Album of the Year—hors de concours

Rosalía Lux

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First Top 10—Likely Not Jazz

Big Thief Double Infinity

Wednesday Bleeds

Blood Orange Essex Honey

Patterson Hood Exploding Trees and Airplane Dreams

Mdou Moctar Tears of Injustice

Jason Isbell Foxes in the Snow

Flory Sounds Like

Wet Leg Moisturizer

Dave Stewart Dave Does Dylan

Valerie June Owls, Omens and Oracles

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Second Top 10—But Is It Jazz?

Ambrose Akinmusire Honey from a Winter’s Stone

Tarune Balani Kadahin Milandaasin

Yazz Ahmed A Paradise in the Hold

Amina Claudine Myers Solace of the Mind

Theon Cross Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York

Linda May Han Oh Strange Heavens

Nate Mercereau Josh Johnson Carlos Nino Openness Trio

Charles Lloyd Figure in Blue

Fieldwork Thereupon

Theo Croker and Sullivan Fortner Play

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Some notable EPS

Kronos Quartet and Hard Rain Collective Hard Rain

Lisa O’Neill The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right

Makaya McCraven Techno Logic/Hidden Out/The People’s Mixtape/Pop-Up Shop (4 EPs, available together as Off the Record from Bandcamp)

and a reissue

Thelonious Monk Bremen 1965

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