Music Year 2022

This is my year-end list for records released in 2022, frozen as of February 27, 2022. The actual Music Year 2022 will continue to be updated to Jan. 31, 2024, after which point enough is enough.

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., -21 for 2021) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases, often hard to figure out official dates, but they were unknown (to me, at least) before the current year. I've also carried over releases from December 2021, since they almost never figure in that year's EOY lists, and should be considered for this year's lists.

For a more extensive list of records released in 2022 (plus still-eligible 2021 releases), see my tracking file.

I've also organized this file into jazz and non-jazz lists.

New Records

A
  1. The Regrettes: Further Joy (Warner) **
  2. Tyshawn Sorey Trio + 1 [With Greg Osby]: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Pi, 3CD) **
  3. Gonora Sounds: Hard Times Never Kill (The Vital Record) **
A-
  1. Dave Rempis/Avreeayl Ra Duo: Bennu (Aerophonic) **
  2. Omri Ziegele Where's Africa: That Hat (Intakt) **
  3. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul: Topical Dancer (Deewee/Because Music) **
  4. Miranda Lambert: Palomino (Vanner/RCA Nashville) **
  5. Saba: Few Good Things (Saba Pivot) **
  6. Bob Vylan: Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life (Ghost Theatre) **
  7. Nilüfer Yanya: Painless (ATO) **
  8. Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes (BMG) **
  9. Big Thief: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD) **
  10. Marta Sanchez: SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) (Whirlwind)
  11. Regina Spektor: Home, Before and After (Sire) **
  12. Beyoncé: Renaissance (Parkwood/Columbia) [**]
  13. Terry Klein: Good Luck Take Care (self-released) **
  14. Rodrigo Amado: Refraction Solo: Live at Church of the Holy Ghost (Trost)
  15. Stro Elliot: Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined by Stro Elliot (Republic) **
  16. Todd Snider: Live: Return of the Storyteller (Aimless) **
  17. Andrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava: 2 Blues for Cecil (TUM)
  18. Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March (Firehouse 12)
  19. Avram Fefer Quartet: Juba Lee (Clean Feed) *
  20. Wadada Leo Smith: The Emerald Duets (TUM, 5CD)
  21. Dave Sewelson: Smooth Free Jazz (Mahakala Music -21) **
  22. Rob Brown/Juan Pablo Carletti: Fertile Garden (NoBusiness)
  23. Luke Stewart's Silt Trio: The Bottom (Cuneiform) **
  24. M.I.A.: Mata (Island) **
  25. Manel Fortiá: Despertar (Segell Microscopi)
  26. David Murray/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake Brave New World Trio: Seriana Promethea (Intakt) **
  27. Fred Hersch: Breath by Breath (Palmetto)
  28. Darren Johnston: Life in Time (Origin)
  29. Rosalía: Motomami (Columbia) **
  30. Adeem the Artist: White Trash Revelry (Four Quarters) **
  31. Cheekface: Too Much to Ask (self-released) **
  32. Mary J. Blige: Good Morning Gorgeous (300/Mary Jane Productions) **
  33. Kady Diarra: Burkina Hakili (Lamastrock -21) **
  34. Hailey Whitters: Raised (Big Loud/Pigasus) **
  35. Willie Nelson: A Beautiful Time (Legacy) **
  36. Megan Thee Stallion: Traumazine (1501 Certified/300 Entertainment) **
  37. Craig Finn: A Legacy of Rentals (Positive Jams) **
  38. Homeboy Sandman: I Can't Sell These (self-released) **
  39. Taylor Swift: Midnights (Republic) **
  40. Pusha T: It's Almost Dry (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam) **
  41. Arild Andersen Group: Affirmation (ECM) **
  42. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Barn (Reprise -21) **
  43. Camila Cabello: Familia (Epic) **
  44. The Paranoid Style: For Executive Meeting (Bar/None) **
  45. Etran de L'Aïr: Agadez (Sahel Sounds) **
  46. Thumbscrew: Multicolored Midnight (Cuneiform) **
  47. Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Disasters Vol. 1 (Hot Cup)
  48. Sun Ra Arkestra Directed by Marshall Allen: Living Sky (Omni Sound) **
  49. Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Recordings From the Åland Islands (International Anthem) **
  50. Marlowe: Marlowe 3 (Mello Music) **
  51. Yard Act: The Overload (Island) **
  52. Chad Fowler/Ivo Perelman/Zoh Amba/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Steve Hirsh: Alien Skin (Mahakala Music) **
  53. The Attic [Rodrigo Amado/Gonçalo Almeida/Onno Govaert]: Love Ghosts (NoBusiness)
  54. Julieta Eugenio: Jump (Greenleaf Music)
  55. Wiz Khalifa/Big KRIT/Smoke DZA/Girl Talk: Full Court Press (Asylum/Taylor Gang) **
  56. Samo Salamon/Arild Andersen/Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Pure and Simple (Samo)
  57. Nat Birchall: Afro Trane (Ancient Archive of Sound) **
  58. Mxmtoon: Rising (AWAL) **
  59. Lucrecia Dalt: ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl) **
  60. Lady Wray: Piece of Me (Big Crown) **
  61. Ray Wylie Hubbard: Co-Starring Too (Big Machine) **
  62. Jessica Pavone/Lukas Koenig/Matt Mottel: Spam Likely (577)
  63. Superchunk: Wild Loneliness (Merge) **
  64. Lyrics Born: Mobile Homies Season 1 (Mobile Home) **
  65. Whit Dickey Quartet: Astral Long Form/Staircase in Space (Tao Forms)
  66. The Ogún Meji Duo: Freedom Suite (CFG Multimedia) **
  67. Felipe Salles/Zaccai Curtis/Avery Sharpe/Jonathan Barber: Tiyo's Songs of Life (Tapestry)
  68. Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw) **
  69. François Carrier/Alexander von Schlippenbach/John Edwards/Michel Lambert: Unwalled (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
  70. Gerry Hemingway: Afterlife (Auricle) **
  71. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite) **
  72. Miguel Zenón: Música De Las Américas (Miel Music)
  73. Charli XCX: Crash (Asylum) **
  74. Witchcraft Books [Shorty Skilz/Kanif the Jhatmaster]: Vol I: The Sundisk (Iapetus) **
  75. Kae Tempest: The Line Is a Curve (Republic) **
  76. Mats Gustafsson & Nu Ensemble: Hidros 8: Heal (Trost) **
  77. Louis Sclavis: Les Cadences Du Monde (JMS Productions) **
  78. Santigold: Spirituals (Little Jerk) **
  79. Lyrics Born: Vision Board (Mobile Home) **
  80. Corb Lund: Songs My Friends Wrote (New West) **
  81. Lalalar: Bi Cinnete Bakar (Bongo Joe) **
  82. Billy Mohler: Anatomy (Contagious Music)
  83. Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Fruition (ESP-Disk)
  84. Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin: Ghosted (Drag City) **
  85. Dan Ex Machina: All Is Ours, Nothing Is Theirs (self-released) [**]
  86. The Mountain Goats: Bleed Out (Merge) **
  87. Tom Skinner: Voices of Bishara (Brownswood/International Anthem/Nonesuch) **
  88. Loraine James: Building Something Beautiful for Me (Phantom Limb) **
  89. Zoh Amba: O, Sun (Tzadik) **
  90. Plains: I Walked With You a Ways (Anti-) **
  91. 75 Dollar Bill: Social Music at Troost Vol. 3: (Other) People's Music (self-released) **
  92. Elza Soares: Elza Ao Vivo No Municipal (Deck) **
  93. Hermon Mehari: Asmara (Komos) **
  94. Frank Catalano: Live at Birdland (Ropeadope) **
  95. Dave Rempis/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra + Jim Baker: Scylla (Aerophonic)
  96. Oriental Brothers International Band: Oku Ngwo Di Ochi (Palenque) **
  97. Apollo Brown & Philmore Greene: Cost of Living (Mello Music Group) **
  98. Kirk Knuffke Trio: Gravity Without Airs (Tao Forms, 2CD) **
  99. Satoko Fujii: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams (Libra)
  100. Konjur Collective: Blood in My Eye (A Soul Insurgent Guide) (Cow:Music/Astral Spirits) **
  101. Piri & Tommy: Froge.mp3 (Polydor) **
  102. Freakons: Freakons (Fluff & Gravy) **
  103. Little Simz: No Thank You (Age 101/Awal/Forever Living Originals) **
  104. Tove Lo: Dirt Femme (Pretty Swede) **
  105. Nova Twins: Supernova (333 Wreckords Crew) **
  106. Immanuel Wilkins: The 7th Hand (Blue Note) **
  107. Fractal Sextet: Fractal Sextet (Alchemy) **
  108. Drive-By Truckers: Welcome 2 Club XIII (ATO) **
  109. Zach Phillips: Goddaughters (self-released)
  110. Pastor Champion: I Just Want to Be a Good Man (Luaka Bop) **
  111. Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center, Vol. 1 (Outside In Music) *
  112. Chad Taylor Trio: The Reel (Astral Spirits) **
  113. Vinny Golia/Bernard Santacruz/Cristiano Calcagnile: To Live and Breathe (Dark Tree)
  114. Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa: N'djila Wa Mudujimu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  115. Kim Petras: Slut Pop (Republic, EP) **
  116. Ian Noe: River Fools & Mountain Saints (Thirty Tigers) **
  117. Buck 65: King of Drums (self-released) **
  118. Madalitso Band: Musakayike (Bongo Joe) **
  119. Moor Mother: Jazz Codes (Anti-) **
  120. Tommy Womack: I Thought I Was Fine (Schoolkids -21) **
  121. Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 3 (Moonjune) **
  122. Loudon Wainwright III: Lifetime Achievement (StorySound) **
  123. Willi Carlisle: Peculiar, Missouri (Free Dirt) **
  124. Homeboy Sandman: Still Champion (self-released) **
  125. Tom Zé: Língua Brasileira (Sesc) **
  126. Sowal Diabi: De Kaboul à Bamako (Accords Croisés) **
  127. Joel Futterman/William Parker/Chad Fowler/Steve Hirsh: The Deep (Mahakala Music) **
  128. Fulu Miziki: Ngbaka EP (Moshi Moshi, EP) **
  129. Gogol Bordello: Solidaritine (Cooking Vinyl) **
  130. Montparnasse Musique: Archeology (Real World) **
  131. Somadina: Heart of the Heavenly Undeniable (self-released) **
  132. Kirk Lightsey: Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar)
  133. Dave Rempis/Elisabeth Harnik/Michael Zerang: Astragaloi (Aerophonic)
  134. Nord1kone/DJ Mrok: Tower of Babylon (SplitSLAM) **
  135. Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head)
  136. Will Bernard: Pond Life (Dreck to Disk)
  137. Eri Yamamoto/Chad Fowler/William Parker/Steve Hirsh: Sparks (Mahakala Music) **
  138. Walt Weiskopf European Quartet: Diamonds and Other Jewels (AMM)
  139. Fox Green: Holy Souls (self-released) **
  140. Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork (4AD) **
  141. Trio Xolo: In Flower, in Song (577)
  142. Open Mike Eagle: Component System With the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse) **
  143. Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loneliest Time (Interscope) **
  144. Pongo: Sakidila (Virgin) **
  145. Jasper Høiby/Planet B: What It Means to Be Human (Edition) **
  146. Bob Vylan: We Live Here (Deluxe) (Venn, EP -21) **
  147. Phelimuncasi: Ama Gogela (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  148. The Bobby Lees: Bellevue (Ipecac) **
  149. Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (New West) **
  150. Tess Tyler: Fractals [Vol. 1] (Manners McDade) **
  151. Marc Copland Quartet: Someday (InnerVoice Jazz) **
  152. Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Spirit to All (Whirlwind) **
  153. The Red Microphone: A Bleeding in Black Leather (ESP-Disk)
  154. Derek Senn: The Big Five-O (self-released) **
  155. Deca: Smoking Gun (Coalmine) **
  156. The Zebra Street Band: Shirwku (Trytone)
  157. Bennie Maupin/Adam Rudolph: Symphonic Tone Poem for Brother Yusef (Strut) **
  158. Konrad Agnas/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Mattias Ståhl/Per Texas Johansson: All Slow Dream Gone (Moserobie) [10-28]
  159. Josh Sinton's Predicate Quartet: Four Freedoms (Form Is Possibility)
  160. David Greenberger & the Waldameer Players: Today! (Pel Pel)
  161. Kirk Knuffke/Michael Bisio: For You I Don't Want to Go (NoBusiness)
  162. Water Damage: Repeater (12XU) **
  163. Moonchild Sanelly: Phases (Transgressive) **
  164. Fanfare Ciocarlia: It Wasn't Hard to Love You (Asphalt Tango -21) **
  165. Kalí Rodríguez-Peña: Mélange (Truth Revolution)
  166. Jacob Sacks/David Ambrosio/Vinnie Sperrazza: Trio Trio Meets Sheila Jordan (SteepleChase) **

Pending:

Records in hand, but which haven't yet been graded (sorted by artist, or release date if future). Those marked ** are downloads in hand.

