| Month
|
Day
|
Album
|
Artist
|
Label
|
Notes
|
Ref.
|
| January
|
6
|
Alive at the Village Vanguard
|
Fred Hersch and Esperanza Spalding
|
Palmetto Records
|
Live album
|
[27]
|
| 27
|
Portrait Of A Dog
|
Jonah Yano
|
Innovative Leisure
|
|
[28]
|
| Letters to George
|
George[note 1]
|
Out of Your Head
|
|
[29]
|
| Where You Wish You Were
|
Bill Laurance and Michael League
|
ACT
|
|
[30]
|
| Phoenix
|
Lakecia Benjamin
|
Whirlwind Recordings
|
|
[31]
|
| February
|
3
|
Dance Kobina
|
Joe Chambers
|
Blue Note Records
|
|
[32]
|
| Carmen Rhapsody
|
Aki Takase
|
BMC
|
|
[33]
|
| 17
|
Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre
|
Total Refreshment Centre
|
Blue Note Records
|
|
[34][35]
|
| Guilty Pleasures
|
Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, Nate Smith
|
Edition Records
|
EP
|
[36]
|
| Zurich Concert
|
Joëlle Léandre
|
Intakt Records
|
Live album
|
[33]
|
| By The Way
|
Theo Croker, Ego Ella May, D'LEAU
|
Sony Masterworks
|
EP
|
[37]
|
| 24
|
Travel
|
The Necks
|
Northern Spy Records
|
|
[38]
|
| Prime
|
Christian McBride's New Jawn
|
Mack Avenue
|
|
[39]
|
| March
|
3
|
London Brew
|
London Brew
|
Concord Jazz
|
|
[40]
|
| Therapy
|
Brendan Eder Ensemble
|
No label
|
|
[41][42]
|
| 10
|
Moving On Skiffle
|
Van Morrison
|
Virgin Music
|
|
[43]
|
| Jasmine on a Night in July
|
Scree
|
Ruination
|
|
[44]
|
| 17
|
The Layers
|
Julian Lage
|
Blue Note Records
|
EP
|
[45]
|
| 24
|
Requiem For Jazz
|
Angel Bat Dawid
|
International Anthem Recording Company
|
|
[46]
|
| Mélusine
|
Cécile McLorin Salvant
|
Nonesuch Records
|
|
[47]
|
| 31
|
Lightning Dreamers
|
Rob Mazurek and the Exploding Star Orchestra
|
International Anthem Recording Company
|
|
[48]
|
| Fire Illuminations
|
Wadada Leo Smith
|
Kabell Records
|
|
[49]
|
| April
|
7
|
return to casual
|
Walter Smith III
|
Blue Note Records
|
|
[50]
|
| KAL (Real World)
|
Sarathy Korwar
|
The Leaf Label
|
|
[51]
|
| 14
|
Echoes
|
The Fire! Orchestra
|
Rune Grammofon
|
|
[52]
|
| Variables
|
Alfa Mist
|
Anti- Records
|
|
[53]
|
| Everything Is Going To Be Okay
|
GoGo Penguin
|
XXIM Records
|
|
[54]
|
| Enigmatic Society
|
Dinner Party[note 2]
|
Sounds of Crenshaw, Empire Records
|
|
[55]
|
| Brand New Life
|
Brandee Younger
|
Impulse! Records
|
|
[56]
|
| 21
|
All One
|
Ben Wendel
|
Edition Records
|
|
[57]
|
| Loyal Returns
|
David Cook
|
Sunnyside Records
|
|
[57]
|
| Stage & Screen
|
John Pizzarelli
|
Palmetto Records
|
|
[50]
|
| 28
|
Always on my Mind
|
Rebekka Bakken
|
Sony Music
|
|
[58]
|
| Pieces of Treasure
|
Rickie Lee Jones
|
BMG
|
|
[59]
|
| Savoy
|
Taj Mahal
|
Stony Plain Records
|
|
[60]
|
| May
|
7
|
In Real Time
|
ARTEMIS
|
Blue Note Records
|
|
[61]
|
| 12
|
Routes
|
Samuel Blaser
|
Enja Records/Yellowbird Records
|
|
[62]
|
| In Search Of A Better Tomorrow
|
Eabs Meets Jaubi
|
Astigmatic Records
|
|
[63]
|
| 16
|
Oedipe Redux
|
Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri
|
Sunnyside Records
|
|
[64]
|
| 19
|
Lean In
|
Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke
|
Edition Records
|
|
[50]
|
| 26
|
Animals
|
Kassa Overall
|
Warp Records
|
|
[65][66]
|
| The New Standard (Reissue)
|
Herbie Hancock
|
|
|
|
| Dance of the Mystic Bliss
|
Michael Blake and Chroma Nova
|
P&M
|
|
[67][50]
|
| The Sport Of Love
|
Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve
|
PAN Records
|
|
[68][69]
|
| June
|
2
|
Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?!
