• Lawful Citizen: Internal Combustion (self-released)
• Mike LeDonne and the Groover Quartet: From the Heart (Savant) **
• Ravyn Lenae: Crush (Atlantic, EP) **
• Adrianne Lenker: Abysskiss (Saddle Creek) **
• Jinx Lennon: Grow a Pair!!! (Septic Tiger) **
• Let's Eat Grandma: I'm All Ears (Transgressive) **
• Lykke Li: So Sad So Sexy (RCA) **
• Dave Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/Adam Rudolph: The Unknowable (RareNoise) *
• Dave Liebman/John Stowell: Petite Fleur: The Music of Sidney Bechet (Origin)
• Chris Lightcap: Superette (The Royal Potato Family) **
• Brandon Lopez: Quoniam Facta Sum Vilis (Astral Spirits) **
• Low: Double Negative (Sub Pop) **
• Doug MacDonald Trio: View of the City (Blujazz)
• The Doug MacDonald Quintet/The Roger Neumann Quintet: Two Quintets: Live Upstairs at Vitello's (Blujazz, 2CD)
• The Maguire Twins: Seeking Higher Ground (Three Tree)
• Maisha: There Is a Place (Brownswood) **
• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Sparkle Hard (Matador) **
• Maribou State: Kingdoms in Colour (Counter) **
• Deanne Matley: Because I Loved (self-released)
• Pete McCann: Pay for It on the Other Side (McCannis Music)
• Ernest McCarty Jr./Theresa Davis: I Remember Love (Blujazz)
• Donny McCaslin: Blow. (Motéma) **
• Ryan Meagher: Lost Days (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
• Brad Mehldau: Seymour Reads the Constitution! (Nonesuch) **
• Joachim Mencel Quintet: Artisena (ForTune) **
• MIKE: Black Soap (Lex, EP) **
• MIKE: Renaissance Man (Lex) **
• Allison Miller/Carmen Staaf: Science Fair (Sunnyside) **
• Mac Miller: Swimming (REMember Music/Warner Bros.) **
• Parker Millsap: Other Arrangements (Okrahoma) **
• Dom Minasi/Juampy Juarez: Freeland (Cirko) **
• Liudas Mockünas: Hydro 2 (NoBusiness)
• Joel Moore/Nick Mizock/Paul Scherer/Michael Barton/Paul Townsend: Magnetic EP (Blujazz)
• Kelly Moran: Ultraviolet (Warp) **
• Joey Morant: Forever Sanctified (Blujazz)
• Whitey Morgan and the 78's: Hard Times and White Lines (Whitey Morgan Music) **
• Rae Morris: Someone Out There (Atlantic) **
• Møster!: States of Minds (Hubro, 2CD) **
• Kjetil Møster/John Edwards/Dag Erik Knedal Andersen: Different Shapes/Immersion (Va Fongool) **
• Mount Eerie: Now Only (PW Elverum & Sun) **
• Música De Selvagem: Volume Único (Shhpuma, EP) **
• Myriad 3: Vera (ALMA)
• Meshell Ndegeocello: Ventriloquism (Naïve) **
• Danielle Nicole: Cry No More (Concord) **
• Lucas Niggli: Alchemia Garden (Intakt)
• Judy Night Quintet: Sliding on Glass: Live at 210 (Blujazz)
• Uwe Oberg/Heinz Sauer: Sweet Reason (Jazzwerkstatt) **
• Adam O'Farrill's Stranger Days: El Maquech (Biophilia) **
• Meg Okura/Sam Newsome/Jean-Michel Pilc: NPO Trio Live at the Stone (Chant) **
• Meg Okura & the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble: Ima Ima (Chant) **
• Old Crow Medicine Show: Volunteer (Columbia Nashville) **
• Old Man Saxon: The Pursuit (Pusher, EP) **
• Oneohtrix Point Never: Age Of (Warp) **
• Otherworld Ensemble: Live at Malmitalo (Edgetone)
• Jason Palmer: At Wally's: Volume 1 (SteepleChase) **
• Evan Parker/Eddie Prevost: Tools of Imagination (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• Ivo Perelman/Jason Stein: Spiritual Prayers (Leo)
• Madeleine Peyroux: Anthem (Decca) **
