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Top Ten: October 2015
Michael Cain, Sola (Native Drum) Benoît Delbecq 3, Ink (Clean Feed) Miho Hazama, Time River (Sunnyside) Gilad Hekselman, Homes (Jazz Village) Christian McBride Trio, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue) Nicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music) Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup) Noah Preminger, Pivot: Live at the 55 Bar (ind.) Kenneth Salters Haven,
Top Ten: September 2015
Colours Jazz Orchestra, Plays the Music of Ayn Inserto: Home Away From Home (Neuklang) Liberty Ellman, Radiate (Pi) Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto) Jon Irabagon feat. Tom Harrell, Behind the Sky (Irabbagast) Darius Jones Quartet, Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) (Aum Fidelity) Ku-umba Frank Lacy & Mingus Big Band, Mingus Sings (Sunnyside) William Parker, For Those Who Are, Still
Top Ten: August 2015
Aaron Diehl, Space Time Continuum (Mack Avenue) Amir ElSaffar, Crisis (Pi) Wayne Horvitz, Some Places are Forever Afternoon: 11 Places for Richard Hugo (Songlines) Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House, Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt) James Brandon Lewis, Days of Freeman (OKeh) Jeremy Siskind, Housewarming (BJU) Lucas Pino, No Net Nonet (Origin) Troy Roberts, Secret Rhymes (Inner Circle) Marta Sánchez Quintet, Partenika (Fresh
Top Ten: July 2015
Chris Dingman, The Subliminal and the Sublime (Inner Arts) Double-Basse, This Is Not Art (Clean Feed) Dave Douglas, High Risk (Greenleaf) Robert Glasper, Covered (Blue Note) Devin Gray, RelativE ResonancE (Skirl) Brian Landrus, The Deep Below (Palmetto) Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble, Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland (Planet Arts) Henry Threadgill & Zooid, In for a Penny, In for a
Top Ten: June 2015
JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant) The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (Nonesuch) David Berkman, Old Friends and New Friends (Palmetto) Andrew Bishop, De Profundis (Envoi) Hayden Chisholm, Breve (Pirouet) Kris Davis Infrasound, Save Your Breath (Clean Feed) Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, Family First (Beat Music) Makaya McCraven, In the Moment (International Anthem) Billy Mintz, The 2 Bass Band… Live (Thirteenth Note) Maria
Top Ten: May 2015
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, You’ve Been Watching Me (ECM) Anat Cohen, Luminosa (Anzic) Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance, Synovial Joints (Pi) Erik Friedlander, Illuminations: A Suite for Solo Cello (Skipstone) Pedro Giraudo Big Band, Cuentos (Zoho) Ghost Train Orchestra, Hot Town (Accurate) Marty Grosz Meets the Fat Babies, Diga Diga Doo: Hot Music from Chicago (Delmark) Ross Hammond, Flight
Top Ten: April 2015
Jovan Alexandre, Collective Consciousness (Xippi) Stephan Crump & Mary Halvorson (Secret Keeper), Emerge (Intakt) Harris Eisenstadt, Golden State II (Songlines) James Falzone’s Renga Ensemble, The Room Is (Allos) Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas, Sound Prints (Blue Note) Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja) PRISM Quartet, Heritage/Evolution (Innova) Reggie Quinerly, Invictus (Redefinition) Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color: Live at
Top Ten: March 2015
Aidan Carroll, Original Vision (Truth Revolution/Lyte) Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM) Duchess (Anzic) Jozef Dumoulin & The Red Hill Orchestra, Trust (Yolk) Fresh Cut Orchestra, From the Vine (ind.) Marshall Gilkes & WDR Big Band, Köln (Alternate Side) Albert “Tootie” Heath/Ethan Iverson/Ben Street, Philadelphia Beat (Sunnyside) Julian Lage, World’s Fair (Modern Lore) Alex Norris Organ Quartet, Extension Deadline (BJU)