Also Noted:

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

B+(***)
  • 070 Shake: You Can't Kill Me (GOOD Music/Def Jam) **
  • The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Dirty Hit) **
  • A-Trak: 10 Seconds: Volume 1 (Fool's Gold, EP) **
  • A-Trak: 10 Seconds: Volume 2 (Fool's Gold, EP) **
  • Adult.: Becoming Undone (Dais) **
  • Teno Afrika: Where You Are (Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
  • Al-Qasar: Who Are We? (Glitterbeat) **
  • Melissa Aldana: 12 Stars (Blue Note) **
  • Joey Alexander: Origin (Mack Avenue) **
  • Taru Alexander: Echoes of the Masters (Sunnyside) **
  • Zoh Amba: Bhakti (Mahakala Music) **
  • Oren Ambarchi: Shebang (Drag City) **
  • Chad Anderson: Mellifluous Excursions Vol. 1: Where You Been (Mahakala Music) **
  • Horace Andy: Midnight Scorchers (On-U Sound) **
  • Angles: A Muted Reality (Clean Feed) **
  • Anitta: Versions of Me (Warner) **
  • Florian Arbenz/João Barradas/Tineke Postma/Rafael Jerjen: Conversation #5: Elemental (Hammer) **
  • Florian Arbenz: Conversation #6 & #7 (Hammer) **
  • Arcade Fire: We (Columbia) **
  • Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger: Drum Major Instinct (Mahakala Music) **
    • Asake: Mr. Money With the Vibe (YBNL Nation/Empire) **
  • Avantdale Bowling Club: Trees (Years Gone By) **
  • Kate Baker & Vic Juris: Return to Shore: The Duo Sessions (Strikezone) **
  • Barcelona Art Orchestra: Ragtime Stories (UnderPool) **
  • Edwin Bayard/Dean Hulett/Mark Lomax II: Trio Plays Mingus (CFG Multimedia) **
  • Beabadoobee: Beatopia (Dirty Hit) **
  • Andy Bell: Flicker (Sonic Cathedral) **
  • Karl Berger/Kirk Knuffke: Heart Is a Melody (Stunt) **
  • Karl Berger/Max Johnson/Billy Mintz: Sketches (Fresh Sound) **
  • Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell: One More, Please (Intakt) **
  • Steven Bernstein's MTO Feat. Catherine Russell: Good Time Music (Community Music Vol. 2) (Royal Potato Family) **
  • Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9: Manifesto of Henryisms (Community Music, Vol. 3) (Royal Potato Family) **
  • The Beths: Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark) **
  • Bi Ba Doom: Graceful Collision (Astral Spirits) **
  • Michael Bisio Quartet: MBefore (Tao Forms)
  • The Black Dog: Brutal Minimalism EP (Dust Science, EP) **
  • Black Flower: Magma (Sdban Ultra) **
  • Blackpink: Born Pink (YG Entertainment) **
  • Michael Blake: Combobulate (Newvelle) **
  • Ran Blake: Looking Glass (A-Side -21) **
  • Jane Ira Bloom: Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1 (self-released) **
  • Blue Lines Trio: Chance and Change (Casco) **
  • Axel Boman: Quest for Fire (Studio Barnhus) **
  • Andrew Boudreau: Neon (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Bouvier: Blachant (Renewell)
  • The Kevin Brady Electric Orchestra: Plan B (Ubuntu Music -21) **
  • Staffan Bråsjö: Stratosfar (self-released) **
  • Breath of Air: Breath of Air (Burning Ambulance) **
  • Patricia Brennan: More Touch (Pyroclastic)
  • Jakob Bro/Joe Lovano: Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM) **
  • Anna Butterss: Activities (Colorfield) **
  • Raymond Byron: Bond Wire Cur (ESP-Disk)
  • Steve Cardenas/Ben Allison/Ted Nash: Healing Power: The Music of Carla Bley (Sunnyside) **
  • Frank Carlberg Trio: Reflections 1952 (577) **
  • Sabrina Carpenter: Emails I Can't Send (Island) **
  • Daniel Carter/Evan Strauss/5-Track/Sheridan Riley: The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence (577)
  • Chris Castino & Chicken Wire Empire: Fresh Pickles (self-released)
  • Cäthe: Chill Out Punk (Traum Weiter!) **
  • The Chats: Get Fucked (Bargain Bin) **
  • Che Noir: Food for Thought (TCF Music Group) **
  • The Chicago Plan [Gebhard Ullmann/Steve Swell/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang]: For New Zealand (Not Two)
  • The Clarinet Trio: Transformations and Further Passages (Leo)
  • Rob Clearfield & Quin Kirchner: Concentric Orbits (Astral Spirits) **
  • Dan Clucas/Kyle Motl/Nathan Hubbard: Daydream and Halting (FMR)
  • CMAT: If My Wife New I'd Be Dead (AWAL) **
  • Con+Kwake: Eyes in the Tower (Native Rebel) **
  • Confidence Man: Tilt (Heavenly) **
  • Conway the Machine: God Don't Make Mistakes (Griselda/Interscope) **
  • Max Cooper: Unspoken Words (Mesh) **
  • Alaide Costa: O Que Meus Calos Dizem Sobre Mim (Tres Selos) **
  • Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini: Auburn Whisper (Cressman Music)
  • Caleb Wheeler Curtis: Heat Map (Imani)
  • Czarface: Czarmageddon (Silver Age) **
  • Tomasz Dabrowski: Tomasz Dabrowski & the Individual Beings (April) **
  • Daphni: Cherry (Jiaolong) **
  • Craig Davis: Tone Paintings: The Music of Dodo Marmarosa (MCG Jazz) **
  • Lucky Daye: Candydrip (Keep Cool/RCA) **
  • Dedicated Men of Zion: The Devil Don't Like It (Bible & Tire) **
  • Eli Degibri: Henri and Rachel (Degibri) **
  • Randal Despommier: A Midsummer Odyssey (Sunnyside)
  • DJ Lag: Meeting With the King (Ice Drop) **
  • Dopplereffekt: Neurotelepathy (Leisure System) **
  • Charlotte Dos Santos: Morfo (Because Music) **
  • Dave Douglas Quintet: Songs of Ascent: Book 1 -- Degrees (Greenleaf Music)
  • Dezron Douglas: Atalaya (International Anthem) **
  • Billy Drummond and Freedom of Ideas: Valse Sinistre (Cellar)
  • Paul Dunmall Quintet: Yes Tomorrow (Discus) **
  • Trevor Dunn Trio-Convulsant Avec Folie à Quatre: Seances (Pyroclastic)
  • Jens Düppe: Ego_D (Enja/Yellowbird) **
  • Ronnie Earl: Mercy Me (Stony Plain) **
  • Signe Emmeluth/Dag Erik Knedal Andersen/Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard: The A-Z of Microwave Cookery (Astral Spirits) **
  • Espen Eriksen Trio Featuring Andy Sheppard: In the Mountains (Rune Grammofon) **
  • John Escreet: Seismic Shift (Whirlwind)
  • Fantastic Negrito: White Jesus Black Problems (Storefront) **
  • Hugo Fernandez: Ozean (Origin)
  • R.A.P. Ferreira: 5 to the Eye With Stars (Ruby Yacht, EP) **
  • Florist: Florist (Double Double Whammy) **
  • Wolfgang Flür: Magazine 1 (Cherry Red) **
  • Focalistic: Ghetto Gospel (18 Area Holdings) **
  • Ricky Ford: The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul's Scene (Whaling City Sound) **
  • Forest Chorus: Forest Chorus (Orenda) **
  • Chad Fowler/Matthew Shipp: Old Stories (Mahakala Music, 2CD) **
  • Chad Fowler/William Parker/Anders Griffen: Broken Unbroken (Mahakala Music) **
  • Chad Fowler/William Parker/Anders Griffen: Thinking Unthinking (Mahakala Music) **
  • Paolo Fresu/Dino Rubino/Marco Bardoscia/Daniele Di Bonaventura: Ferlinghetti (Tuk Music) **
  • Erik Friedlander: A Queen's Firefly (Skipstone)
  • Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda: Thread of Light (FSR)
  • Anthony Fung: What Does It Mean to Be Free? (self-released)
  • Ezra Furman: All of Us Flames (Anti-) **
  • Joel Futterman/Steve Hirsh: Warp & Weft (Mahakala Music -2CD -21) **
  • Becky G: Esquemas (Kemosabe/RCA) **
  • Charlie Gabriel: Eighty-Nine (Sub Pop) **
  • James Gaiters Soul Revival: Understanding Reimagined (self-released)
  • Moktar Gania & Gwana Soul: Gwana Soul (MusjoMusic/Nuits d'Afrique) **
  • Noah Garabedian: Consider the Stars Beneath Us (Outside In Music)
  • Jacob Garchik: Assembly (Yestereve)
  • Giacomo Gates: You (Savant) **
  • Mary Gauthier: Dark Enough to See the Stars (In the Black/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries (International Anthem) **
  • Freddie Gibbs: $oul $old $eparately (Warner/ESGN) **
  • Binker Golding: Dream of a Dogwood Wild Boy (Gearbox) **
  • S.G. Goodman: Teeth Marks (Verve Forecast) **
  • Onno Govaert + Martina Verhoeven/Dirk Serries: Twofold (A New Wave of Jazz) **
  • Forbes Graham/Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Kresten Osgood: Water Lilies (Driff) **
  • Gordon Grdina: The Music of Tim Berne: Oddly Enough (Attaboygirl)
  • Gordon Grdina's Haram With Marc Ribot: Night's Quietest Hour (Attaboygirl)
  • Gordon Grdina/Mark Helias/Matthew Shipp: Pathways (Attaboygirl) [**]
  • Tee Grizzley: Half Tee Half Beast (Grizzley Gang/300 Entertainment) **
  • Buddy Guy: The Blues Don't Lie (RCA/Silvertone) **
  • Keith Hall: Made in Kalamazoo: Trios and Duos (Zoom Out)
  • Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis (Nonesuch) **
  • Scott Hamilton: Talk to Me, Baby (Blau) **
  • Calvin Harris: Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 (Columbia) **
  • Heart of the Ghost: Summons (No Quarter) **
  • Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott: N.K-Pop (EMI) **
  • John Hébert: Sounds of Love (Sunnyside) **
  • Heroes Are Gang Leaders: LeAutoRoiOgraphy (577)
  • Lauran Hibberd: Garageband Superstar (Virgin) **
  • Art Hirahara: Verdant Valley (Posi-Tone) **
  • Steve Hirsh/Zoh Amba/Luke Stewart: An Unlikely Place (Mahakala Music) **
  • Honey Dijon: Black Girl Magic (Classic) **
  • Horse Lords: Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl) **
  • Julia Hülsmann Quartet: The Next Door (ECM) **
  • Hurray for the Riff Raff: Life on Earth (Nonesuch) **
  • Ifsonever: Ifsonever (Jazz & Milk) **
  • Jon Irabagon: Rising Sun (Irabbagast) **
  • Grace Ives: Janky Star (True Panther/Harvest) **
  • Javon Jackson: The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (Solid Jackson)
  • Song Yi Jeon/Vinicius Gomes: Home (Greenleaf Music)
  • Gisle Røen Johansen: Kveldsragg (Jazzaggression) **
  • Max Johnson Trio: Orbit of Sound (Unbroken Sounds) **
  • Jones Jones: Just Justice (ESP-Disk)
  • Sheila Jordan: Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Live) **
  • Ka: Languish Arts (Iron Works, EP) **
  • Kassmasse: Bahil  Weg (Meedo) **
  • Kehlani: Blue Water Road (Atlantic) **
  • Kimberly Kelly: I'll Tell You What's Gonna Happen (Show Dog Nashville) **
  • Keith Kirchoff/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Christian Wolff: Exercises and Explorations (Spoonhunt -21) **
  • Kittin + the Hacker: Third Album (Nobody's Bizzness) **
  • Kiwi Jr.: Chopper (Sub Pop) **
  • Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee: Bamanan (Real World) **
  • Anders Koppel: Mulberry Street Symphony (Cowbell Music, 2CD) **
  • Sarathy Korwar: Kalak (The Leaf Label) **
  • Mike Kuhl/Dave Ballou/John Dierker/Luke Stewart: Kraft (Out of Your Head) **
  • Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope, 2CD) **
  • Landaeus Trio: A Crisis of Perception (Clean Feed) **
  • Brian Landrus: Red List (Palmetto)
  • The Adam Larson Trio: With Love, From Chicago (Outside In Music)
  • Ingrid Laubrock + Andy Milne: Fragile (Intakt) **
  • Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: Counterfeit Mars (Relative Pitch) **
  • Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: Xaybu: The Unseen (Pi)
  • Brennen Leigh: Obsessed With the West (Signature Sounds) **
  • Urs Leimgruber/Christy Doran/Bobby Burri/Fredy Studer: OM 50 (Intakt) **
  • Jinx Lennon: Pet Rent (Septic Tiger) **
  • Michael Leonhart Orchestra: The Normyn Suites (Sunnyside)
  • Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash (Cuneiform) **
  • Leroy [C0ncernn]: Dariacore 3 . . . At Least I Think That's What It's Called? (self-released) **
  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet: MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live (Intakt, 2CD) **
  • Lights: PEP (Fueled by Ramen) **
  • Yaroslav Likhachev Quartet: Occasional Sketches (Clean Feed) **
  • The Linda Lindas: Growing Up (Epitaph) **
  • Magnus Lindgren/Georg Breinschmid: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XIII: Celebrating Mingus 100 (ACT) **
  • Lisbeth Quartett: Release (Intakt) **
  • Lizzo: Special (Atlantic/Nice Life) **
  • Mark Lomax, II: Prismatic Reflections No. 1 (CFG Multimedia) **
  • Loop: Sonancy (Cooking Vinyl) **
  • Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: No Es La Playa (Intakt) **
  • Los Bitchos: Let the Festivities Begin! (City Slang) **
  • Lupe Fiasco: Drill Music in Zion (1st & 15th) **
