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Top Ten: December 2015
Bathysphere (Driff) Scott DuBois, Winter Light (ACT) David Gilmore, Energies of Change (Evolutionary) Aaron Irwin Quartet, A Room Forever (ind.) Kneebody + Daedelus, Kneedelus (Brainfeeder) Adam Larson, Selective Amnesia (Inner Circle) Dave Liebman Group, The Puzzle (Whaling City) Peter Paulsen Trio, A Few Thoughts (SquarePegWorks) Jonathan Powell & Nu Sangha, Beacons of Light (Truth Revolution) Manuel Valera & Groove Square,
Top Ten: November 2015
ACT, II (ind.) Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Stretch Music (Ropeadope) Robin Eubanks Mass Line Big Band, More Than Meets the Ear (ArtistShare) Michael Janisch, Paradigm Shift (Whirlwind) Jon-Erik Kellso and The EarRegulars, In the Land of Beginning Again (Jazzology) Russ Lossing, Eclipse (Aqua Piazza) Lionel Loueke, Gaïa (Blue Note) Matt Mitchell, Vista Accumulation (Pi) Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.’s Numinous, Changing
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