• Roberta Piket: West Coast Trio (13th Note)
• Lucas Pino's No Net Nonet: That's a Computer (Outside In Music)
• Chris Pitsiokos/Susana Santos Silva/Torbjörn Zetterberg: Child of Illusion (Clean Feed) **
• John Pittman: Kinship (Slammin' Media)
• Chris Platt Trio: Sky Glow (self-released)
• Princess Nokia: A Girl Cried Red (Rough Trade, EP) **
• Protoje: A Matter of Time (Easy Star) **
• Psymun: All Killer No Filler (self-released, EP) **
• Charlie Puth: Voicenotes (Atlantic) **
• Allen Ravenstine: Waiting for the Bomb (Morphius/ReR Megacorp) **
• Steve Reich: Pulse/Quartet (Nonesuch) **
• Bebe Rexha: Expectations (Warner Brothers) **
• Rhio: A Rhio Good Thing (Beso)
• Mattias Risberg: Stamps (Clean Feed) **
• Rival Consoles: Persona (Erased Tapes) **
• Jay Rock: Redemption (Top Dawg/Interscope) **
• Roller Trio: New Devices (Edition) **
• Jeff Rosenstock: Post- (Polyvinyl) **
• Scott Routenberg Trio: Supermoon (Summit)
• Royce Da 5'9": Book of Ryan (EOne) **
• Rüfüs Du Sol: Solace (Reprise) **
• Anne Sajdera: New Year (Bijuri)
• Cécile McLorin Salvant: The Window (Mack Avenue) **
• Cecilia Sanchietti: La Verza Via (Blujazz)
• Boz Scaggs: Out of the Blues (Concord) **
• Scheen Jazzorchester/Eyolf Dale: Commuter Report (Losen)
• JP Schlegelmilch/Jonathan Goldberger/Jim Black: Visitors (Skirl) **
• J. Peter Schwalm: How We Fall (RareNoise) *
• Ty Segall & White Fence: Joy (Drag City) **
• Sara Serpa: Close Up (Clean Feed)
• Shad: A Short Story About a War (Secret City) **
• Shakers n' Bakers: Heart Love: Plays the Music of Albert Ayler and Mary Maria Parks (Little i Music)
• Andy Sheppard Quartet: Romaria (ECM)
• Matthew Shipp: Zero (ESP-Disk) **
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Years (Bloodshot) **
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: On Audiotree Live (Audiotree, EP)
• Aaron Shragge & Ben Monder: The World of Dew (Human Resource)
• Edward Simon: Sorrows & Triumphs (Sunnyside)
• Sleep: The Sciences (Third Man) **
• Snail Mail: Lush (Matador) **
• Speedy Ortiz: Twerp Verse (Carpark) **
• Zhenya Strigalev: Blues for Maggie (Whirlwind) **
• Subtone: Moose Blues (Laika)
• Sunflower Bean: Twentytwo in Blue (Mom + Pop) **
• Szun Waves: New Hymn to Freedom (The Leaf Label) **
• Chad Taylor: Myths and Morals (Ears & Eyes) **
• Hans Teuber & Jeff Johnson: Deuce (Origin)
• Thollem/DuRoche/Stjames Trio: Live in Our Time (ESP-Disk) **
• Jay Thomas With the Oliver Groenewald Newnet: I Always Knew (Origin)
• The Clifford Thornton Memorial Quartet: Sweet Oranges (Not Two) **
• Steve Tibbetts: Life Of (2018, ECM) **
• Toronto Jazz Orchestra: 20 (self-released)
• Joshua Trinidad: In November (RareNoise) *
• Harriet Tubman: The Terror End of Beauty (Sunnyside) **
• Turnstile: Time & Space (Roadrunner) **
• Steve Turre: The Very Thought of You (Smoke Sessions) **
• University of Toronto 12Tet: When Day Slips Into Night (UofT Jazz)
• Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion: Because We're Night People (String Damper) **
• Kate Vargas: For the Wolfish & Wandering (self-released) **
• Voicehandler: Light From Another Light (Humbler)
• Tim Warfield: Jazzland (Criss Cross) **
• The Way Ahead: Bells Ghosts and Other Saints (Clean Feed) **
• The Weeknd: My Dear Melancholy (XO/Republic, EP) **
• Ben Wendel: The Seasons (Motéma) **
