Matt Wilson Quartet: Rear Control from That’s Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
Mike Nock Project: Jazz Elective #2 from Meeting of the Waters (Jazzhead)
BFG (Bex/Ferris/Goubert): Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child from Here and Now! (Naive)
Five in Orbit: 45 degree Angle from Freaks (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Henry Threadgill Zooid: Extremely Sweet William from This Brings Us To – Vol II (Pi)
Stephan Crump with Rosetta Trio: Toward Fall from Reclamation (Sunnyside)
Jason Robinson: The Two Faces of Janus from The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform)
The Will Collier Septet: Full Stop from Everybody Loves (F-IRE)
Dave Milligan Trio: Duncan’s from Shops (An Tobar)
White Rocket: Lonely Toad from White Rocket (Diatribe)
Five in Orbit: K from Freaks (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Bill Frisell: Pipe Down from East / West (Nonesuch)
Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore: Man or Ray from Three Kinds of Happiness (Not Two)
Bruno Raberg: Chosen Path from Lifelines (Orbis Music)
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: Phobos from Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)