| Rank |
Artist |
Title |
Label |
| 1 |
Various * |
Dig Your Roots: Creative Jazz |
NCRA |
| 2 |
Exploding Star Orchestra |
We Are All From Somewhere Else |
Thrill Jockey |
| 3 |
The Reveries * |
Live In Bologna |
Rat-Drifting |
| 4 |
Drumheller * |
Wives |
Rat-Drifting |
| 5 |
Abram Wilson Ride! |
Ferris Wheel To The Modern Day Delta |
Dune |
| 6 |
Paul Carr |
Just Noodlin' |
Jazz Karma |
| 7 |
Nightcrawlers * |
Presenting |
Cellar Live |
| 8 |
Simon Fisk * |
You And Yours |
Plunger |
| 9 |
The Mahavishnu Project |
Return To The Emerald Beyond |
Cuneiform |
| 10 |
Zapato Negro * |
Zapato Negro |
Cellar Live |
| 11 |
Jeff Antoniuk And The Jazz Update* |
Here Today |
Independent |
| 12 |
Jesse Zubot * |
Dementia |
Drip Audio |
| 13 |
Rez Abbasi |
Bazaar |
Zoho Music |
| 14 |
Various * |
Night Crawlers |
Cellar Live |
| 15 |
Gregorio/Karayorgis/McBride |
Chicago Approach |
Nuscope |
| 16 |
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet |
Husky |
Hyena |
| 17 |
Emilie Claire Barlow * |
Happy Feet Rhythm Tracks |
Independent |
| 18 |
Tia Fuller |
Healing Space |
Mack Avenue |
| 19 |
Jim Byrnes * |
House Of Refuge |
Black Hen |
| 20 |
Soweto Kinch |
A Life In The Day Of B19: Tales Of The Tower Block |
Dune |