• Kenny Werner: The Space (Pirouet)
• Kanye West: Ye (Def Jam/GOOD Music, EP) **
• Mike Westbrook: Starcross Bridge (Hatology) **
• Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Turkish Delight (Blujazz)
• Buster Williams: Audacity (Smoke Sessions) **
• Kelly Willis: Back Being Blue (Premium) **
• Luke Winslow-King: Blue Mesa (Bloodshot) **
• Wye Oak: The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs (Merge) **
• Zeal and Ardor: Stranger Fruit (MVKA) **
• The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (Dirty Hit/Polydor) **
• Ace of Cups: Ace of Cups (High Moon) **
• Albatre: The Fall of the Damned (Shhpuma) **
• As Is Featuring Alan & Stacey Schulman: Here's to Life (self-released)
• Jeff Baker: Phrases (OA2)
• Daniel Bennett Group: We Are the Orchestra (Manhattan Daylight Media, EP) **
• Heather Bennett: Lazy Afternoon (Summit)
• Pat Bianchi: In the Moment (Savant) **
• Big Freedia: 3rd Ward Bounce (Asylum Worldwide, EP) **
• Big Heart Machine: Big Heart Machine (self-released)
• Black Art Jazz Collective: Armor of Pride (HighNote) **
• Black Foxxes: Reiði (Spinefarm) **
• Boygenius: Boygenius (Matador, EP) **
• Jakob Bro: Returnings (ECM) **
• Owen Broder: Heritage: The American Roots Project (ArtistShare)
• Bobby Broom & the Organi-sation: Soul Fingers (MRi)
• Brothers Osborne: Port Saint Joe (EMI Nashville) **
• Sam Broverman: A Jewish Boy's Christmas (Brovermusic)
• BTS: Love Yourself: Tear (Big Hit) **
• David Byrne: American Utopia (Nonesuch) **
• Carla Campopiano Trio: Chicago/Buenos Aires Connections (self-released)
• Mariah Carey: Caution (Epic) **
• Daniel Carter/Hilliard Greene/David Haney: Live Constructions (Slam) **
• Annie Chen Octet: Secret Treetop (Shanghai Audio & Video)
• Cyrus Chestnut: Kaleidoscope (HighNote) **
• City Girls: Period (Quality Control) **
• City Girls: Girl Code (Quality Control) **
• Collective Order: Collective Order Vol. 3 (self-released)
• Roxy Coss: The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone) **
• Daphne & Celeste: Daphne & Celeste Save the World (Balatonic) **
• Chris Dave and the Drumhedz (Blue Note) **
• Dead Composers Club [Noah Preminger/Rob Garcia]: Chopin Project (Connection Works)
• Michael Dease: Reaching Out (Posi-Tone) **
• Dem Atlas: Bad Actress (Rhymesayers) **
• DJ Koze: Knock Knock (Pampa) **
• Dinosaur: Wonder Trail (Edition) **
• Kit Downes: Obsidian (ECM) **
• Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: The Falling Dream (OA2)
• Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band: Presence (Smoke Sessions) **
• Extra Large Unit: More Fun Please (PNL) **
• First Aid Kit: Ruins (Columbia) **
• James Francies: Flight (Blue Note) **
• The Marie Goudy 12tet featuring Jocelyn Barth: The Bitter Suite (self-released)
• Ariana Grande: Sweetener (Republic) **
• Grouper: Grid of Points (Kranky, EP) **
• Joel Harrison: Angel Band: Free Country Vol. 3 (HighNote) **
• Bill Hart Band: Live at Red Clay Theatre (Blujazz)
• Tim Hecker: Konoyo (Kranky) **
• Joshua Hedley: Mr. Jukebox (Third Man) **
• Marquis Hill: Modern Flows Vol. 2 (Black Unlimited Music Group) **
• John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble: All Can Work (New Amsterdam) **
• Lonnie Holley: MITH (Jagjaguwar) **
• Julia Holter: Aviary (Domino) **
