Music Year 2025

Way too early clone, fix this later.

Of course, it's too early for a year-end list. But as the proto-fascist organization of my youth insisted, one should always be prepared. For records in hand, * identifies an advance copy, ** something borrowed or streamed. Some albums released in previous years are included here, noted by a "-NN" (e.g., -24 for 2024) -- these are mostly imports or self-releases, often hard to figure out official dates, but they were either December 2020 releases or unknown (to me, at least) before the current year.

This is a subset of the 2025 Music Tracking file, which includes many additional unheard albums. There are also Metacritic/EOY Aggregate files for New Music and Old Music.

I keep adding to the 2024 until the end of calendar 2025, especially where the record was known to exist in 2024 and I'm just getting around to it.

New Records

A
  1. Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue)
  2. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  3. Mekons: Horror (Fire) **
  4. Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music)
A-
  1. Craig Finn: Always Been (Taramac/Thirty Tigers) **
  2. Saba & No I.D.: From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. (From the Private Collection) **
  3. Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic)
  4. Fieldwork: Thereupon (Pi)
  5. Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (Dot Time) **
  6. The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) **
  7. Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD) **
  8. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  9. Apathy: Mom & Dad (Dirty Version/Coalmine) **
  10. Billy Woods: Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  11. Public Enemy: Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 (Enemy) **
  12. Dean Wareham: That's the Price of Loving Me (Carpark) **
  13. Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) **
  14. Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (self-released)
  15. Rodrigo Amado: The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) **
  16. Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (Eremite) **
  17. أحمد [Ahmed]: سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) **
  18. Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop) **
  19. Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) **
  20. Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (Mello Music Group) **
  21. Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) **
  22. Buck 65: Keep Moving (Handsmade) **
  23. Motian & More: Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) **
  24. Cosmic Ear: Traces (We Jazz) **
  25. Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay)
  26. SML: How You Been (International Anthem) **
  27. Bar Italia: Some Like It Hot (Matador) **
  28. Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (Saustex) **
  29. Karol G: Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) **
  30. Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya: Come Back (Umsakazo) **
  31. Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016, European Echoes) **
  32. Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) [02-25]
  33. Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken: Double Reality Beyond Space and Time (Grong)
  34. Kae Tempest: Self Titled (Island) **
  35. Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon (Transgressive) **
  36. The Kasambwe Brothers: The Kasambwe Brothers (MASS MoCA) **
  37. Madi Diaz: Fatal Optimist (Anti-) **
  38. Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk)
  39. James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) **
  40. Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (self-released)
  41. Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop) **
  42. Amanda Shires: Nobody's Girl (ATO) **
  43. Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) **
  44. FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) **
  45. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream (Libra)
  46. Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (True Sound)
  47. Extraordinary Popular Delusions: The Last Quintet (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  48. Laura Jurd: Rites & Revelations (New Soil) **
  49. Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  50. Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas: A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books) **
  51. Amalie Dahl: Breaking/Building Habits (SauaJazz) **
  52. Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance (self-released) **
  53. Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) **
  54. Chance the Rapper: Star Line (self-released) **
  55. Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) **
  56. Lily Allen: West End Girl (BMG) **
  57. Dave Rempis/Russ Johnson/Jakob Heinemann/Jeremy Cunningham: Embers and Ash (Aerophonic) **
  58. Damon Locks: List of Demands (International Anthem) **
  59. Instant Arts Quartet: Lingua Franca (High Two) **
  60. Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (Red Piano)
  61. James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) **
  62. Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) **
  63. Haim: I Quit (Columbia) **
  64. Earscratcher: Otoliths (Aerophonic)
  65. Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  66. Heat On: Heat On (Cuneiform) **
  67. Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) **
  68. Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (Island) **
  69. Snocaps: Snocaps (Anti-) **
  70. Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (ATO) **
  71. David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) **
  72. Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay) **
  73. Clipse: Let God Sort Them Out (Roc Nation) **
  74. The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Thirty Tigers) **
  75. PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (Irabbagast)
  76. Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp (Neighbourhood) **
  77. Wednesday: Bleeds (Dead Oceans) **
  78. ALT BLK ERA: Rave Immortal (Earache) **
  79. Ziv Taubenfeld/Helena Espvall/João Sousa: You, Full of Sources and Night (NoBusiness)
  80. Joy Crookes: Juniper (Insanity) **
  81. Jesse Welles: Under the Powerlines (April '24-September '24) (self-relesed) **
  82. Loot: Loot (ICP) **
  83. Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl (Republic) **
  84. Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra)
  85. Carlos "Zingaro"/João Madeira: Arcada Pendular (4DaRecord) **
  86. Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (Mack Avenue) **
  87. Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall (Empire) **
  88. Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (Highway 87) **
  89. Blueprint: Vessel (Weightless) **
  90. Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (Biophilia) **
  91. Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista) **
  92. YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds (AD 93) **
  93. Carlos "Zingaro"/Flo Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Na Parede (4DaRecord)
  94. Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World (Anti-) **
  95. Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) **
  96. The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) **
  97. Marty Ehrlich: Trio Exaltation: This Time (Sunnyside) **
  98. Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)
  99. John Scofield/Dave Holland: Memories of Home (ECM) **
  100. Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) **
  101. Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (Origin)
  102. Adam O'Farrill: For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  103. Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) **
  104. Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (Eremite) **
  105. Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences: Resta Chi Va (We Insist!) **
  106. Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi (Circum/Libra)
  107. Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse) **
  108. Panic Shack: Panic Shack (Brace Yourself) **
  109. Wheelhouse: House and Home (Aerophonic)
  110. Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewice/Steve Noble/John Edwards: The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) **
  111. Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) **
  112. James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (New West) **
  113. Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (self-released) **
  114. Sudan Archives: The BPM (Stones Throw) **
  115. Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (Def Jam) **
  116. Robert Finley: Hallelujah! Don't Let the Devil Fool You (Easy Eye) **
  117. Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (Matador) **
  118. Sam Stoane: Tales of the Dark West (Cloverdale) **
  119. Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (Changu)
  120. Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (Matic) **
  121. MindsOne: Stages (Fort Lowell) **
  122. Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) **
  123. Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (Zamzama) **
  124. Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie)
  125. Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern) **
  126. Samo Salamon & Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (Samo)
  127. Robert Forster: Strawberries (Tapete) **
  128. Recognize Ali & Tragedy Khadafi: The Past the Present and the Future (Greenfield Music) **
  129. Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (Iron Tusk Music) **
  130. Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem (Aunt Daddy) **
  131. Sinsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (SoFa) **
  132. Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic)
  133. Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) **
  134. Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (The Other Shoe/Reprise) **
  135. Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler/RCA) **
  136. Wrens: Half of What You See (Out of Your Head)
  137. Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer Live in Bergen (Edition) **
  138. Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already (Otherland) **
  139. KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) **
  140. Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (Soft Launch)
  141. CMAT: Euro-Country (CMATBaby/AWAL) **
  142. Todd Snider: High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless) **
  143. John O'Gallagher/Ben Monder/Andrew Cyrille/Billy Hart: Ancestral (Whirlwind)
  144. Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  145. Rick Roe: Wake Up Call: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge)
  146. Split System: Live in Stockholm 2023 (Legless) **
  147. Sumac and Moor Mother: The Film (Thrill Jockey) **
  148. Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (Sunnyside) **
  149. Amaarae: Black Star (Interscope) **
  150. David Amram: Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy) **
  151. The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) **
  152. David Greenberger & the Hi-Ho Barbers: Ginger Ale (Pel Pel)
  153. Jon Batiste: Big Money (Verve/Interscope) **
  154. James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) **
  155. Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message (Libra)
  156. Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (Out of Your Head) **
  157. David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (self-released)
  158. Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp: Realism (ESP-Disk)
  159. Rubén Reinaldo: Fusión Olívica (Free Code Jazz)
  160. Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (Escapism) **
  161. Willie Nelson: Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy) **
  162. Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (Reconstruction) **
  163. Joe Alterman Feat. Houston Person: Brisket for Breakfast (self-released) **
  164. Danny Brown: Stardust (Warp) **
  165. Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky: Music From the Deserts (Edgetone, LP)
  166. Aesop Rock: I Heard It's a Mess There Too (Rhymesayers) **
  167. Gurf Morlix: Bristlecone (Rootball) **
  168. Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play, EP) **
  169. Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) **
  170. George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (HighNote) **
  171. Ivo Perelman/John Butcher: Duologues 4 (Ibeji) **
  172. Italian Surf Academy + Denver Butson: Ennio Morricone Is Dissolving (41st Parallel) **
  173. Hailey Whitters: Corn Queen (Pigasus/Big Loud) **
  174. Thomas Morgan: Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music)
  175. Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumière (Zoning)
  176. Lao Dan/Vasco Trilla: New Species (NoBusiness)
  177. Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) **
  178. Wu-Tang X Mathematics: Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (36 Chambers/DNA Music) **
  179. DJ Love/DJ Danz/DJ Ericnem: Budots World: 3-Hit Combo! (Eastern Margins) **
  180. Marshall Allen: The Omniverse Oriki (High Two) **
  181. Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: Land of Hopes & Dreams (Columbia) **
  182. Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) **
  183. Eunhye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk)

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.