  • Brian Lynch and Spheres of Influence: Songbook Vol. 2: Dance the Way U Want To (Holistic MusicWorks, 2CD)
  • Doug MacDonald and the L.A. All-Star Octet: Overtones (DMAC Music)
  • Mach-Hommy: Dollar Menu 4 (self-released, EP) **
  • Ruben Machtelinckx + Arve Henriksen: A Short Story (Aspen Edities) **
  • João Madeira/Wagner Ramos: Meristema (4darecord)
  • Rudi Mahall/Michael Griener: Jazzpreis (Astral Spirits) **
  • Tony Malaby's Sabino: The Cave of Winds (Pyroclastic)
  • Pete Malinverni: On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein (Planet Arts)
  • Michael Marcus: Abstractions in Lime Caverns (ESP-Disk)
  • Amber Mark: Three Dimensions Deep (PMR) **
  • Miko Marks and the Resurrectors: Feel Like Going Home (Redtone) **
  • MC Bin Laden: Invasao Dos Fluxos (Kondzilla) **
  • Ashley McBryde: Presents: Lindeville (Warner Music Nashville) **
  • Leyla McCalla: Breaking the Thermometer (Anti-) **
  • Jim McNeely/Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Rituals (Double Moon) **
  • Tate McRae: I Used to Think I Could Fly (RCA) **
  • Francisco Mela/Shinya Lin: Motions Vol. 1 (577) **
  • Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: For the Love of Fire and Water (RogueArt)
  • Xose Miguélez: Contradictio (Origin)
  • Rhett Miller: The Misfit (ATO) **
  • Tyler Mitchell Featuring Marshall Allen: Dancing Shadows (Mahakala Music) **
  • Mdou Moctar: Niger EP Vol. 1 (Matador, EP) **
  • Carlo Mombelli: Lullaby for Planet Earth (Clap Your Hands)
  • Tony Monaco: Four Brothers (Chicken Coup)
  • Dado Moroni/Jesper Lundgaard/Lee Pearson: There Is No Greater Love (Storyville) **
  • Maren Morris: Humble Quest (Columbia Nashville) **
  • Jamal Moss: Thanks 4 the Tracks U Lost (Modern Love) **
  • Fred Moten/Brandon López/Gerald Cleaver: Moten/López/Cleaver (Reading Group) **
  • Kyle Motl: Hydra Nightingale (Infrequent Seams)
  • Louis Moutin/Jowee Omicil/François Moutin: M.O.M. (Laborie Jazz) [10-25]
  • The Muslims: Fuck These Fucking Fascists (Epitaph -21) **
  • My Idea: Cry Mfer (Hardly Art) **
  • Kim Nalley Band With Houston Person: I Want a Little Boy (Kim Nalley Productions)
  • Qasim Naqvi/Wadada Leo Smith/Andrew Cyrille: Two Centuries (Red Hook) **
  • Nas: King's Disease III (Mass Appeal) **
  • Tami Neilson: Kingmaker (Outside Music) **
  • Nerves Baddington: Micro (Apt. B Productions) **
  • Nerves Baddington: Macro (Apt. B Productions) **
  • Judy Niemack: What's Love (Sunnyside) **
  • Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Elastic Wave (ECM) **
  • Paal Nilssen-Love Circus: Pairs of Three (PNL) **
  • Noori & His Dorpa Band: Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass From Sudan's Red Sea Coast (Ostinato) **
  • Matt North: Bullies in the Backyard (self-released) **
  • Timothy Norton: Visions of Phaedrus (Truth Revolution)
  • Oz Noy/Ugonna Okegwo/Ray Marchica: Riverside (Outside In Music)
  • The Nu Band: In Memory of Mark Whitecage: The Nu Band Live at the Bop Shop (Not Two) **
  • Sinéad O'Brien: Time Bend and Break the Bower (Chess Club) **
  • The OGJB Quartet: Ode to O (TUM)
  • Miles Okazaki: Thisness (Pi)
  • Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann: An Eternal Reminder of Not Today: Live at Moers (Trost) **
  • Keith Oxman: This One's for Joey (Capri)
  • Tess Parks: And Those Who Were Seen Dancing (Fuzz Club) **
  • Houston Person: Reminiscing at Rudy's (HighNote)
  • Ethan Philion: Meditations on Mingus (Sunnyside)
  • Marek Pospieszalski Quartet: Dürer's Mother (Clean Feed) **
  • Dafnis Prieto Featuring Luciana Souza: Cantar (Dafnison Music) **
  • Punkt. Vrt. Plastik: Zurich Concert (Intakt) **
  • Flora Purim: If You Will (Strut) **
  • Kojey Radical: Reason to Smile (Atlantic) **
  • Aaron Raitiere: Single Wide Dreamer (Dinner Time) **
  • Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That . . . (Redwing) **
  • Enrico Rava/Fred Hersch: The Song Is You (ECM) **
  • The Red Microphone: And I Became of the Dark (ESP-Disk -21) **
  • Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Long Gone (Nonesuch) **
  • Susan Reed: Thousands of Ways (OA2)
  • Rema: Rave & Roses (Marvin/Jonzing World) **
  • Dave Rempis/Tomeka Reid/Joshua Abrams: Allium (Aerophonic)
  • Reverso: Harmonic Alchemy (Outnote) *
  • Stephen Riley: My Romance (SteepleChase) **
  • Eve Risser/Red Desert Orchestra: Eurythmia (Clean Feed) **
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Trio D'ÉTÉ: Turning Point (5Passion) **
  • Harvie S & Roni Ben-Hur With Sylvia Cuenca: Wondering (Dot Time)
  • Sadistik x Kno: Bring Me Back When the World Is Cured (self-released) **
  • Samo Salamon: Dolphyology: Complete Eric Dolphy for Solo Guitar (Samo, 2CD)
  • Samo Salamon/Sabir Mateen: Joy and Sorrow (Klopotec) **
  • Samo Salamon/Cene Resnik/Urban Kusar: Takt Ars Sessions Vol. 3 (Samo) **
  • Oumou Sangaré: Timbuktu (World Circuit) **
  • Scenes: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival (Origin)
  • Frank Paul Schubert/Kazuhisa Uchihashi/Klaus Kugel: Black Holes Are Hard to Find (Nemu)
  • Scrunchies: Feral Coast (Dirt Nap) **
  • Seabrook Trio: In the Swarm (Astral Spirits) **
  • Selo I Ludy Performance Band: Bunch One (self-released -19) **
  • Shenseea: Alpha (Rich Immigrants/Interscope) **
  • Collin Sherman: Suitable Benchmarks of Reform (Ex-Tol) **
  • Collin Sherman: Organism Made Luminous (Blujazz)
  • Matthew Shipp Trio: World Construct (ESP-Disk)
  • Idit Shner & Mhondoro: Heat Wave (OA2)
  • Josh Sinton/Tony Falco/Jed Wilson: Adumbrations (Form Is Possibility)
  • Carol Sloane: Live at Birdland (Club 44) **
  • Alexander Smalls: Let Us Break Bread Together (Outside In Music)
  • Hal Smith's Jazzologists: I Scream, You Scream, Everybody Wants Ice Cream (self-released -21)
  • Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (TUM, 7CD)
  • Günter Baby Sommer & the Lucaciu 3: Karawane (Intakt) **
  • Sonic Liberation Front and the Sonic Liberation Singers: Justice: The Vocal Works of Oliver Lake (High Two)
  • Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism (Yeros7 Music) **
  • Spoon: Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador) **
  • Sprints: A Modern Job (Nice Swan, EP) **
  • SSWAN [Jessica Ackerley/Patrick Shiroishi/Chris Williams/Luke Stewart/Jason Nazary]: Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disorder (577)
  • Ståhls Trio: Källtorp Sessions Volume Two (Moserobie -21)
  • Superorganism: World Wide Pop (Domino) **
  • Sunny Sweeney: Married Alone (Aunt Daddy) **
  • Syd: Broken Hearts Club (Columbia) **
  • Sylvan Esso: No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista) **
  • Tank and the Bangas: Red Balloon (Verve Forecast) **
  • Tegan and Sara: Crybaby (Mom + Pop) **
  • Crystal Thomas: Now Dig This! (Dialtone -21) **
  • Pat Thomas & XT (Seymour Wright/Paul Abbott/Will Holder): Akisakila/Attitudes of Preparation (Mountains, Oceans, Trees) (Edition Gamut) **
  • Vieux Farka Touré: Les Racines (World Circuit) **
  • Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin: Ali (Dead Oceans) **
  • Mark Turner: Return From the Stars (ECM) **
  • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: Crooked Tree (Nonesuch) **
  • Oded Tzur: Isabela (ECM) **
  • Lisa Ullén/Elsa Bergman/Anna Lund: Space (Relative Pitch) **
  • Kobe Van Cauwenberghe: Ghost Trance Septet Plays Anthony Braxton (El Negocito) **
  • Kalia Vandever: Regrowth (New Amsterdam) **
  • Kurt Vile: (Watch My Moves) (Verve Forecast) **
  • Liba Villavecchia Trio: Zaidan (Clean Feed) **
  • Will Vinson: Tripwire (Whirlwind) **
  • Kelsey Waldon: No Regular Dog (Oh Boy) **
  • Skip Walker: Tina's Contemplation: A Reflection on the Genius of Tina Brooks (Skip Walker Music) **
  • Wee Willie Walker and the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra: Not in My Lifetime (Blue Dot -21) **
  • Walking Cliché Sextet: Micro-Nap (Endectomorph Music)
  • WeFreeStrings: Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage (ESP-Disk)
  • The Weeknd: Dawn FM (XO/Republic) **
  • Wet Leg: Wet Leg (Domino) **
  • Hannah White: About Time (Paper Blue) **
  • Wilco: Cruel Country (dBpm) **
  • Hank Williams Jr.: Rich White Honky Blues (Easy Eye Sound) **
  • Fabian Willmann Trio: Balance (CYH)
  • Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country (Broken Bow) **
  • Deanna Witkowski: Force of Nature (MCG Jazz)
  • Billy Woods: Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Billy Woods: Church (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Jeong Lim Yang: Zodiac Suite: Reassured (Fresh Sound New Talent) [**]
  • John Yao's Triceratops: Off-Kilter (See Tao)
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  • $ilkmoney: I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore (DB$B) **
  • Alex Acuña: Gifts (Le Coq) **
  • Ahanes: Petrichor (Clean Feed) **
  • Akusmi: Fleeting Future (Tonal Union) **
  • Brandon Allen: The Stanley Turrentine Project (Ubuntu Music) **
  • Harry Allen: My Reverie by Special Request (TYR1102) **
  • JD Allen: Americana Vol. 2 (Savant)
  • Wayne Alpern: Secular Rituals (Henri Elkan)
  • Alvvays: Blue Rev (Polyvinyl) **
  • Roxana Amed: Unánime (Sony Music Latin)
  • Ingrid Andress: Good Person (Warner Music Nashville/Atlantic) **
  • Courtney Marie Andrews: Loose Future (Fat Possum) **
  • Anteloper: Pink Dolphins (International Anthem) **
  • Omar Apollo: Ivory (Warner) **
  • Nia Archives: Forbidden Feelingz (Hijinxx, EP) **
  • JoVia Armstrong & Eunoia Society: The Antidote Suite (Black Earth Music) **
  • Lynne Arriale Trio: The Lights Are Always On (Challenge)
  • Kwesi Arthur: Son of Jacob (Ground Up Chale) **
  • Authentically Plastic: Raw Space (Hakuna Kulala) **
  • Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar: Shruti Dances (Make Music) **
  • Daniel Avery: Ultra Truth (Phantasy Sound) **
  • Linda Ayupuka: God Created Everything (Mais Um Discos) **
  • Backxwash: His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering (Ugly Hag) **
  • Bad Bunny: Un Verano Sin Ti (Rimas Entertainment) **
  • The Bad Plus: The Bad Plus (Edition) **
  • Lee Bains + the Glory Fires: Old-Time Folks (Don Giovanni) **
  • Balance: Conjure (Two Rooms) **
  • Lucian Ban: Ways of Disappearing (Sunnyside) **
  • Caterina Barbieri: Spirit Exit (Light-Years) **
  • Batida: Neo Colonialismo (Crammed Discs) **
  • The Baylor Project: The Evening: Live at Apparatus (Be a Light) **
  • Ecko Bazz: Mmaso (Hakuna Kulala) **
  • Aaron Bazzell: Aesthetic (self-released)
  • Beach House: Once Twice Melody (Sub Pop) **
  • Bedouin/DakhaBrakha: The Bedouin Reworks of DakhaBrakha (Human by Default, EP) **
  • Martin Bejerano: #Cubanamerican (Figgland)
  • Simon Belelty: Pee Wee (Jojo)
  • Belle and Sebastian: A Bit of Previous (Matador) **
  • Benny the Butcher: Tana Talk 4 (Griselda/Empire) **
  • Bruno Berle: No Reino Dos Afetos (Far Out) **
  • Sasha Berliner: Onyx (self-released) **
  • Tim Berne/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Mars (Intakt) **
  • Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: Popular Culture (Community Music Vol. 4) (Royal Potato Family, EP) **
  • Camille Bertault & David Helbock: Playground (ACT) **
  • Yaya Bey: Remember Your North Star (Big Dada) **
  • Big K.R.I.T.: Digital Roses Don't Die (BMG) **
  • Binker & Moses: Feeding the Machine (Gearbox) **
  • Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Damon Smith: Duals (Driff/Balance Point Acoustics, 3CD) **
  • Bitchin Bajas: Bajascillators (Drag City) **
  • Black Lives: From Generation to Generation (Jammin' Colors, 2CD)
  • Jake Blount: The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways) **
  • Blue Moods: Myth & Wisdom (Posi-Tone) **
  • Blue Reality Quartet!: Ella's Island (Mahakala Music) **
  • Axel Boman: Luz (Studio Barnhus) **
  • Nathan Borton: Each Step (OA2)
  • Bobby Bradford & Friends: Jackie Robinson: Stealing Home (Cryptogramophone) **
  • Wolfert Brederode: Ruins and Remains (ECM) **
  • Alan Broadbent Trio: Like Minds (Savant) **