• Hot Snakes: Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop) **
• The Jayhawks: Back Roads and Abandoned Motels (Legacy) **
• Kirk Knuffke/Steven Herring: Witness (SteepleChase) **
• Julian Lage: Modern Lore (Mack Avenue) **
• Jeremy Ledbetter Trio: Got a Light? (Alma)
• Jennifer Lee: My Shining Hour (SBE)
• Peggy Lee: Echo Painting (Songlines) **
• Lotic: Power (Tri Angle) **
• Todd Marcus: On These Streets (A Baltimore Story) (Stricker Street)
• Ryan Meagher: Evil Twin (PJCE) **
• Brad Mehldau: After Bach (Nonesuch) **
• Melody's Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage (Fat Possum) **
• Nick Millevoi's Desertion Trio With Jamie Saft: Midtown Tilt (Shhpuma) **
• Father John Misty: God's Favorite Customer (Sub Pop) **
• Mitski: Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans) **
• Chris Monson: Seldom in the Well (self-released)
• MJO Brothers Present: Hip Devotions (Blujazz -17)
• Diane Moser: Birdsongs (Planet Arts)
• Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour (MCA Nashville) **
• Kyle Nasser: Persistent Fancy (Ropeadope)
• Now Vs Now: The Buffering Cocoon (Jazzland) **
• Orquesta Del Tiempo Perdido: Stille (Shhpuma) **
• Juan Andrés Ospina Big Band: Tramontana (self-released)
• Jason Palmer: At Wally's: Volume 2 (SteepleChase) **
• Parliament: Medicaid Fraud Dogg (C Kunspyruhzy) **
• The Ken Peplowski Big Band: Sunrise (Arbors) **
• Charles Pillow Large Ensemble: Electric Miles (MAMA)
• Prefuse 73: Sacrifices (Lex) **
• Bobby Previte: Rhapsody (RareNoise) *
• Reggie Quinerly: Words to Love (Redefinition Music)
• R+R=Now: Collagically Speaking (Blue Note) **
• Rae Sremmurd: SR3MM (Ear Drummer/Interscope, 3CD) **
• RAM: RAM 7: AUgust 1791 (Willibelle) **
• Ratatet: Heroes, Saints and Clowns (Ridgeway)
• Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without a Trace (Origin)
• Logan Richardson: Blues People (Ropeadope) **
• Rosalía: El Mal Querer (Sony Music) **
• Caroline Rose: Loner (New West) **
• Jerome Sabbagh/Greg Tuohey: No Filter (Sunnyside) **
• Bobby Sanabria Manhattan Big Band: West Side Story: Reimagined (Jazzheads, 2CD) **
• Javier Santiago: Phoenix (Ropeadope) **
• Rafal Sarnecki: Climbing Trees (Outside In Music)
• Dolores Scozzesi: Here Comes the Sun (Café Pacific)
• Ty Segall: Freedom's Goblin (Drag City) **
• Serpentwithfeet: Soil (Secretly Canadian) **
• Shame: Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans) **
• Paul Simon: In the Blue Light (Legacy) **
• Marc Sinan/Oguz Büyükberber: White (ECM) **
• Troye Sivan: Bloom (Capitol) **
• Sleaford Mods: Sleaford Mods (Rough Trade, EP) **
• Sloan: 12 (Yep Roc) **
• Caitlyn Smith: Starfire (Monument) **
• Marcus Strickland Twi-Life: People of the Sun (Blue Note) **
• Kristen Strom: Moving Day: The Music of John Shifflett (OA2)
• Swamp Dogg: Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune (Joyful Noise) **
• Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs (Tan Cressida/Columbia, EP) **
• Steven Taetz: Drink You In (Flatcar/Fontana North)
• Teyana Taylor: KTSE [Keep That Same Energy] (GOOD Music/Def Jam, EP) **
• Yves Tumor: Safe in the Hands of Love (Warp) **
• Tune-Yards: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (4AD) **
• Turbamulta: Turbamulta (Clean Feed) **
• The David Ullmann Group: Sometime (Little Sky)
