Elle Varner, Perfectly Imperfect (RCA)

Twin Shadow, Confess (4AD)

Charles Hamilton, “Brooklyn Girls” 

Keith Jarrett/ Jan Garbarek, Sleeper (ECM)

Baroness, Yellow & Green (Relapse)

Joe Fiedler’s Sackbutt (Yellow Sound) 

Tego Calderone, “Metele Sazon” 

Medeski, Martin & Wood, Free Magic (Indirecto) 

The Royal Concept (Lava)

John Abercrombie, Within A Song (ECM)

Talib Kweli, “Push Thru”