  • The Broken Spokes: Where I Went Wrong (Broken Spokes Music) **
  • Bobby Broom: Keyed Up (Steele)
  • James Brown: Song Within the Story (NGP)
  • Dan Bruce's :Beta Collective: Time to Mind the Mystics (Shifting Paradigm)
  • Zach Bryan: American Heartbreak (Warner, 2CD) **
  • Buck 65/Tachichi: Flash Grenade (Black Buffalo) **
  • Sarah Buechi/Franz Hellmueller/Rafael Jerjen: Moon Trail (Intakt) **
  • Burna Boy: Love, Damini (Atlantic) **
  • Burton/McPherson Trio: The Summit Rock Session at Seneca Village (Giant Step Arts)
  • Buruklyn Boyz: East Mpaka London (self-released) **
  • Butcher Brown: Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (Concord Jazz) **
  • Chris Byars: Rhythm and Blues of the 20s (SteepleChase) **
  • Call Super: Swallow Me (Can You Feel the Sun, EP) **
  • Loyle Carner: Hugo (EMI) **
  • Melissa Carper: Ramblin' Soul (Mae Music) **
  • Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1 (Candid) **
  • Tia Carroll: You Gotta Have It (Little Village Foundation -21) **
  • Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! Vol. 2 (577) **
  • George Cartwright/Dave King/Josh Granowski: Stick Insect (Mahakala Music -21) **
  • George Cartwright/Steve Hirsh/Chad Fowler/Christopher Parker/Kelley Hurt: Notice That There (Mahakala Music) **
  • Hugo Carvalhais: Ascetica (Clean Feed) **
  • The Casual Dots: Sanguine Truth (Ixor Stix) **
  • Dan Cavanagh and James Miley With John Hollenbeck: Another Life (S/N Alliance) [*]
  • Central Cee: 23 (self-released) **
  • Charming Hostess: The Ginzburg Geography (Tzadik)
  • Che Noir: The Last Remnants (TCF Music Group, EP) **
  • Corey Christiansen: Standards (self-released) **
  • Mike Clark/Leon Lee Dorsey Featuring Mike LeDonne: Blues on Top (Jazz Avenue 1)
  • Trish Clowes: A View With a Room (Greenleaf Music) **
  • Club D'Elf: You Never Know (Face Pelt) **
  • Brent Cobb: And Now, Let's Turn to Page . . . (Ol' Buddy) **
  • Jeff Coffin: Between Dreaming and Joy (Ear Up)
  • Anat Cohen: Quartetinho (Anzic) **
  • Avishai Cohen: Naked Truth (ECM) **
  • Avishai Cohen Trio: Shifting Sands (Naïve) **
  • Emmet Cohen: Uptown in Orbit (Mack Avenue) **
  • George Colligan: King's Dream (P.Ice)
  • Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley]: Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes (Pyroclastic)
  • The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!) **
  • Confucius MC: Somewhere (YNR Productions -21) **
  • Congotronics International: Where's the One (Crammed Discs, 2CD) **
  • Hollie Cook: Happy Hour (Merge) **
  • Shemekia Copeland: Done Come Too Far (Alligator) **
  • Bob Corritore & Friends: Spider in My Stew (SWMAF/VizzTone -21) **
  • Roxy Coss: Disparate Parts (Outside In Music) **
  • Criolo: Sobre Viver (Oloko) **
  • Charley Crockett: Lil G.L. Presents: Jukebox Charley (Son of Davy) **
  • Charley Crockett: The Man From Waco (Son of Davy) **
  • Theo Croker Quartet: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles (ACT) **
  • Stephan Crump: Rocket Love (Papillon Sounds) **
  • Madison Cunningham: Revealer (Verve Forecast) **
  • Denzel Curry: Melt My Eyez, See Your Future (PH/Loma Vista) **
  • Cypress Hill: Back in Black (MNRK) **
  • Duduka Da Fonseca & Quarteto Universal: Yes!!! (Sunnyside) **
  • Amalie Dahl: Dafnie (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • Mark De Clive-Lowe & Friends: Freedom: Celebrating the Music of Pharoah Sanders (Soul Bank) **
  • The Delines: The Sea Drift (Jealous Butcher) **
  • Alabaster DePlume: Gold: Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love (International Anthem) **
  • Destroyer: Labyrinthitis (Merge) **
  • Tetel Di Babuya: Meet Tetel (Arkadia)
  • Whit Dickey Quartet: Root Perspectives (Tao Forms)
  • Glenn Dickson: Wider Than the Sky (Naftule's Dream)
  • DJ Black Low: Monate WA Piano EP (Black Low Music, EP) **
  • DJ Marz Y Los Flying Turntables/DJ Jester the Filipino Fist: Made in USA (self-released) **
  • DJ Premier: Hip Hop 50 Vol. 1 (Mass Appeal, EP) **
  • Doechii: She/Her/Black B*tch (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol, EP) **
  • Armen Donelian: Fresh Start (Sunnyside)
  • Stella Donnelly: Flood (Secretly Canadian) **
  • Dopolarians: Sunday Morning Sermon (Mahakala Music) **
  • Dopolarians: Blues for Alvin Fielder: Live at Crosstown Arts, Memphis (Mahakala Music) **
  • Tashi Dorji/Susie Ibarra: Master of Time (Astral Spirits) **
  • Hamid Drake: Dedications: Black Cross Solo Sessions 6 (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Steve Earle & the Dukes: Jerry Jeff (New West) **
  • EarthGang: Ghetto Gods (Dreamville/Interscope) **
  • Bill Easley: Diversitonic (Sunnyside) **
  • Edoheart: Pandemonium (Edoheart, EP) **
  • Kelly Eisenhour: I Just Found Out About Love (BluJazz)
  • Eliane Elias: Quietude (Candid) **
  • Elucid: I Told Bessie (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Kahil El'Zabar Quartet: A Time for Healing (Spiritmuse) **
  • Emperor X: The Lakes of Zones B and C (Dreams of Field) **
  • Ensemble 0: Music Nuvolosa (Sub Rosa) **
  • Sture Ericson/Pat Thomas/Raymond Strid: Bagman Live at Cafe Oto (577)
  • Extended: Without Notice (self-released) **
  • Ezra Collective: Where I'm Meant to Be (Partisan) **
  • Fade In: Live Fast, Die a Legend (Clean Feed) **
  • Joe Fahey: Baker's Cousin (Rough Fish) **
  • Fazer: Plex (City Slang) **
  • Mané Fernandes: Enter the Squigg (Clean Feed) **
  • Anthony Ferrara: Cold Faded (SteepleChase) **
  • Joe Fiedler: Solo: The Howland Sessions (Multiphonics)
  • Jean Fineberg: Jean Fineberg & JAZZphoria (Pivotal)
  • William Flynn: Seaside (OA2)
  • Chris Forsyth: Evolution Here We Come (No Quarter) **
  • The Grace Fox Big Band: Eleven O Seven (Next Level/Blue Collar)
  • FKA Twigs: Caprisongs (Young/Atlantic) **
  • Flohio: Out of Heart (AWAL) **
  • Fly Anakin: Frank (Lex) **
  • Chad Fowler/Christopher Parker: Park Hill Saudade (Mahakala Music) **
  • Mabe Fratti: Se Ve Desde Aquí (Unheard Of Hope) **
  • Matthew Fries: Lost Time (Xcappa)
  • Yuko Fujiyama/Graham Haynes/Ikue Mori: Quiet Passion (Intakt) **
  • John Fullbright: The Liar (Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Joel Futterman/Chad Fowler: Timeless Moments (Mahakala Music) **
  • Gabriels: Angels & Queens Part 1 (Atlas Artists/Parlophone) **
  • Asher Gamedze With Xristian Espinoza and Alan Bishop: Out Side Work: Two Duets (Astral Spirits) **
  • Laszlo Gardony: Close Connection (Sunnyside)
  • Dave Gisler Trio With Jaimie Branch and David Murray: See You Out There (Intakt) **
  • GoGo Penguin: Between Two Waves (XXIM, EP) **
  • Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart: Perpetual Pendulum (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Pasquale Grasso: Be-Bop! (Sony Masterworks) **
  • Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio: Boiling Point (Astral Spirits) [**]
  • Phoebe Green: Lucky Me (Chess Club) **
  • Ghais Guevara: May Ur Melanin Shield U From Ragnarok (self-released, EP -20) **
  • Ghais Guevara: Black Bolshevik (self-released, EP -21) **
  • Joy Guidry: Radical Acceptance (Whited Sepulchre) **
  • Mark Guiliana: The Sound of Listening (Edition) **
  • Gunna: DS4EVER (YSL/300 Entertainment) **
  • Gwenno: Tresor (Heavenly) **
  • Matthew Halsall: The Temple Within (Gondwana, EP) **
  • Scott Hamilton: Classics (Stunt) **
  • Aldous Harding: Warm Chris (4AD) **
  • Ben Harper: Bloodline Maintenance (Chrysalis) **
  • Tom Harrell: Oak Tree (HighNote)
  • Craig Harris: Managing the Mask (Aquastra) **
  • Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants (Lateralize -21) **
  • Hatchie: Giving the World Away (Secretly Canadian) **
  • Alexander Hawkins/Mirror Canon: Break a Vase (Intakt) **
  • Thomas Heberer/Ken Filiano/Phil Haynes: Spontaneous Composition (Corner Store Music) **
  • Joshua Hedley: Neon Blue (New West) **
  • Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Mingus (Savant) **
  • Hickeys: Fragile Structure (self-released) **
  • Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Airport Sparrows (Soft Launch) **
  • Marquis Hill: New Gospel Revisited (Edition) **
  • Hippo Campus: LP3 (Grand Jury) **
  • Mike Holober & Balancing Act: Don't Let Go (Sunnyside, 2CD) **
  • Homeboy Sandman: There in Spirit (Mello Music Group, EP) **
  • Michael Hurley: The Time of the Foxgloves (No Quarter -21) **
  • Jenny Hval: Classic Objects (4AD) **
  • Jason Kao Hwang/J.A. Deane [Dino Duo]: Uncharted Faith (Tone Science Music/Blue Coast Music) **
  • I Am [Isaiah Collier & Michael Shekwoaga Ode]: Beyond (Division 81) **
  • Ibibio Sound Machine: Electricity (Merge) **
  • Shawneci Icecold Quartet: Coldtrane (Underground 45 -21)
  • Shawneci Icecold/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Sepphoris (Underground45)
  • Shawneci Icecold/Shuishan Yu: Flowing Water: Music for Guqin & Harpsichord (Underground45)
  • Dieter Ilg: Dedication (ACT) **
  • Imarhan: Aboogi (City Slang) **
  • Ulf Ivarsson/Bill Laswell: Nammu (Ropeadope) **
  • Ethan Iverson: Every Note Is True (Blue Note) **
  • Keefe Jackson/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Joshua Abrams/Mikel Patrick Avery: These Things Happen (Astral Spirits, EP) **
  • Christian Jacob: New Jazz Standards Vol. 5: The Music of Carl Saunders (Summit)
  • Josean Jacobo Trio: Herencia Criolla (self-released)
  • Eric Jacobson: Discover (Origin) **
  • Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert (ECM) **
  • JID: The Forever Story (Dreamville/Interscope) **
  • Jockstrap: I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade) **
  • George V Johnson Jr: Walk Spirit Talk Spirit (Your Majesty) **
  • Sly Johnson: 55.4 (BBE) **
  • Freedy Johnston: Back on the Road to You (Forty Below) **
  • Eugenie Jones: Players (Open Mic, 2CD)
  • Samara Joy: Linger Awhile (Verve) **
  • Laura Jurd: The Big Friendly Album (Big Friendly) **
  • Ka: Woeful Studies (Iron Works, EP) **
  • Kanda Bongo Man: Yolele! Live in Concert (No Wahala Sounds -21) **
  • Kanda Bongo Man: Kekete Bue (No Wahala Sounds) **
  • Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project (Driff) **
  • Ryan Keberle Collectiv Do Brasil: Sonhos Da Esquina (Alternate Side)
  • Calvin Keys: Blue Keys (Wide Hive) **
  • Angélique Kidjo/Ibrahim Maalouf: Queen of Sheba (Mister Ibé) **
  • EG Kight: The Trio Sessions (Blue South -21) **
  • Stan Killian: Brooklyn Calling (Sunnyside) **
  • Kind Folk: Head Towards the Center (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Randall King: Shot Glass (Warner Nashville) **
  • King Princess: Hold On Baby (Zelig/Columbia) **
  • Knucks: Alpha Place (Nodaysoff) **
  • Koffee: Gifted (RCA) **
  • K.O.G.: Zone 6, Agege (Pura Vida Sounds) **
  • Kristina Koller: Get Out of Town (self-released) **
  • Ted Kooshian: Hubub! (Summit)
  • Boris Kozlov: First Things First (Posi-Tone) **
  • David Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! (Table Pounding) **
  • Martin Küchen/Agustí Fernández/Zlatko Kaucic: The Steps That Resonate (Not Two) **
  • Benjamin Lackner: Last Decade (ECM) **
  • Julian Lage: View With a Room (Blue Note) **
  • Nikki Lane: Denim & Diamonds (New West) **
  • Pablo Lanouguere Quintet: Altar (Piano Piano)
  • Lantana: Elemental (Cipsela)
  • Travis Laplante: Wild Tapestry (Out of Your Head)
  • Joy Lapps: Girl in the Yard (self-released)
  • Latto: 777 (RCA) **
  • Laufey: Everything I Know About Love (AWAL) **
  • Lavender Country: Blackberry Rose and Other Songs & Sorrows From Lavender Country (Don Giovanni) **
  • Avril Lavigne: Love Sux (DTA/Elektra) **
  • Ant Law & Alex Hitchcock: Same Moon in the Same World (Outside In Music) **
  • Leikeli47: Shape Up (Hardcover/RCA) **
  • MJ Lenderman: Boat Songs (Dear Life) **
  • Ari Lennox: Age/Sex/Location (Dreamville/Interscope) **
  • Leroy: Dariacore 2: Enter Here, Hell to the Left (self-released -21) **
  • Yosef Gutman Levitt: Upside Down Mountain (self-released)
