1. Henry Threadgill Old Locks and Irregular Verbs

2. Wadada Leo Smith America’s National Parks

3. Jack DeJohnette / Matt Garrison / Ravi Coltrane In Movement

4. Mary Halvorson Octet Away With You

5. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus The Distance

6. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke

7. Nels Cline Lovers

8. Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family Beginning of a Memory

9. Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings)

10. Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone Sélébéyone

11. Darcy James Argue Secret Society Real Enemies

12. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels I Long to See You

13. JD Allen Americana: Musings on Jazz & Blues

14. David Murray / Geri Allen / Terri Lyne Carrington Perfection

15. Jane Ira Bloom Early Americans

16. Tyshawn Sorey The Inner Spectrum of Variables

17. Greg Ward Touch My Beloved's Thought

18. Aziza Aziza

19. Andrew Cyrille Quartet The Declaration of Musical Independence

20. Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Moving Still

21. Kris Davis Duopoly

22. Sonny Rollins Holding the Stage: Road Shows, Vol. 4

23. John Scofield Country for Old Men

24. Aruán Ortiz Trio Hidden Voices

25. Tom Harrell Something Gold, Something Blue

26. Fred Hersch Trio Sunday Night at the Vanguard

27. Barry Guy The Blue Shroud

28. Jason Moran The Armory Concert

29. Mark Dresser Seven Sedimental You

30. George Coleman A Master Speaks

31. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence Work Songs

32. Donny McCaslin Beyond Now

33. Julian Lage Arclight

34. Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau Nearness

35. Frank Kimbrough Solstice

36. David Bowie Blackstar

37. Melissa Aldana Back Home

38. Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow Andando el Tiempo

39. The Cookers The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart

40. Bill Charlap Trio Notes from New York

41. Brad Mehldau Trio Blues and Ballads

42. Jeff Parker The New Breed

43. Wolfgang Muthspiel Rising Grace

44. Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom Otis Was a Polar Bear

45. Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011

46. Logan Richardson Shift

47. Esperanza Spalding Emily’s D + Evolution

48. Avishai Cohen Into the Silence

49. Taylor Ho Bynum Enter the PlusTet