order/list subject to change by the end of the year, of course. I'm also not counting stuff like the "new" Coltrane (reissues and newly unearthed old recordings).

Mary Halvorson - Code Girl
Binker & Moses - Alive In The East
Thumbscrew - Ours (their other record, Theirs, which is all covers, is also good but this one, which is all originals is much more creative and free)
Jonathan Finlayson - 3 Times Round
Cecile McLorin Salvant - The Window
Jason Palmer - At Wally's Vol. 2 (Vol. 1 is also basically just as good)
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
Noah Preminger - Genuinity
Anteloper -Kudu
Quin Kirchner -The Other Side of Time