• Marije Van Dijk: The Stereography Project Feat. Jeff Taylor and Katell Keinig (Hert/Membran)
• Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley: Deeply Discounted II/Sequences of Snow (Pleasure of the Text/Audiographic, EP) **
• Vin Venezia: Fifth and Adams (Blujazz)
• Verve Jazz Ensemble: Connect the Dots (Lightgroove Media)
• Frank Wagner's Floating Holiday (MEII)
• Dan Weiss: Starebaby (Pi)
• Chip Wickham: Shamal Wind (Lovemonk) **
• Nate Wooley & Torben Snekkestad: Of Echoing Bronze (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
• The Xcerts: Hold on to Your Heart (Raygun) **
• Years & Years: Palo Santo (Polydor) **
• Darryl Yokley's Sound Reformation: Pictures at an African Exhibition (Truth Revolution) **
• Gabriel Zucker: Weighting (ESP-Disk) **
• Berry: Everything, Compromised (Joyful Noise) **
• David Binney: Here & Now (Mythology) **
• Kadhja Bonet: Childqueen (Fat Possum) **
• Justin Brown: Nyeusi (Biophilia) **
• Busdriver: Electricity Is on Our Side (Temporary Forever) **
• Brandi Carlile: By the Way, I Forgive You (Low Country Sound/Elektra) **
• Elvis Costello & the Imposters: Look Now (Concord) **
• Ron Di Salvio/Bart Plateau: The Puglia Suite (Blujazz)
• Kurt Elling: The Questions (Okeh) **
• The English Beat [Dave Wakeling]: Here We Go Love (Here We Go) **
• Gorillaz: The Now Now (Parlophone) **
• Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed (Motéma) **
• Paul McCartney: Egypt Station (Capitol) **
• Ashley Monroe: Sparrow (Warner Nashville) **
• Nuance Crusaders: Reflections (Blujazz -17)
• Dan Pugach Nonet: Plus One (Unit)
• Mette Rasmussen/Tashi Dorji: Mette Rasmussen/Tashi Dorji (Feeding Tube) **
• Rob Schwimmer: Heart of Hearing (Sunken Heights Music)
• Wayne Shorter: Emanon (Blue Note, 3CD) **
• Dr. Lonnie Smith: All in My Mind (Blue Note) **
• Cory Smythe: Circulate Susanna (Pyroclastic)
• SOB X RBE: Gangin (Empire) **
• Esperanza Spalding: 12 Little Spells (Concord) **
• The Tiki Collective: Muse (Vesuvius Music/Slammin' Media)
• The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: Best of the Jazz Heritage Series Volume 1 (self-released)
• Michael Waldrop: Origin Suite (Origin)
• Jack White: Boarding House Reach (Third Man/Columbia) **
• Martin Wind: Light Blue (Laika) **
• Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Domino) **
• Jonathan Butler: Close to You (Mack Avenue) **
• Benje Daneman Serendipity: Light in the Darkness (ACI)
• Marieann Meringolo: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow: The Songs of Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Blujazz)
• The Ed Palermo Big Band: The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren (Cuneiform) *
• David Dominique: Mask (Orenda)
• The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: The Jazz Heritage Series 2018 Radio Broadcasts (self-released, 3CD)
• WorldService Project: Serve (Rare Noise)
• The End [Sofia Jernberg/Mats Gustafsson/Kjetil Moster/Anders Hana/Greg Saunier]: Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen (RareNoise) *

• Kaoru Abe/Sabu Toyozumi: Mannyoka (1976, NoBusiness)
• African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa) **
• Choi Sun Bae Quartet: Arirang Fantasy (1995, NoBusiness)
• Kwi Bamba: Kwi Bamba & L'Orchestre De Gama Berema (1997, Ouch!) **
