Best Debut album

East Axis: Cool with That (ESP Disk)

Reissues or Historical albums

Billy Bang: Lucky Man (BBE Records)

Eberhard Weber: Once Upon a Time - Live in Avignon (ECM)

Roberto Miranda: Live at the Bing Theater; Los Angeles, 1985 (Dark Tree Records)

Hasaan Ibn Ali: Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (Omnivore Recordings)

Best New Releases

Ches Smith/We All Break: Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic Records)

Allen Lowe: A Love Supine: Ascension into the Maelstrom (ESP Disk)

Ill Considered: Liminal Space (New Soil)

Matthew Shipp: Codebreaker (Tao Forms)

Johan Lindström Septett: On the Asylum (Moserobie)

Marc Johnson: Overpass (ECM)

Jeff Pearring/Pearring Sound: Socially Distanced Duos (Self-Produced)

Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet (TUM)

PLS.trio: Cosmonauts (Dot Time Records)

MMBC Terma: MMBC Terma (Self-Produced)

Becca Stevens / Elan Mehler: Pallet On Your Floor (Newvelle Records)

Satoko Fujii: Piano Music (Libra)

Fred Lonberg-Holm, Abdul Moimême & Carlos Santos: Transition Zone (Self-Produced)

Adam Berenson, Scott Barnum & Bob Moses: Assemblages (Dream Play Records)

Nik Bärtsch: Entendre (ECM Records)