  • Brad Schrader: Late Nights With Brad Schrader (self-released) [11-20]

Also Noted:

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

B+(***)
  • 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: Interaction (Anzic) **
  • @xcrswx: Moodboard (Feedback Moves) **
  • $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (Lex/DB$B) **
  • Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers) **
  • Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin)
  • Agnas Bros.: Sista Försöket (Moserobie)
  • Sophie Agnel: Learning (Otoroku) **
  • Alchemy Sound Project/Sumi Tonooka: Under the Surface (ARC)
  • Eric Alexander: Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group) **
  • Eric Alexander: Like Sugar (Cellar Live) **
  • Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (Saponegro)
  • Lina Allemano Four: The Diptychs (Lumo) **
  • Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) **
  • Marshall Allen: New Dawn (Mexican Summer) **
  • Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) **
  • Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (Drag City) **
  • Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) **
  • Armand Hammer & the Alchemist: Mercy (Backwoodz Studioz/Rhymesayers) **
  • Ashnikko: Smoochies (Parlophone) **
  • Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) **
  • Ata Kak: Batakari (Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
  • Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag) **
  • Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) **
  • Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (Matador) **
  • Tarun Balani: ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold) **
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (Sunnyside) **
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) **
  • Kenny Barron: Songbook (Artwork) **
  • Barry Can't Swim: Loner (Ninja Tune) **
  • Bdrmm: Microtonic (Rock Action) **
  • Believe: Spirits of the Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch) **
  • Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) **
  • Benny Benack III: This Is the Life (Bandstand Presents)
  • Brigitte Beraha's Lucid Dreamers: Teasing Reflections (Let Me Out) **
  • Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) **
  • Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head, 2CD)
  • Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music)
  • The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (Anti-) **
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (No Quarter) **
  • Bitchin Bajas: Inland See (Drag City) **
  • Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don't (Intakt) **
  • Ron Blake: Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions)
  • Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (IOT) **
  • Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (M.C.) **
  • Silvia Bolognesi & Eric Mingus: Is That Jazz? Celebrating Gil Scott Heron Live (Fonterossa) **
  • Christer Bothén 3: L'Invisible (Thanatosis) **
  • Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) **
  • Olie Brice: All It Was (West Hill) **
  • Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, AC, Jorge Rossy & Joey Baron: Live at the Village Vanguard (Loveland Music) **
  • BROM: Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label) **
  • David Broza & Omer Avital: Brozajazz: Paris Alhambra (Magenta) **
  • Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram)
  • Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (Signature Sounds) **
  • Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (Candid) **
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (577) **
  • Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (Sunnyside) **
  • Brian Charette: Working Out With Big G (SteepleChase) **
  • Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) **
  • Juan Chiavassa: Fourth Generation (Whirlwind)
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (Lizard Breath) **
  • Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (International Anthem) **
  • Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (International Anthem) **
  • Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (Wide Hive)
  • The Close Readers: Trees of Lower Hutt (Austin) **
  • Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane) **
  • Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (Bootzilla/Roc Nation) **
  • Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . and Voice (Silver Sphinx)
  • Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) **
  • Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (Lone Star Rider/Island) **
  • Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (New West) **
  • Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl) **
  • Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head)
  • Brittany Davis/Evan Flory-Barnes/D'Vonne Lewis: Black Thunder (Loosegroove) **
  • James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (Calligram)
  • Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) **
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) **
  • DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • DJ Travella: Twende Dance Classics (Nyege Nyege Tapes, EP) **
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) **
  • Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Pierre Dørge/Kirk Knuffke: Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever (SteepleChase) **
  • Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (Hands Made, EP) **
  • Double Virgo: Shakedown (Year0001) **
  • Chandler Dozier: Bakersfield East (self-released, EP) **
  • Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (Trost) **
  • Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Ryan Ebaugh/Matt Crane/Cameron Presley: Detergent (Scatter Archive) **
  • Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) **
  • Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa) **
  • Eight Dice Cloth: The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released) **
  • Amir ElSaffar: New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) **
  • Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (Rack 'Em) **
  • Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) **
  • Peter Evans/Being & Becoming: Ars Ludicra (More Is More) **
  • Peter Evans, Mike Pride: A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch) **
  • Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation)
  • R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal: The Night Green Side of It (Ruby Yacht/Alpha Pup) **
  • Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (Multiphonics Music) **
  • Fines Double: Espejismo (self-released) **
  • For Those I Love: Carving the Stone (September) **
  • Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone)
  • Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) **
  • Mike Freeman Zonavibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF)
  • Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop) **
  • Fred Frith/Mariá Portugal: Matter (Intakt) **
  • From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (self-released) **
  • Satoko Fujii GEN: Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra)
  • Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick (Libra)
  • Michika Fukumori: Eternity (Summit)
  • Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home (Turtle Bay) **
  • Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla) **
  • Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho)
  • Julius Gawlik: It's All in Your Head (Unit) **
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch) **
  • Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love (Morphius)
  • Frode Gjerstad/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Dag Magnus Narvesen: Seven Tracks (Relative Pitch) **
  • Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (ATO, EP)
  • Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (J.M.I.) **
  • Rose Gray: Louder, Please (PIAS) **
  • Gregory Groover Jr.: Old Knew (Criss Cross) **
  • Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (Powerhouse) **
  • Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum) **
  • Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart) **
  • Buddy Guy: Ain't Done With the Blues (Silvertone/RCA) **
  • Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (Resonant Music)
  • Noah Haidu: Standards III (Sunnyside)
  • Billy Hart: Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) **
  • The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
  • Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (TH Productions)
  • Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (Savant) **
  • Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole)
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • The High & Mighty: Sound of Market (Eastern Conference) **
  • Steve Hirsh: Root Causes (Mahakala Music) **
  • History Dog: Root Systems (Otherly Love) **
  • The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (PIAS) **
  • Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (self-released, EP) **
  • Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface (ECM) **
  • Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (No Quarter) **
  • Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (4AD) **
  • Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (Irabbagast)
  • Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin)
  • JID: God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville/Interscope) **
  • Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (Trost) **
  • Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (Reva)
  • Rico Jones: Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts)
  • Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (Baxter Music)
  • Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (RCA) **
  • Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil: Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side)
  • Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) **
  • Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (Auricle)
  • Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) **
  • Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys: Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released) **
  • Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music)
  • KnCurrent: KnCurrent (Deep Dish)
  • Kokayi: Live at Big Ears: The Standard Knoxville, TN (Why!Not) **
  • Jim Kweskin: Doing Things Right (Jalopy) **
  • Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (ECM) **
  • Lady Gaga: Mayhem (Interscope) **
  • Lagon Nwar: Lagon Nwar (AirFono) **
  • Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (4DaRecord)
  • Leikeli47: Lei Keli Ft. 47/For Promotional Use Only (Acrylic/Hardcover) **
  • Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (Secretly Canadian) **
  • Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (Septic Tiger) **
  • Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (SteepleChase LookOut)
  • Peter Lin/AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity (OA2) **
  • Littorina Saxophone Quartet: Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness)
  • Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (self-released) **
  • Zack Lober: So We Could Live (Zennez)
  • Tony Logue: Dark Horse (Jenny Ridge Productions) **
  • Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (Black Sweat) **
  • Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) **
  • Rocio Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Forma Del Sueño (Blue Art) **
  • Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (Last Music) **
  • M(h)aol: Something Soft (Merge) **
  • Seth MacFarlane: Lush Life (Verve) **
  • Madre Vaca: Yukon (Madre Vaca)
  • Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (JMood)
  • Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room on the Porch (Concord Jazz) **
  • Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri)
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri)

