My List of Best of Jazz that I have heard in 2019 (In no rated order)
Bob Sheppard: "The Fine Line" (Challenge Records)
Mike Holober & The Gotham Big Band: "Hiding Out" (ZoHo Records)
Randy Brecker & the NDR Big Band: "Rocks" (Jazz Line Edition)
Scott Robinson: "Tenormore" (Arbor Records)
Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan: "Epistophy" (ECM)
Branford Marsalis Quartet: "The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul" (Okeh/Sony Masterworks)
Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain, Chris Potter (Crosscurrent Trio): "Good Hope" (Edition Records)
Ethan Iverson Quartet & Tom Harrell: "Common Practice" (ECM)
Ahmad Jamal: "Ballades" (Jazz Village/Jazzbook Records)
Amina Figarova: "Road to the Sun" (BA Records)
Miguel Zenon: Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera” (Miel Music)
George Garzone, Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua, Darek Oles: "3 Nights in LA" (Fuzzy Music)
Linda May Han Oh: “Aventurine” (Biophilia Records)
Ben Monder: “Day After Day” (Sunnyside Records)
Denny Zeitlin: “Remembering Miles” (Sunnyside Records)
Sarah Gazarek : Thirsty Ghost” ( Self-Produced)
Pat Bianchi: “In the Moment” (Savant Records)
Mark Wingfield & Gary Husband: “Tor & Vale” (Moon June Records)
Dave Bass: “No Boundaries” (Whaling City Sound)
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: “The Hope I Hold” (Greenleaf Music)
Jim Robitaille Group: “A View from Within” (Whaling City Sound)
Amendola Vs Blades: “Everybody Wins” (Royal Potato Family)
Typical Sisters: “Hungry Ghost” (Outside Music)
Alicia Olatuja: “Intuition Songs from The Minds of Women” (Resilience Music)
Peter Hand Big Band: ”Hand Painted Dream” (Savant Records)
Hendrik Meurkens: “Cobb’s Pocket” (In+Out Records)
Lynne Arriale Trio: “Give Us These Days” ( Challenge Records)
Marc Copland: ”And I Love Her” (Illussions/Mirage)
Herlin Riley: “Personal Optimism” (Mack Avenue Records)
Mark Winkler: “I’m With You: Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troupe” (Café Pacific Records)
Roberto Magris Sextet featuring Ira Sullivan: “Sun Stone” (JMood Records)
Yotam Silverstein: Future Memories” (Jazz & People Records)
Mark Turner: Mark Turner meets Gary Foster” (ECM)
Laura Antonioli: ‘The Constant Passage of Time” (Origins Music)
Dave Wilson Quartet: “One Night at Chris’” (Dave Wilson Music)
Michael Dease: “Never More Here” (Positone Records)
Robben Ford & Bill Evans: “The Sun Room” (EAR Music)
Roger Kellaway: The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway” (IPO Records)
Best Debut Album:
Teymur Phell: “Master Volume” (Self-produced)
Best Historical Albums:
Eric Dolphy: Musical Prophet” (Resonance)
Louis Armstrong “Live in Europe” (DotTime Records)
Johnny Griffin/Eddie Lockjaw Davis: “Ow! Live at the Penthouse” (Reel to Reel)
Bill Evans: “Evans in England” (Resonance)