• Dee Alexander – “Wild Is the Wind” (Blujazz)
• Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – “Infernal Machines” (New Amsterdam)
• David Binney – “Third Occasion” (Mythology)
• Luis Bonilla – “I Talking Now!” (Planet Arts)
• Alex Cline – “Continuation” (Cryptogramophone)
• Marc Copland – “Night Whispers: New York Trio Recordings, Vol. 3″ (Pirouet)
• DeJohnette/Patitucci/Perez – “Music We Are” (Golden Beams)
• Oran Etkin – “Kelenia” (Motema)
• Fly – “Sky and Country” (ECM)
• The Fully Celebrated – “Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones” (AUM Fidelity)
• John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble – “Eternal Interlude” (Sunnyside)
• Vijay Iyer – “Historicity” (ACT)
• Arthur Kell Quartet – “Victoria: Live in Germany” (BJU)
• Steve Lehman Octet – “Travail, Transformation & Flow” (Pi)
• Joe Lovano Us Five – “Folk Art” (Blue Note)
• Medeski Martin & Wood – “Radiolarians 3″ (Indirecto)
• John Scofield – “Piety Street” (Emarcy)
• SFJAZZ Collective – “Live 2009: Sixth Annual Concert Tour” (SFJAZZ)
• Allen Toussaint – “The Bright Mississippi” (Nonesuch)
• Mark Weinstein & Omar Sosa – “Tales from the Earth” (Otá)

…and 20 more discs I greatly enjoyed over the past year…

• Rashied Ali Quintet – “Live in Europe” (Survival)
• Vinnie Cutro & NYC Soundscape – “Sakura” (Royal Music)
• Mélanie Dahan – “La Princesse et les Croque-Notes” (Sunnyside)
• Harris Eisenstadt – “Canada Day” (Clean Feed)
• Fat Cat Big Band – “Meditations on the War…” (Smalls)
• Firecracker Jazz Band – “Red Hot Band” (Euphonian)
• Gaucho – “Deep Night” (self-released)
• Dave Holland / Monterey Quartet – “Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival” (MJF)
• Rocco John Group – “Devotion” (COCA)
• Irvin Mayfield & New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – “Book One” (World Village)
• Nice Guy Trio – “Here Comes the Nice Guy Trio” (Porto Franco)
• Gretchen Parlato – “In a Dream” (Obliqsound)
• Alvin Queen – “Mighty Long Way” (Justin Time)
• Joshua Redman – “Compass” (Nonesuch)
• Arturo Stable Quintet – “Call” (Origen)
• John Surman – “Brewster’s Rooster” (ECM)
• Jeremy Udden – “Plainville” (Fresh Sound New Talent)
• Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – “Bien Bien!” (Patois)
• Jeff “Tain” Watts – “Watts” (Dark Key)
• Miguel Zenón – “Esta Plena” (Marsalis Music)