  • Makaya McCraven: The People's Mixtape (2025, International Anthem, EP) **

  • Chad McCullough/Gordon Spasovski/Kiril Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski: Transverse (Calligram)
  • Joe McPhee & Strings: We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt) *
  • Tate McRae: So Close to What (RCA) **
  • Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) **
  • Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (Puro Unity, EP) **
  • Neal Miner: Invisibility (Cellar Music) **
  • Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) **
  • Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) **
  • Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) **
  • Kelly Moran: Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp) **
  • Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (Relative Pitch) **
  • Maren Morris: Dreamsicle (Columbia) **
  • Fred Moten & Brandon López: Revision (TAO Forms) **
  • Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) **
  • Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (Irabbagast)
  • Youssou N'Dour: Éclairer Le Monde - Light the World (self-released) **
  • Nao: Jupiter (Little Tokyo) **
  • Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. (Legendary) **
  • Navy Blue: The Sword & the Soaring (Freedom Sounds) **
  • Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch) **
  • Camila Nebbia/Marilyn Crispell/Lesley Mok: A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch) **
  • Camila Nebbia/Michael Formanek/Vinnie Sperrazza: Live at Blow Out (Soundholes) **
  • Andy Nevala: El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho)
  • Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity: Great Intentions (Action Jazz) **
  • Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) **
  • Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) **
  • Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current) **
  • Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (Intakt)
  • Kassa Overall: Cream (Warp) **
  • Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (Rabbit Hill)
  • PAL: Under Your Radar (self-released, EP) **
  • Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music)
  • Carlos "Zingaro"/Bruno Parrinha/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Enleio (4DaRecord)
  • Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (Calligram)
  • John Patitucci: Spirit Fall (Edition) **
  • Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (Mahakala Music) **
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Matt Moran/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj) **
  • Rich Perry: Dream (SteepleChase) **
  • Dan Phillips Trio: Array in Brown (Lizard Breath) **
  • Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie)
  • Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (Rounder) **
  • Noah Preminger: Ballads (Chill Tone)
  • Noah Preminger: Dark Days (Criss Cross Jazz) **
  • PremRock: Did You Enjoy Your Time Here . . . ? (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez: Sortilège (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Preservation Brass: For Fat Man (Sub Pop) **
  • Princess Nokia: Girls (Artist House) **
  • Private Property: Private Property (Kraakeslottet Platekompagni) **
  • Red River Dialect: Basic Country Mustard (Hinterground) **
  • The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars: Llegue (F&F)
  • Marcelo dos Reis/Flora: Our Time (JACC) **
  • Dave Rempis/Jason Adasiewicz/Chris Corsano: Dial Up (Aerophonic)
  • Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Serpentine (Cuneiform) **
  • Rio Da Yung OG: F.L.I.N.T. (Feeling Like I'm Not Through) (MINE Enertainment/Empire) **
  • Herb Robertson/Christopher Dell/Christian Ramond/Klaus Kugel: Blue Transient (Nemu, 2CD) **
  • Joris Roelofs/Guus Janssen/Han Bennink: Rite of Spring (ICP) **
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion)
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Yainer Horta/Joey Calveiro: A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole (Calveiro Entertainment) **
  • Saint Etienne: International (Heavenly) **
  • Saint Pierre: Luck and Gravity (Mutchcrud Music) **
  • Akira Sakata/Giotis Damianidis/Giovanni Di Domenico/Aleksandr Škorić/Paal Nilssen-Love/Petros Damianidis/Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: Hyperentasis: Live in Thessaloniki (Defkaz) **
  • Samia: Bloodless (Grand Jury) **
  • Loren Schoenberg and His Jazz Orchestra: So Many Memories (Turtle Bay) **
  • Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift: Trio Studies (Jazz Haus Musik) **
  • Scowl: Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans) **
  • Marc Seales With Ernie Watts: People & Places (Origin)
  • Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (Polydor) **
  • Rin Seo Collective: City Suite (Cellar Music) **
  • Dave Sewelson/Steve Hirsh/Steve Swell/Matthew Shipp/William Parker: Muscle Memory (Mahakala Music) **
  • Noura Mint Seymali: Yenbett (Glitterbeat) **
  • Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) **
  • Shifa: Ecliptic (Discus Music) **
  • Kalie Shorr: My Type (Pound It Out Loud, EP) **
  • Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music, EP) **
  • Slash Need: Sit & Grin (self-released) **
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Slick Rick: Victory (Mass Appeal) **
  • Ches Smith: Clone Row (Otherly Love)
  • Wadada Leo Smith/Sylvie Courvoisier: Angel Falls (Intakt)
  • Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (Savant)
  • Songhoy Blues: Héritage (Transgressive) **
  • Tessa Souter: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) **
  • Spinifex: Maxximus (Trytone)
  • Sprints: All That Is Over (City Slang/Sub Pop) **
  • Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line (Sunnyside) **
  • Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: 'Live at the Hungry Brain (Trost) **
  • Luke Stewart/Silt Rembrance Ensemble: The Order (Cuneiform) **
  • Yuhan Su: Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music) **
  • Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Music) **
  • Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann/Kazuhisa Uchihashi: Tanto (Innocent) **
  • The Third Mind: Right Now! (Yep Roc) **
  • Pat Thomas: The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) **
  • Pat Thomas: ود ود (Wadud/Most Loving) (Nyahh) **
  • Pat Thomas: Hikmah (TAO Forms)
  • Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (Casa De Copas) **
  • Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi)
  • Diala Thukzin: 031 Studio Camp 2.0 (Dlala) **
  • Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • Mark Turner: Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts)
  • Kalia Vandever: Another View (Northern View) **
  • Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid (Copenhagen Crates) **
  • Viagra Boys: Viagr Aboys (Shrimptech/YEAR0001) **
  • Luis Vicente/John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: No Kings! (JACC) **
  • David Virelles: Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove) III [Theatrical Cut] (El Tivoli Productions) **
  • Chris Wabich: 1978 (Steep) (ADW)
  • Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (Ladylike/Sony) **
  • Kelsey Waldon: Every Ghost (Oh Boy) **
  • Reggie Watkins: Rivers (BYNK)
  • Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate (Out of Your Head)
  • Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  • Jesse Welles: Under the Powerlines (October '24-December '24) (self-relesed) **
  • Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin)
  • Simón Willson: Bet: Live at Ornithology (Endectomorph Music)
  • Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (ACT) **
  • Tommy Womack: Live a Little (Schoolkids) **
  • Stephane Wrembel: Django New Orleans II: Hors Série (Water Is Life) **
  • Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
  • Zanussi 3: A Keen Beast (Sauajazz) **
B+(**)
  • 2hollis: Star (Interscope) **
  • Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (Whirlwind) [**]
  • Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop) **
  • Adult Mom: Natural Causes (Epitaph) **
  • Sophie Agnel & John Butcher: Rare (Les Disques Victo) **
  • Bruno Angelini/Sakina Abdou/Angelika Niescier: Lotus Flowers (Abalone) **
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) **
  • Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought (Saddle Creek) **
  • JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) **
  • Allo Darlin': Bright Nights (Slumberland) **
  • Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (AD 93) **
  • Ammar 808: Club Tounsi (Glitterbeat) **
  • Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) **
  • Michael Arbenz/Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (self-released) **
  • Leon Anderson: Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) **
  • Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) **
  • Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (Assemble Sound/Atlantic) **
  • David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy)
  • Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (Origin)
  • Banks: Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks) **
  • Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision (AWAL) **
  • Sonya Belaya: Dacha (Ropeadope) **
  • Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) **
  • Benefits: Constant Noise (Invada) **
  • Antonia Bennett: Expressions (self-released)
  • Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (Outside In Music) **
  • Håkon Berre: Mirror Matter (Barefoot) **
  • Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (Sony Music Argentina) **
  • Gina Birch: Trouble (Third Man) **
  • Andy Biskin/Peter Hess/Mike McGinniss/Sam Sadigursky: Reed Basket (self-released) **
  • Ingi Bjarni: Hope (Losen) **
  • Black Milk & Fat Ray: Food From the Gods (Computer Ugly/Fat Beats) **
  • Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas: The Mythstory School (self-released) **
  • Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (Blue Note) **
  • Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (Same Room) **
  • Lena Bloch/Kyoko Kitamura: Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Blockhead: It's Only a Midlife Crisis if Your Life Is Mid (Future Archive) **
  • Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture (Partisan) **
  • Jane Ira Bloom: Songs in Space (Outline) **
  • Blue Moods: Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) **
  • Silvia Bolognesi: Jungle Duke (Caligola) **
  • Benjamin Booker: Lower (Fire Next Time/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso N'goni (Black Truffle) **
  • Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marcus Gilmore: Murasaki (Loveland Music) **
  • Jakob Bro & Midori Takada: Until I Met You (Loveland Music) **
  • Alan Broadbent: Threads of Time (Savant) **
  • Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis) **
  • Yves Brouqui: Mean What You Say (SteepleChase) **
  • Rob Brown: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) **
  • Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) **
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: If You Can't Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Pt. Two (Avant Groid Musica) **
  • Call Super: A Rhythm Protects One (Dekmantel) **
  • Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) **
  • Caelan Cardello: Chapter One (Jazz Bird) **
  • Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (Atlantic) **
  • Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (EMI/Universal) **
  • Erika de Casier: Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music) **
  • The Castellows: Homecoming (Warner Music Nashville) **
  • Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4L/Columbia) **
  • Etienne Charles: Gullah Roots (Culture Shock)
  • Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Coco Chatru Quartet: Limbokolia (Trygger Music)
  • Che: Rest in Bass (10K) **
  • Chrome Hill: En Route (Clean Feed) **
  • Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors: Orangina (UnderPool) **
  • Dawn Clement/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Delight (Origin)
  • Tom Cohen: Embraceable Brazil (Versa)
  • Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) **
  • Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (AED) **
  • Marco Colonna: Icarus Falling: To Mosab Abu Toha (self-released) **
  • The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear) **
  • Hollie Cook: Shy Girl (Mr Bongo) **
  • Paul Cornish: You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) **
  • Cortex & Hedvig Mollestad: Did We Really?/b> (Sauajazz) **
  • Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (Son of Davy) **
  • Theon Cross: Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) **
  • Cymande: Renascence (BMG) **
  • Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (MCEO/Columbia) **
  • Lao Dan: To Hit a Pressure Point (Relative Pitch) **
  • Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod) **
  • Matt Daniel: The Poet (self-released) **
  • Eddie Daniels: To Milton With Love (Resonance) **
  • Dawn Patrol Jazz Band: A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released) **
  • De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky (Mass Appeal) **
  • Maya Delilah: The Long Way Round (Blue Note) **
  • Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (Brooklyn Basement) **
  • Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (self-released)
  • Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (Hittite)
  • Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) **
  • Dena DeRose: Mellow Tones (HighNote) **
  • Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) **
  • Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar)
  • Sam Dillon: My Ideal (Cellar Music) **
  • McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive! (City Slang) **
  • DJ Haram: Beside Myself (Hyperdub) **
  • DJ K: Radio Libertadora! (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) **
  • Doja Cat: Vie (Kemosabe/RCA) **
  • Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune (Dot Dash) **
  • Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra: Jazzhus Montmartre Live (SteepleChase) **
  • Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz) **
  • Dave Douglas: Alloy (Greenleaf Music) **
  • Mia Dyberg/Axel Filip: Hobby House (Relative Pitch) **
  • Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (Dualtone) **
  • Mathias Eick: Lullaby (ECM) **
  • El Infierno Musical: II (Klanggalerie) **
  • Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse) **
  • John Ellis: Heroes (Blue Room Music) **
  • Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (Ndagga) **
  • Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (Buh) **
  • Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury (Sunnyside) **
  • Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (More Is More) **
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 001 (Ex_libris, EP) **
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 0021 (Ex_libris, EP) **
  • The Expert: Vivid Visions (Rucksack) **
  • Carter Faith: Cherry Valley (MCA Nashville) **
  • Alon Farber Hagiga: Dreams | Dream (Origin)
  • Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt) **
  • Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (Slaraffensongs) **
  • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork) **
  • Al Foster: Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union) **
  • Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)
  • Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (Patois)
  • Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) [**]
  • José Gobbo Trio: Confluence (Calligram)
  • GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (XXIM) **
  • Alison Goldfrapp: Flux (A.G.) **
  • Vinny Golia/Ken Filiano/Michael TA Thompson: Catastasis (Nine Winds) **
  • Phillip Golub/Lesley Mok: Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) **
  • Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (Origin)
  • S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Jimmy Greene: As We Are Now (Greene Music Works) **
  • Danny Grissett: Travelogue (Savant) **
  • Steve Gunn: Daylight Daylight (No Quarter) **
  • John Gunther: Painting the Dream (Origin)
  • Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (Tare) **
  • Hamell on Trial: Dirty Xmas (Saustex) **
  • Scott Hamilton: Looking Back (Stunt) **
  • Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin)
  • Lafayette Harris Jr.: All in Good Time (Savant) **
  • Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) **
  • Kat Hasty: Time of Your Life (Jackie Java/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) **
  • Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz)
  • Phil Haynes & Free Country: Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz, 2CD)
  • Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) **
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) **
  • Joshua Hedley: All Hat (New West) **
  • Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) **
  • Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) **
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) **
  • Jim Hobbs/Timo Shanko: The Depression Tapes (Relative Pitch) **
  • Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition) **
  • Hamilton de Holanda Trio: Live in NYC (Sony) **
  • Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) **
  • William Hooker: Jubilation (ORG Music) **
  • The Horrors: Night Life (Fiction/Universal) **
  • Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On (Matador) **
  • Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (Tru Thoughts) **
    • ICP Orchestra: Happy Birthday → Naar Zee Z.O.Z. (ICP) **
  • Johnny Iguana: At Delmark: Chicago-Style Solo Piano (Delmark) **
  • Ill Considered: Balm (New Soil) **
  • Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb) **
  • Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence Live (Intakt) **
  • Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) **
  • Carrie Jackson: Jersey Bounce (Arabesque Jazz) **
  • Keefe Jackson/Jakob Heinemann/Adam Shead: Stinger (Irritable Mystic) **
  • Jade: That\'s Showbiz Baby! (RCA) **
  • Nicholas Jamerson: The Narrow Way (Cloverdale) **
  • James K: Friend (AD93) **
  • Jazzwrld & Thukuthela: The Most Wanted (Waltz Music Group/Empire) **
  • Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (Wide Hive)
  • Simon Jermyn/Otis Sandsjö/Petter Eldh/Lukas Akintaya: Obsany (Elastic) **
  • Jess Jocoy: Cul-De-Sac Kid (self-released) **
  • Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (Open Mic)
  • Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (BarsOverBs) **
  • Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) **
  • Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) **
  • Salif Keita: So Kono (No Format) **
  • Kelela: In the Blue Light (Warp) **
  • Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (Origin)
  • Jukka-Pekka Kervinen/Kevin Miller: Primordial (Ramble) **
  • Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) **
  • Vladimir Kostadinovic: Iris (Criss Cross Jazz) **
  • Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (Ninja Tune, EP) **
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia (Down the Road) **
  • Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (Red Hot Org, EP) **
  • Joachim Kühn: Échappée (Intakt) **
  • Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (Intakt) **
  • Hélène Labarrière: Puzzle (Jazzdor) **
  • Mon Laferte: Femme Fatale (Sony Music Latin) **
  • Mathias Landæus/Nina de Heney/Kresten Osgood: Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR) **
  • Laufey: A Matter of Time (AWAL) **
  • Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer) **
  • Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet: Turn It Up! (2004-24, Cellar Music, 2CD) **
  • José Lencastre/Flak: Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit) **
  • Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD) **
  • Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (Ultra Sound)
  • Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (Meta/Defkaz) **
  • Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (self-released)
  • Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt) *
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (Blue Art) **
  • Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba (Blue Note) **
  • Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka (self-released) **
  • Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert (Blaser Music) **
  • Joe Lovano: Homage (ECM) **
  • K. Curtis Lyle/Alex Cunningham: Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar) **
  • Joe Magnarelli: Concord (SteepleChase) **
  • John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (self-released) *
  • Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Fabia Mantwill Orchesrtra: In.Sight (GroupUP Music) **
  • Juan Romeros Manuella Orkester: Lua Armonia (Supertraditional) **
  • Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington (Origin) **
  • Maruja: Tír na nÓg (Music for Nations, EP) **
  • Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) **
  • MC BF & DJ Yuzak: Bebeto E Romário (Mandelão, EP) **
  • Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) **
  • Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (Colorfield) **
  • Makaya McCraven: Techno Logic (International Anthem, EP) **
  • The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag (Summit)
  • Joe McPhee: I'm Just Sayin' (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts)
  • Medler Sextet: River Paths (OA2)
  • Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River)
  • Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez: Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) **
  • Tony Miceli: Nico's Dream (SteepleChase) **
  • John Michel/Anthony James: Egotrip (Loudmouth) **
  • Rhett Miller: A Lifetime of Riding by Night (ATO) **
  • Ela Minus: Día (Domino) **
  • Mira Trio: Machinerie (4DaRecord)
  • Roscoe Mitchell/Michele Rabbia: In 2 (RogueArt) *
  • Model/Actiz: Pirouette (True Panther/Dirty Hit) **
  • Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) **
  • Monaleo: Who Did the Body (Stomp Down/Columbia) **
  • Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (self-released)
  • Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) **
  • Van Morrison: Remembering Now (Exile/Virgin) **
  • Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni) **
  • Greg Murphy: Snap Happy (Whaling City Sound)
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Tokyo (ECM) **
  • Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) **
  • Max Nagl Quintett: Phasolny (Rude Noises) **
  • Nakibemebe Embaire Group and Naoyuki Uchida: Phantom Keys (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality (Drag City) **
  • Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila) **
  • Camila Nebbia/Gonçalo Almeida/Sylvain Darrifourcq: Hypnomaniac (Defkaz) **
  • Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (Apt. B Productions) **
  • Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (Pulse, EP) **
  • NMIXX: Blue Valentine (JYP Entertainment) **
  • Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer (NLV) **
  • Billy Nomates: Metalhorse (Invada) **
  • Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (Marshall) **
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577) **
  • Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) **
  • Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) **
  • Oklou: Choke Enough (True Panther/Because Music) **
  • Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (TIBProd.) **
  • Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (Rewound Echoes)
  • Tom Ollendorff: Where in the World (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  • Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer (Warp) **
  • Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive 4 (Hausu Mountain) **
  • Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Darius Jones/Eric McPherson]: Star Mountain (Intakt) **
  • Otherworld Ensemble: Soul Bird (Edgetone)
  • Out Of/Into [Joel Ross/Gerald Clayton/Kendrick Scott/Matt Brewer/Immanuel Wilkins]: Motion II (Blue Note) **
  • Jake Owen: Dreams to Dream (Good Company) **
  • Keith Oxman: Home (Capri)
  • The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra) **
  • PainKiller: The Great God Pan (Tzadik) **
  • Aaron Parks: "By All Means!!" (Blue Note) **
  • Hery Paz: Fisuras (Porta-Jazz/Carimbo) **
  • Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band: Honeysuckle (Family Owned) **
  • Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (OA2)
  • Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva)
  • Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) **
  • Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (Dekmantel) **
  • Mehmet Polat Quartet: Roots in Motion (Aftab) **
  • Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (Origin)
  • Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (Funklove Productions)
  • Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) **
  • Jackson Potter: Small Things (Shifting Paradigm)
  • Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (OA2)
  • Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (Warp) **
  • The Prize: In the Red (Anti Fade) **
  • The Quantum Blues Quartet: Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) **
  • Jesika von Rabbit: Bunnywood Babylon (Dionysus) **
  • Reneé Rapp: Bite Me (Interscope) **
  • Andrew Rathbun: Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase) **
  • Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 3 (1332/Brutal Music/Greenfield Music) **
  • Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (Blue Note) **
  • Eric Scott Reed: Out Late (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Dave Rempis/Nico Chkifi: Aula (Aerophonic) **
  • Anaïs Reno: Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club44) **
  • Diego Rivera: West Circle (Posi-Tone) **
  • Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge)
  • Rent Romus/Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift (Edgetone) **
  • Ted Rosenthal Trio: Classics Reimagined: Impromp2 (TMR)
  • Bobby Rozario: Healer (Origin)
  • Juana Rozas: Tanya (Sony Music Argentina) **
  • Bobby Rush/Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) **
  • Sverre Sæbo Quintet: If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz) **
  • Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura (Tapestry)
  • Dino Saluzzi: El Viejo Caminante (ECM) **
  • Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression (Savant)
  • Gina Saputo: Daydream (GSJQ Productions)
  • Michael Sarian: Esquina (Greenleaf Music) **
  • Sarter Kit: What I Am and What I Am Not (Squama) **
  • Boz Scaggs: Detour (Concord) **
  • Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framåt! (Grong)
  • Mark Scott III: Soft Light (Miller Three Publishing)
  • Stefan Schultze/Peter Ehwald/Tom Rainey: Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt) **
  • Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (Mahakala Music) **
  • Mark Sherman: Bop Contest (Miles High)
  • Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (Music Maker, EP) **
  • Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 2 (self-released) **
