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| 1 | Vijay Iyer | Accelerando | "Everything about it projects power-- emotional power, the power of brute physical force, musical power ..., and if you're out there looking for a path into modern jazz from the world of rock or hip-hop, this record speaks with a directness and verve that may make it an ideal introduction." Pitchfork | ||
| 2 | Sam Rivers- Dave Holland Barry Altschul | Reunion: Live In New York | "Though Rivers, Holland, Altschul, and Pi Recordings have put together one of the purest jazz albums of the year - all music, no pretensions ... It’s all energy and no fuss." allaboutjazz | ||
| 3 | Ryan Truesdell | Centennial: Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans | "Ryan Truesdell unearthed a treasure trove of music when he searched those archives and Centennial, is one heck of a commemoration for the iconic Gil Evans. One can only wonder what future treasures he may yet have to reveal. Let's hope if he does, he calls upon the same players he enlisted for this excellent project." allaboutjazz | ||
| 4 | Branford Marsalis | Four Mfs Playin' Tunes | "This band can still burn. Marsalis has a hot new young drummer, Justin Faulkner, who generates vast quantities of clean energy. ...Art Blakey would approve.
" JazzTimes | ||
| 5 | Ravi Coltrane | Spirit Fiction | "On every track, Coltrane is pushing himself out of his comfort zone, and through the colors of both groups. ... It is a more than pleasing ride that never quite soars into the stratosphere, laying a firm foundation of artistry while hinting towards even greater things to come." PopMatters | ||
| 6 | Wadada Leo Smith | Ten Freedom Summers | "In this globalised but fragmented world, now so obsessed with immediacy, rapidity and digestibility, Ten Freedom Summers is a visionary work of protest and power." musicOMH.com | ||
| 7 | Henry Threadgill | Tomorrow And Sunny/The Revelry | "Things simply wheel together, rhizomes and long chains of information striating throughout the space that the tunes themselves create. Wood and wire and metal all come alive with such excitement and innovation, but at the same time with a genuine invitingness and accessibility." Dusted Magazine | ||
| 8 | Tim Berne | Snakeoil | "The long passages ... represent Snakeoil's progress, mingling wide-interval melodies that sometimes sound like contemporary classical music and sometimes trampling funk, quiet solos or intimate duets, tonal contrasts dynamic percussion and unrelenting eventfulness. It's edgy, pattern spinning contemporary music, but austere it certainly is not." The Guardian | ||
| 9 | Steve Lehman | Dialect Fluorescent | Dialect Fluorescent ... is the sound of a young jazz maverick briefly revisiting his roots. ... More time spent with Dialect Fluorescent brings its gutsier qualities to the surface, and that’s enough to tide us over until Lehman’s octet heads back into the studio." PopMatters | ||
| 10 | Gregory Porter | Be Good | "The singing is immaculate all the way through, and there's plenty of blowing space from some dynamic improvisers, notably saxophonists Yosuke Sato and Tivon Pennicott." The Guardian "Porter has made the best vocal album in an age." The Independent | ||
| 11 | Fred Hersch | Alive At The Village Vanguard | |||
| 12 | Anat Cohen | Claruscuro | |||
| 13 | Dave Douglas | Be Still | |||
| 14 | Chick Corea & Gary Burton | Hot House | |||
| 15 | John Abercrombie | Within A Song | |||
| 16 | Billy Hart | All Our Reasons | |||
| 17 | Brad Mehldau | Where Do You Start | |||
| 18 | Ahmad Jamal | Blue Moon | |||
| 19 | Pat Metheny | Unity Band | |||
| 20 | Darius Jones | Book Of Mae'bul ( Another Kind Of Sunrise) | |||
| 21 | Robert Glasper | Black Radio | |||
| 22 | Matt Wilson | An Attitude For Gratitude | |||
| 23 | Lee Konitz - Bill Frisell Gary Peacock- Joey Baron | Enfants Terribles | |||
| 24 | Brad Mehldau | Ode | |||
| 25 | Omer Avital | Suite Of The East | |||
| 26 | Keith Jarrett Jan Garbarek Palle Danielsson Jon Christensen | Sleeper | |||
| 27 | Kenny Garrett | Seeds From The Underground | |||
| 28 | William Parker | Essence Of Ellington | |||
| 29 | Fly | Year Of The Snake | |||
| 30 | Kurt Elling | 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project | |||
| 31 | Jacob Garchik | The Heavens | |||
| 32 | Ron Miles | Quiver | |||
| 33 | David Virelles | Continuum | |||
| 34 | Jeff Coffin & The Mu'tet | Into The Air | |||
| 35 | Bill Evans | Live At Art D'Lugoff's Top Of The Gate | |||
| 36 | Christian Scott | Christian Atunde Adjuah | |||
| 37 | Hafez Modirzadeh | Post-Chromodal Out | |||
| 38 | Mary Halvorson | Bending Bridges | |||
| 39 | Steve Kuhn /Steve Swallow / Joey Baron | Wisteria | |||
| 40 | Guillermo Klein | Carrera | |||
| 41 | Linda Oh | Initial Here | |||
| 42 | Theo Bleckman | Hello Earth ! The Music Of Kate Bush | |||
| 43 | Neney Cherry & The Thing | The Cherry Thing | |||
| 44 | Orrin Evans | Flip The Script | |||
| 45 | Living By Laterns | New Myth / Old Science | |||
| 46 | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Star Of Jupiter | |||
| 47 | Jack Dejohnette | Sound Travels | |||
| 48 | Nik Bärtsch | Live | |||
| 49 | Marc Johnson / Eliane Elias | Swept Away | |||
| 50 | Daniel Freedman | Bamako By Bus | |||
| 51 | Jenny Scheinman | Mischief & Mayhem | |||
| 52 | Jon Irabagon | Unhinged | |||
| 53 | Bobo Stenson Trio | Indicum | |||
| 54 | Hank Mobley | Newark 1953 | |||
| 55 | William Parker | Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987 | |||
| 56 | Tom Harrell | Number Five | |||
| 57 | Bad Plus | Made Possible | |||
| 58 | Chick Corea Eddie Gomez Paul Motian | Further Explorations | |||
| 59 | Miguel Zenon & Laurent Coq | Rayuela | |||
| 60 | Jason Kao Hwang | Burning Bridge | |||
| 61 | Matthew Shipp | Elastic Aspects | |||
| 62 | Josh Berman | There Now |