  • Dave Liebman: Trust and Honesty (Newvelle) **
  • Carol Liebowitz/Adam Lane/Andrew Drury: Blue Shift (Line Art)
  • Linqua Franqa: Bellringer (Ernest Jennings) **
  • Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean (Blue Note) **
  • Charles Lloyd: Trios: Sacred Thread (Blue Note) **
  • Logic: Vinyl Days (Def Jam) **
  • Russ Lossing: Folks (Sunnyside) **
  • Lyle Lovett: 12th of June (Verve) **
  • Igor Lumpert's Innertextures: I Am the Spirit of the Earth (Clean Feed) **
  • M Feat. Ben Stapp/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Marco Colonna/Steve Swell: Broken Songs (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
  • Mabel: About Last Night . . . (Polydor) **
  • Yuko Mabuchi: Caribbean Canvas (Vista)
  • Roberto Magris: Duo & Trio: Featuring Mark Colby (JMood)
  • Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder: Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (Nonesuch) **
  • Rudresh Mahanthappa: Animal Crossing EP (Whirlwind, EP) **
  • Mama's Broke: Narrow Line (Free Dirt) **
  • Roc Marciano & the Alchemist: The Elephant Man's Bones (ALC/Marci/Empire) **
  • Marxist Love Disco Ensemble: MLDE (Mr Bongo) **
  • Joanna Mattrey/Gabby Fluke-Mogul: Oracle (Relative Pitch) **
  • Mavi: Laughing So Hard, It Hurts (United Masters) **
  • Mazam: Pilgrimage (Clean Feed) **
  • Marilyn Mazur's Shamania: Rerooting (Clap Your Hands)
  • Makaya McCraven: In These Times (International Anthem) **
  • Fergus McCreadie: Forest Floor (Edition) **
  • Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid: Let Our Rejoicing Rise (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Meridian Brothers/El Grupo Renacimento: Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimento (Ansonia) **
  • Metric: Formentera (Metric Music International) **
  • Metronomy: Small World (Because Music) **
  • Allison Miller/Carmen Staaf: Nearness (Sunnyside) **
  • Flo Milli: You Still Here, Ho? (RCA) **
  • Abel Mireles: Amino (Sunnyside) **
  • Anaïs Mitchell: Anaïs Mitchell (BMG) **
  • Moderat: More D4ta (Monkeytown) **
  • Charnett Moffett Trio: Live (Motema, EP -21) **
  • Per Møllehøj/Kirk Knuffke/Thommy Andersson: 'S Wonderful (Stunt) **
  • Marc Mommaas: The Impressionist (Sunnyside) **
  • Joyce Moreno: Brasileiras Canções (Biscoito Fino) **
  • PJ Morton: Watch the Sun (Morton/Empire) **
  • Ra Kalam Bob Moses/Damon Smith: Purecircle (Balance Point Acoustics) **
  • Moskus: Papirfuglen (Hubro) **
  • Mr. Fingers: Around the Sun Pt. 1 (Alleviated) **
  • Kjetil Mulelid Trio: Who Do You Love the Most? (Rune Grammofon) **
  • Mush: Down Tools (Memphis Industries) **
  • My Idea: That's My Idea (Hardly Art, EP -21) **
  • Sana Nagano: Anime Mundi (577)
  • Nakama: New World (Nakama) **
  • Nas: Magic (Mass Appeal, EP -21) **
  • Rico Nasty: Las Ruinas (Sugar Trap/Atlantic) **
  • Rachika Nayar: Heaven Come Crashing (NNA Tapes) **
  • Youssou N'Dour Et Le Super Etoile De Dakar: Special Fin D'Annee 2022 (self-released, EP) **
  • Josh Nelson/Bob Bowman Collective: Tomorrow Is Not Promised (Steel Bird Music)
  • Vadim Neselovskyi: Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City (Sunnyside) **
  • Lucas Niggli/Matthias Loibner: Still Storm (Intakt) **
  • No Age: People Helping People (Drag City) **
  • Obongjayar: Some Nights I Dream of Doors (September) **
  • Bill O'Connell: A Change Is Gonna Come (Savant)
  • Odesza: The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family/Ninja Tune) **
  • Off!: Free LSD (Fat Possum) **
  • OK:KO: Liesu (We Jazz) **
  • Ol' Savannah: They Lie in Wait (Anticapital) **
  • Matt Olson: Open Spaces (OA2)
  • Oort Smog: Every Motherfucker Is Your Brother (AKP) **
  • Bill Orcutt: Music for Four Guitars (Palilalia) **
  • Michael Orenstein: Aperture (Origin)
  • Beth Orton: Weather Alive (Partisan) **
  • Oùat: Elastic Bricks (Umlaut) **
  • Jason Palmer: Con Alma (SteepleChase) **
  • Jason Palmer: Live From Summit Rock in Seneca Village (Giant Step Arts)
  • Nicholas Payton: The Couch Sessions (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Panda Bear & Sonic Boom: Reset (Domino) **
  • Emile Parisien: Louise (ACT)
  • Christopher Parker & the Band of Guardian Angels: Soul Food (Mahakala Music -21) **
  • Dolly Parton: Run, Rose, Run (Butterfly) **
  • John Patitucci Trio: Live in Italy (Three Faces) **
  • Sean Paul: Scorcha (Island) **
  • Peaness: World Full of Worry (Totally Snick) **
  • Jeremy Pelt: Soundtrack (HighNote) **
  • Ivo Perelman/Tim Berne/Tony Malaby/James Carter: (D)IVO (Mahakala Music) **
  • Eric Person Featuring Houston Person: Blue Vision (Distinction) **
  • Dierk Peters: Spring (Sunnyside) **
  • Petrol Girls: Baby (Hassle) **
  • Phife Dawg: Forever (Smokin' Needles/AWAL) **
  • Mathis Picard: Live at the Museum (Outside In Music)
  • Enrico Pieranunzi: Something Tomorrow (Storyville) **
  • Pillbox Patti: Florida (Monument) **
  • Yunè Pinku: Bluff (Platoon, EP) **
  • Plaid: Feorm Falorx (Warp) **
  • Jana Pochop: The Astronaut (self-released) **
  • Kerry Politzer: In a Heartbeat (P.Ice)
  • PUP: The Unraveling of PUPTheBand (Rise/BMG) **
  • Charlie Puth: Charlie (Atlantic) **
  • Pye Corner Audio: Let's Emerge! (Sonic Cathedral) **
  • Joe Rainey: Niineta (37d03d) **
  • Ravyn Lenae: Hypnos (Atlantic) **
  • Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk: Laminated Skies (Def Pressé) **
  • Ishmael Reed: The Hands of Grace (Reading Group) **
  • Jussi Reijonen: Three Seconds [Kolme Toista] (Challenge)
  • Iara Rennó: Oríkì (Dobra Discos) **
  • Howard Riley/Keith Tippett: Journal Four (NoBusiness)
  • Diego Rivera: Mestizo (Posi-Tone) **
  • Rizomagic: Voltaje Raizal (Disasters by Choice -21) **
  • The Duke Robillard Band: They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stoney Plain) **
  • Jeremy Rose: Face to Face (Earshift Music) **
  • Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of the Drums (Earshift Music)
  • André Rosinha Trio: Triskel (Nischo) **
  • Joel Ross: The Parable of the Poet (Blue Note) **
  • Daniel Rotem: Wise One: Celebrating the Music of John Coltrane (self-relased) **
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Aymée Nuviola: Live in Marciac (5 Passion)
  • Mark Rubin (Jew of Oklahoma): The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik -21) **
  • Alma Russ: Fool's Gold (self-released) **
  • RXK Nephew: Slitherman Activated (Towhead -21) **
  • Jackie Ryan: Recuerdos De Mi Madre (Open Art)
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song (Nonesuch) **
  • Sampa the Great: As Above, So Below (Loma Vista) **
  • Emiliano Sampaio Jazz Symphonic Orchestra: We Have a Dream (Alessa) **
  • The Angelica Sanchez Trio: Sparkle Beings (Sunnyside) **
  • Sasami: Squeeze (Domino) **
  • Satoyama: Sinking Island (Auand) **
  • Mista Savona: Havana Meets Kingston Part 2 (Cumbancha) **
  • Rina Sawayama: Hold the Girl (Dirty Hit) **
  • Scalping: Void (Houndstooth) **
  • Doug Scarborough: The Color of Angels (Origin)
  • J. Peter Schwalm & Stephan Thelen: Transneptunian Planets (RareNoise) *
  • Secret People: Secret People (Out of Your Head)
  • Aaron Seeber: First Move (Cellar)
  • Serengeti: Kaleidoscope III (Audio Recon) **
  • Sara Serpa: Intimate Strangers (Biophilia -21) *
  • Kenny Shanker: Vortex (Wise Cat)
  • Joan Shelley: The Spur (No Quarter) **
  • Amanda Shires: Take It Like a Man (ATO) **
  • Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Nightroamer (Abeyance) **
  • Wayne Shorter/Terri Lyne Carrington/Leo Genovese/Esperanza Spalding: Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival (Candid) **
  • Ben Sidran: Swing State (Nardis)
  • Linda Sikhakhane: Isambulo (Ropeadope) **
  • Jared Sims: Against All Odds (Origin)
  • Charlton Singleton: Crossroads (BME)
  • James Singleton: Malabar (Sinking City) **
  • Josh Sinton: B. (Form Is Possibility -21) **
  • Josh Sinton: Steve Lacy's Book of Practitioners, Vol. 1 "H" (FIP)
  • Alex Sipiagin: Ascent to the Blues (Posi-Tone) **
  • Harry Skoler: Living in Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus (Sunnyside) **
  • Smino: Luv 4 Rent (Zero Fatigue/Motown) **
  • Ches Smith: Interpret It Well (Pyroclastic)
  • Hal Smith's Jazzologists: Black Cat on the Fence (self-released -21) **
  • Hal Smith's New Orleans Night Owls: Early Hours (self-released) **
  • Walter Smith III/Matthew Stevens/Kris Davis/Dave Holland/Terri Lyne Carrington: In Common III (Whirlwind)
  • Gary Smulyan: Tadd\'s All, Folks (SteepleChase) **
  • Miró Henry Sobrer: Two of Swords (Patois)
  • Sofi Tukker: Wet Tennis (Ultra Music) **
  • Soft Cell: Happiness Not Included (BMG) **
  • Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson (Easy Eye Sound) **
  • Günter Baby Sommer & Raymond MacDonald: Sounds, Songs & Other Noises (Clean Feed) **
  • Clark Sommers Lens: Intertwine (Outside In Music)
  • Sonido Solar: Eddie Palmieri Presents Sonido Solar (Truth Revolution)
  • Space Quartet: Freedom of Tomorrow (Clean Feed) **
  • Caroline Spence: True North (Rounder) **
  • Spinifex: Beats the Plague (Trytone -21)
  • Vince Staples: Ramona Park Broke My Heart (Blacksmith/Motown) **
  • Jason Stein/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces (Balance Point Acoustics) **
  • Elias Stemeseder: Piano Solo (Intakt) **
  • Grant Stewart Quartet With Bruce Harris: The Lighting of the Lamps (Cellar)
  • Stromae: Multitude (Mosaert) **
  • Sunflower Bean: Headful of Sugar (Mom + Pop) **
  • Swedish House Mafia: Paradise Again (Republic) **
  • SZA: SOS (Top Dawg/RCA) **
  • Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Mary Halvorson: Strings & Things (Jam-All Productions) **
  • Tanya Tagaq: Tongues (Six Shooter) **
  • Tarbaby Feat. Oliver Lake: Dance of the Evil Toys (Clean Feed) **
  • Ziv Taubenfeld's Full Sun: Out of the Beast Came Honey (Clean Feed) **
  • Charm Taylor: She Is the Future (Sinking City -21) **
  • Thick: Happy Now (Epitaph) **
  • Micah Thomas: Piano Solo (LP345) **
  • Ricardo Toscano Trio: Chasing Contradictions (Clean Feed) **
  • Tuba Skinny: Magnolia Stroll (self-released) **
  • Steve Turre: Generations (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Matt Ulery: Become Giant (Woolgathering)
  • Gebhard Ullmann/Gerhard Gschlössl/Johannes Fink/Jan Leipnitz/Michael Haves: Gulfh of Berlin (ESP-Disk -21)
  • UNKLE: Ronin II (self-released) **
  • Chucho Valdés & Paquito D'Rivera Reunion Sextet: I Missed You Too! (Sunnyside) **
  • Kate Vargas: Rumpumpo (Bandaloop -21) **
  • Laura Veirs: Found Light (Bella Union) **
  • Andrés Vial: When Is Ancient? (Chromatic Audio)
  • Erlend Viken/Jo Berger Myhre/Thomas Strønen: Djupet (OK World) **
  • Daniel Villarreal: Panamá 77 (International Anthem) **
  • David Virelles: Nuna (Pi)
  • Wako: Ut Av Det Nye (Øra Fonogram) **
  • Devin Brahja Waldman & Hamid Drake: Mediumistic Methodology (Astral Spirits) **
  • Johannes Wallmann: Precarious Towers (Shifting Paradigm) **
  • Cory Weeds Quartet: Just Coolin' (Cellar) **
  • Dan Weiss Trio: Dedication (Cygnus)
  • Rodney Whitaker: Oasis: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin)
  • The Whitmore Sisters: Ghost Stories (Red House) **
  • Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy (New Amsterdam) **
  • The Dave Wilson Quartet: Stretching Supreme (Dave Wilson Music -21) **
  • Working Men's Club: Fear Fear (Heavenly) **
  • Wrecking Crew: Sedale Threat (self-released) **
  • Jason Yeager: Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite (Sunnyside)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian) **
  • Years & Years: Night Call (Polydor) **
  • Yeule: Glitch Princess (Bayonet) **
  • Neil Young + Promise of the Real: Noise & Flowers (Reprise) **
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse: World Recod (Reprise) **
  • Yung Kayo: DFTK (Sevensevenseven/YSL) **
  • Per Zanussi & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble: Li (and the Infinite Game) (Clean Feed) **
  • Zola Jesus: Arkhon (Sacred Bones) **
B+(*)