  • Julian Shore Trio: Sub Rosa (Chill Tone)
  • Nick Shoulders: Refugia Blues (Gar Hole) **
  • ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (Fused Arrow) **
  • Shrunken Elvis: Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl) **
  • Laura Ann Singh: Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) **
  • Tom Skinner: Kaleidoscopic Visions (International Anthem) **
  • Smerz: Big City Life (Escho) **
  • Sonic Chambers Quartet: Kiss of the Earth (577) **
  • Vinnie Sperrazza/Jacob Sacks/Masa Kamaguchi: Play Elmo Hope (Fresh Sound) **
  • Split System: No Cops in Heaven/Pull the Trigger (Legless, EP) **
  • Larry Stabbins/Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus Music) **
  • Ben Stapp: Uzmic Ro'Samg (577) **
  • Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III: Live Setting (Intakt) **
  • Bill Stewart: Live at the Village Vanguard (Criss Cross Jazz) **
  • Grant Stewart: Next Spring (Cellar Music) **
  • Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (二) (Endectomorph Music) **
  • Sun & Rain: Waterfall (Out of Your Head) **
  • Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge) **
  • Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Ki (Libra)
  • Chad Taylor Quintet: Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) **
  • Ternion Q Expanded: Marbles (Brooklyn Jazz Underground) **
  • Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat With the Grin and the Chuckle (Origin)
  • Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love) **
  • Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (We Jazz) **
  • Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (Leo33) **
  • Tortoise: Touch (International Anthem) **
  • Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny (FMR)
  • Triology Featuring Scott Hamilton: The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) **
  • Maxine Troglauer: Hymn (Fun in the Church) **
  • Tropos: Switches (Endectomorph Music) **
  • Mark Turner: We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music) **
  • Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch) **
  • Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override (dBpm) **
  • Kali Uchis: Sincerely, (Capitol) **
  • UFO Fev & Body Bag Ben: Thousand Yard Stare (1332) **
  • Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (International Anthem) **
  • Julia Úlehla and Dálava: Understories (Pi)
  • Um, Jennifer?: Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (Final Girl) **
  • Unity Quartet [Helio Alves/Guilherme Monteiro/Gili Lopes/Alex Kautz]: Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside)
  • University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let the Good Times Roll (Vegas)
  • Nicolas Masson: Renaissance (ECM) **
  • Ken Vandermark: October Flowers for Joe McPhee (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (Origin)
  • Martina Verhoeven/Luis Lopes/Dirk Serries: Invincible Time (Raw Tonk) **
  • Vlure: Escalate (Music for Nations) **
  • Michael Waldrop: Native Son (Origin)
  • Colter Wall: Memories and Empties (La Honda) **
  • Jeff Walton: Pack Animals (Jules)
  • Jesse Welles: Middle (self-released) **
  • Jesse Welles: Pilgrim (self-released) **
  • Jesse Welles: With the Devil (self-released) **
  • The Westerlies: Paradise (Westerlies) **
  • Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino) **
  • Kenny Wheeler Legacy: Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) **
  • Chris Williams: Odu: Vibrations II (AKP) **
  • Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic) **
  • Saul Williams: Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople (International Anthem) **
  • Simón Willson: Feel Love (Endectomorph Music)
  • Jessica Winter: My First Album (Lucky Number) **
  • Christian Winther: Sculptures From Under the City Ice (Earthly Habit) **
  • WNC WhopBezzy/70th Street Carlos: Out the Blue (WNC) **
  • Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk)
  • Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Liminal (Verve/Opal) **
  • Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal (Verve/Opal) **
  • Carolyn Wonderland: Truth Is (Alligator) **
  • Brandon Woody: For the Love of It All (Blue Note) **
  • Wretch 32: Home? (AWAL) **
  • John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points in Time (See Tao)
  • Yes Deer: Everything That Shines, Everything That Hurts (Superpang) **
  • Yeule: Evangelic Girl Is a Gun (Ninja Tune) **
  • Lola Young: I'm Only F**king Myself (Island/Day One) **
  • The Young Mothers: Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) **
  • Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 23: Hyldon (Jazz Is Dead, EP) **
  • Gabriel Zucker: Confession (Boomslang)
B+(*)
  • Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (Jazzbird)
  • Addison Rae: Addison (As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) **
  • Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (World Circuit) **
  • Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (Fönstret) **
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (Sciensonic, EP) **
  • Albare: Eclecticity (Alfi)
  • Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads 2 (Ovation)
  • Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (Lex) **
  • Ancient Infinity Orchestra: It's Always About Love (Gondwana) **
  • Annahstasia: Tether (Drink Sum Wtr) **
  • Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (Hermine) **
  • Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (Columbia) **
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) **
  • Jon Balke: Skrifum (ECM) **
  • Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO) **
  • Basic: Dream City (No Quarter, EP) **
  • Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (Drink Sum Wtr) **
  • Blawan: SickElixir (XL) **
  • Blood Orange: Essex Honey (RCA/Domino) **
  • Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Bright Eyes: Kids Table (Dead Oceans, EP) **
  • Jakob Bro/Wadada Leo Smith/Marilyn Crispell/Andrew Cyrille: The Montclair Session (Loveland Music) **
  • Jakob Bro Large Ensemble: New Morning (Loveland Music) **
  • The Bug: Implosion (Pressure) **
  • Caitlin Cannon: Love Addict (self-released) **
  • Nanna Carling: Melodies for Two (The End) **
  • Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (Valory Music) **
  • Carrier: Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love) **
  • George Cartwright & Bruce Golden: South From a Narrow Arc (self-released) **
  • Milena Casado: Reflection of Another Self (Candid) **
  • Brìghde Chaimbeul: Sunwise (Tak:til) **
  • Chaos Magick: Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik) **
  • Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) **
  • Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra) **
  • Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (UMG Nashville) **
  • Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (Bella Union/Congrats) **
  • Bobby Conn: Bobby's Place (Tapete) **
  • Convergence: Reckless Meter (Capri)
  • Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) **
  • Alyn Cosker: Onta (Calligram)
  • Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (ILK Music) **
  • Theo Croker: Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) **
  • Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (self-released)
  • Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band: La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside) **
  • Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap)
  • Laura De Jongh: Fundus (Klankhaven, EP) **
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) **
  • Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (Cellar Music)
  • Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving (Capitol/Polydor) **
  • Deena: This Is the Time (self-released, EP) **
  • Erez Dessel: Pro Fake No Reject (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) **
  • Dijon: Baby (R&R/Warner) **
  • Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) **
  • Djo: The Crux (AWAL) **
  • Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (Strong Place Music) **
  • Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (EMI North) **
  • Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly) **
  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (Cool Death, EP) **
  • Editrix: The Big E (Joyful Noise) **
  • Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released)
  • Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) **
  • Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Lateral (Verve/Opal) **
  • Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (Origin)
  • Silvana Estrada: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Glassnote) **
  • Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
  • Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (Tapete) **
  • Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) **
  • Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) **
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) **
  • Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch) **
  • Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) **
  • Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream (Polydor/Republic) **
  • Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet: Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions) **
  • Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino) **
  • For Living Lovers: Natural Name (Sunnyside) **
  • Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) **
  • Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) **
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising (6x20)
  • Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (International Anthem) **
  • Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (Open Mind Jazz)
  • GFOTY: Influenzer (Girlfriend) **
  • Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal) **
  • Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (ESGN/ALC) **
  • Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) **
  • Dave Gisler Trio: The Flying Mega Doghouse (Intakt) **
  • John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young) **
  • Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) **
  • The Vinny Golia Quintet: Out for Blood (Nine Winds) **
  • Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (LP345)
  • Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve)
  • Gwenno: Utopia (Heavenly) **
  • The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (Psychiatric)
  • Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope) **
  • Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS, 2CD)
  • Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (Edition) **
  • Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (La Reserve/Diggers Factory) **
  • Arve Henriksen/Trygve Seim/Andmers Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (ECM) **
  • Fred Hersch/Rondi Charleston: Suspended in Time: A Song Cycle/b> (Resilience Music Alliance) **
  • Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West) **
  • Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out) **
  • Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown (Posi-Tone) **
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) **
  • Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (self-released, EP) **
  • Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (self-released, EP) **
  • Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (ARC Music) **
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition) **
  • Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (Optical Substance) **
  • Hvalfugl: Bag Vore Øjne Strømmer Drømme Sagte Forbi (self-released) **
  • Chris Ingham Quintet: Walter/Donald (Downhome) **
  • Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) **
  • Hannah Jadagu: Describe (Sub Pop) **
  • Jane in Ether: Oneiric (Confront) **
  • Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Dead Oceans) **
  • Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants)
  • Cody Jinks: In My Blood (Late August) **
  • Steve Johns: Mythology (SteepleChase) **
  • Jung Stratmann Quartet: Confluence (ARC)
  • Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) **
  • Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm) **
  • Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (MKMusic)
  • Tyler Keith: I Confess (Black & Wyatt) **
  • KeiyaA: Hooke's Law (XL) **
  • Killah Priest & Purpose: Abraxas 2 (Proverbs) **
  • Knats: Knats (Gearbox) **
  • Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (W.E.R.F.) **
  • Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle: Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch) **
  • Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (Summer House/Epic) **
  • Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Dropzone Jazz)
  • Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform) **
  • Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (XL) **
  • Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (Sonic Transmission) **
  • Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny (The Audiophile Society) **
  • Nick León: A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax) **
  • Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI (Young Money/Republic) **
  • Little Simz: Lotus (Little Simz) **
  • Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (Nice Life/Atlantic) **
  • Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (Blue Note) **
  • Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble: Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions (Denouement)
  • Russ Lossing Trio: Moon Inhabitants (Sunnyside) **
  • Demi Lovato: It's Not That Deep (Island) **
  • Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music)
