UPDATE – ich hatte ja die „Trumpet“-Box von Wadada Leo Smith noch nicht einsortiert (und eine Umgruppierung gab’s dann auch noch, Tanaka muss in der Top 10 bleiben!)
1. Stephan Crump/Kris Davis/Eric McPherson: Borderlands Trio – Wandersphere
2. Wadada Leo Smith with Milford Graves and Bill Laswell – Sacred Ceremonies
3. Anthony Braxton – Quartet (Standards) 2020
4. Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet – The Chicago Symphonies
5. Marc Johnson – Overpass
6. Steve Coleman and Five Elements – Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR)
7. Wadada Leo Smith – Trumpet
8. East Axis: Matthew Shipp/Allen Lowe/Gerald Cleaver/Kevin Ray – Cool with That
9. Anna Webber – Idiom
10. Ayumi Tanaka Trio – Subaqueous Silence
11. Vera Kappeler/Peter Conradin Zumthor – Herd
12. Ivo Perelman – Brass and Ivory Tales
13. Stephanie Nilles – I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag-The White Flag
14. Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea – Bayou
15. James Brandon Lewis – Jesup Wagon
16. Punkt.Vrt.Plastik (Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger) – Somit
17. James Brandon Lewis Quartet – Code of Being
18. Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
19. Wadada Leo Smith/Jack DeJohnette/Vijay Iyer – A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday
20. Wadada Leo Smith/Douglas R. Ewart/Mike Reed – Sun Beams of Shimmering Light
21. Abdullah Ibrahim – Solotude: My Journey, My Vision
22. Alexander Hawkins – Togetherness Music
23. Craig Taborn – Shadow Plays
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