Best Jazz Releases of 2016

1.       Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain V (Pleasure Of Text Records)
2.       Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord, 2016: EPs (Hot Cup Records)
3.       Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM Records)
4.       Raphael Malfliet, Noumenon (Ruweh Records)
5.       Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone, Sélébéyone (Pi Recordings)
6.       The Core Trio Live, featuring Matthew Shipp, Self-Titled (Evil Rabbit Records)
7.       Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM Records)
8.       Bob Gluck/Billy Hart/Eddie Henderson/Christopher Dean Sullivan, Infinite Spirit - Revisiting Music of the Mwandishi Band (FMR Records)
9.       Jack DeJohnette, Return (Newvelle Records)
10.   Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the Plus Tet (Firehouse 12 Records)

DEBUT ALBUM

Raphael Malfliet, Noumenon (Ruweh Records)

REISSUES or HISTORICAL ALBUMS

1.       Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM Records)
2.       Cecil Taylor, Live In The Black Forest (Edel Germany Gmbh)
3.       Peter Erskine Trio: John Taylor/Palle Danielsson, As it Was (ECM Records)

VOCAL ALBUM

Rob Mazurek/Emmett Kelly, Alien Flower Sutra (International Anthem Recording Company)

LATIN JAZZ ALBUM

Aruan Ortiz Trio with Eric Revis and Gerald Cleaver, Hidden Voices (Intakt Records)