- Chick Corea – The Musician (Concord)
- Regina Carter – Ella: Accentuate the Positive (OKeh)
- Steve Khan – Backlog (Tone Center)
- Nick Finzer – Hear & Now (Outside In Music)
- Deborah Brown – Kansas City Here I Come (Deborah Brown)
- Heads of State – Four in One (Smoke Sessions)
- Harry Allen’s All Star New York Saxophone Band – The Candy Men (Arbors Jazz)
- Bill O’Connell – Monk’s Cha Cha (Savant)
- Tony Allen – A Tribute to Art Blakey (Blue Note)
- Eliane Elias – Dane of Time (Concord)
- Organissimo – B3tles (Big O)
- Ben Sidran – Picture Him Happy (Nardis/Unlimited Media)
- Howard Johnson & Gravity – Testimony (Tuscarora)
- Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau – Nearness (Nonesuch)
- Jeff “Tain” Watts – Blue Vol. 2 (Dark Key Music)
- Christian Sands – Reach (Mack Avenue)
- Ray Mantilla – High Voltage (Savant)
- Ralph Towner – My Foolish Heart (ECM)
- Tom Marko – Inner Light (Summit)
- Carol Morgan Quintet – Post Cool Vol. 1 (Carol Morgan Music)
- Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7 – Soul Jazz Fridays (Sunflower Soul)
- Steve Nelson – Brothers Under the Sun (High Note)
- Peter Erskine & Dr.Um Band – Second Opinion (Fuzzy Music)
- Scott Whitfield – New Jazz Standards Volume 2 (Summit)
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – The Music of John Lewis (Blue Engine)
- Diana Krall – Turn Up the Quiet (Verve)
- Frank Kimbrough – Solstice (Pirouet)
- Doug MacDonald – Jazz Marathon 2 (BluJazz)
- Kevin Eubanks – East West Time Line (Mack Avenue)
- Terell Stafford – Forgive and Forget (HHM)
- Louis Hayes – Serenade for Horace (Blue Note)
- Leigh Pilzer – Strunkin’ (Leigh Pilzer)
- Ken Fowser – Now Hear This! (Posi-Tone)
- Matt Otto & Ensemble Iberica – Iberica (Origin)
- Bob Dorough – Live at the Deer Head Inn (Deer Head)
- Claire Daly – 2648 West Grand Boulevard (Glass Beach Jazz)
- Joey DeFrancesco & the People – Project Freedom (Mack Avenue)
- Mads Tolling & the Mads Men – Playing the 60s (Madsman Records)
- Organic Trio – Saturn’s Spell (Jazz Family)
- Bobby Watson – Made in America (Smoke Sessions)