Opinan los críticos de la JazzTimes

El 6 de diciembre pasado, la revista JazzTimes publicó una suerte de ranking elaborado por los críticos que colaboran en la publicación, que incluía, en opinión de los participantes, lo mejor que se había editado entre el 1 de noviembre de 2010 y el 1 de noviembre de 2011. La encuesta incluía discos nuevos y reediciones. Dadas las dimensiones del texto, aquí se presenta solamente la lista de los discos nuevos que cada uno votó, consignándose nombre del artista, título del disco y sello que lo editó. Suponemos, acaso en un exceso de optimismo, que los lectores de este blog tendrán algo que decir al respecto. Por ejemplo, qué discos no traerá Guillermo Hernández para que no se le contamine Minton's con fealdades.

David R. Adler

1. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM)

2. Alexis Cuadrado Noneto Ibérico (BJU)

3. Ben Allison Action-Refraction (Palmetto)

4. Anthony Wilson Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Goat Hill)

5. Chris Dingman Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)

6. Tony Malaby Novela (Clean Feed)

7. Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra, Hothouse Stomp (Accurate)

8. Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres (Constellation)

9. Pat Metheny What’s It All About (Nonesuch)

10. Ralph Peterson’s Unity Project Outer Reaches (Onyx)

Larry Appelbaum

1. Terri Lyne Carrington The Mosaic Project (Concord)

2. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM)

3. Kenny Wheeler One of Many (CAM Jazz)

4. Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)

5. Steve Coleman The Mancy of Sound (Pi)

6. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

7. Brad Mehldau/Kevin Hays Modern Music (Nonesuch)

8. Ron Carter’s Great Big Band Ron Carter's Great Big Band (Sunnyside)

9. Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri Athens Concert (ECM)

10. Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)

Bill Beuttler

1. Sonny Rollins Road

Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

2. Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi (ACT)

3. Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri Athens Concert (ECM)

4. Charlie Haden Quartet West Sophisticated Ladies (Emarcy)

5. Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

6. Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)

7. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

8. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

9. Stefon Harris/David Sánchez/Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

10. Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)

Brent Burton

1. Enrico Rava Quintet Tribe (ECM)

2. Kenny Wheeler One of Many (CAM Jazz)

3. Keith Jarrett Rio (ECM)

4. Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform)

5. Chick Corea/Stefano Bollani Orvieto (ECM)

6. Raoul Bjorkenheim/Bill Laswell/Morgan Agren Blixt (Cuneiform)

7. Marcin Wasilewski Trio Faithful (ECM)

8. Cuong Vu 4-Tet Leaps of Faith (Origin)

9. Nils Petter Molvær Baboon Moon (Thirsty Ear)

10. Scorch Trio Melaza (Rune Grammofon)

Nate Chinen

1. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

2. Tyshawn Sorey Oblique - 1 (Pi)

3. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM)

4. Gilad Hekselman Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)

5. Starlicker Double Demon (Delmark)

6. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

7. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

8. Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)

9. Chris Dingman Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)

10. The Claudia Quintet +1 Featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

Thomas Conrad

1. Sonny Rollins Road

Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

2. Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri Athens Concert (ECM)

3. Various Artists Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (eOne)

4. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

5. Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)

6. Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner/Felix Saluzzi Navidad de los Andes (ECM)

7. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

8. Keith Jarrett Rio (ECM)

9. Chris Byars Lucky Strikes Again: Chris Byars and His Octet Plays the Music of Lucky Thompson (SteepleChase)

10. Colin Vallon Trio Rruga (ECM)

Owen Cordle

1. The Cookers Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin)

2. Frank Macchia Son of Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony)

3. Tom Harrell The Time of the Sun (HighNote)

4. Lynne Arriale Convergence (Motema)

5. Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin)

6. Mike LeDonne Keep the Faith (Savant)

7. Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis)

8. Nancy Marano Magic (Laughing Face)

9. Dr. Michael White Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 1 (Basin Street)

10. Eric Alexander Don't Follow the Crowd (High Note)

Colin Fleming

1. Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri Athens Concert (ECM)

2. Paul Motian The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)

3. The Cookers Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin)

4. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

5. Matthew Shipp Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)

6. The New Gary Burton Quartet Common Ground (Mack Avenue)

7. Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord)

8. Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland James Farm (Nonesuch)

9. Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant)

10. Mike Garson The Bowie Variations (Reference)

Ken Franckling

1. Kenny Werner Balloons (Half Note)

2. Julian Lage Group Gladwell (Emarcy)

3. Bill O’Connell Rhapsody in Blue (Challenge)

4. Lynne Arriale Convergence (Motéma)

5. The Cookers Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin)

6. Brian Lynch Unsung Heroes (HollisticMusicWorks)

7. Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)