|
McKinley Dixon
|
City Slang
|
Jazz-rap
|
[70]
|
| 9
|
When the Poems Do What They Do
|
Aja Monet
|
Drink Sum Wtr
|
|
[71][72]
|
| Rituals + Routines
|
Marquis Hill
|
Edition Records
|
|
[73]
|
| 16
|
The Omnichord Real Book
|
Meshell Ndegeocello
|
Blue Note Records
|
|
[74][75]
|
| Dream Box
|
Pat Metheny
|
Modern Recordings
|
|
[76]
|
| Dolphin
|
Greg Foat / Gigi Masin
|
Strut Records
|
|
[77]
|
| A Time to Remember
|
Elina Duni
|
ECM Records
|
|
[78]
|
| I Want More
|
Donny McCaslin
|
Edition Records
|
|
[79]
|
| 23
|
Sun Arcs
|
Blue Lake
|
Tonal Union
|
|
[80]
|
| 30
|
Blowout
|
John Carroll Kirby
|
Stones Throw Records
|
|
[81]
|
| July
|
14
|
Connection
|
Ceramic Dog, Marc Ribot
|
Knockwurst Records
|
|
[82]
|
| 28
|
Joni Mitchell At Newport
|
Joni Mitchell
|
Rhino Records
|
|
[83]
|
| August
|
25
|
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die
|
Jaimie Branch[note 3]
|
International Anthem Recording Company
|
|
[84][85][86]
|
| September
|
1
|
Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard
|
Kris Davis
|
Pyroclastic Records
|
|
[87]
|
| 7
|
Talàn
|
Raphael Rogiński
|
Instant Classic
|
|
[88]
|
| 8
|
Come with Fierce Grace
|
Alabaster DePlume
|
International Anthem Recording Company
|
|
[89][90]
|
| Black Classical Music
|
Yussef Dayes
|
Brownswood Recordings / Nonesuch Records
|
|
[91]
|
| For Mahalia With Love
|
James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet
|
Tao Forms
|
|
[92]
|
| 15
|
Ex Machina
|
Steve Lehman and Orchestre National De Jazz
|
ONJ Records
|
|
[93]
|
| Where Are We
|
Joshua Redman
|
Blue Note Records
|
|
[94]
|
| The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp
|
Matthew Shipp
|
Mahakala
|
|
[87]
|
| 22
|
Afro Futuristic Dreams
|
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
|
Strut Records
|
|
[95]
|
| 29
|
Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden
|
Matana Roberts
|
Constellation Records
|
|
[96]
|
| FluXkit Vancouver (its suite but sacred)
|
Darius Jones
|
Saltern/Universal
|
|
[87]
|
| October
|
6
|
Next Door
|
Leo Takami
|
Unseen Worlds
|
|
[97]
|
| 20
|
Shimmer Wince
|
Anna Webber
|
Intakt
|
|
[87]
|
| Vol. 1
|
Chris Botti
|
Blue Note Records, UMG
|
|
[98]
|
| November
|
17
|
New Blue Sun
|
André 3000
|
Epic Records, Sony Music
|
|
[99]
|
| The Near North Side
|
Calvin Keys & Terrace Martin
|
Sounds of Crenshaw, BMG
|
|
[100]
|