artist: “track” – album (label)
Milt Hinton: “Cantus Firmus” – East Coast Jazz/5 (Bethlehem Archives)
Dave Holland Quartet: “Nemesis” – Extensions (ECM)
Mark Helias’ Open Loose: “Hegemony” – Verbs of Will (Radio Legs)
Dierdre Murray/Fred Hopkins: “Jolly Ollie” – Firestorm (Victo)
Never Enough Hope: “Des Moines” – The Gift Economy (Contraphonic)
Pachora: “Snap” – Astereotypical (Winter & Winter)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: “Salvatore” – Saxhouse (Knitting Factory Works)
Jaki Byard: “Out Front” – Out Front (Prestige)
Ari Brown: “Evod” – Live at the Green Mill (Delmark)
Art Blakey: “Little Man” – New Year’s Eve at Sweet Basil (Evidence)
The Vandermark Five: “Any Given Number (for Bernd and Hilla Becher)” – Beat Reader (Atavistic)
Rob Brown Ensemble: “Exuberance” – Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUMFidelity)
William Parker Quartet w/Leena Conquest: “James Baldwin to the Rescue” – Raining on the Moon (Thirsty Ear)
The Engines: “Rewind” – The Engines (Okkadisk)
Sarah Cahill (piano)/George Lewis (composer): “Endless Shout (iv): Doing the Hicty-Dicty” – Endless Shout (Tzadik)
Albert Ammons: “Bass Goin’ Crazy” – The First Day (Blue Note)
Roy Campbell Ensemble: “Sunset on the Nile” – Akhenaten Suite (AUMFidelity)
Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” – Serious Fun (DIW/Disk Union)
Joe McPhee: “Nation Time” – Nation Time (Unheard Music)