8. Fred Hersch Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)

9. Roberto Magris Quintet Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 1 (JMood)

10. Yellowjackets Timeline (Mack Avenue)

Andrew Gilbert

1. Joan Stiles Three Musicians (Oo-Bla-Dee)

2. Kenny Werner Balloons (Half Note)

3. Fab Trio History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)

4. JD Allen Trio Victory! (Sunnyside)

5. Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein Bienestan (Sunnyside)

6. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

7. Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination Route de Freres (TUM)

8. Tyshawn Sorey Oblique - 1 (Pi)

9. Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra Hothouse Stomp (Accurate)

10. Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Both/And (Meta)

Steve Greenlee

1. Jacques Coursil Trail of Tears (Sunnyside)

2. Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres (Constellation)

3. Matana Roberts Live in London (Central Control)

4. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

5. Jamaaladeen Tacuma For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt)

6. Donny McCaslin Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf)

7. The Four Bags Forth (NCM)

8. The Landrus Kaleidoscope Capsule (BlueLand)

9. JD Allen Trio Victory! (Sunnyside)

10. Cinque Catch a Corner (Alma)

Laurel Gross

1. Sonny Rollins Road

Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

2. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

3. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

4. Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy United Front at Newport (Greenleaf)

5. Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)

6. Enrico Pieranunzi 1685: Enrico Pieranunzi Plays Bach Handel Scarlatti, Works and Improvisations (CAM Jazz)

7. Tom Harrrell The Time of the Sun (High Note)

8. Eric Reed Something Beautiful (WJ3)

9. Russell Malone Triple Play (MaxJazz)

10. JD Allen Trio Victory! (Sunnyside)

Evan Haga

1. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

2. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

3. Charles Lloyd Quartet/Maria Farantouri Athens Concert (ECM)

4. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

5. Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland James Farm (Nonesuch)

6. Pilc Moutin Hoenig Threedom (Motéma)

7. Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center (Reprise/JALC)

8. Ben Allison Action-Refraction (Palmetto)

9. BB&C The Veil (Cryptogramophone)

10. Darius Jones Trio Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity)

Don Heckman

1. Corea, Clarke & White Forever (Concord)

2. Terell Stafford Quintet This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)

3. SFJazz Collective Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions (SFJazz)

4. Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

5. Stefon Harris, David Sánchez & Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

6. Giacomo Gates The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)

7. Gerald Clayton Bond: The Paris Sessions (Emarcy)

8. Anthony Wilson Campo Belo (Goat Hill)

9. 3 Cohens Family (Anzic)

10. Eliane Elias Light My Fire (Concord Picante)

Chris Heim

1. Various Artists Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (eOne)

2. Fred Hersch Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)

3. John Scofield A Moment’s Peace (Emarcy)

4. The New Gary Burton Quartet Common Ground (Mack Avenue)

5. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

6. Vijay Iyer With Prasanna & Nitin Mitta Tirtha (ACT)

7. Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland James Farm (Nonesuch)

8. Burgstaller Martignon 4 Bach’s Secret Files and More Crossover Fantasies (Summit)

9. Karl Seglem Ossicles (Ozella)

10. Jessica Williams Trio Freedom Trane (Origin)

Geoffrey Himes

1. Bill Frisell Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet (Savoy Jazz)

2. Vijay Iyer With Prasanna & Nitin Mitta Tirtha (ACT)

3. Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi (ACT)

4. David Binney Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)

5. Captain Black Big Band Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)

6. Dave Douglas Brass Fantasy Rare Metals (Greenleaf)

7. Pilc Moutin Hoenig Threedom (Motéma)

8. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Race Riot Suite (Kinnara/Royal Potato Family)

9. SFJAZZ Collective Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions—Live in New York · Season 8 (SFJazz)

10. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

Lyn Horton

1. Joe McPhee and Michael Zerang Creole Gardens: A New Orleans Suite (NoBusiness)

2. Matthew Shipp Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)

3. Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic Heart’s Reflections (Cuneiform)

4. William Parker Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller’s Stale Cake (Centering)

5. Daniel Levin Quartet Organic Modernism (Clean Feed)

6. Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone Departure of Reason (Thirsty Ear)

7. Darius Jones Trio Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) (AUM Fidelity)

8. The Rempis Percussion Quartet Montreal Parade (482 Music)

9. Spanish Donkey XYX (Northern Spy)

10. Klang Other Doors (Allos Documents)

Willard Jenkins

1. Randy Weston The Storyteller (Motéma)

2. Terri Lyne Carrington The Mosaic Project (Concord)

3. Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center (Reprise/JALC)

4. Terell Stafford This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)

5. JD Allen Trio Victory! (Sunnyside)

6. Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)