• Imamu Amiri Baraka: It's Nation Time: African Visionary Music (1972, Motown) **
• Black Panther: The Album (Music From and Inspired By) (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope) **
• Don Cherry: Home Boy, Sister Sounds (1985, Wewantsounds) **
• Tyler Childers: Live on Red Barn Radio I & II (2013-14, Hickman Holler -EP) **
• John Coltrane: 1963: New Directions (Impulse!, 3CD) **
• Dur Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks (1986-87, Analog Africa, 2CD) **
• Ben Lamar Gay: 500 Chains (2013-14, International Anthem) **
• Asnake Gebreyes: Ahadu (1988, Buda Musique) **
• Dexter Gordon Quartet: Tokyo 1975 (Elemental Music) **
• Dexter Gordon Quartet: Espace Cardin 1977 (Elemental Music) **
• Beaver Harris-Don Pullen 360° Experience: A Well Kept Secret (1984, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
• Steve Lacy: Stamps (1977-78, Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2CD) **
• Guy Lafitte: His Tenor Sax & Orchestra 1954-1959 (Fresh Sound) **
• The Louvin Brothers: Love and Wealth: The Lost Recordings (Modern Harmonic, 2CD) **
• Joe McPhee/Mats Gustafsson: Brace for Impact (2007, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
• Frank Morgan/George Cables: Montreal Memories (1989, High Note) **
• Takeo Moriyama: East Plants (1983, BBE) **
• Orchestre Abass: De Bassari Togo (1972, Analog Africa, EP) **
• The Paranoid Style: Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall + 3 (Bar/None, EP) **
• Liz Phair: The Girly-Sound Tapes (1991, Matador) **
• Barre Phillips/Motoharu Yoshizawa: Oh My, Those Boys! (1994, NoBusiness)
• Sun Ra: The Cymbals/Symbols Sessions: New York City 1973 (Modern Harmonic, 2CD) **
• Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Taking a Chance on Chances (1977, Enterplanetary Koncepts) **
• Otis Redding: Dock of the Bay Sessions (1967, Rhino) **
• The Rough Guide to the Best Country Blues You've Never Heard (1927-36, World Music Network) **
• Jesse Sharps Quintet & P.A.P.A.: Sharps and Flats (2004, Nimbus West/Outernational Sounds) **
• Soul of a Nation: Jazz Is the Teacher/Funk Is the Preacher (1969-75, Soul Jazz) **
• Cecil Taylor: Mysteries: Indent: Antioch College/Yellow Springs, Ohio/March 11, 1973 (Black Sun) **
• Cecil Taylor: Poschiavo (1999, Black Sun) **
• Ralph Thomas: Eastern Standard Time (1980, BBE) **
• A Tribe Called Quest: Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller (1989-91, Jive/Legacy) **
• Ben Webster: Valentine's Day 1964 Live! (Dot Time) **
• Gboyega Adelaja: Colourful Environment (1979, Odion Livingstone) **
• Stella Chiweshe: Kasahwa: Early Singles (1974-83 [2018], Glitterbeat) **

• Nicola Conte Presents Cosmic Forest: The Spiritual Sounds of MPS (1965-75, MPS) **

• Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 (Free Dirt) **
• Double Dee & Steinski: Lesson 4: The Beat (self-released, EP) **
• The Gladiators: Symbol of Reality (1982, Omnivore) **
• Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa (Soundway) **
• Jimi Hendrix: Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy) **
• Fred Hersch Trio: Heartsongs (1989, Sunnyside) **
• Kang Tae Hwan: Live at Café Amores (1995, NoBusiness)
• Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: After the Fall (1998, ECM, 2CD) **
