Here are my ten favorite new albums of 2024. A full write-up on each of these, as well as my selections for numbers 11 through 35  can be found at PostGenre. Also on that site, you can find interviews from the past year with several of the artists on my list. 

NEW RELEASES

1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
2. Mulatu Astatke and Hoodna Orchestra, Tension (Batov) 
3. Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside)
4. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
5. Colin Stetson, The love it took to leave you (Envision)
6. Patricia Brennan, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
7. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
8. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
10. Sun Ra Arkestra, Lights on a Satellite (In + Out)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas (1984 & 1988) (Resonance)
2. Wayne Shorter, Celebration Vol. 1 (Blue Note)
3. Alice Coltrane, Live at Carnegie Hall (Impulse!) 
4. Joe Henderson & McCoy Tyner, Forces of Nature: Live at Slug's 1966 (Blue Note)
5. The Malombo Jazz Men, Castle Lager Jazz Festival, 1964 (Strut)

VOCAL

1. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) 
2. John Zorn & Jesse Harris, Love Songs Live (Tzadik)
3. Milton Nascimento & esparanza spalding, Milton + esperanza (Concord)

DEBUT

1. Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies)
2. Willy Rodriguez, Seeing Sounds (Coucs)
3. Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head)

LATIN

1. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
2. Patricia Brennan, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
3. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)