  • Kali Malone & Drew McDowall: Magnetism (Ideologic Organ) **
  • Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (Columbia) **
  • Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2)
  • Juliet McConkey: Southern Front (Soggy Anvil) **
  • Makaya McCraven: Hidden Out! (International Anthem, EP) **
  • Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) **
  • Dave McMurray: I Love Life Even When I'm Hurting (Blue Note) **
  • Jim McNeely: Primal Colors (Challenge) **
  • Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2)
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (Dying Victims Productions) **
  • Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) **
  • Miffle: Goodbye, World (self-released) **
  • Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (Parco Della Musica) **
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) **
  • Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) **
  • MonoNeon: You Had Your Chance - Bad Attitude (Floki Studios) **
  • Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (Mountainrose Sparrow) **
  • Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (Vaicomtudo Music)
  • Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound)
  • Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (ACT Music) **
  • Qasim Naqvi: Endling (Erased Tapes) **
  • Nazar: Demilitarize (Hyperdub) **
  • Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) **
  • The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) **
  • Niontay: Fada<3of$ (10k) **
  • Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) **
  • Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (Otoroku) **
  • Zeena Parkins: Lament for the Maker (Relative Pitch) **
  • Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (Origin)
  • Hanna Paulsberg Concept & Elin Rosseland: Himmel Over Hav (Grappa) **
  • Nicholas Payton: Triune (Smoke Sessions) **
  • Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) **
  • Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (Zoho)
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) **
  • Pat Petrillo: Contemporaneous (Innervision)
  • Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (Dynamite Hill) **
  • PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Warner, EP) **
  • Robert Plant: Saving Grace (Nonesuch) **
  • Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (Secretly Canadian, EP) **
  • Sam Prekop: Open Close (Thrill Jockey) **
  • Pulp: More (Rough Trade) **
  • PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (Rise) **
  • Cleo Reed: Cuntry (self-released) **
  • Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt/Thirst (Unmusic)
  • Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Kaiho - Live in Helsinki (Unmusic) **
  • Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz (DeadAir) **
  • Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City (New West) **
  • Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow) **
  • Ron Rieder: Día Precioso! (Meson)
  • Crystabel Efemena Riley: Live at Ormside (Infant Tree, EP) **
  • Joanne Robertson: Blurrr (AD 93) **
  • Rosalía: Lux (Columbia) **
  • Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language (Pacific Coast Jazz)
  • Sault: 10 (Forever Living Originals) **
  • Saya Gray: Saya (Dirty Hit) **
  • Altin Sencalar: Unleashed (Posi-Tone) **
  • Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell: End of Something (Obliquity)
  • Sharp Pins: Radio DDR (K/Perennial Death) **
  • Sharp Pins: Balloon Balloon Balloon (K/Perennial) **
  • Patrick Shiroishi: Forgetting Is Violent (American Dream) **
  • Deborah Shulman: We Had a Moment (Summit) **
  • Jaysun Silver: No Excuses! (self-released) **
  • Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (J-Nett Music)
  • Alex Sipiagin: Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz) **
  • Skaiwater: #mia (GoodTalk/Capitol, EP) **
  • Slikback: Attrition (Planet Mu) **
  • Ches Smith: The Self (Tzadik) **
  • Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (Misfitme Music)
  • Junior Smith and His Remote Rangers: Junior Smith's Remote Round Up (self-released) **
  • Snowpoet: Heartstrings (Edition) **
  • Mark Solborg: Tungemål: Confluencia (ILK Music) **
  • Maria Somerville: Luster (4AD) **
  • Something Blue: In the Beginning (Posi-Tone) **
  • Sons of Ra: Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound) **
  • Omar Sosa: Sendas (Otá) **
  • Kandace Springs: Lady in Satin (SRP) **
  • Squid: Cowards (Warp) **
  • Dayna Stephens: Hopium (Contagious Music) **
  • Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Duophonic/Warp) **
  • Laura Stevenson: Late Great (Really) **
  • Sultan Stevenson: El Roi (Edition) **
  • Macie Stewart: When the Distance Is Blue (International Anthem) **
  • Bartees Strange: Horror (4AD) **
  • Thomas Strønen/Time Is a Blind Guide: Off Stillness (ECM) **
  • Suede: Antidepressants (BMG) **
  • Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet: What Happens Next (Sunnyside) **
  • Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands 一 (Endectomorph Music, EP) **
  • Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida/Warner) **
  • Sophie Tassignon: A Slender Thread (Nemu)
  • Laura Taylor: Think I'm in Love (Vegas)
  • These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (Domino) **
  • They Are Gutting a Body of Water: Lotto (Julia's War/ATO) **
  • Things of This Nature: Things of This Nature (Mahakala Music) **
  • The Third Mind: Live Mind (Yep Roc) **
  • Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music, 2CD)
  • Mitch Towne: Refuge (Cross Towne)
  • Premik Russell Tubbs/Margee Minier-Tubbs: Oneness-World (Margetoile)
  • The Tubs: Cotton Crown (Trouble in Mind) **
  • Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming (4AD) **
  • Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (Bossier City) **
  • Turnstile: Never Enough (Roadrunner) **
  • William Tyler: Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline) **
  • Tyler, the Creator: Don't Tap the Glass (Columbia) **
  • Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Chris Varga: Breathe (Calligram)
  • Milan Verbist Trio: Time Change (Origin)
  • Inés Velasco: A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released)
  • Luís Vicente: Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta) **
  • Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (Losen) **
  • Rufus Wainwright With the Pacific Jazz Orchestra: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill (Thirty Tigers) **
  • Sunny War: Armageddon in a Summer Dress (New West) **
  • WDR Big Band: Bluegrass (MCG Jazz)
  • The Weather Station: Humanhood (Fat Possum) **
  • Jesse Welles: Devil's Den (self-released) **
  • Wild Iris Brass Band: Way Up (Ear Up) **
  • Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing With Elephants (Sunnyside) **
  • Sarah Wilson: Incandescence (Brass Tonic)
  • Steven Wilson: The Overview (Fiction) **
  • Wolf Alice: The Clearing (Columbia/RCA) **
  • Clay Wulbrecht: The Clockmaster (Instru Dash Mental)
  • Y: Y (Hideous Mink, EP) **
  • Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarin Yoksa = If There Is No Tomorrow (Big Crown) **
  • Neil Young: Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise) **
  • Adrian Younge: Something About April III (Jazz Is Dead) **
  • Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor (Jazz Is Dead) **
  • Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (Impulse!) **
  • James Zito: Zito's Jump (self-released)
B
  • Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) **
  • Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (Jazzville)
  • Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) **
  • Baths: Gut (Basement's Basement) **
  • Justin Bieber: Swag (Def Jam) **
  • Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune) **
  • Theo Bleckmann: Love and Anger (Sunnyside)
  • Booker T & the Bleeds: Ode to BC/LY . . . And Eye Know BO . . . Da Prez (Mahakala Music) **
  • Kevin Brunkhorst: After the Fire (Calligram)
  • Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain) **
  • Caroline: Caroline 2 (Rough Trade) **
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars) **
  • Brian Charette: Borderless (SteepleChase) **
  • Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (Matador) **
  • Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos (Blue Note) **
  • Laura Cocks: FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads) **
  • Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (PlayOn)
  • Liz Cole: I Want to Be Happy (self-released)
  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) **
  • Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari: Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse) **
  • Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Weird World/Domino) **
  • John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) **
  • Doodlebug and 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) **
  • Nick Dunston: Colla Voce: Praylewd (Out of Your Head) **
  • Nick Dunston: Reverse Broadcast (Carrier) **
  • Early James: Medium Raw (Easy Eye Sound) **
  • Effie: Pullup to Busan 4 More Hyper Summer It's Gonna Be a Fuckin Movie (Sound Republica, EP) **
  • Ensemble C: Every Journey (Adhyâropa)
  • Feeo: Goodness (AD 93) **
  • Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar) **
  • Food House: Two House (self-released) **
  • Hannah Frances: Nested in Tangles (Fire Talk) **
  • Robbie Fulks: Now Then (Compass) **
  • Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan) **
  • Don Glori: Paper Can't Wrap Fire (Mr Bongo) **
  • Groovology: Almost Home (Sugartown)
  • The Haas Company Featuring Jerry Goodman: Thirteen (Psychiatric)
  • Phil Haynes/Ben Monder: Transition[s] (Corner Store Jazz)
  • Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (Edition) **
  • Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) **
  • Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon (Third Man) **
  • Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) **
  • Jennie: Ruby (Columbia) **
  • Larry Keel/Jon Stickley: Larry Keel & Jon Stickley (self-released, EP)
  • Kneebody: Reach (GroundUP Music) **
  • Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood) **
  • Lex Korten: Canopy (Sounderscore)
  • Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn (Matador) **
  • Kedr Livansky: Myrtus Myth (2MR) **
  • Lorde: Virgin (Republic) **
  • Emi Makabe: Echo (Sunnyside) **
  • Maruja: Pain to Power (Music for Nations) **
  • Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (Edition) **
  • Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch) **
  • Kelsey Mines/Erin Rogers: Scratching at the Surface (Relative Pitch) **
  • Kelsey Mines/Vinny Golia: Collusion and Collaboration (Relative Pitch) **
  • Mobb Deep: Infinite (Mass Appeal) **
  • Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (XL) **
  • Noel Okimoto: Hō'ihi (Noel Okimoto Music)
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) **
  • Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) **
  • Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue (Ravita Music)
  • Emma Rawicz: Inkyra (ACT Music) **
  • Resavoir & Matt Gold: Horizon (International Anthem) **
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap (Nonesuch) **
  • Shame: Cutthroat (Dead Oceans) **
  • Rich Siegel: It's Always Been You (self-released)
  • Deborah Silver/The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks! (Green Hill)
  • Alex Sipiagin: Daydream (SkyDeck Music) **
  • Skrillex: Hit Me Where It Hurts X (OWSLA/Atlantic, EP) **
  • Steve Smith and Vital Information: New Perspective (Drum Legacy)
  • Swans: Birthing (Young God/Mute) **
  • Teyana Taylor: Escape Room (Taylormade/Def Jam) **
  • Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo (Brownswood/Parlophone) **
  • Patrisha Thomson: Your Love (PT Designs Productions)
  • Premik Russell Tubbs & Margee Minier-Tubbs: The Bells (Margetoile, EP)
  • UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1: Double or Nothing (Vegas) [08-25]
  • Us3: Soundtrack (Us3) **
  • Vincenzo Virgillito: Precondition (self-released)
  • Jennifer Walton: Daughters (Local Action) **
  • Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan) **
  • Yoko Yates: Eternal Moments (Banka)
  • Zurhub [Mattan Klein/Ezequiel Hezi Joit]: Countryside Motorways (Origin)
B-
  • Martin Bejerano: The Purple Project (Figgland)
  • Justin Bieber: Swag II (Def Jam) **
  • Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (Mercury) **
  • Deftones: Private Music (Reprise) **
  • El Michaels Affair: 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown) **
  • Kurt Elling/Christian Sands: Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) **
  • Alex G: Headlights (RCA) **
  • Heems: A Hundred Alibis (Veena, EP) **
  • Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (Zoho)
  • Hunx and His Punx: Walk Out on This World (Get Better) **
  • Rick Keller: Heroes (Vegas)
  • The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre (Island) **
  • Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) **
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic, 2CD)
  • Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) **
  • Sparks: MAD! (Transgressive) **
  • Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds (Jalopy) **
  • Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone)
  • The War and Treaty: Plus One (Mercury/UMG Nashville) **
  • Wayne Wilkinson: Holly Tunes (self-released)
C+
  • Cardiacs: LSD (The Alphabet Business Concern) **
  • Jon Gold: Chasing Echos (Entropic)
  • The Onions: Return to Paradise (Hitt) **
C
  • Steve Rosenbloom Big Band: San Francisco 1948 (Glory) [09-01]

