The Best of 2016 (A Baker's Dozen)

1. Henry Threadgill - Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
   
2. Andrew Cyrille Quartet - The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM Records)
   
3. Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Sélébéyone (Pi Recordings)
   
4. Giovanni Guidi - Ida Lupino (ECM Records)
   
5. Rudy Royston - Rise of Orion (Greenleaf)
   
6. Greg Ward - Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf)
   
7. Susana Santos Silva - Life and Other Transient Storms (Clean Feed)
   
8. Festen - Festen (Clean Feed)
9. Jane Ira Bloom - Early Americans (Outline)
10. Jessica Pavone - Silent Spills (Relative Pitch Records)
11. Catherine Sikora- Jersey (Relative Pitch Records)
12. Satoko Fujii - Peace (Libra)
13. Ingrid Laubrock - Serpentines (Intakt)