7. David Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole En Español (Motéma)

8. Muhal Richard Abrams SoundDance (Pi)

9. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

10. Jerry Gonzalez Y El Comando de la Clave (Sunnyside)

Mike Joyce

1. David Murray David Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole (Motema)

2. Joe Lovano & US Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

3. The Claudia Quintet, featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

4. Miguel Zenon Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)5. Bill Frisell All We Are Saying (Savoy)

6. Keith Jarrett Rio (ECM)

7. Jeremy Pelt The Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote)

8. Pat Martino Undeniable-Live at Blues Alley (HighNote)

9. Ben Williams State of Art (Concord)

10. René Marie Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma)

Aidan Levy

1. John Zorn Nova Express (Tzadik)

2. Dave King Trucking Company Good Old Light (Sunnyside)

3. Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)

4. Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Del McCoury Band American Legacies (McCoury Music and Preservation Hall)

5. David S. Ware Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)

6. Noah Preminger Before the Rain (Palmetto)

7. Shimrit Shoshan Keep It Movin’ (Shimmya)

8. Fabian Almazan Personalities (Biophilia)

9. Dred Scott Trio Going Nowhere (Dredrum)

10. Madeleine Peyroux Standing on the Rooftop (Decca)

Christopher Loudon

1. René Marie Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma)

2. The Tierney Sutton Band American Road (BFM Jazz)

3. Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord)

4. Karrin Allyson ’Round Midnight (Concord)

5. Mark Winkler Sweet Spot (Café Pacific)

6. Ian Shaw The Abbey Road Sessions (Splash Point)

7. Madeleine Peyroux Standing on the Rooftop (Decca)

8. Sachal Vasandani Hi-Fly (Mack Avenue)

9. Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)

10. René Marie Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motéma)

Bill Meredith

1. Jonathan Kreisberg Shadowless (New For Now)

2. Bryan Beller Wednesday Night Live (Onion Boy)

3. Ari Hoenig Lines of Oppression (Naive)

4. Various Artists Live: The New Universe Music Festival 2010 (Abstract Logix)

5. Mike Keneally Band Bakin’ at the potato! (Exowax)

6. Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord)

7. Lynne Arriale Convergence (Motéma)

8. Kermit Driscoll Reveille (Nineteen-Eight)

9. Human Element Human Element (Abstract Logix)

10. Hiromi Voice (Telarc)

Lee Mergner

1. Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)

2. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

3. Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland James Farm (Nonesuch)

4. Orrin Evans Freedom (Posi-Tone)

5. Keith Jarrett Rio (ECM)

6. René Marie Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motéma)

7. Ben Allison Action-Refraction (Palmetto)

8. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

9. Stefon Harris/David Sánchez /Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

10.Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

Bill Milkowski

1. Various Artists Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (eOne)

2. Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

3. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

4. Joel Harrison String Choir: The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)

5. John Scofield A Moment’s Peace (Emarcy)

6. Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein Bienestan (Sunnyside)

7. Scott Colley Empire (CAM Jazz)

8. Corea, Clarke & White Forever (Concord Jazz)

9. Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi (ACT)

10. Julian Lage Group Gladwell (Emarcy)

John Murph

1. JD Allen Trio Victory! (Sunnyside)

2. Gretchen Parlato The Lost & Found (ObliqSound)

3. Terri Lyne Carrington The Mosaic Project (Concord)

4. The Claudia Quintet+1 Featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

5. Ambrose Akinmusire When The Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

6. Chris Dingman Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)

7. Zara MacFarlane Until Tomorrow (Brownswood)

8. Denys Baptiste Identity By Subtraction (Dune)

9. Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord)

10. David Binney Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)

Britt Robson

1. Captain Black Big Band Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)

2. Trio 3 + Geri Allen Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York) (Intakt)

3. Tom Harrell Time of the Sun (HighNote)

4. James Carter Caribbean Rhapsody (Emarcy)

5. Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found (Obliqsound)

6. Marcus Strickland Triumph of the Heavy, Volume 2 (Strick)

7. Muhal Richard Abrams SoundDance (Pi)

8. Terell Stafford This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)

9. William Parker Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller’s Stale Cake (Centering)

10. Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)

Giovanni Russonello

1. JD Allen Trio Victory! (Sunnyside)

2. Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)

3. Brian Settles & Central Union Secret Handshake (Engine)

4. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

5. Pilc Moutin Hoenig Threedom (Motéma)

6. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

7. Gerald Clayton Bond: The Paris Sessions (Emarcy)

8. Steve Coleman & Five Elements The Mancy of Sound (Pi)

9. Ben Williams State of Art (Concord)

10. Captain Black Big Band Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)

Lloyd Sachs

1. Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

2. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM)