  • 700 Bliss: Nothing to Declare (Hyperdub) **
  • Claudia Acuña: Duo (Ropeadope)
  • [Ahmed]: Ahad/Wahid (A Cheeseboard Production, EP) **
  • The Airport 77s: We Realize You Have a Choice (Jem) **
  • Aitch: Close to Home (Capitol) **
  • Poppy Ajudha: The Power in Us (Virgin) **
  • Mike Allemana: Vonology (Ears & Eyes)
  • Harry Allen & Dave Blenkhorn: Play the Music of Phil Morrison (GAC) **
  • Franco Ambrosetti: Nora (Enja) **
  • Horace Andy: Midnight Rocker (On-U Sound) **
  • The Ano Nobo Quartet: The Strings of São Domingos (Ostinato) **
  • Stacy Antonel: Always the Outsider (self-released) **
  • Archers of Loaf: Reason in Decline (Merge) **
  • Au Suisse: Au Suisse (City Slang) **
  • Avalanche Kaito: Avalanche Kaito (Glitterbeat) **
  • Kelsea Ballerini: Subject to Change (Black River) **
  • Band of Horses: Things Are Great (BMG) **
  • Richard Baratta: Music in Film: The Sequel (Savant)
  • Jonathan Barber & Vision Ahead: Poetic (Vision Ahead)
  • Barcelona Clarinet Players: Fantasías Barcelónicas: A Tribute to Paquito D'Rivera (Sunnyside) **
  • Basher: Doubles (Sinking City) **
  • Battle Trance: Green of Winter (New Amsterdam) **
  • Quentin Baxter Quintet: Art Moves Jazz (BME)
  • Kenny Beats: Louie (XL) **
  • Benjamin Tod: Songs I Swore I'd Never Sing (Anti-Corp) **
  • Kristin Berardi: The Light & the Dark (Earshift Music)
  • Bibio: Bib10 (Warp) **
  • Crow Billiken: If I Don't Have Red I Use Blue (self-released, EP) **
  • David Binney: A Glimpse of the Eternal (Criss Cross) **
  • Black Country, New Road: Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune) **
  • The Black Dog: Concrete Reasoning EP (Dust Science, EP) **
  • Bladee/Ecco2k: Crest (Year0001) **
  • Bliss Quintet: Dramaqueen (Jazzland) **
  • Priscilla Block: Welcome to the Block Party (InDent/Mercury Nashville) **
  • Bonobo: Fragments (Ninja Tune) **
  • Sarah Borges: Together Alone (Blue Corn Music) **
  • Surya Botofasina: Everyone's Children (Spiritmuse) **
  • Bright Dog Red: Under the Porch (Ropeadope) **
  • Scott Burns/John Wojciechowski/Geof Bradfield: Tenor Time (Afar Music)
  • Kaitlin Butts: What Else Can She Do (self-released) **
  • Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective: Reflections (BBE) **
  • Armani Caesar: The Liz 2 (Griselda) **
  • Ethel Cain: Preacher's Daughter (Daughters of Cain) **
  • Calexico: El Mirador (Anti-) **
  • Bill Callahan: YTILAER (Drag City) **
  • Camp Cope: Running With the Hurricane (Run for Cover) **
  • Sergio Carolino: Below 0 (Clean Feed) **
  • Tito Carrillo: Urbanessence (Origin) **
  • Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putnam/Hilliard Greene/Federico Ughi: Telepatica (577) **
  • Paul Cauthen: Country Coming Down (Thirty Tigers/Velvet Rose) **
  • Raven Chacon/Tatsuya Nakatini/Carlos Santistevan: Inhale/Exhale (Other Minds) **
  • Brian Charette: Jackpot (Cellar) **
  • Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Blank Canvas (Stretch/Ropeadope)
  • Chat Pile: God's Country (The Flenser) **
  • Cyrus Chestnut: My Father's Hands (HighNote)
  • Chicago Farmer & the Fieldnotes: Fore!!!! (Chicago Farmer, EP) **
  • Chicago Soul Jazz Collective Meets Dee Alexander: On the Way to Be Free (JMarq) **
  • Tyler Childers: Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? (Hickman Holler/RCA) **
  • Rachel Chinouriri: Better Off Without (Parlophone/Atlas, EP) **
  • Chouk Bwa & the Ångströmers: Ayiti Kongo Dub #1 (Bongo Joe, EP) **
  • Callista Clark: Real to Me: The Way I Feel (Big Machine) **
  • The Claudettes: The Claudettes Go Out! (Forty Below) **
  • Coco & Clair Clair: Sexy (self-released) **
  • Cola: Deep in View (Fire Talk) **
  • Louis Cole: Quality Over Opinion (Brainfeeder) **
  • Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: Lift Every Voice (Division 81, EP) **
  • Luke Combs: Growin' Up (Columbia Nashville) **
  • Cool Sweetness Sextet: Shoehorn Shuffle (Storyville) **
  • Gustavo Cortiñas: Kind Regards: Saludos Afectuosos (Pesato Candente)
  • Elvis Costello & the Imposters: The Boy Named If (Capitol) **
  • George Cotsirilos Quartet: Refuge (OA2)
  • Jon Cowherd Trio: Pride and Joy (Le Coq) **
  • Tommy Crane: We're All Improvisers Now (Whirlwind) **
  • Theo Croker: Love Quantum (Masterworks) **
  • Curren$y & the Alchemist: Continuance (Jet Life) **
  • Digga D: Noughty by Nature (CGM/EGA) **
  • Daggerboard: Daggerboard & the Skipper (Wide Hive)
  • Dandy Dandie: Hypnos & Morphée (Yolk Music) **
  • Harold Danko: Rite Notes (SteepleChase) **
  • Sarah Davachi: Two Sisters (Late Music) **
  • Steve Davis: Bluesthetic (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Zella Day: Sunday in Heaven (Concord) **
  • Michael Dease: Best Next Thing (Posi-Tone) **
  • Allen Dennard: Flashback (Allen Dennard Music) **
  • Jeff Denson/Romain Pilon/Brian Blade: Finding Light (Ridgeway)
  • Duke Deuce: Crunkstar (Quality Control/Motown) **
  • James Devane: Beauty Is Useless (Umeboshi) **
  • Chris Dingman: Journeys Vol. 1 (self-released) **
  • John Dikeman/Stefan Gonzalez/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Jonathan F Horne: Texas Butt Biters (Astral Spirits) **
  • John Dikeman/Peter Ajtai/Nicolas Field: The Throes (Orbit577) **
  • DJ 809: EightOh! (self-released, EP) **
  • DJ Travella: Mr Mixondo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Do'a: Higher Grounds (Outside In Music)
  • Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms (Greenleaf Music)
  • Kit Downes/Petter Eldh/James Maddren: Vermillion (ECM) **
  • Dr. John: Things Happen That Way (Rounder) **
  • Drake: Honestly, Nevermind (OVO Sound/Republic) **
  • Dubstar: Two (Northern Writes) **
  • Dungen: En Är För Mycket Och Tusen Aldrig Nog (Mexican Summer) **
  • Ebi Soda: Honk If You're Sad (Tru Thoughts) **
  • Yelena Eckemoff: I Am a Stranger in This World (L&H Production, 2CD)
  • Eels: Extreme Witchcraft (E Works/PIAS) **
  • El Khat: Albat Alawi Op. 99 (Glitterbeat) **
  • Coco Em: Kilumi (InFiné) **
  • Brian Eno: Forever and Ever No More (Verve) **
  • Erin Rae: Lighten Up (Good Memory) **
  • Ilhan Ersahin/Dave Harrington/Kenny Wollesen: Invite Your Eye (Nublu) **
  • John Escreet/Pera Krstajic/Anthony Fung: Cresta (self-released) **
  • Silvana Estrada: Marchita (Glassnote) **
  • Eubanks Evans Experience: EEE (Imani)
  • Everything Everything: Raw Data Feel (AWAL) **
  • Brent Faiyaz: Wasteland (Lost Kids) **
  • Steven Feifke: The Role of the Rhythm Section (La Reserve) **
  • Steven Feifke/Dijon Watson: Steven Feifke and Dijon Watson Present: Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra (Cellar)
  • The Fernweh: Torschlusspanik! (Winterlude) **
  • Bryan Ferry: Love Letters (BMG, EP) **
  • Amina Figarova: Joy (AmFi)
  • Nick Finzer: Out of Focus (Outside In Music -21) **
  • First Aid Kit: Palomino (Columbia) **
  • Tim Fitzgerald: Tim Fitzgerald's Full House (Cellar)
  • Flasher: Love Is Yours (Domino) **
  • Foals: Life Is Yours (Warner) **
  • Fontaines DC: Skinty Fia (Partisan) **
  • Al Foster: Reflections (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Ronnie Foster: Reboot (Blue Note) **
  • Foxes: The Kick (PIAS) **
  • Fred Again: Actual Life (January 1-September 9 2022) (Atlantic) **
  • Free Form Funky Freqs: Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy (Ropeadope) **
  • David Friend & Jerome Begin: Post- (New Amsterdam) **
  • Bill Frisell: Four (Blue Note) **
  • Satoko Fujii: Hajimeru (Libra, EP -21) **
  • Dai Fujikura/Jan Bang: The Bow Maker (Punkt) **
  • Steve Gadd/Eddie Gomez/Ronnie Cuber: Center Stage (Leopard) **
  • Liam Gallagher: C'mon You Know (Warner) **
  • Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug: Higgs Boson (Ideologic Organ) **
  • Gang of Youths: Angel in Realtime (Warner) **
  • Gas: Der Lange Marsch (Kompakt -21) **
  • Gato Libre: Sleeping Cat (Libra) **
  • Marshall Gilkes: Cyclic Journey (Alternate Side) **
  • Amos Gillespie: Unstructured Time (self-released)
  • Arun Ghosh: Seclused in Light (Camoci -2CD) **
  • Robert Glasper: Black Radio III (Loma Vista) **
  • Lincoln Goines: The Art of the Bass Choir (Origin) **
  • Ghais Guevara: There Will Be No Super-Slave (self-released) **
  • Tord Gustavsen Trio: Opening (ECM) **
  • Michael Hackett/Tim Coffman Sextet: Western Skies (Summit)
  • Keiji Haino: My Lord Music, I Most Humbly Beg Your Indulgence in the Hope That You Will Do Me the Honour of Permitting This Seed Called Keiji Haino to Be Planted Within You (Purple Tap/Black Editions) **
  • Matt Hall: I Hope to My Never (Summit)
  • Hallelujah the Hills: The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant (Hallelujah the Hills) **
  • Mary Halvorson: Belladonna (Nonesuch) **
  • Tigran Hamasyan: Stand Art (Nonesuch) **
  • Connie Han: Secrets of Inanna (Mack Avenue) **
  • Hard Bop Messengers: Live at the Last Hotel (Pacific Coast Jazz) **
  • Hard Rubber Orchestra: Iguana (Redshift) **
  • Clay Harper: They'll Never Miss a Five (Clay Harper Music) **
  • Darryl Harper: Chamber Made (Stricker Street)
  • Hellbound Glory: The Immortal Hellbound Glory: Nobody Knows You (Black Country) **
  • Marina Herlop: Pripyat (Pan) **
  • Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre: Visión (Ovation) **
  • Lisa Hilton: Life Is Beautiful (Ruby Slippers) **
  • Art Hirahara: Ascent (Posi-Tone, EP) **
  • Olli Hirvonen: Kielo (Ropeadope)
  • Ari Hoenig Trio: Golden Treasures (Fresh Sound New Talent) **
  • Hinda Hoffman Meets Soul Message: People (Know You Know)
  • Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance (Matador) **
  • Hot Chip: Freakout/Release (Domino) **
  • Hudson Mohawke: Cry Sugar (Warp) **
  • Shawneci Icecold/Daniel Carter/Brandon Lopez: Toro (Underground45 -21) **
  • Shawneci Icecold & Fatlip: Carte Blanche (Underground45 -21) **
  • Shawneci Icecold & Rob Swift: For the Heads That Break (Fat Beats) **
  • Ryoji Ikeda: Ultratronics (Noton) **
  • Dieter Ilg: Ravel (ACT) **
  • Dan Israel: Seriously (self-released) **
  • J-Hope: Jack in the Box (HYBE) **
  • Julia Jacklin: Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl) **
  • Brian Jackson: This Is Brian Jackson (BBE) **
  • Colin James: Open Road (Stony Plain -21) **
  • JER: Bothered/Unbothered (Bad Time) **
  • Calvin Johnson Jr.: Notes of a Native Son (self-released)
  • Willie Jones III: Fallen Heroes (WJ3 -21) **
  • Kathryn Joseph: For You Who Are Wronged (Rock Action) **
  • Junglepussy: JP5000 (self-released, EP) **
  • Jupiter: The Wild East (Moserobie)
  • Just Mustard: Heart Under (Partisan) **
  • Kaleiido: Elements (Exopac) **
  • Benji Kaplan: Something Here Inside (Wise Cat)
  • Tony Karapetyan Trio: Point of View (Jazzist) **
  • Geoffrey Keezer & Friends: Playdate (MarKeez)
  • Eva Kess: Inter-Musical Love Letter (Unit)
  • Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: Texas Moon (Dead Oceans, EP) **
  • Kyle Kidd: Soothsayer (American Dreams) **
  • Milen Kirov: Spatium (Independent Creative Sound and Music)
  • Kilo Kish: American Gurl (Kisha Soundscape + Audio) **
  • KMRU & Aho Ssan: Limen (Subtext) **
  • Toshinori Kondo x DJ Motive: Zen (Mohawks) **
  • The Koreatown Oddity: Isthisforreal? (Stones Throw) **
  • Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: Lumumba (Intakt) **
  • Pierre Kwenders: José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts) **
  • Kyle: It's Not So Bad (self) **
  • Anysia Kym: Soliloquy (self-released, EP) **
  • Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio: Cold as Weiss (Colemine) **
  • Bill Laurance: Affinity (Flint Music) **
  • Lauv: All 4 Nothing (Virgin) **
  • Azar Lawrence: New Sky (Trazar) **
  • Cate Le Bon: Pompeii (Mexican Summer) **
  • Gerard Lebik/John Edwards/Paul Lovens: Lepomis Gibbosus (Fundacja Sluchaj -21) **
  • José Lencastre: Inner Voices (Burning Ambulance) **
  • George Lernis: Between Two Worlds (Dunya)
  • Let's Eat Grandma: Two Ribbons (Transgressive) **
  • Jeffrey Lewis: When That Really Old Cat Dies (self-released, EP) **
  • Ramsey Lewis: The Beatles Songbook [The Saturday Salon Series: Volume One] (Steele)
  • Lykke Li: Eyeye (PIAS) **
  • Lil Silva: Yesterday Is Heavy (Nowhere) **
  • Linus + Nils Økland/Niels Van Heertum/Ingar Zach: Light as Never (Aspen Edities) **
  • Darren Litzie: My Horizon (Summit)
  • Dana Lyn: A Point on a Slow Curve (In a Circle) **
  • Harold Mabern: Mabern Plays Coltrane (Smoke Sessions -21) **
  • Maddie & Tae: Through the Madness (Mercury Nashville, EP) **
  • Maddie & Tae: Through the Madness Vol. 2 (Mercury Nashville, EP) **
  • Joe Magnarelli: New York Osaka Junction (SteepleChase) **
  • Majamisty Trio: Wind Rose (Majamisty) **
  • Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu (Blue Note) **
  • Jeremy Manasia Trio: Butcher Block Ballet (Blujazz)
  • Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra: In the Valley (Stricker Street)
  • Johnny Marr: Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG) **
  • Martha: Please Don't Take Me Back (Dirtnap) **
  • Stephen Martin: High Plains (OA2)
  • The Master Musicians of Jajouka Led by Bachir Attir: Dancing Under the Moon (Glitterbeat, 2CD) **
  • Dmitri Matheny: Cascadia (Origin)
  • Matmos: Regards/Uklony Dla Boguslaw Schaeffer (Thrill Jockey) **
  • Carson McHone: Still Life (Merge) **
  • Arlo McKinley: This Mess We're In (Oh Boy) **
  • Tommy McLain: I Ran Down Every Dream (Yep Roc) **
  • Melt Yourself Down: Pray for Me I Don't Fit (Decca) **
  • Vic Mensa: Vino Valentino (Roc Nation, EP) **
  • Meridian Odyssey: Earthshine (Origin)
  • Raul Midón: Eclectic Adventurist (Artistry/Mack Avenue) **
  • John Minnock: Simplicity (Dot Time)
  • Mitski: Laurel Hell (Dead Oceans) **
  • Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Maternity Beat (Rune Grammofon) **
  • Momma: Household Name (Polyvinyl) **
  • T.S. Monk: Live: Two Continents One Groove (Storyville) **
  • Kevin Morby: This Is a Photograph (Dead Oceans) **
  • John Moreland: Birds in the Ceiling (Thirty Tigers) **
  • Gurf Morlix: The Tightening of the Screws (Rootball -21) **
  • Van Morrison: What's It Gonna Take? (Exile) **
  • Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 011 (Jazz Is Dead) **
  • Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 012: Jean Carne (Jazz Is Dead, EP) **
  • Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 14: Henry Franklin (Jazz Is Dead) **
  • Muna: Muna (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) **
  • Jasmine Myra: Horizons (Gondwana) **
  • Nina Nastasia: Riderless Horse (Temporary Residence) **
  • Native Sound System: Nativeworld (Native) **
  • Maggie Nicols: Are You Ready? (Otoroku) **
  • Carlos Niño & Friends: Extra Presence (International Anthem) **
  • Yu Nishiyama: A Lotus in the Mud (Next Level)
  • North Mississippi Allstars: Set Sail (New West) **
  • Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono (Canvasback) **
  • Angel Olsen: Big Time (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Mark O'Connor: Markology II (OMAC -21) **
  • JS Ondara: Spanish Villager No: 3 (Verve Forecast) **
  • The Ostara Project: The Ostara Project (Cellar)