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.

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+
-

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 anything containing any previously released material is collected here, and anything that is wholly previously unreleased is treated as new, above.

A
  1. John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (1973, BMG) **
A-
  1. James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin)
  2. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey, 6CD) **
  3. Arkady Gotesman: Music for an Imaginary Ballet (2000-25, NoBusiness)
  4. Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  5. Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) **
  6. Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance, 2CD)
  7. Griot Galaxy: Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) **
  8. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) **
  9. Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) **
  10. Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink: Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) **
  11. Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean (1950s-70s, Strut) **
  12. Joe Henderson: Multiple (1973, Craft) **
  13. Thelonious Monk: Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) **
  14. Stanley Cowell/Billy Harper/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart: Such Great Friends (1983, Strata-East) **
  15. Kristen Noguès/John Surman: Diriaou (1998, Souffle Continu) **
  16. Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers: African Party [Deluxe Edition] (1967, Innovative Collective/BBE Music) **
  17. Ryan Truesdell: Shades of Sound: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music)
  18. Ellery Eskelin: Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) **
  19. Dave Burrell/Sam Woodyard: The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness)
  20. Misha Mengelberg/Sabu Toyozumi: The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness)
  21. Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) **
  22. Joseph Kamaru: Heavy Combination 1966-2007 (Disciples) **
  23. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance, 2CD)
  24. François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Vol. 4: Jo Maka (1977, Souffle Continu) **
  25. Charles Tolliver With Gary Bartz/Herbie Hancock/Ron Carter/Joe Chambers: Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) **
  26. Studio: West Coast (2006, Ghostly International) **
  27. Motoharu Yoshizawa/Kim Dae Hwan: Way of the Breeze (1993, NoBusiness)
  28. Horace Silver: Silver in Seatte: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) **
  29. Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler)
  30. Zig-Zag Band: Chigiyo Music Kings 1987-1998 (Analog Africa) **
  31. The Bitter Ends: The Bitter Ends (2022, Trouble in River City) **
  32. Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Compassion (1977, Strata-East) **
  33. Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962, Craft) **
  34. X-Cetra: Summer 2000 [Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition] (2000, Numero Group) **
  35. Luke Bell: The King Is Back (2013-16, All Blue/Thirty Tigers) **
  36. François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Après La Marée Noire: Vers Une Musique Bretonne Nouvelle (1979, Souffle Continu) **
  37. Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Volume 1 (2019, Tzadik) **

Pending

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

Also Noted:

