1.
Henry Threadgill
Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
2.
Wadada Leo Smith
America’s National Parks
3.
Jack DeJohnette / Matt Garrison / Ravi Coltrane
In Movement
4.
Mary Halvorson Octet
Away With You
5.
Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus
The Distance
6.
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
8.
Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family
Beginning of a Memory
9.
Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra
Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings)
10.
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
Sélébéyone
11.
Darcy James Argue Secret Society
Real Enemies
12.
Charles Lloyd & the Marvels
I Long to See You
13.
JD Allen
Americana: Musings on Jazz & Blues
14.
David Murray / Geri Allen / Terri Lyne Carrington
Perfection
15.
Jane Ira Bloom
Early Americans
16.
Tyshawn Sorey
The Inner Spectrum of Variables
17.
Greg Ward
Touch My Beloved's Thought
19.
Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The Declaration of Musical Independence
20.
Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian
Moving Still
22.
Sonny Rollins
Holding the Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4
23.
John Scofield
Country for Old Men
24.
Aruán Ortiz Trio
Hidden Voices
25.
Tom Harrell
Something Gold, Something Blue
26.
Fred Hersch Trio
Sunday Night at the Vanguard
27.
Barry Guy
The Blue Shroud
28.
Jason Moran
The Armory Concert
29.
Mark Dresser Seven
Sedimental You
30.
George Coleman
A Master Speaks
31.
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence
Work Songs
32.
Donny McCaslin
Beyond Now
34.
Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau
Nearness
35.
Frank Kimbrough
Solstice
36.
David Bowie
Blackstar
37.
Melissa Aldana
Back Home
38.
Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow
Andando el Tiempo
39.
The Cookers
The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart
40.
Bill Charlap Trio
Notes from New York
41.
Brad Mehldau Trio
Blues and Ballads
42.
Jeff Parker
The New Breed
43.
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Rising Grace
44.
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
Otis Was a Polar Bear
45.
Anthony Braxton
3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011
46.
Logan Richardson
Shift
47.
Esperanza Spalding
Emily’s D + Evolution
48.
Avishai Cohen
Into the Silence
49.
Taylor Ho Bynum
Enter the PlusTet
50.
Gregory Porter
Take Me to the Alley