3. JD Allen Victory! (Sunnyside)

4. Giovanni Guidi We Don't Live Here Anymore (CAM Jazz)

5. Kris Davis Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)

6. Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi (ACT)

7. Harrison Bankhead Sextet Morning Sun Harvest Moon (Engine)

8. Aki Takase and Han Bennink Two for Two (Intakt)

9. Gretchen Parlato The Lost and Found (Obliqsound)

10. Peter Evans Quintet Ghosts (More Is More)

Mike Shanley

1. Starlicker Double Demon (Delmark)

2. Endangered Blood Endangered Blood (Skirl)

3. Vijay Iyer with Prasanna & Nitin Mitta Tirtha (Pi)

4. The New Gary Burton Quartet Common Ground (Mack Avenue)

5. Tim Berne Insomnia (Clean Feed)

6. Dave Douglas Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 2: Orange Afternoons (Greenleaf)

7. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

8. Jason Stein Quartet The Story This Time (Delmark)

9. Stephan Crump/Steve Lehman Kaleidescope and Collage (Intakt)

10. Erik Friedlander Bonebridge (Skipstone)

Jeff Tamarkin

1. René Marie Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma)

2. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

3. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

4. Tim Hagans The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)

5. Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland James Farm (Nonesuch)

6. Pat Martino Quartet Undeniable (HighNote)

7. Julian Lage Group Gladwell (Emarcy)

8. Honey Ear Trio Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)

9. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM)

10. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

Perry Tannenbaum

1. Charles Lloyd/Maria Farantouri Athens Concert (ECM)

2. Orchestre National de Jazz Shut Up and Dance (Bee Jazz)

3. Ehud Asherie Organic (Posi-Tone)

4. Marcin Wasilewski Trio Faithful (ECM)

5. Francesco Cafiso Moody’n (Verve)

6. Mathias Eick Skala (ECM)

7. Alex Brown Paquito Rivera Presents Alex Brown Pianist (Paquito)

8. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

9. Mace Hibbard Time Gone By (Mace Hibbard)

10. Mike Cottone Just Remember (Cottone)

George Varga

1. Keith Jarrett Rio (ECM)

2. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

3. Kenny Werner Balloons (Half Note)

4. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian Live at Birdland (ECM)

5. Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser Synastry (Pi)

6. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

7. The Jeff Gauthier Goatette Open Source (Cryptogramophone)

8. The New Gary Burton Quartet Common Ground (Mack Avenue)

9. The Claudia Quintet, featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

10. Joshua Redman/Aaron Parks/Matt Penman/Eric Harland James Farm (Nonesuch)

Michael J. West

1. Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres (Constellation)

2. Steve Coleman and Five Elements The Mancy of Sound (Pi)

3. Toots Thielemans European Concert Live (Challenge)

4. Miguel Zenón Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)

5. Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi (ACT)

6. Matthew Shipp Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)

7. Eric Reed Something Beautiful (WJ3)

8. The Cookers Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin)

9. Brian Settles/Central Union Secret Handshake (Engine)

10. Stefon Harris/David Sánchez /Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

Carlo Wolff

1. Vince Mendoza Nights on Earth (Horizontal)

2. Diego Barber The Choice (Sunnyside)

3. Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination Route de Freres (TUM)

4. Omer Klein Rockets on the Balcony (Tzadik)

5. Tommy Smith Karma (Spartacus)

6. Denny Zeitlin Labyrinth/Live Solo Piano (Sunnyside)

7. Gilad Hekselman Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)

8. Larry Goldings In My Room (BFM)

9. James Carter Caribbean Rhapsody (Emarcy)

10. Dominick Farinacci Dawn of Goodbye (eOne)

Josef Woodard

1. Ambrose Akinmusire When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

2. Muhal Richard Abrams SoundDance (Pi)

3. John Scofield A Moment’s Peace (Emarcy)

4. Joe Lovano Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

5. The New Gary Burton Quartet Common Ground (Concord)

6. The Claudia Quintet +1 Featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

7. Craig Taborn Avenging Angel (ECM)

8. Karrin Allyson ’Round Midnight (Concord)

9. Keith Jarrett Rio (ECM)

10. Stefon Harris/David Sánchez /Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

Ron Wynn

1. Sonny Rollins Road Songs, Vol. 2 (Emarcy)

2. Joe Lovano and Us Five Bird Songs (Blue Note)

3. David Sánchez/Stefon Harris/Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

4. Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord)

5. Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)

6. David Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole En Español (Motema Music)

7. Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)

8. Branford Marsalis/Joey Calderazzo Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)

9. Jeff Golub Three Kings (eOne Music)

10. Terri Lyne Carrington The Mosaic Project (Concord)