  • Margaux Oswald: Dysphotic Zone (Clean Feed) **
  • The Paranoyds: Talk Talk Talk (Third Man) **
  • Jeff Parker: Forfolks (International Anthem -21) **
  • Katy J Pearson: Sound of the Morning (Heavenly) **
  • Orville Peck: Bronco (Columbia) **
  • Rich Pellegrin: Passage: Solo Improvisations II (OA2)
  • Sergio Pereira: Finesse (Sedajazz)
  • Perfume Genius: Ugly Season (Matador) **
  • Phoenix: Alpha Zulu (Glassnote) **
  • PinkPantheress: Take Me Home (Warner Music, EP) **
  • Chris Pitsiokis: Art of the Alto (Relative Pitch) **
  • Pkew Pkew Pkew: Open Bar (Dine Alone) **
  • Placebo: Never Let Me Go (So/Elevator Lady) **
  • Porridge Radio: Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky (Secretly Canadian) **
  • Marek Pospieszalski: Polish Composers of the 20th Century (Clean Feed) **
  • Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung: Gaya (Trouble in the East) **
  • Noah Preminger/Max Light: Songs We Love (SteepleChase) **
  • Pussy Riot: Matriarchy Now (Neon Gold) **
  • Quelle Chris: Deathfame (Mello Music Group) **
  • RedGreenBlue: The End and the Beginning (Astral Spirits) **
  • Revelators Sound System: Revelators (37d03d) **
  • Maggie Rogers: Surrender (Capitol) **
  • Rick Rosato: Homage (self-released, EP)
  • RZA Vs. Bobby Digital: Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater (MNRK, EP) **
  • Huerco S.: Plonk (Incienso) **
  • Sault: 11 (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Sault: Earth (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Sault: Today & Tomorrow (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Scary Goldings: Scary Goldings IV (Pockets -21) **
  • John Scofield: John Scofield (ECM) **
  • Sevdaliza: Raving Dahlia (Twisted Elegance, EP) **
  • SFJazz Collective: New Works Reflecting the Moment (SFJazz) **
  • Shamir: Heterosexuality (AntiFragile) **
  • Elliott Sharp/Eric Mingus: Songs From a Rogue State (Zoar) **
  • Maya Shenfeld: In Free Fall (Thrill Jockey) **
  • Patrick Shiroishi: Evergreen (Touch) **
  • ShrapKnel: Metal Lung (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Shygirl: Nymph (Because Music) **
  • Sigrid: How to Let Go (Island) **
  • André B. Silva: Mt. Meru (Clean Feed) **
  • Oliver Sim: Hideous Bastard (Young/XL) **
  • Steve Slagle: Ballads: Into the Heart of It (Panorama) **
  • The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention (XL) **
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Let's Turn It Into Sound (Ghostly International) **
  • The Smudges: Song and Call (Cryptogramophone)
  • Torben Snekkestad/Søren Kjaergaard: Another Way of the Heart (Trost) **
  • Soccer Mommy: Sometimes Forever (Loma Vista) **
  • Somi: Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba (Salon Africana)
  • SonnyJim & the Purist: White Girl Wasted (Daupe, EP) **
  • Soul Glo: Diaspora Problems (Epitaph) **
  • Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Imágenes Latinas (Ovation)
  • Special Interest: Endure (Rough Trade) **
  • Vic Spencer x Small Professor: Mudslide (Coalmine) **
  • Sprints: Manifesto (Nice Swan, EP -21) **
  • Luke Stewart: Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Vol. 1 (Astral Spirits -21) **
  • Luke Stewart: Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Vol. 2 (Astral Spirits) **
  • John Stowell/Dave Glenn & the Hawcaptak Quartet: Violin Memory (Origin)
  • Bartees Strange: Farm to Table (4AD) **
  • Dave Stryker: As We Are (Strikezone)
  • Styrofoam Winos: Styrofoam Winos Play Their Favorite M. Hurley Songs (Sophomore Lounge) **
  • Survival Unit III: The Art of Flight: For Alvin Fielder (Astral Spirits) **
  • Charlie Sutton: Trout Takes (Chuckwagon, EP) **
  • Earl Sweatshirt: Sick! (Tan Cressida/Warner, EP) **
  • Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree (Libra)
  • Joanne Shaw Taylor: Blues From the Heart: Live (KTBA) **
  • Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: Pretty Good for a Girl Band (Domestic La La, EP) **
  • TEIP Trio: TEIP Trio (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • There Be Monsters: Rubikon (Klopotec) **
  • They Hate Change: Finally, New (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Thollem: Obstacle Illusion (Astral Spirits) **
  • Ben Thomas Tango Project: Eternal Aporia (Origin)
  • Pat Thomas: Pat Thomas Plays the Duke (New Jazz and Improvised Music) **
  • Bernardo Tinoco & Tom Maciel: NoMad Nenúfar (Clean Feed) **
  • Tomberlin: I Don't Know Who Needs to Hear This . . . (Saddle Creek) **
  • Xiomara Torres: La Voz Del Mar (Patois)
  • Vasco Trilla/Liba Villavecchia: Asebeia (FMR -21) **
  • Two Shell: Home (Mainframe Audio, EP) **
  • Tess Tyler x Spindle Ensemble: Fractals [Vol. 2] (Manners McDade) **
  • UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra: Last Dance: New Music for Jazz Orchestra by Ed Partyka (Neuklang) **
  • Sharon Van Etten: We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Jordan VanHemert: Nomad (Origin)
  • Phil Venable: Bassworks, Vol. 1 (Soul City Sounds) **
  • Piet Verbist: Secret Exit to Another Dimension (Origin)
  • Viagra Boys: Cave World (Year0001) **
  • Luis Vicente/Seppe Gebruers/Onno Govaert: Room With No Name (Fundacja Sluchaj) **
  • Eric Vloeimans & Will Holshouser: Two for the Road (V-flow/Challenge)
  • Walking Cliché Sextet: Suite Chase Reflex (self-released, EP -21) **
  • Warpaint: Radiate Like This (Virgin) **
  • RA Washington/Jah Nada: In Search of Our Father's Gardens (Astral Spirits) **
  • Bobby Watson: Back Home in Kansas City (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Wau Wau Collectif: Mariage (Sahel Sounds) **
  • Dallas Wayne: Coldwater, Tennessee (Audium/BFD) **
  • The Weather Station: How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars (Fat Possum) **
  • Katharina Weber: In Marta's Garden: Piano Solo (Intakt) **
  • Corey Weeds With Strings: What Is There to Say? (Cellar -21) **
  • Orlando Weeks: Hop Up (PIAS) **
  • Bugge Wesseltoft: Be Am (Jazzland) **
  • Brodie West Quintet: Meadow of Dreams (Astral Spirits) **
  • Chris Williams/Patrick Shiroishi: Sans Soleil II (Astral Spirits) **
  • Martin Wind/New York Bass Quartet: Air (Laika)
  • Wu-Lu: Loggerhead (Warp) **
  • Eri Yamamoto Trio: A Woman With a Purple Wig (Mahakala Music) **
  • Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 13: Katalyst (Jazz Is Dead) **
B
  • 49 Winchester: Fortune Favors the Bold (New West) **
  • Ab-Soul: Herbert (Top Dawg Entertainment) **
  • Kyle Aho: Rituals (OA2)
  • Deborah Allen: The Art of Dreaming (BFD) **
  • Alt-J: The Dream (Infectious Music) **
  • Gyedu-Blay Ambolley: Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and Hi-Life Jazz (Agogo) **
  • Animal Collective: Time Skiffs (Domino) **
  • Aurora: The Gods We Can Touch (Glassnote) **
  • Jon Balke/Siwan: Hafla (ECM) **
  • Bastille: Give Me the Future (Virgin/EMI) **
  • The Black Keys: Dropout Boogie (Nonesuch/Easy Eye Sound) **
  • Sarah Bernstein: Veer Quartet (New Focus)
  • Björk: Fossora (One Little Independent) **
  • Bloc Party: Alpha Games (Infectious/BMG) **
  • Bodysync: Radio Active (self-released) **
  • Burial: Streetlands (Hyperdub, EP) **
  • The Cactus Blossoms: One Day (Walkie Talkie) **
  • Caroline: Caroline (Rough Trade) **
  • Cat Power: Covers (Domino) **
  • Erich Cawalla: The Great American Songbook (BluJazz)
  • Kevin Cerovich: Aging Millennial (CVJ)
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Flipped It (Kill Rock Stars -EP) **
  • Neneh Cherry: The Versions (EMI) **
  • Chief Keef: 4Nem (Glo Gang/RBC -21) **
  • Chronophage: Chronophage (Bruit Direct Disques) **
  • Lindsay Clark: Carpe Noctem (Audio Sport) **
  • Gerald Clayton: Bells on Sand (Blue Note) **
  • Tom Collier: The Color of Wood (Summit)
  • Rosalie Cunningham: Two Piece Puzzle (Machine Elf) **
  • Death Cab for Cutie: Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic) **
  • Vladislav Delay: Isoviha (Planet Mu) **
  • DJ 809: Unexpected (self-released, EP) **
  • Djo: Decide (Awal) **
  • Dodie: Hot Mess (Doddleoddle, EP) **
  • Drake & 21 Savage: Her Loss (OVO Sound/Republic) **
  • Kaja Draksler/Susana Santos Silva: Grow (Intakt) **
  • Drug Church: Hygiene (Pure Noise) **
  • Ella Mai: Heart on My Sleeve (10 Summers/Interscope) **
  • Empath: Visitor (Fat Possum) **
  • Esthesis Quartet: Esthesis Quartet (Orenda)
  • Father John Misty: Chloë and the Next 20th Century (Sub Pop) **
  • Florence + the Machine: Dance Fever (Polydor) **
  • David Francis: Sings Songs of the Twenties (Blujazz, EP)
  • Satoko Fujii: Bokyaku (Libra) **
  • Alex G: God Save the Animals (Domino) **
  • Gilla Band: Most Normal (Rough Trade) **
  • Girlpool: Forgiveness (Anti-) **
  • Michael Grossman/Jai Morris-Smith: Curious Music (Research/Astral Spirits) **
  • Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra: Smash! (Next Level)
  • Walker Hayes: Country Stuff: The Album (Monument) **
  • Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band: Dear Scott (Modern Sky) **
  • Hercules & Love Affair: In Amber (Skint/BMG) **
  • Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note) **
  • Honolulu Jazz Quartet: Straight Ahead: The Honolulu Jazz Quartet Turns 20 (HJQ)
  • Shawneci Icecold/Daniel Carter: Familiar Roads (Underground45 -21) **
  • Amanda Irarrázabal/Miriam van Boer Salmón: Fauces (577)
  • Jeremy Ivey: Invisible Pictures (Anti-) **
  • Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker/Julian Kirshner: Routines (Kettle Hole) **
  • Bob James Trio: Feel Like Making Live! (Evolution) **
  • Jazzanova: Strata Records: The Sound of Detroit (BBE) **
  • Aubrey Johnson & Randy Ingram: Play Favorites (Sunnyside)
  • Sam Kirmayer: In This Moment (Cellar) **
  • Masayo Koketsu: Fukiya (Relative Pitch) **
  • Kokoroko: Could We Be More (Brownswood) **
  • Martin Küchen: Utopia (Thanatosis Produktion) **
  • Steve Lacy: Gemini Rights (RCA) **
  • Lambchop: The Bible (Merge/City Slang) **
  • Charles Lloyd: Trios: Chapel (Blue Note) **
  • Janiva Magness: Hard to Kill (Fathead) **
  • Kali Malone: Living Torch (Portraits GRM) **
  • Ben Markley Big Band With Ari Hoenig: Ari's Fun House (OA2)
  • The Mars Volta: The Mars Volta (Clouds Hill) **
  • John McCowen: Models of Duration (Dinzu Artefacts/Astral Spirits) **
  • Brad Mehldau: Jacob's Ladder (Nonesuch) **
  • Midlake: For the Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO) **
  • Tumi Mogorosi: Group Theory: Black Music (Mushroom Hour Half Hour/New Soil) **
  • Samuel Mösching: Ethereal Kinks (Bronzeville Music)
  • Nancy Mounir: Nozhet El Nofous (Simsara) **
  • The Mysterines: Reeling (Fiction) **
  • Randy Napoleon: Puppets: The Music of Gregg Hill (OA2)
  • Sean Nelson's New London Big Band: Social Hour! (MAMA)
  • Elsa Nilsson: Atlas of Sound: Coast Redwoods: 41°32'09.8"N 124°04'35.5"W (Ears & Eyes)
  • Lina Nyberg Band: Anniverse (Hoob) **
  • Old Crow Medicine Show: Paint This Town (ATO) **
  • Kelly Lee Owens: LP.8 (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • Ben Patterson: The Way of the Groove (Origin)
  • Jessica Pavone: . . . Of Late (Astral Spirits) **
  • Danilo Perez: Crisálida (Mack Avenue) **
  • Barre Phillips/György Kurtág Jr.: Face à Face (ECM) **
  • Photay With Carlos Nino: An Offering (International Anthem) **
  • Samora Pinderhughes: Grief (Ropeadope) **
  • Shawn Purcell: 180 (Origin)
  • Harish Raghavan: In Tense (Whirlwind) **
  • Kristjan Randalu/New Wind Jazz Orchestra: Sisu (Whirlwind) **
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love (Warner) **
  • Redveil: Learn 2 Swim (self-released) **
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Endless Rooms (Sub Pop) **
  • Rich Ruth: I Survived, It's Over (Third Man) **
  • Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn: Pigments (Merge) **
  • The Sadies: Colder Streams (Yep Roc) **
  • Antonio Sanchez: Shift (Bad Hombre Vol. II) (Warner) **
  • Sault: Air (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Sault: AIIR (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Sault: Untitled (God) (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Silvan Schmid: Augmented Space (Ezz-Thetics -21) **
  • Sea Power: Everything Was Forever (Golden Chariot) **
  • Shabaka: Afrikan Culture (Impulse, EP) **
  • Sonny Singh: Chardi Kala (self-released) **
  • Cory Smythe: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Pyroclastic)
  • Carl Stone: Wat Dong Moon Lek (Unseen Worlds) **
  • Stormzy: This Is What I Mean (Def Jam) **
  • Suede: Autofiction (BMG) **
  • Tierney Sutton: Paris Sessions 2 (BFM Jazz) **
  • Harry Styles: Harry's House (Columbia) **
  • The Sun Sawed in 1/2: Before the Fall (self-released, EP) **
  • Wil Swindler's Elevenet: Space Bugs: Live in Denver (OA2)
  • Jamie T: The Theory of Whatever (Polydor) **
  • Teddy & the Rough Riders: Teddy & the Rough Riders (self-released, EP) **
  • Toro Y Moi: Mahal (Dead Oceans) **
  • Trombone Shorty: Lifted (Blue Note) **
  • Valerie June: Under Cover (Fantasy, EP) **
  • Eddie Vedder: Earthling (Seattle Surf/Republic) **
  • Anna Von Hausswolff: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (Southern Lord) **
  • Bilana Voutchkova/Susana Santos Silva: Bagra (Relative Pitch) **
  • WA Records: If You Fart Make It Sound Good (WA) **
  • Alune Wade: Sultan (Enja) **
  • Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop) **
  • Whatever the Weather: Whatever the Weather (Ghostly International) **
  • Wiri Donna: Being Alone (self-released, EP) **
  • The Wonder Years: The Hum Goes On Forever (Hopeless) **
  • Yelawolf & Shooter Jennings: Sometimes Y (Slumerican) **
  • Yellowjackets: Parallel Motion (Mack Avenue) **
B-
  • Arctic Monkeys: The Car (Domino) **
  • Boris: W (Sacred Bones) **
  • Burial: Antidawn EP (Hyperdub) **
  • Cave In: Heavy Pendulum (Relapse) **
  • Richard Dawson: The Ruby Cord (Domino) **
  • Domi & JD Beck: Not Tight (Apeshit/Blue Note) **
  • Ghost: Impera (Loma Vista) **
  • Cameron Graves: Live From the Seven Spheres (Mack Avenue) **
  • Micah Graves: Pawns (self-released)
  • Japanese Television: Space Fruit Vineyard (Tip Top) **
  • Paul Messina: Blue Fire (GVAP Music -21)
  • Ben Morris: Pocket Guides (OA2)
  • Tobin Mueller: Prestidigitation (self-released)
  • Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9 (Epic) **
  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed: Down Every Road (Yep Roc) **
  • Rufus Reid Trio and the Sirius Quartet: Celebration (Sunnyside) **
  • Daniel Rossen: You Belong There (Warp) **
  • Sinkane: Cartoons in the Night Vol. 1: Live 2019 (City Slang) **
  • Jon Spencer & the HITmakers: Spencer Gets It Lit (In the Red) **
  • Tears for Fears: The Tipping Point (Concord) **
  • The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: The 2022 Jazz Heritage Series (self-released)
  • John Wasson's Strata Big Band: Chronicles (MAMA)
  • Jack White: Fear of the Dawn (Third Man) **
  • Jack White: Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man) **
C
  • Donkeyazz: Play the Blues (Singo -21)
C-
  • Chris Walden: Missa Iubileum Aureum (Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass) (Origin)

