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