• King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller (BMG, 2CD) **
• Ernie Krivda and Swing City: A Bright and Shining Moment (Capri)
• Guy Lafitte: Quartet & Sextet Sessions 1956-1962 (Fresh Sound) **
• Tommy McCook & the Agrovators: Super Star/Disco Rockers (1977, Pressure Sounds) **
• Dave McKenna: In Madison (1991, Arbors) **
• Onda De Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were (1984-94) (Soundway) **
• Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s (1971-79, Legacy, 2CD) **
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Sun Ra With Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold: Judson Hall, New York, Dec. 31, 1964 (Enterplanetary Koncepts) **
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Discipline 99 (Out Beyond the Kingdom Of) (1974, Enterplanetary Koncepts) **
• Woody Shaw: Tokyo '81 (Elemental Music) **
• Joe Strummer: 001 (Ignition, 2CD) **
• Esbjörn Svensson Trio: E.S.T. Live in London (2005, ACT, 2CD) **
• Bill Warfield Big Band: For Lew (1990-2014, Planet Arts)
• Asnakech Worku: Asnakech (1975, Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
• Neil Young: Songs for Judy (1976, Reprise) **
• Louis Armstrong: Pops Is Tops: The Complete Verve Studio Albums and More (1957, Verve, 4CD) **
• Gordon Beck Quartet: When Sunny Gets Blue (1968, Another Planet) **
• Big Star: Live at Lafayette's Music Room (1973, Omnivore) **
• Kenny Burrell: A Generation Ago Today (1966-67, Verve) **
• A Certain Ratio: acr:set (1980-94, Mute) **
• A Day in the Life: Impressions of Pepper (Impulse!) **
• Eliane Elias: Music From Man of La Mancha (1995, Concord) **
• Feeling Kréyol: Las Palé (Strut) **
• Ben Lamar Gay: Grapes (2013-14, International Anthem) **
• Ben Lamar Gay/Edinho Gerber: Benjamin E Edinho (2011-13, International Anthem) **
• Svein Finnerud Trio: Plastic Sun (1970, Odin) **
• Joanne Grauer: Introducing Lorraine Feather (1978, MPS) **
• Keith Jarrett: La Fenice (2006, ECM, 2CD) **
• The Gene Krupa Quartet: Live 1966 (Dot Time Legends) **
• Wynton Marsalis Septet: United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas (2003-07, Blue Engine)
• Bobby Naughton/Leo Smith/Perry Robinson: The Haunt (1976, NoBusiness)
• Oneness of Juju: African Rhythms (1975, Strut) **
• Bruce Springsteen: The Live Series: Songs of the Road (1977-2013, Columbia) **
• Sounds of Liberation: Unreleased (Columbia University 1973) (Dogtown) **
• Sun Ra: Astro Black (1972, Modern Harmonic) **
• Travailler, C'est Trop Dur: The Lyrical Legacy of Caesar Vincent (Swallow, 2CD) **
• We Out Here (Brownswood) **
• Derek Bailey & Company: Klinker (2000, Confront, 2CD) **
• Calm Waters Rolling Swells & Roiling Seas: A Whaling City Sampler (Whaling City Sound)
• Gene Clark: Gene Clark Sings for You (1967, Omnivore) **
• Duke Ellington: In Coventry, 1966 (Storyville) **
• Millie Jackson: Exposed: The Multi-Track Sessions Mixed by Steve Levine (1972-79, Ace) **
• Lee Konitz: Prisma: By Guenter Buhles (2000, QFTF) **
• Make Mine Mondo! (1958-69, Ace) **
• William Parker: Voices Fall From the Sky (AUM Fidelity, 3CD)
• Prince: Piano and a Microphone 1983 (NPG/Warner Bros.) **
• Sun Ra: Sun Ra Plays Gershwin (1951-89, Enterplanetary Koncepts) **

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.