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

++
  • Dick Hyman: One Step to Chicago: The Legacy of Frank Teschemacher and the Austin High Gang (1992, Rivermont) **
+
  • Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias: See Our Way (Radiolegs) **
-
  • Alexisonfire: Otherness (Dine Alone) **
  • Neptune Power Federation: Le Demon De L'Amour (Cruz Del Sur) **

Reissues/Compilations/Vault Music:

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

A
  1. William Parker: Universal Tonality (2002, Centering/AUM Fidelity, 2CD)
  2. Horace Silver Quintet: Live New York Revisited (1964-66, Ezz-Thetics) **
A-
  1. Pere Ubu: The Lost Band: Live at Metro Cabaret, Chicago (1993, Ubu Projex) **
  2. Son House: Forever on My Mind (1964, Easy Eye Sound) **
  3. Cecil Taylor: The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert: The Town Hall, NYC November 4, 1973 (1973, Oblivion) **
  4. Dave Brubeck Trio: Live From Vienna 1967 (Brubeck Editions)
  5. Thelonious Monk Quartet: Live Five Spot 1958 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  6. George Russell: Ezz-thetics & The Stratus Seekers Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  7. Miles Davis Quintet: Live Europe 1960 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  8. Horace Tapscott Quintet: Legacies of Our Grandchildren (1995, Dark Tree)
  9. Sam Rivers: Caldera [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 6] (2002, NoBusiness)
  10. Miles Davis Quintets: Stockholm Live 1967 & 1969 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  11. Pat Matshikiza/Kippie Moketsi: Tshona! (1975, As-Shams) **
  12. Summer of Soul ( . . . Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): A Questlove Jam [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1969, Legacy) **
  13. John Sinclair Presents: Detroit Artists Workshop: Community, Jazz and Art in the Motor City 1965-1981 (Strut/Art Yard) **
  14. Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now & Love Call Revisited (1968, Ezz-Thetics -21) **
  15. John Coltrane: Favorites [Naima/My Favorite Things/A Love Supreme] Revisited (1963-65, Ezz-Thetics) **
  16. Tommy Womack: 30 Years Shot to Hell: An Anthology (1987-2017, Schoolkids, 2CD) **
  17. Wire: Not About to Die: Studio Demos 1977-1978 (Pinkflag) **
  18. ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 2 (ICP) **
  19. The Pyramids: AOMAWA: The 1970s Recordings (1973-76, Strut, 4CD) **
  20. Essiebons Special 1973-1984: Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa -21) **
  21. Alhaji Waziri Oshomah: World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (Luaka Bop) **
  22. Anthony Williams: Life Time & Spring Revisited (1964-65, Ezz-Thetics) **
  23. África Negra: Antologia Vol. 1 (1981-95, Bongo Joe) **
  24. Koichi Matsukaze Trio Featuring Ryojiro Furusawa: At the Room 427 (1975, BBE) **
  25. Andrew Hill: Point of Departure to Compulsion!!!!! Revisited (1964-65, Ezz-Thetics) **
  26. Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985 (No Wahala Sounds) **
  27. Bill Evans: Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert at the Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires (Resonance) **
  28. Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 (Jazz Detective/Elemental, 2CD)
  29. Miles Davis Quintet: 2nd Session 1956 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  30. Freddy Roland Y Su Orquesta De Moda: Freddy Roland Y Su Orquesta De Moda (1968, Vampisoul) **
  31. John Ondolo: Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo (1961-68, Mississippi) **
  32. Ahmad Jamal: Live in Paris (1971) (Transversales Disques) **
  33. Don Ayler: In Florence 1981 (Railroad Town Music) **
  34. Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn? & Eternal Rhythm Revisited (1966-68, Ezz-Thetics) **

Pending

Records in hand, sorted by artist, or release date if future. Those marked ** are downloads in hand.

Also Noted:

B+(***)
  • Pepper Adams With the Tommy Banks Trio: Live at Room at the Top (1972, Reel to Real, 2CD)
  • Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band: Bloodlines (1983, Paradise of Bachelors) **
  • Albert Ayler Quartet With Don Cherry: European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Derek Bailey: Domestic Jungle (Scatter) **
  • Blue Notes: Blue Notes in Concert (1977, Ogun) **
  • Peter Brötzmann/Milford Graves/William Parker: Historic Music Past Tense Future (2002, Black Editions) **
  • Peter Brötzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink: Jazz in Der Kammer Nr. 71: Deutsches Theater/Berlin/GDR/04/11/1974 (Trost) **
  • Jean-Charles Capon/Philippe Maté/Lawrence "Butch" Morris/Serge Rahoerson (1977, Souffle Continu -21) **
  • John Coltrane Quartet: Song of Praise: New York 1965 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Miles Davis: Live: What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (Columbia/Legacy) **
  • Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads: Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan, 1979 (British Progressive Jazz) **
  • The Detroit Escalator Co.: Soundtrack [313] + 6 (1996, Mental Groove/Musique Pour La Danse) **
  • Roy Eldridge Quartet/Ella Fitzgerald Quintet: In Concert: Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 21, 1959 (SteepleChase) **
  • Ellery Eskelin/Gerry Hemingway: From the Archives: Live at the Stone in NYC, 2010 (Auricle) **
  • Bill Evans: Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires (Resonance) **
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (1958, Verve) **
  • Hal Galper: Ivory Forest Redux (1979, Origin)
  • Lionel Hampton Orchestra: 1958: The Mess Is Here Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  • ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 1 (ICP) **
  • ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 3 (ICP) **
  • Iftin Band: Mogadishu's Finest: The Al-Uruba Sessions (Ostinato) **
  • Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (Jazz Detective/Elemental, 2CD)
  • Elvin Jones: Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub (1967, Blue Note) **
  • Kabaka International Guitar Band: Kabaka International Guitar Band (1977, Palenque) **
  • Frank Kimbrough: 2003-2006: Lullabluebye/Play (Palmetto, 2CD)
  • Pedro Lima: Recordar É Viver: Antologia Vol. 1 (1981-87, Bongo Joe) **
  • The Melodians: Pre-Meditation (1968-78, Trojan/Sanctuary -21) **
  • Bob Dowe/The Melodians: Build Me Up/Pre-Meditation (1968-78, Doctor Bird, 2CD) **
  • Dexter Gordon: Soul Sister (1962-63, SteepleChase) **
  • Tubby Hayes Quartet: The Complete Hopbine '69 (Jazz in Britain, 2CD -21) **
  • Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning Striking (1934-2013, Ace, 2CD -21) **
  • Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer Keys of Jerry Lee Lewis (1956-60, Sun) **
  • Los Golden Boys: Cumbia De Juventud (1964-69, Mississippi) **
  • Luciano Luciani Y Sus Mulatos: Mulata, Vamos a La Salsa (1970, Vampisoul) **
  • Madonna: Finally Enough Love (Warner) **
  • Malik's Emerging Force Art Trio: Time and Condition (1982, Moved-by-Sound) **
  • Charles Mingus: The Lost Album: From Ronnie Scott's (1972, Resonance, 3CD)
  • Pat Matshikiza Featuring Kippie Moketsi: Sikiza Matshikiza (1976, As-Shams) **
  • Thelonious Monk: Celebrating 75 Years of His Firt Recordings Revisited (1947-52, Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Papé Nziengui: Kadi Yombo (1989, Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
  • Michel Petrucciani: Solo in Denmark (1990, Storyville) **
  • Asha Puthli: The Essential Asha Puthi (1968-80, Mr. Bongo) **
  • Rise Jamaica! Jamaican Independence Special (1962, Trojan, 2CD) **
  • The Rolling Stones: Live at the El Mocambo (1977, Polydor, 2CD) **
  • Akira Sakata/Takeo Moriyama: Mitochondria (Trost) **
  • Bernardo Sassetti Trio: Culturgest 2007 (Clean Feed) **
  • Sun Ra Arkestra: Nothing Is . . . Completed & Revisited (1966, Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Sun Ra Arkestra/Salah Ragab/The Cairo Jazz Band: Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt (1983, Strut) **
  • Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds and a Wild Crane (1998, NoBusiness)
  • Horace Tapscott Quintet: The Quintet (1969, Mr Bongo) **
  • Buddy Tate & White Label: Tate's Delight (1982, Storyville) **
  • Cecil Taylor: With (Exit) to Student Studies Revisited (1966, Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Irma Thomas: Live! New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1976 (Good Time) **
  • Celestine Ukwu and His Philosophers National: No Condition Is Permanent (1971-74, Mississippi) **
  • Gebhard Ullmann/Steve Swell/Hilliard Greene/Barry Altschul: We're Playing in Here? (2007, NoBusiness)
  • Vis-a-Vis: The Best of Vis-a-Vis in Congo Style (1976, We Are Busy Bodies -21) **
  • Mal Waldron: Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert (Tompkins Square) **
  • Neil Young: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 (Reprise) **
B+(**)
  • Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim: Harlem (1988, Acid Jazz) **
  • Rabih Abou-Khalil: The Flood and the Fate of the Fish (2017-18, Enja) **
  • Geri Allen/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard (Unissued Tracks) (1990, DIW) **
  • Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band: Smokin the Dummy (1980, Paradise of Bachelors) **
  • Albert Ayler: La Cave Live Cleveland 1966 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics, 2CD) **
  • Biluka Y Los Canibales: Leaf-Playing in Quito, 1960-1965 (Honest Jon's) **
  • Jim Black: My Choice (2000-12, Winter & Winter -21) **
  • Brasil Novo (Música Macondo) **
  • Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes (2014-21, In+Out) **
  • Bob Corritore & Friends: Down Home Blues Revue (SWMAF/VizzTone) **
  • Cumbia Sabrosa: Tropical Sound System Bangers From the Discos Fuentes Vaults 1961-1981 (Rocafort, EP) **
  • Miles Davis: That's What Happened [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: 1982-1985 (Columbia/Legacy, 3CD) **
  • Hal Galper Trio: Invitation to Openness: Live at Big Twio (2008, Origin)
  • The Jazz Passengers: Reunited (2010, Enja/Yellowbird) **
  • Joyce With Mauricio Maestro: Natureza (1977, Far Out) **
  • Dickie Landry/Lawrence Weiner: 'Having Been Built on Sand/With Another Base (Basis) in Fact (1978, Unseen Worlds) **
  • Daunik Lazro/Jouk Minor/Thierry Madiot/David Chiésa/Louis-Michel Marion: Sonoris Causa (2003, NoBusiness)
  • Jens Lekman: The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom (2002-03, Secretly Canadian) **
  • Lèspri Ka: New Directions in Gwoka Music From Guadeloupe 1981-2010 (Séance Centre) **
  • Mainstream Funk: Funk, Soul, Spiritual Jazz 1971-75 (WeWantSounds) **
  • Brother Jack McDuff: Moon Rappin' (1969, Blue Note) **
  • Jack McDuff: Live at Parnell's (1982, Soul Bank Music) **
  • John McLaughlin: The Montreux Years (1978-2016, BMG) **
  • Kippie Moeketsi/Hal Singer: Blue Stompin' (1977, As-Shams -21) **
  • Sal Mosca: For Lennie Tristano: Solo Piano 1970 & 1997 (Fresh Sound) **
  • Noertker's Moxie: Walking on Blue Eggshells in Billville (2001-20, Edgetone -21)
  • Noertker's Moxie: More Fun in Billville (2001-20, Edgetone -21)
  • Orchestre Volta-Jazz: Air Volta (1974-77, Numero Group) **
  • Ann Peebles & the Hi Rhythm Section: Live in Memphis (1982, Memphis International) **
  • Lionel Pillay: Shrimp Boats (1979-80, As-Shams) **
  • Prince and the Revolution: Live (1985, NPG/Legacy, 2CD) **
  • Lou Reed: I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos (RCA -21) **
  • Archie Shepp: Fire Music to Mama Too Tight Revisited (1965-66, Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Owiny Sigoma Band: The Lost Tapes (2015-19, Brownswood -21) **
  • Sonic Youth: In/Out/In (2000-10, Three Lobed) **
  • Mavis Staples & Levon Helm: Carry Me Home (2011, Anti-) **
  • Stereolab: Pulse of the Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] (1992-2008, Duophonic/Warp, 2CD) **
  • Sun Ra & His Blue Universe Arkestra: Universe in Blue (1971, Cosmic Myth) **
  • Mototeru Takagi/Kim Dae Hwan/Choi Sun Bae: Seishin-Seido (1995, NoBusiness)
  • The Trypes: Music for Neighbors (1984, Pravda) **
  • Neil Young: Royce Hall 1971 (Reprise) **
  • Neil Young: Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (1974, Reprise) **
  • Neil Young With Crazy Horse: Toast (2001, Reprise) **
B+(*)
  • Suzi Analogue: Infinite Zonez (2016-19, Disciples) **
  • Ashbury Stabbins Duo: Fire Without Bricks (1976, Corbett vs. Dempsey -21) **
  • Albert Ayler Quintet: At Slugs' Saloon 1966 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) **
  • Chet Baker: Tune Up: Live in Paris (1980, Circle) **
  • Chet Baker Trio: Live in Paris: The Radio France Recordings 1963-1964 (Elemental, 2CD) **
  • Broadcast: Maida Vale Sessions (1997-2003, Warp) **
  • Donald Byrd: Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux (1973, Blue Note) **
  • Doug Carn: Adam's Apple (1974, Black Jazz/Real Gone Music -21) **
  • Ronnie Foster: Two Headed Freap (1972, Blue Note) **
  • Ephat Mujuru & the Spirit of the People: Mbavaira (1983, Awesome Tapes From Africa, EP -21) **
  • Noertker's Moxie: Pantomime in Billville (2001-20, Edgetone -21)
  • Orchestre Massako: Orchestre Massako (1979-86, Analog Africa, EP) **
  • Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016 (Discus Music) **
  • Sirone: Artistry (1978, Moved-by-Sound) **
  • Esbjörn Svensson: Home.S. (2008, ACT)
  • Clark Terry Big Bad Band: Live in Holland 1979 (Storyville) **
  • They Shall Not Pass/No Pasaran! [Trost Live Series] (2007-21, Trost) **
  • Bob Wilber With Dave McKenna and Pug Horton: Original Wilber (1978, Phontastic) **
B
  • A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters: Lost + Rare Performances 1913-1921 (Magnificent Sounds) **
  • Disco Reggae Rockers (1973-86, Soul Jazz) **
  • Lou Reed: Words & Music, May 1965 (Light in the Attic) **
  • Soft Machine: Facelift: France & Holland (1970, Cuneiform, 2CD) **
  • Charles Stepney: Step on Step (International Anthem) **
  • Irma Thomas: Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album (1972, Real Gone Music) **
  • Bo Van De Graaf: Eccentric Music for Audio Hunters (2002-16, Icdisc -21)
B-
  • Norma Tanega: I'm the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings 1964-1971 (Anthology) **
C+
  • Cathy Segal-Garcia & Phillip Strange: Live in Japan (1992, Origin, 2CD)