B+(***)
  • African Jazz Invites O.K. Jazz (1961-70, Planet Ilunga) **
  • Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe: Sidewalks in Motion (2001, Survival) **
  • Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 2 (1968, Red) **
  • Big L: Harlem's Finest: Return of the King (Mass Appeal) **
  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 (Gearbox) **
  • Charles Brackeen: Rhythm X (1968, Strata-East) **
  • The Brass Company: Colors (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Peter Brötzmann Trio: Hurricane (Old Heaven Books) **
  • Jacques Coursil: Black Suite (1969, BYG) **
  • Stanley Cowell: Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  • Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998, In Sheep's Clothing) **
  • Marco Eneidi Quartet: Wheat Fields of Kleyehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) **
  • Bill Evans: Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) **
  • Ivan Farmakovskiy: Epic Power (2010, SteepleChase) **
  • Shamek Farrah: First Impressions (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Fred Frith/Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (2002-05, Relative Pitch) **
  • Herb Geller Quartet: Barcelona Session (1990, Fresh Sound) **
  • Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins: Sonny Side Up (1957, Verve) **
  • Billy Harper: Trying to Make Heaven My Home (1979, MPS) **
  • John Hicks: Hells Bells (1975, Strata-East) **
  • Homeboy Sandman: Rich 2.5 (self-released) **
  • William Hooker: A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) **
  • Ibex Band: Stereo Instrumental Music (1976, Muzikawi) **
  • Khan Jamal: Give the Vibes Some (1974, Souffle Continu) **
  • Keith Jarrett: New Vienna (2016, ECM) **
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1964, Resonance)
  • Charles Kynard: Woga (1972, We Want Sounds) **
  • Oliver Lake: Live From Studio Rivbea 1975 & 1976 [Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 4] (NoBusiness)
  • Yusef Lateef: Golden Flower: Live in Sweden (1967-72, Elemental Music) **
  • Mazinga: Chinese Democracy Manifest: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Rubber Wolf?) **
  • Stephen McCraven: Wooley the Newt (1979, Moved-by-Sound) **
  • Nellie McKay: Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos (Omnivore) **
  • Mac Miller: Balloonerism (2014, REMember Music/Warner) **
  • Moskito: Idolar (2001, Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
  • Mujician: In Concerts (1993-2010, Jazz in Britain) **
  • Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Live at Sluggs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East) **
  • Bobby Naughton Trio: Housatonic Rumble: Live at Charlie's Tap (1985, NoBusiness) **
  • Alick Nkhata: Radio Lusaka (Mississippi) **
  • Cecil Payne: Zodiac (1972, Strata-East) **
  • Art Pepper: Geneva 1980 (Omnivore) **
  • Art Pepper: An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) **
  • Grace Potter: Medicine (2008, Hollywood) **
  • Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa) **
  • Soft Works: Abracadabra (2002, MoonJune) **
  • Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Game [Ten Year Edition] (2015, Vinyl Digital) **
  • Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75, Strata-East) **
  • Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) **
  • John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) **
  • Atef Swaitat: Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (1970s, Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive) **
  • Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï: The Ecstatic Electro Sound of Original Raï Cassettes 1986-1991 (We Want Sounds) **
  • Charles Tolliver's Music Inc: Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972, Strata-East) **
  • Charles Tolliver: Live in Berlin: At the Quasimodo (1988, Strata-East) **
  • Jessica Williams: Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) **
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) **
  • Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977, Reprise) **
B+(**)
  • Alts 'N Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (1958-64, Blue Note) **
  • Kenny Barron: Sunset to Dawn (1973, Muse/Time Traveler)
  • Borghesia: Clones (1984, Dark Entries) **
  • Anthony Braxton: B-X0 N0-47A (1969, BYG) **
  • Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey: On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) **
  • Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) **
  • Don Cherry/Latif Khan: Music/Sangam (1978, Heavenly Sweetness) **
  • George Colligan: Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) **
  • The Cosmic Tones Research Trio: The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi) **
  • Miles Davis: The Musings of Miles (1955, Craft) **
  • Manu Dibango: Dibango 82 (1982, We Want Sounds) **
  • Michel Doneda & Frédéric Blondy: Points of Convergence (2014, Relative Pitch) **
  • Armen Donelian: Stargazer (1980, Sunnyside)
  • Bill Evans: Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) **
  • Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith: The World of the Children (1976, Strata-East) **
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) **
  • Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 2 (2019, Tzadik) **
  • Fred Frith: Fred Frith and the Gravity Band (2014, Klanggalerie) **
  • Melvin Gibbs: Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25, Hausu Mountain) **
  • Dexter Gordon: Landslide (1961-62, Blue Note) **
  • John Gordon: Step by Step (1975, Strata-East) **
  • Green Cosmos: Abendmusiken (1981-82, Frederiksberg) **
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio: Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964, Craft, 2CD) **
  • Billy Harper: Capra Black (1973, Strata-East) **
  • John Hicks: Steadfast (1975, Strata-East) **
  • Hot Chip: Joy in Repetition (2005-22, Domino) **
  • Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance, 2CD)
  • Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording Vol. II (2013, Red Hook) **
  • Frank Kimbrough: The Call (2010, Sunnyside) **
  • Roland Kirk Quartet: Domino: Live at Radio Bremen TV-Studios 1963 (MIG) **
  • Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (Royal Potato Family) **
  • John Lennon & Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: Power to the People: Live at the One to One Concert (1972, Universal) **
  • Rob Mazurek: Alternate Moon Cycles [IA11 Edition] (2012, International Anthem) **
  • Makaya McCraven: PopUp Shop (2015, International Anthem, EP) **
  • Makaya McCraven: Off the Record (2015-25, International Anthem) **
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) **
  • Lee Morgan: Here's Lee Morgan (1960, Craft) **
  • Gerry Mulligan: Nocturne (1992, Red) **
  • Kinloch Nelson: Waiting: More Recordings, 1968-1976 (Tompkins Square) **
  • Jovino Santos Neto Quartet: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995 (Origin)
  • The New York Bass Violin Choir: The New York Bass Violin Choir (Strata-East) **
  • David "Fathead" Newman/Ellis Marsalis/Cornell Dupree: Return to the Wide Open Spaces (1990, Amazing/Steady Boy) **
  • Mark O'Leary Group: I See Further Than You (2001, TIBProd.) **
  • Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom of Speech (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed: Sings "Walkin' and Talkin'" and Other Smash Hits [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005, Yep Roc) **
  • Pharoah Sanders: Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds, 2CD) **
  • Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble: Live at Antibes (1970, BYG) **
  • Alan Silva and His Celestrial Communication Orchestra: Luna Surface (1969, BYG) **
  • Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Lives! (Aka the Burden of Black Genius) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1967-73, Sony/Legacy) **
  • Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) **
  • Louis Stewart: I Thought About You (1977, Livia) **
  • Sun Ra: On Jupiter (1979, Saturn/Strut) **
  • Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) **
  • Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) **
  • John Taylor: Tramonto (2002, ECM) **
  • Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia: Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire) **
  • Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua (1969, BYG Actuel) **
  • Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live in Tompkins Square Park 1987 (Inky Dot Media)
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 1: Song of Soil (1979, We Want Sounds) **
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 2: Colour of Dream (1979, We Want Sounds) **
  • Charles Tolliver Music Inc & Orchestra: Impact (1975 [2025], Strata-East): **
  • Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps [Music Inc.]: Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East) **
  • Harold Vick: Don't Look Back (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (1950-65, Matsuli Music) **
B+(*)
  • Derek Bailey/John Stevens: The Duke of Wellington (1989, Confront) **
  • Ray Barretto Y Su Orquesta: Celia · Ray · Adalberto: Tremendo Trio! (1983, Craft) **
  • Han Bennink & Misha Mengelberg: ICP010 (1971, ICP) **
  • Blackbyrds: City Life (1975, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) **
  • Johnny Bragg: Let Me Dream On (ORG Music) **
  • Master Wilburn Burchette: Master Wilburn Burchette's Psychic Meditation Music (1974, Numero Group) **
  • Walter Davis Jr: A Being Such as You (1979, Red) **
  • Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Muse/Time Traveler)
  • Woody Guthrie: Woody at Home: Vol 1 + 2 (1951-52, Shamus) **
  • Charlie Hunter/Bobby Previte/Skerik/Steven Bernstein: Omaha Diner (2013, SideHustle) **
  • Hüsker Dü: 1985: The Miracle Year (Numero Group) **
  • Lonnie Johnson With Elmer Snowden: Blues & Ballads (1960, Craft) **
  • Agustin Pereyra Lucena: Puertos De Alternativa (1988, Far Out) **
  • Edison Machado: Edison Machado & Boa Nova (1978, Far Out) **
  • Cecil McBee: Mutima (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) **
  • Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (1967, Blue Note) **
  • Yusuf Mumin: Journey to the Ancient (We Want Sounds) **
  • Music Is a Message From Space (Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album (TIBProd.) **
  • The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2 (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII (1972, Columbia) **
  • Charlie Rouse: Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance)
  • Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Colection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (Patois, 2CD)
  • Serengeti: Mixtape 2 (self-released) **
  • Those Poor Bastards: Songs of Desperation [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005, Tribulation) **
  • 3 Concerts Per a A.T.: In Der Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover (1998, Corbett vs. Dempsey) **
  • Trigger: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 3 (2019, Tzadik) **
  • Charles Tyler Ensemble: Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) **
  • Mal Waldron: Candy Girl (1975, Strut) **
  • Tony Williams: Civilization (1986, Blue Note) **
  • The Lost-Secret Dave Wells' Trombone City Band: Live at Carmelo's (1983, Fresh Sound) **
  • Albert White: The Definitive Albert White (Music Maker) **
  • Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006, Mississippi, EP) **
B
  • Bar-B-Q Killers: Part 1: The Last Shit (1986, Chunklet Industries, EP) **
  • Stanley Cowell: Regeneration (1975, Strata-East) **
  • The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (1963-72, Misissippi) **
  • Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980 (Bureau B) **
  • Ø: Sysivalo (Sähkö) **
  • The Piano Choir: Handscapes (1972, Strata-East) **
  • Charlie Rouse: Two Is One (1974, Strata-East) **
  • Sly & the Family Stone: The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 (High Moon) **
B-
  • Marshall Crenshaw: From the Hellhole (2012-16, Yep Roc) **