Best Jazz Albums 2015 by The Big City

10 Best New Releases

1. Chris Lightcap’s Big­mouth, Epi­cen­ter
2. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret
3. Rudresh Mahan­thappa, Bird Calls
4. Mary Halvor­son, Melt­frame
5. Noah Pre­minger, Live at the 55 Bar
6. William Parker/Raining on the Moon, Great Spirit
7. Stephen Haynes, Pome­gran­ate
8. Mike Reed’s Peo­ple Places & Things, A New Kind of Dance
9. Aarhus Jazz Orches­tra, fea­tur­ing David Lieb­man and Mar­i­lyn Mazur, Lars Møller’s ReWrite of Spring
10. Erik Fried­lan­der, Osca­lypso

The 11s:

• Dar­ius Jones Quar­tet, Le bébé de Brigitte
• Nicole Mitchell/Tomeka Reid/Mike Reed, Arti­facts
• Lib­erty Ell­man, Radi­ate
• Avisha Cohen Trio, From Dark­ness
• Jason Roe­bke, Every Sun­day
• Chicago Reed Quar­tet, West­ern Automatic
• Pas­cal Niggenkem­per, ‘‘look with thine ears’
• Mario Pavone/Matt Mitchell/Tyshawn Sorey, Blue Dialect
• Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago
• Cristina Pato, Latino
• Joey Calderozzo Trio, Going Home
• Power Trio, Di Lon­tan
• John Hébert, Ram­bling Confessions
• PRISM Quar­tet, Heritage/Evolution Vol­ume 1
• Eve Risser, des pas sur la neige
• Rem­pis Per­cus­sion Quar­tet, Cash and Carry
• Ran Blake/Sara Serpa, Kitano Noir
• Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, You’ve Been Watch­ing Me
• Wooley/Rempis/Niggenkemper/Corsano, From Wolves to Whales
• Zs, Xe
• Dre Hoce­var Trio, Cod­ing of Eventuality
• Food, This is not a miracle
• Hyper­color, Hyper­color
• Nate Woo­ley Quin­tet, (Dance to) The Early Music
• J.D. Allen, Graf­fiti
• Frank Carl­berg, big enig­mas
• Ross Ham­mond, Flight
• Steve Cole­man and the Coun­cil of Bal­ance, Syn­ovial Joints
• Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quar­tet, Intents and Purposes
• Marta Sánchez Quin­tet, partenika
• Bjørn Solli, Aglow: The Lyn­gøe Project, Vol­ume 1
• Andrew Bishop, De Pro­fundis

Honorable Mention:

• James Bran­don Lewis, Days of FreeMan
• Jean-Michel Pic, What is this Thing Called?
• Chris Pot­ter Under­ground, Imag­i­nary Cities
• Matt Mitchell, Vista Accu­mu­la­tion
• Enrico Rava Quar­tet, Wild Man Dance
• Jon Irabagon, Behind the Sky
• Mike Osborne, Dawn
• Sal Mosca, The Talk of the Town
• Amir El-Saffar, Cri­sis
• Kenny Wheeler, Songs for Quintet
• Makaya McCraven, In the Moment
• Chris­t­ian Howes, Amer­i­can Spirit
• Chris Ding­man, The Sub­lim­i­nal and the Sublime
• Robert Sabin, Human­ity Part II
• Sax­o­phone Quar­tet Dicke Luft, Car­il­lon
• Fresh Cut Orches­tra, From the Vine
• Louis Bel­go­nis, Blue Bud­dha
• Ozo, A Kind of Zo
• Brian Lan­drus Trio, The Deep Below
• Frantz Loriot/Manuel Per­ovic Note­book Large Ensem­ble, Urban Fur­row
• Vijay Iyer Trio, Break Stuff
• Ochion Jew­ell Quar­tet, Volk
• Sha­reef Clay­ton, North & South
• Andrew Drury, Con­tent Provider
• Jeff Den­son Trio + Lee Konitz, Jeff Den­son Trio + Lee Konitz
• Mike Sopko, Bill Laswell, Thomas Prid­gen, Sopko Laswell Pridgin

Top Three Reissues or Historical Albums:

1. Cecil Tay­lor, The Com­plete in Berlin ‘88
2. Sonny Rollins Quar­tet with Don Cherry, Com­plete Live at the Vil­lage Gate 1962
3. Steve Lacy Quin­tet, Last Tour

Best Vocal Album

Frank Lacy and the Min­gus Big Band, Min­gus Sings

Best Debut Album

Roots Magic, Hoodoo Blues

Best Latin jazz Album

Paquito D’Rivera & Quin­teto Cimar­ron, Aires Trop­i­cales

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