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- Geri Allen – Flying Toward Sound (Motema)
- The Bad Plus – Never Stop (E1)
- Matt Bauder – Day in Pictures (Clean Feed)
- The Claudia Quintet – Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
- The Nels Cline Singers – Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
- Marilyn Crispell/David Rothenberg – One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM)
- Dave Holland Octet – Pathways (Dare2)
- Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth – Deluxe (Clean Feed)
- Rudresh Mahanthappa/Bunky Green – Apex (Pi)
- Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory – Far Side (ECM)
- Jason Moran – Ten (Blue Note)
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outre (Preservation Hall Recordings)
- Trygve Seim/Andreas Utnem – Purcor – Songs For Saxophone and Piano (ECM)
- Matthew Shipp – 4D (Thirsty Ear)
- Alex Sipiagin – Generations: Dedicated to Woody Shaw (Criss Cross)
- Dr. Lonnie Smith – Spiral (Palmetto)
- Trombone Shorty – Backatown (Verve)
- David S. Ware – Saturnian: Solo Saxophones, Vol. 1 (AUM Fidelity)
- Kenny Werner (with Joe Lovano and Judi Silvano) – No Beginning No End (Half Note)
- John Zorn – Interzone (Tzadik)
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